Drive-By Media and Democrats Collude, Giddy Over The Conventional Wisdom

-Snip- You know, it's obvious to me, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the elites, the Drive-Bys, the Democrats, the leftists, striking back with a vengeance now. I think they've had enough of the popular will. They know they can't win in an honest election about ideas, can't win those debates, and they're trying to influence the election with investigations, outings, smear tactics, whatever works. Everything's being thrown up against the wall. Listen to this from ABC's The Note. That's Mark Halperin and the boys who's got this book out with John Harris, the Washington Post. Listen to this:

"The Old Media -- giddy with excitement over the prospect of the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Mehlman machine losing, filled with guilt over complicity in an Iraq war it wants ended, flush with anticipation over two years of anti-Bush leaks from a gavel-wielding Henry Waxman, and substantially more interested in revelations about congressional pages than in trying to tell voters the truth about whether or not the economy is strong and getting stronger -- can barely contain itself on its secret morning conference calls with Howard Dean and George Soros, during which it was agreed just this morning that, yes, we can keep the meta-narrative ('The Democrats are going to beat Bush and run Congress!!') going for another 19 days, without interruption."

Now, if I read this right, it sounds to me like the old media has conference calls every day with Howard Dean and George Soros where the strategery is discussed. Now, I have said in the past, long ago, in discussing media bias, that I don't think that the old media and the drive-bys got together and had their conference calls in the morning to decide what news was going to be and how it was going to be reported, what wasn't going to be news and all that, I said because they don't have to. They basically think the same, they see things the same, and I think if they do get together it's in the bar after work over adult beverages where such unified phrases as gravitas and other things happen to spread throughout the Drive-By Media.

But now, having read this from ABC's the Note, I'm obviously wrong. These people are obviously having conference calls with Democrat fund-raisers, policy makers, and the chairman of the Democrat National Committee to discuss the Democrat narrative and how the Drive-By Media can continue to carry it for 19 days uninterrupted. So I guess they are getting together. That's what this implies. Maybe I should better say, "That's how I infer this." The old media giddy with excitement over two years of anti-Bush leaks from a gavel-wielding Henry Waxman? I'm drawn back to the people that are going to sit out.

By the way, I've got a new name for you conservatives who aren't going to vote out there: Cut-and-Run Conservatives. The Cut-and-Run Conservatives, one of their central themes is, "It's not going to be so bad if Democrats win. The world's not going to come to an end." Look it, two years of leaks from Henry Waxman, wielding his gavel and a House committee that would obviously be looking into various crimes and excesses of the Bush administration. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, the latest Zogby poll numbers are out, the Wall Street Journal, and there's some surprising stuff here. In Missouri, Zogby/Wall Street Journal, Talent is up by three over Claire McCaskill. In Tennessee, Corker up by seven over Harold Ford.

Did you see what Ford did the other day? Ford came out and endorsed Lieberman. There's also a funny story in one of my stacks here about Chris Shays. Let me see if I can find this real quick since we're talking about Connecticut, because it's just hilarious. "Anti-War Mood Could Unseat GOP Stalwart -- Connecticut's representative Shays tries to shift his stance." Chris Shays is a moderate! This is a story in the San Francisco Chronicle.

He's a moderate now getting heat for shifting his views. What are moderates for anyway if not for shifting their views? The fact is, you can't nail moderates down on anything. Moderates go with the flow. They seek consensus and go there or they find the majority and go there. But Shays has been taking heat recently for his shifting views on the war. He's long opposed setting a timetable for getting out. The trouble for Shays is that his latest statements in Iraq looked opportunistic. You know, people think they're buying all kinds of insurance against criticism when they become moderates. (laughing.) If you, as a moderate, happen to shift off the liberal line or plantation, you are going to get heat, and Chris Shays is getting it in the San Francisco Chronicle!

