Obama says goodbye outside the White House
Obama and his 40 thieves are depending on the media to protect them.
Sadly, I think that’s a pretty safe bet.
Sadly, I think that’s a pretty safe bet.
Granted. However, certain elements of Obama's crowd can't be depended on to let well enough alone. They're going to interpret the SRM's continuing protection racket as conferring upon them god-like powers. They're going to push it harder and harder. Sooner or later, someone (or someones) are going to turn up on a slab. Sooner or later it's all going to be too much to cover up.
The media's willingness to maintain the Obama fantasy seems to be diminishing.
Anderson Cooper actually covered it on CNN last night.
Unfortunately, I agree with you that this is going nowhere, and here’s why:
Those of us who lived through Watergate in the early 70s understand all too well the difference between what is going on with this particular crisis, and what was going on back then.
Watergate, once it got started, was in front of the public eye nearly 24 x 7. When you picked up your morning paper, there was above the fold.
when you turned on your TV, no matter what news channel you turned to, it was not only lead story in every newscast, but had multiple “child” sections that were related to it.
You couldn’t escape it if you wanted to, you couldn’t get away from it. The media forced down your throat no matter what. If you were a Nixon supporter, you had no alternatives. You couldn’t log onto your computer and go to an alternative news source.
Watergate was relentlessly uncovered, promoted, and hyped by media that were overwhelmingly liberal, and anti-Nixon. They had a vendetta against conservatives in general, and Richard M Nixon in particular. Watergate was a direct offshoot of the liberal extremism in the 60s and early 70s, in much the same way that the problems this country is now experiencing are direct offshoots from that particular time frame.
In this “Fast and Furious” “scandal” the media has no interest in promoting it. It runs counter to their goals and values. (scare quotes around the word scandal are deliberate, and used in the same fashion that the media would use them today to describe the current situation…)
I think the only reason anyone might see anything about it on the news (such as come across a segment on it on CNN) is that someplace like CNN, running 24 x 7 needs content, and will grasp at nearly anything. I suspect it doesn’t bother their brain trust at all to air it, because they know with certainty it isn’t going to get any traction.
Here’s the root of the problem: Liberals do not want to see their Messiah sullied. They just don’t. So they have plenty of opportunity to get their news and information from sources that won’t shove it in their face.
So they do.
Bottom line, it isn’t in the national consciousness to even a single percentage point of what Watergate was. I say this with nearly 100% certainty. Back in 1974, if you walked up to nearly any person, a janitor in a school, a farmer on his tractor, or GI serving in Germany, and you asked them about Watergate, they would not only know what was, but would be able to tell you what a bad person Nixon was and how he had corrupted government and surrounded himself with evil thugs while trampling on the rights of American citizens.
Even more to the point, the Watergate hearings became a national soap opera that people tuned in to. It demonstrated the power of the media to influence events, and the media wielded that power like a 3-year-old kid would wave a loaded handgun around. They had power, they knew it, they loved it, and were going to use it for “good”, the “good” being what was defined by liberals of the day as good.
I guarantee you with that same degree of certainty, that if you walked up to nearly anybody at random and asked them about the “Fast and Furious” situation, you would be lucky to find somebody who had any idea what it was all about. I grant that you might find someone who would squint their eyes and say something to the effect of “yeah, I’ve heard of it…” but if push came to shove, it’s just as likely that the context that they know in is completely different, and most likely would be something about the movie tickling their memory.
The sad thing is, I see this as a much greater threat to our Constitution than anything Nixon ever did. Mark my words, as much as I would like it to, this is going to go nowhere. Absolutely nowhere, and that saddens me and angers me greatly.
It just demonstrates to me how far off the tracks our country has gone, that an administration could do something like this and be completely immune.
You are correct - during the Watergate days, the media was relentless. Morning, noon and night, lead story on all the news day after day. Compare that with this event. Media is sitting on their hands. No questions at Press Conferences. No questions to investigators. The F’n media wants to protect this guy and his cronies and will do it at any cost.
Actually that “safe bet” may be crumbling. I heard that on CNN last night there was a segment on Fast and Furious that wasn’t very complimentary to the administration. It was even intimated that restricting gun rights was the real reason that F and F was started.