What it's all about, Alfie
Writing at The Daily Howler, Bob Somersby hammers the nail on its head, splintering away all pretexts of a "fair and balanced" / "liberal" press corpse to smithereens:
So none of this is about the Two Big Dems, or about the other Democrats who understand the peculiar politics of this unfortunate subject. These posts have been about “World’s Dumbest Man” Richard Cohen, and about Lady Collins, the vaunted folk-singer; each of them told us, in the past few months, that Clinton lacks Obama’s character because of these flag proposals. Yes, Obama and Clinton cast the same votes. But Cohen and Collins sang the same song: They could tell that Clinton lacked Obama’s high character because of her troubling stance.
But so it has gone, for the past sixteen years, as these people have novelized politics—as they’ve told you the stories they like about at least three Big Huge Dems.
So this isn’t about Obama or Clinton; it isn’t about who should be the Dem nominee. This is about the upper-end press corps, and their astounding effort, down through the years, to peddle silly, bogus stories designed to make you hate who they hate. Might we state simple facts for a moment? When people deceive the public this way in financial industries, they are soon singing their folk songs in jail. But Cohen and Collins have done this for years. In their business, this leads to promotions.
More background: None of this conduct is new for these people. They sold you bogus stories during Campaign 2000, when they simply hated Gore and worked quite hard to make you do so. At some point, liberals and Dems have to come to their senses and see the shape of this world. But we mortals, built in the way we are, love to play our shirts-and-skins politics.
Trivializing important issues; pandering to their favored candidates (the ones who pat them on the heads, give them nicknames, and have best food on the plane - that would be GWB; did the press EVER stop to think that they were being treated like pet animals?).
The political press corpse helped elect GWB to not just one, but two terms of office. While they have favored Senator Obama over Senator Clinton as the Democratic nominee, their love for the straight-talking, straight-shooting, maverick, Senator from Arizona - who answers all their questions on the bus (what's your favorite book? what was your favorite book as a child?) and regales them with stories of dating strippers and doesn't bog them down with policy details will show in the months to come.