This is not an AP story. This is a San Francisco Chronicle story talking about a Republican representative in one district in Connecticut, a whole continent away. Anyway, more of these Zogby polls. In Ohio: Sherrod Brown 49, Mike DeWine 45. That's much closer than it has been portrayed. In Pennsylvania: Bob Casey at 52, Santorum at 44. That's about where those polls have been. In New Jersey, Thomas Kean, Jr., up over Menendez by two, 47-45 -- and in Maryland, Michael Steele and Ben Cardin are tied: 46-46. That's not a Zogby poll. It's Survey USA. There's another poll that's got Steele up by one, and of course the polls are all over the place.

The other Ohio poll showed Brown way ahead by eight or nine points or even more. The sample of under 500 people, margin of error plus or minus five points, and you wonder about the waiting and how many more Democrats than actually exist in Ohio on a percentage basis were part of the sample. But these Zogby numbers, Talent up over three, and there are other polls that have McCaskill up by nine in Missouri. Well, I don't think it's possible. Corker is up by two over Harold Ford. At any rate, the president's going into Pennsylvania to try to help out Rick Santorum.

In the meantime, in the Washington Times today, "Conservative Voters Likely to Stay Home." Now it's even in the Washington Times that conservatives won't vote. Have you noticed the conventional wisdom has spread, and now it's become commonplace in everybody's thinking? It is so pervasive a theme: Republicans staying home, conservatives fed up, not going to the polls because of Foley and whatever else. I'm beginning to doubt it. When you put all this together: the coordinated attacks between the Democrats and the media, planning their strategy, the smears, the refusal to discuss issues. Just go out and say, "Conservatives aren't going to vote."

You can go find any two or three people say they're not going to vote for, whatever reason. There are a lot of people that don't vote in this country. It's not hard to find a few, and then all you have to do is say, "These people, had they voted strong conservative, straight ticket Republican the past three years, but they're fed up," and you get three or four people saying (with no front teeth), "Yeah, (muttering) never again," and the media goes, "See? Real Americans are having trouble," and they create this notion, this mind-set that then settles in as a reality. Then everybody else bounces off of it.

I'm a little long in the break. A quick time-out. There's a lot of good ink in this Washington Times story for the dissatisfied to make a name for themselves, and that's I think another thing here. I think a lot of people want to matter. They want to have power. They feel powerless, and if they think they can screw it up for somebody else by getting noticed and doing that, then they feel like they've got some power, so there could be all kinds of things at play here. We can't ignore this. Drive-By Media, now even the Washington Times, not part of the Drive-By Media, is suggesting there's a sizeable number of Cut-and-Run Conservatives out there.

RUSH: I want to share with you some of the details here in this Washington Times story on Cut-and-Run Conservatives likely to stay home. "'The message hasn't gotten across because a lot of people are sick and tired of thinking the only reason for going to the polls is to vote for the Republicans because they are lesser of two evils,' said Tom McClusky, vice president for government affairs at the Family Research Council... 'Conservatives aren't motivated to come out, is what I'm finding,' said conservative campaign consultant Rick Shaftan, who is based in Sparta, N.J. 'They see no reason to re-elect the people who are in office.' ...

Top Republicans -- including President Bush, his chief strategist Karl Rove, Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman -- have been meeting with conservative activists, columnists and broadcasters, emphasizing the importance of this midterm election. That message has rippled out," but it's not overwhelming anybody. Family Research Council "President Tony Perkins sent an e-mail this week asking supporters to sign a 'values voter' pledge. The e-mail warned that 'too many elective officeholders are content to downplay social issues,'" and then there's "Republican media consultant Craig Shirley said the party's national leadership appears to be trying to scare disaffected voters to the polls by arguing that Republicans aren't as bad as the Democrats.

"'It would be nice if the national party started talking about what we are for ... instead of simply trashing the left.'" Shirley is a nice enough guy. I'm not sure I understand this. I thought everybody was talking about what we're for, in the context of explaining how it will all go down the drain and be lost if the Cut-and-Run Conservatives stay home and give the election to the Democrats. In the meantime, the Drive-By Media is obsessed with the notion that Bush and Rove are optimistic about this. On a Hotline blog, there's a little piece: "Why the White House Has to be Optimistic -- If you're ever read a profile of Ken Mehlman, you know he is obsessed with metrics.

