Posted on 08/01/2005 9:35:05 AM PDT by mordo
This summer, one big story is replaced by another--the London bombings July 7, the speculation that Karl Rove illegally named a covert CIA agent, the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, more London bombings last week. But beneath the hubbub, we can see the playing out of another, less reported story: the collapse of the attempts by liberal Democrats and their sympathizers in the mainstream media--the New York Times, etc., etc.--to delegitimize yet another Republican administration.
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"I can't beleive I'm losing to this idiot!"
ha ha ha
That's a bit grandiose, bordering on fantasy IMO. I think most folks will be greatly relieved if if drops back under two bucks.
It certainly beats writing about the freefall in old/traditional media readership and credibility. Instead of talking about their own delegitmization, they project it on to somebody else and then attempt to exorcise it. The Demolibs can't come up with a better response to their own death spiral. They're caught like deer in the headlights with their mouths wide open drafting flies into the vacuum of their rotting carcasses -- because their union/seniority rules prohibit anybody smarter than their immediate superior from showing up their bosses and upsetting the pecking order that cannot be changed until somebody at the top dies. Then, everybody will inch up by strict seniority rules. No exceptions.
Everybody in America must do the same. Rewarding talent, merit and insight is branded as "ruthless" and threatening to the status quo rewarding only seniority and guaranteed lifetime employment. Meanwhile, new, vibrant, engaging media explodes all around them while they consult their playbooks on how to lose the Vietnam War.
It has been going on since Stevenson ran for president.
The decline of the mainstream media is the greatest argument of why you should not organize a creative occupation by union rules -- and why not only the union media will fail to be competitive, but so also will the schools and universities that reward seniority and tenure and all those values hostile to the new and creative. So that is the sad story we're seeing documented in the pages of most of the mainstream media -- choked to death by the union rules of squelching innovation and efficiencies.
We even get to see Jimmy Carter's plunge into dementia as their poster boy of the American Dream gone so terribly wrong.
The incompetence becomes institutionalized -- their corporate culture.
Competent, even extraordinary people are vilified; incompetent, even senile people are lionized -- as they cannot tell the difference. That's how the mainstream media died; it died of rigor mortis.
They like to believe they are still essential to the information process because we need their reporting to comment on -- as though we would have nothing to talk about otherwise. The fact of the matter is that all these crap stories they generate is a drain on human intelligence and focus. They need to stop publishing for a year or a month and see if they are missed -- if they think they are so indispensable.
They'll find that in their absence, there was a surge in creativity, excellence and productivity -- without them dragging us down. We don't need "news" -- just to keep professional journalists employed.
He was convinced he was going to lose in 1864. Seizing Atlanta probably saved him from defeat.
Except for those the MSM portrays as evil such as Vice President Cheney.
Yes, the libs attempts have and continue to fail, BUT that doesn't keep them from continuing their failed policy of attacks and their dogma of never having any solutions.
Agreed. GWB has done some things that make me just wince, however the alternative is so so so so much worse that I still would vote for him over a RAT.
My biggest beef with GWB is that after 9/11, everyone would have supported him in closing the borders and really getting serious on phony id's, illegal immigration, over stayed visas,
etc etc. The blind spot on this is so obvious to everyone that the failure to do anything about it is just baffling.
The Bush-bashers remind me of Wile E. Coyote going after the Roadrunner.
LOL! The MSM is catching on...but I'm sure the libertarians will remain resolute.
The coyote gang (MSM, libs, DU, Schumr, Kerri) looks ahead at the mountain, down at the skyrocket he's riding on, then back at the Roadrunner.
BEEP BEEP!
Lincoln is probably the president most similar to George W. Bush -- both of whom were extraordinary physical exceptions. Recent articles reported on the President's health being "OK" -- when in fact, the findings were quite extraordinary. With the exception of champion endurance athletes, most people have a pulse rate well over 50 beats per minute.
It is well known that George W. Bush enjoys working on his ranch and chopping wood. In the old biographies of Lincoln, they used to point out that Abe Lincoln was one of the most physically imposing people around, and made money as a wrestler and a rail splitter. These were not effete intellectual snobs -- that the liberal Eastern media favors.
They eschew any suggestion to exceptional but instead are quite insistent on being regarded as average people -- which is characteristic of superior people. Meanwhile, all these mediocre types populating the liberal Eastern media establishment and politics, are quite smaller than life than they'd have us believe from their self-promoting articles.
Kerry and Gore were above average people but not "brilliant" as the media establishment wanted the rest of us to believe. And when W has one fall off his mountain bike riding aggressively over rough terrain, it is regarded as a humiliation rather than the recognition than the normal experience in mountain biking is to take falls rather than riding prissily along on a road bike dressed up like a bike geek. So all these attempts to make Bush look bad just make these liberal Eastern media elitists look like they have no idea what they're talking about -- and they can't help themselves from exposing their own inadequacies -- thinking everybody else is a bullshitter just like they are.
I hear ya!
All they know how to do is live a lie.
Sometimes there are no happy choices, but they still must be made or it is done for him.
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