"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"
-Oscar Wilde		 Brilliant at Breakfast title banner "The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
-- Proverbs 11:25
"...you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" -- Steve Gilliard, 1964 - 2007

"For straight up monster-stomping goodness, nothing makes smoke shoot out my ears like Brilliant@Breakfast" -- Tata

"...the best bleacher bum since Pete Axthelm" -- Randy K.

"I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (1954-2015), They Live
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Congratulations to South Carolina on a job well done
Posted by Jill | 6:53 AM
...for the Republicans. By knocking John Edwards out of the race, you've very likely handed the presidency to John McCain:



(poll results via Real Clear Politics)

And good job by ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, and most of MSNBC, too. A very nice coordination of effort.

MSNBC is doing a great job of showing how nimble it can be at doing General Electric's bidding. Last night, Dan Abrams performed a neat trick by painting himself as outside of the "D.C. Media" and doing his part to try to reinforce the "Hillary is Inevitable" meme:





Impressive, Dan. You've done your part for GE. Give yourself a raise.

Meanwhile, within five minutes of tuning into Morning Joe this morning, Chuck Todd was on the phone with Scarborough trashing Barack Obama.

The media establishment and their corporate masters have always wanted a matchup between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. This is the matchup they want because while they want John McCain to be president, if the plan goes wrong, at least they can do business with Hillary Clinton. If you don't believe that the media have a strong role in the framing of candidates and the manipulation of voters' views of them, I have four words for you: "John Kerry Is Electable."
3 comments
Bookmark and Share
3 Comments:
Blogger dguzman said...
Thanks for scaring the shite out of me. I was already bummed about losing the chance to vote for Edwards, but now I'm freakin' pissed. And terrified.
1/31/08, 4:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
the media sure does a good job bashing hillary day in and day out...for someone they want to win. seems to me obama is media's choice
1/31/08, 4:11 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
They want that match up, sure and for the reasons you said (although they'll do business fine with Obama too) but I'll do you one better: John Kerry was electable. John Kerry won that election. When the wrong guy wins, they just fix the results. I know it's horrible and frankly, crippling, to think about but we've seen it twice now. I don't know why we'd imagine it would be different in 2008.

That means it's more important than ever to work and fight and vote. The Dem has to go into the election with crazy high poll numbers. We're apathetic and lazy in the US but it won't be easy this year to get us to buy into the "biggest election upset ever!."
1/31/08, 8:11 PM  
Post a Comment
<< Home