What I am sensing from this episode — JMO! — is that the phenomenon we’ve all predicted, expected, and counted on, has finally begun to flower. I’m talking about the gradual shift from old media to new.
Computers still aren’t in enough homes, but for sure they’re on the desks (or the laps) of every man, woman and worm in the media, and with each passing hour there’s another one taking some newbie on his maiden voyage into the info ether.
They know their power is disintegrating and their old tricks are increasingly lame.
Recently they leaned on Cain (pun if you please) and fell on their faces. The reason is not that they had no evidence, but that they no longer dare to create any; the carcass of Dan Rather’s career is still fresh in their nostrils. The reason is not that what they had was absurdly thin, but that out of twenty thousand emails there wasn’t one with enough substance to turn a single additional person against Sarah Palin, whereas the fishing expedition probably turned a few more against the misledia.
The reason is not that he’s a black American with a regular birth certificate and a lot of friends from way back and some actual proof of intelligence and achievement. (Plus a shortage of terrorist chums and Nobel prizes.)
These are all quite true, they are facts, obvious even to people who don’t prefer him as the nominee (I’m one of them). They are not reasons why the media has failed to defeat Cain.
People are wise to them now, in sufficient numbers. The attackers simply can no longer take the risk of loading their antique musket and firing it at this Roadrunner.
If he succeeds in the primaries — let the ‘rat overlords deal with him, put a dead girl in his car or the n-word on his tablet. “You decide! We report!”
But the misledia are too worried about keeping their own careers afloat, to manage the destruction of anyone else’s.
They’re as finished as Gail Wynand.
I hate NPR and resent that I have to pay for it. Let all those people who listen to it, pay for it.
But it’s interesting that their love for our black brother and sisters does not extend to conservative black brothers.
We knew it all the time.
Well; THAT didn't hurt Teddy; how about a live boy in his bed??
Wait... that doesn't hurt Barney, either.
And HE can SAY the "N" word with impunity!!