Any GOP candidate will get savaged by her buddies in the State-Run-Media.
I thought the elite media had standing orders from the White Crib to “glom onto” and “savage” any Republican candidate, so how is this anything new? Do you really think ANY Republican will get a pass? Hah!
In other words, the MSM would treat them the same way as they treat all dissenters and unbelievers??
Nina Totenberg looks like she has been savaged by a pack of orcs from Mordor.
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Hey Totebag! What makes you so sure it would be a him, hmmm?
I’d say she is correct. Especially if it were someone new.
A few SNL skits, Daly Show etc. and it’s over. Many moderate’s exposure to the candidate would be through mockery. Unfortunately some moderates vote and they decide the election.
The established candidates have been mocked to death already and it is easier to see through it for them.
Thanks for this thread.
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” - - - TOTENBERG: The elite media will then glom onto this person, and everything he has ever done that might be slightly untoward or controversial will come out.”
Yeah, we know that is the mission of your Liberal Agenda Media, (LAM).
GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This time the Citizen Journalist will do the same to the former foreign student at Columbia and Harvard, who currently goes by the last name of Obama.
Last I heard this Obama guy was Occupying The White House! Go figure!
“How about the DWI “October Surprise” in 2000 and Rathergate in 2004? They tried their hardest to “Goldwater” Reagan in 1980, as well.”
Maybe “They’ll try a ‘Clinton’”, to sink this piece of shit.
Get the crossover dems out of this primary and Obama is toast. I am all for a brokered convention.
Careful, Nina. NPR doesn't pay you to tell the truth. NPR pays you to promote liberalism.
she says with glee and anticipation.
And she also once said if there was “retributive justice” in the world the Jesse Helms would “get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.”
If they had any integrity at all, they would have looked into Obama’s past, his statements, and his record with equal fervor. Sadly, NPR’s staff are propaganda shills, not serious journalists. I doubt that they have ever said anything harsher about Obama than “his main flaw is that he is so perfect - it’s hard to sound objective when reporting on a man who personifies perfection.”
Did someone slip truth serum in Totenberg’s latte?
There is a lot of truth to this. The primary process brings those things to the fore early, and consigns them to irrelevance in most cases by November. Think of Obama’s bitter clingers, Clinton’s girlfriends, etc.
Interestingly, I think that the “October surprise” tactic simply doesn’t work. It’s a lot better to roll out the artillery on someone in August or September and grind them down, than to try to change people’s mind a week before they vote. If anything, October surprises strike against voters sense of fair play and backfire.
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While Bush's DUI undoubtedly hurt him somewhat in 2000, it did so only because his campaign adviser was analytically dysfunctional. Had he arranged for an election eve speech, before the final media gambit, you refer to, Bush could have had the largest TV audience in history, to perk up his numbers. (See Karl Rove--Dysron, Quack of Mole.) In other words, properly handled, the last minute smear was a wonderful opportunity.
William Flax