I rarely watch the Sunday talk shows, but I did this week...and it reminded me why I don’t watch those shows!
The programs were nothing more than support group therapy sessions for the liberal establishment. They tell themselves that races are “tightening” (without much evidence to back up that claim) and that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are firing up the Democratic base (HA!). On the other hand, it doesn’t matter if the GOP takes Congress because the Tea Party candiates and the Republican establishment will immediately be at each other throats, to the great benefit of Obama.
The MSM spends so much time covering the O’Donnell campaign because it tells a story that makes them feel good about themselves: That a Tea Party “extremist” is hurting the GOP. That is totally unpresentative of what is happening during this election cycle, but they desperately wish it were.
Why does a race in which a politicial neophyte in a deep blue state (Delaware) is running behind get so much attention? Why not cover the Wisconsin Sentate race in which a “respectible” Democratic incumbent in a pretty solidly Democrat state is about get booted out?
Well you need to show up here more often FC, cause you got it right, exactly right.
You’re right, once upon a time Feingold was the darling of the media, being half of that reaching across the aisle campaign reform thing and now he’s about to get booted out kind of unceremoniously and you hardly hear a whisper do ya?
And you’re right about COD...it’s a story the media loves...the right wing kookoid not only doing sad in her own state but messing things up for the right wing candidates in all nearby states.
I like the way you think.
just cause you think like me is merely a coinkydink.