[Nick Danger]

It's the final word on the subject, IMO.

I don't think it is. There's another aspect to this, and Jonah hasn't touched on it.

This "expose" is not a single data point. It is on a line, and the line is becoming more apparent every time the Press Democrat adds another point to it.

This isn't about Bennett. It's about torching Republicans, one after another, by a highly partisan press corps that thinks it can sneak this stuff into the public dialog as "news" without being identified themselves as hatchet-men for a craven Democratic Party.

Maybe at one time they could do that. They're entirely too obvious about it now. The public got a big wake-up call during the war about just how partisan the press really is. Even people who dismissed claims of "media bias" were shocked by the blatant anti-Administration, anti-Republican partisanship of supposedly 'objective' media figures.

No one is being fooled by this anymore. These hyperventilating attacks on The Bad Republican Of The Week are not perceived to be "news" anymore. Everybody knows they're not news. They're manufactured hype of the same sort that brought us "news" of quagmires and bad plans all during the war. The press is the armored division of the Democratic Party. Attacking Republicans is what they do.

Let them throw their spears at the Republican Of The Week. All they are doing is putting greater distance between the media and the public, tagging themselves as partisan hacks instead of honest purveyors of events, and sowing tremendous mistrust of everything they say.

The media is destroying itself with the public. That is at least as big a story as whatever Santorum, or Bennett, or whoever is in the barrel next week, did.

[cgk]

This isn't about Bennett. It's about torching Republicans, one after another, by a highly partisan press corps that thinks it can sneak this stuff into the public dialog as "news" without being identified themselves as hatchet-men for a craven Democratic Party

Bump, AMEN to that.

[mabelkitty]

All you have to do is tell the story, and suggest that perhaps Democrats think all gamblers are ammoral and that you wouldn't be surprised if they start outlawing gambling again.

I did this all week-end long, and nobody heard the story, so by the time they did, they already had a pretty good idea that what I said was true.

That's the beauty of the internet. You can spin a story to people a good 24 hours before it hits the news media.

[borkrules]

RE: Your post #67.

Well said.

And spot on.