[chimera]

Remember that Romney, while a decent candidate and person, is no Reagan, and the political dynamics are vastly different. The media in 1980 were running an “America Held Hostage” count every day on the news, and those people blindfolded and held captive in Iran got a lot more press than our four dead in Libya have gotten this year. Carter never was the media darling that Obama is. The media, as we have seen, are moving Heaven and Earth to get Obama re-elected. They were not so willing with Carter. Obama is the kind of politician the media have wet dreams about, ultra-liberal, black (sort of), and nothing but a teleprompter-reading nincompoop who is clay in their hands. Carter was a cracker hick from Georgia, ex-Navy officer, who wasn't their ideal of a liberal American politician. As usual, in this election, the ‘Pub candidate has had to wage a battle against two enemies, the ‘Rats and the media, but with Obama, it has been that on steroids.

[NKStarr]

In 1980 the mainstreama media (unlike today, there was no other) hated Reagan but didn’t love Carter. He was always viewed with a certain suspicion in the Northeast because of his religiousity. Today’s mainstream media has a relationship with Obama roughly equivalent to the relationship an observant Catholic has toward the Pope. Their dislike of Romney isn’t personal, they would hate anyone opposing Obama.