"(If the Old Media hadn't been in the tank for Kerry, there's no telling what the scope of Bush's victory would have been.)"
This was the most important line in the essay. Bush would have won by 60% if the media were behind him.
He'd have won 57-43 if the media had just subjected Kerry to the same anal exams they did him. IOW, fairness.
Can anyone here one other President, besides Nixon who had to endure three years of daily jabs and sneers from not just the news, but the media as a whole?
Plus Bush-bashing books?
George Soros funded 527s?
MoveOn's sick, disgusting and peruile ads?
Michael Moore's constant spewing streams of lies and garbage?
The constant references to the president being AWOL and a Draft Dodger?
Joe Wilson?
Yellowcake?
The Jobless Recovery?
Richard Clarke?
The entire 911 Commission and its Report?
Faked, forged ANG Memos?
The Return Of The Draft?
Guantanimo Bay?
Abu Grahib?
Missing explosives from Al Qa Qaa?
You would think that ANY of the above would have scuttled President Bush's bid for re-election.
And in the time of Nixon. They would have.
The Blogosphere was front and center on most of those topics. Spreading the word and linking articles to Conservative Radio, Drudge and FNC. Denying the DNC the "traction" needed to connect and frighten or disgust the voting populous on any single or multiple topic.
So, now the Old Media is scuttled. Taking on water. With its featured Taling heads/Editors clueless as to the cause.
The fact that very same Talking Heads (Rather, Brokaw, Jennings) live in their own sterile world. Shuttling between LA, NYC and the Hamptons. Completely oblivious to the day-to-day life in those pesky "Fly-over States".
The left does not know us. And does not want to know us. And until the do. They will continue to lose.
Obliviously.
Jack.