Long term, you are right. We should develop and promote our own media outlets to combat the overwhelmingly leftist MSM. But that's always been true. I don't see what it has to do with the immediate problem of this week.
Frankly, having the MSM howling and looking like idiots only hastens their demise, which is a good thing.
This has been an ongoing problem for how long now?
When exactly are we going to start doing something about it, and when are we going to stop GIVING them stories to beat us up with?
If politics were a shoot out, we are the ones showing up without a gun!
And we have yet to figure out that we need to get a gun; instead, we whine about the fact that they have a gun and we don't.
"Frankly, having the MSM howling and looking like idiots only hastens their demise, which is a good thing."
To those who already know that the MSM are idiots, what they do at this point makes very little difference. To those in this voters in this nation who DON'T know that the leftist media are idiots, and that they are in fact the propaganda dissemination arm of the left, the mainstream media is their primary source for news, and controls the way they formulate their opinion.
We cannot allow ourselves to concede that battle to the left any longer.
When I go out in the most liberal county in Florida, to work toward defeating Bill Nelson later this year, here is what I'll face:
Rank-and-file Republicans have made the adjustment as well. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of GOP voters now plan to vote for Harris in November. That's up from 59% in early January and matches Senator Bill Nelson's support among Democrats.Overall, however, Harris still trails Nelson by nine percentage points, 49% to 40% (see crosstabs). Among voters not affiliated with either the Republicans or Democrats, Harris trails badly, 64% to 18%.
Those are the people that I need to swing in order to procure a victory, and all they've heard for months now is "MIERS!!!!!", "WIRE TAPPING!!!!!", "CHENEY SHOOTS FRIEND AND DOESN'T TELL ANYONE!!!!!", "ARABS CONTROL OUR PORTS!!!!!".
President Bush is the leader of this Party, and while I admire the hell out of both he and Cheney, with all friggin' due respect, now it's time for the two of them to play hardball politics, and harball politics requires media control.