McGrath: Razzmatazz, the last word on the mid-term elections (ALL THE MEDIA'S FAULT !!!!!)

Southtown Star (Chicago) ^ | December 5, 2014 10:21PM | David McGrath mcgrathd@dupage.edu

[Chi-townChief]

When Democrats rebounded after George W. Bush’s presidency, the reasons were obvious.

Bush’s devastating and costly war begun under erroneous pretenses; the administration’s failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; the precipitous fall into the Great Recession; and a charismatic Barack Obama waiting in the wings.

When Republicans rebounded with a big win last month after six years of a Democratic Senate and presidency, the reasons are not so plain to see.

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It’s impossible to discount the role of the media in shaping the opinion of the electorate in any era. So when the media repeatedly cites anti-Obama sentiment as having been a dominant factor in the Nov. 4 elections, it’s fair to ascribe to newspapers and TV a substantial role in making it so dominant.

[Chi-townChief]

This one is almost too funny - I suspect this emeritus professor McGrath knows damn well why the 'rats got their collective ass kicked ...

[MUDDOG]

Could gasoline be headed toward $2 per gallon? Thank Obama.

... the Affordable Care Act is an unqualified success

Ha ha!

[Slings and Arrows]

"THIS ARR YOUR FAURT!!!"

[headstamp 2]

“the Affordable Care Act is an unqualified success”

That’s all I needed to read from this delusional idiot who operates in his own little academic world insulated from reality.

[Bubba_Leroy]

“I don’t understand. No one that I know voted for Republicans!”

[concentric circles]

Sometimes the lies and misconceptions are too numerous to count. He stumbled right out of the starting gate by repeating the “Bush lied!” slander. The simple, verifiable truth: the United Nations Weapon Inspections teams in Iraq documented missing stocks of items classified as weapons of mass destruction.

McGrath then proceeds from merely stumbling to falling flat on his face. When witnessed often enough it becomes amusing, kind of like slapstick.

[skeeter]

Could gasoline be headed toward $2 per gallon? Thank Obama.

How do you deal with this kind of deranged thinking?

Gas was $1.80/gal when Obama took office. He's consistently resisted granting permits for drilling on public property, all of the production growth has been on private tracts. He's fought the pipeline every step of the way. His EPA treats the oil industry as an enemy. For the most part of his administration gas was over $3 a gallon. The Saudis are cutting prices to regain control of the market.

The price drop has absolutely nothing to do with Obama.

[GeronL]

” the reasons are not so plain to see”

yes they are, unless you are willfully blind

[xzins]

Bush’s devastating and costly war begun under erroneous pretenses; the administration’s failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; the precipitous fall into the Great Recession; and a charismatic Barack Obama waiting in the wings.

Got to take issue with guy right out of the gate:

1. Turns out there were no erroneous pretenses. Known then by many, but now revealed by those fearful of WMDs in the hands of ISIS.

2. The administration was on top of Katrina in a matter of days, and if that is the standard for failure, then reality says that Obama's failure with oil rigs, illegal aliens, ebola, etc. have been far worse.

3. There was no precipitous fall into the Great Recession. There were laws allowing unworthy borrowers to borrow at outrageous amounts for their income, equity, collateral, and record.

4. Charismatic Barack Obama is a joke. It's the same Obama as now, only the media isn't quite as fawning. That wasn't charisma; it was chimera.

[ripley]

The impression seems to be that when “white-male-Republican” voters vote, there is no apparent reasoning behind it because this president has been an unqualified success.

(A “brilliant, intellectual, Progressive genius” calling Republicans morons, once again.)

IMHO