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Interesting point. That would put the cat in the pigeon cage wouldn't it?

The other interesting point is what the media would do if that occurred. Or if, as some Freeper mentioned earlier, what would happen if a genuine "smoking gun" caliber piece of evidence shows up.

My bet? In the first case, I think they will take the line "crazy publicity hound hick sheriff..." and try to get the country to blow the whole thing off as a crazy stunt. If that doesn't work, they will go to "It's a Republican put-up job," but their bias is already getting increasingly transparent and I have noticed an increasingly shrill tone to the media denials. Their reputation is already trash. This would be a total nightmare.

As for the second point. It has to be getting nervous-making in the press-rooms already. Those cretins are probably starting to remember that no matter how much they love Obama, increasingly large numbers of ordinary people are coming to totally loathe him -- and coming to loathe them as an extension of him. Which, of course, they are.

That being the case, the vast majority of the media players have absolutely nothing to gain if any Obama scandal starts to seriously endanger the administration because they know if he goes down, they do.

But if it does get out, they're screwed. There will not be one thing they can do. Whatever it is, not a single soul is going to believe they (the media) hadn't already known about it, refuse to report it, and in fact had actively worked to hide it -- just as we and so many others have bitterly suspected since day one.

And don't forget the business perspective, and don't believe for a moment that people are not working this problem even as we Freep. The owners and publishers have to be thinking, "How much of my personal empire am I willing to give up in lost reputation and credibility -- of which I have little enough already -- to support someone that is going to be gone if the story is true?"

Never forget that no matter how much leftist gobbledygook goes through cameras and mics out there, the media business is owned by people who want to stay in business. If the damage is too severe, people will stop buying their trash at all, and all those overpriced talking heads will have to get real jobs.

I don't see them allowing that to happen. So it could be messy. Right now they are probably wondering which, of their competitors is already planning out how to break from the pack -- and wondering if they hadn't better start thinking on those lines as well.

They might also start to remember that the cause is bigger than any one person, even Obama, and decide it's time to jettison him before things get even worse.