Saturday, July 26, 2008

It's Getting Boring

...to analyze Obama's speeches and the media's orgasmic reactions to it. Outside of Katie Couric's shock and dismay that Obama couldn't articulate any coherent discussion of the surge, watching the media follow Barack around has been the equivalent of a reality show about some rock star's groupies. If you doubt it, here are some hard facts about political contributions from the press.
The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans — most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.

What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).

Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.
The MSM is simply the propaganda wing of the Obama campaign. That Obama's speeches are soaring rhetoric that has as much to do with Narnia as it does with Earth hardly matters. For example, the Berlin airlift was not the people of Earth or even Europe coming together, it was American military muscle unilaterally shoving it right down the commies' throats. Obama's entire world view is constructed upon fairy tales, but it doesn't matter at all to the adoring media.

This campaign is starting to lose my interest. It's not based on anything substantive because it's entirely about Obama and he's a total marshmallow of a man. It's Entertainment Tonight masquerading as policy.

The thing I'm starting to wonder about is this. Will there be a bailout for the MSM? The government has stepped in and bailed out banks, auto makers and a variety of other industries. When major media giants like the NY Times begin to go under, will Congress pass bailout packages for them?

Massive shifts in advertising revenue spell doom for the MSM.
Click on the image to make sense of it.

What happens if the MSM, already a tool of one political party, becomes a government protectorate?

3 comments:

Ohioan@Heart said...

"What happens if the MSM, already a tool of one political party, becomes a government protectorate?"

Pravda

Ohioan@Heart said...

If you want an interesting take on a recent Obama speech see this.

Dean said...

Linked!