I am beginning to think that the only way that the GOP can win this is to take the media's bias directly to the media on national air time and throw it in their faces. Imagine if someone like Gulliani took someone like Russet to task for it during an interview, or some one like Powell going around the country stumpimng on it? They may need a concerted effort to of just such tactics to turn this around.
It is certain that the GOP has made some mistakes in the campaign but they have not blundered to the point where they deserve the numbers that they are getting. The GOP congress critters on the hill are even starting to waffle. It is beginning to look as though Rove and Co. have underestimated the animus against them. They need to rally the GOP and the voters.
We need to realize what it will mean to the future of politics in this country if the media succeeds in this. It will set back conservative political action for quite some time and discourage people on the right from running for office. The GOP needs to address it in a straight forward manner.
It is amazing that every Bush add in subjected to days of media "analysis." I have yet to hear Kerry called on any of these outrageous antics. I thought the911 flap was unbelievable and borders on the criminal. Some one might have a little chat with the mainstream media's legal depts. and talk about RICO charges (a long shot I know, but at least it might get them to tone down a bit.) The hypocrisy of will not stand scrutiny if light is focused on it. If Bush tried any of this stuff the would be no end to it. Again, the GOP need to grasp that real damage is being done to the campaign by their tepid response to this campaign. The course is simple: call the media on their agenda. The need a stronger response. Too much is at stack for them to continue with these mushy responses.
I've been struggling with this problem for decades; the best I have been able to do is develop my ideas in this thread.Journalists do not, IMHO, so much follow leftist politicians as lead them; the rules for what makes a good story in journalism just happen to filter out conservatism and amplify leftism. Which is why journalism will always be "liberal" - and why it's so easy for "liberals" to steal a label like "liberal" and invert its meaning. Leftist politicians merely sail down the propaganda wind that journalism naturally produces.
And that is what makes McCain-Feingold so wrongheaded; CFR essentially makes "journalist" a title of nobility which entitles the owner to do what you and I are legally - unconstitutionally but "legally" - forbidden to do during the late stages of the political campaign.