Posted on 11/09/2008 11:23:22 AM PST by AJKauf
Scanning various media today and doing a few radio interviews, I was struck how they have all simply taken conservative pre-election claims that we didn’t know who the stealth candidate Obama was, given his blank slate , and now agreed–but in worry that they don’t know whether he will come through on their own agendas. Indeed conservatives are more likely to wait and see, as liberals worry out loud “now what?”
In fact, listening to the widely-circulated interview of Newsweek editors worrying about Obama’s contortions (”this creature” and “creepy”) is damning proof that they are really no longer journalists. For months most assured us that worries about the plastic Obama were illiberal, then they got what they wanted and now confess to us what they themselves knew all along, that there could be no there there:
So is the elite media worried Obama will prove a centrist rather than a liberal? Or a black nationalist rather than a hope and change healer? Or that they have been so stung that they utterly lost their reputations for credibility they are now scrambling to restore a shred of them? Or do they wish to be a day ahead of the curve and now somehow fill the void created by the departure of the anti-Christ George Bush and be on the cutting-edge of slicing Obama? Or are they such sad creatures of the day, that they simply babble, then re-babble as the hourly perceptions change?
Like many, I wrote some pre-election essays with titles like ‘The Obama Enigma’ and ‘The Blank Slate’ and got the usual tons of hate mail that most now get from the organized Obama electronic minutemen, but is the media party line really now to be “We also knew all that then, but can only say it now”?..
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
It’s all here:
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/11/05/2/a-conversation-with-jon-meacham-evan-thomas
That is not the same video as one I posted somewhere here awhile back about the Brokaw-Rose exchange.
Replace the 'by' with 'while' in this VDH sentence taken from upstream in the article, and the story of the media turns funny. All of the strange factions which compose the democrat party are going to want their say, and in a big way, right now. It's going to be a riot watching the press reconcile the reactionary tribalism of some of these groups (racial identity, environmentalist wacko, etc.) with BO's purposely vague hope'N'change BS. He owes them all, big time. And the media, having accepted it's role as propaganda bureau, will be in the middle as they all try to stuff their agendas up the public's butt.
Sorry, VDH - - none of the above.
The Democrat newsrooms’ primary focus for (at least) the next four years will be to spin for and puff up their man every minute of the day in order to prove to everybody that they got a great president elected. They will be writing the great man’s legacy as they go along, no matter what he does.
Absolutely nothing else matters to them.
“Mea culpa”?? LMAO, no way.
I’m waiting for Obama’s proclamation that the official language of the US will be Swedish and that all underwear will be worn outside the clothes.
My gut feeling is that the DBM will see and see very soon that O is not ready for prime time - never was - never will be. I think the DBM will start to get really scared.
The DBM will not want to shoulder any of the blame for having anointed O, so they will try a couple of things, 1) pretend they’ve just discovered something new and horrible about O, 2) try to claim that the GOP has dumped this new and horrible information out there to discredit O.
That will accomplish two things: 1) absolve them of not reporting the new and horrible things before the election because, after all, they were just discovered - how could they have known? and 2) bring down wrath on the GOP, esp. by moderates and minorities who will take umbrage at perceived smears and attempts to destroy O.
The DBM should not be allowed to get away with this.
That’s why I prefaced that quote from the article with my “snort!” I realize he’s rarely going to get in front of the camera to take questions.
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