That flipped some time in the last year or two, probably right around the time of The Great Chad Wars. The media was Hell-bent on electing Gore president, and I thought they were well on their way to doing it. All the horns were blowing the same notes; as soon as we count all the votes, Gore will win. It was the same kind of media mow-down of the truth that we've seen on so many issues. Usually it worked. It didn't work that time, though. And it hasn't worked since. Remember the Time magazine cover with a picture of the White House and the word "Enron" plastered across the page? That whole "Let's get him with this" effort by the New York media fell flat on its face. So did the "Bush knew!" fiasco a few months later. And now Iraq. This web site has documented the extraordinary lengths that most of the U.S. media have gone to in order to discredit Bush, to paint him as some kind of warmongering tool of the oil companies, and so on. Last week the New York Times had to fake their own poll results in order to keep up the facade. The public is just not buying their braying anymore. The New York media is still a powerful force, but it no longer has the ability to deliver "the people" to the Democratic Party as needed to win the wars in Washington. People are on to that game, and they have sought out -- and found -- sufficient other news sources that they can no longer be fooled by spiking stories, fabricating polls, slanting the language... and all the other tricks the media have so successfully employed over the years to push this country leftward and to protect Democratic lawbreakers. Their successful defense of the scumbucket William Jefferson Clinton may be the high point of their influence. It has been going down since. This election may be close. The next one won't be. The one after that... the Democrats will wonder what hit them. The media they choose to read will still be blowing their horn. But they'll be the only ones left reading it. |
We had been hearing noises like this for a long time, but the practical effects never seemed to materialize. No matter how many web sites or talk radio hosts there were, the liberal New York media still seemed to control the agenda.