"For him, one of the most important sources of data is a weekly e-mail his political team prepares called the 'Weekly Grassroots Report.' It meticulously records the work of tens of thousands of volunteers in targeted states, counties and congressional districts across the country. The data summary allows the RNC to determine which states are meeting goals and which states are falling behind. The RNC declined to share the most recent report, which was issued Monday. But two independent sources who saw last week's report professed to be surprised: not only was their no drop off last week, 12 states broke new voter contact records." So the primary emphasis that Mehlman and Rove place on midterm elections, or elections, period, "getting out vote," the Republicans are working harder than ever, and they are breaking records in terms of the numbers of voters that are personally being contacted in important districts, precincts around the country.

"In a month, the party completed more than a million phone calls and door contacts conbined [sic]. Bigger states are putting up big numbers -- even Ohio, which lagged behind its targets all summer, has caught up. The RNC is particularly pleased with their progress in New Jersey, where they've rapidly set up a more aggressive version of their 72 Hour Program in light of the state's more competitive Senate race. These are the numbers that motivate Karl Rove's optimism. The spreadsheets show that Republican volunteers are working hard. There are plenty of volunteers and they seem plenty willing to knock on doors and make telephone calls. That's why it makes sense for Rove, the White House pol. dir Sara Taylor, and for Mehlman to exude uncanny optimism even while their brains pore over pessimistic polls.

"Right now, a strong volunteer corps on election day working to turn out voters is the only hope they've got." Everything is hopeless. I can't help but compare. Two nights ago, after the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets I woke up and I read the New York tabloids -- and it was over. It was over for the Mets last night. They didn't have a prayer because they were going with some pitcher that has a lot of potential, and really hadn't met that potential, and they're going against the Cardinals' ace, the Cardinals ace has more rest, and the Cardinals have the moment, 3-2. Every game the Mets have lost this year in this post-season playoff of the Cardinals the New York tabloids have buried them.

They said, "It's over. They've lost the momentum. They don't have the pitching. They don't have what it takes," and here the Mets are. Thank goodness they don't read the papers because the Mets won last night and so there's a big game seven tonight at Shea Stadium, and I read the New York tabloids today, "Now they're full of vim and vigor, ah, game seven, there's nothing like it. It's what every kid dreams of growing up. This can happen. It's going to be great, the Mets can move on to the World Series and so forth, and then they say, "But they've got the unpredictable and the unreliable Oliver Peres pitching for them tonight."

So they're starting to chew their fingernails over that. It's just this constant obsession with negativity everywhere in the greatest country on earth, it just continues to amaze me. It really does, and now a strong volunteer corps on Election Day working to turn out voters is the only hope the Republicans have? Come on! That is sheer idiocy. The only hope for Republicans? For crying out loud, there are two and a half weeks left! The Republicans basically just started spending their money in certain states and districts around the country. This futility, I personally don't relate to it, folks, which is why I spend so much time dwelling on it here with you trying to understand it, because I just don'

NBC is touting their new NBC/WALNUT Poll showing the Republicans down so far in the polls that they can't recover but what I think it is going on is NBC is trying one last desperate attempt at slamming the Republicans in skewed polling in order to get a national attention to watch their stations whether one likes them or not.

Folks,

If this CNN story doesn't get out the hard-cores I can't imagine what would.

They enjoyed reporting that sniper story and we can't let them think it helped.

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Folks, they are the DRIVE BY MEDIA-- "The mainstream media … are drive-by shooters. This is exactly what they are. They pull up to a congested area; they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, causes mass hysteria, mass confusion, mistakes and misinterpretation. Sometimes people or their careers actually die. The mainstream media then smirks and pats itself on the back, says, "Look what we can do," and they ride away unnoticed in the excitement. They are never blamed; they are never held accountable. In fact, they are lauded, they are held up as heroes, mostly by themselves. But they are. They just troll around looking for any issue they can to get everybody all worked up, creating hysteria. It is like a drive-by shooter. It's like road rage every day. That's what the mainstream press has become." -Rush Limbaugh

Drive by Media

The astonishingly low quality of reportage by the Drive-By Media continues to amaze, and depress me.

Journalism, particularly the television variety, has become a bizzare amalgam of Max Headroom and Mad Max...
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