But as pissed off as I am about the press response to this shit, it's not nearly as bad as knowing the Obama campaign ran as far away from Rosen the NANOSECOND she finished saying her comments. It's just like what they did with Shirley Sherrod. By acknowledging this woman, they're giving this moronic "scandal" some legitimacy. I'd really think these people would be smarter than that.
This was part of the point I was trying to make while being a dick back when Breitbart died. The Sherrod thing was absolute Obama team fuckup because they panicked. And now you have Jay Carney going "herp derp which Hillary Rosen was it?!?"
Plus you also have Obama going out there, giving these speeches and stuff, which are hard hitting, and then you get a week of the GOP and FOX burying it. Then he takes some time off to give them another thing to rant about.
Kerry as a flip-flopper worked because it was all you got from the Bush camp for a while. Clinton pulled a similar, define Dole, then run silent if you can.
This shit isn't rocket surgery. But maybe they're looking at Romney and just winging it?
but why the fuck did every other news outlet from the so-called "librul" media jump on this shit too?
If Romney isn't competitive, what do they have to fill airtime for the next six months?
It would be nice if we had a media who thought that their prime directive was to deliver truth, no matter how ugly and upsetting to one side of the established political spectrum, to the public at large. That would be great.
We do more or less have that, it just takes effort and most people are not interested in any media that upsets them.
If you want someone else to "deliver the truth" though...
What's the "truth" of the Ryan bill for example. Obama calls it "Social Darwinism" and yet it increases spending and doesn't balance until 2039. And those last two "facts" are only if we take CBO
projections as reality. The Bush Administration submitted a budget (and I'm not going to check so I am qualifying here, it's the point more than the "fact") in 2006 that said we'd have near budget surpluses for the next ten years. TARP and the "Stimulus" alone vaporized this within three years. Shit happens.
The idea that we can have some central arbiter of truth is silly, we've never had that and never could have it. At least until Romney is elected and robots run all our lives.
This country was founded on disgusting, knock down drag out, everyone get wasted, some duels, let's do it, claiming others are Satan incarnate.
Fuck pretending you're objective. Fuck Objectivism. Relish in delicious disgusting vile.
But don't fuck relish, I find it to be an oddly nice non-vile condiment.
Yanking a book of mine just because of someone else I chatted with and because The Bore might like it:
If ever a nation was debauched by a man, the American nation has been debauched by [George] Washington. If ever a nation was deceived by a man, the American nation has been deceived by Washington. Let his conduct, then, be an example to future ages; let it serve to be a warning that no man be an idol.
Philadelphia Aurora, 1796.
An Anglican monarchical, and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British government. ... It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
Thomas Jefferson, 1796.
The character which Mr. Washington has attempted to act in this world, is a sort, of non-describable, camelion-colored thing, called prudence. It is, in many cases, a substitute for principle, and is so nearly allied to hypocrisy, that it easily slides into it. ... And as to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are a apostate or an impostor, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any?"
Thomas Pane, to G Dub, 1796.
Mr. Adams and his Federalists wish to sap The Republic by fraud, destroy it by force, and elect an English monarchy in its place.
Thomas Jefferson
Whether he is spiteful, playful, witty, kind, cold, drunk, sober, angry, easy, stiff, jealous, cautious, confident, close, open, it is always in the wrong place or to the wrong person.
James McHenry, Secretary of War for Adams
The coward wretch at the head, while, like a Parisian revolutionary monster, pratting about humanity, could feel an infernal pleasure in the utter destruction of his opponents. We have too long witnessed his general turpitude, his cruel removals of faithful officers, and the substitution of corruption and baseness for integrity and worth.
Senator Timothy Pickering (MA), 1804.
Any typos mine. (Or possibly the language of the time. Likely the former.)
What would an "objective" media that only delivers the "truth" even say?
Look at the PPACA. What's the "truth"? The Obama Adminstration has their position, the opinion polls have theirs, the states have their own, chunks of The Bore are going to see it constitutional, others will say it's not but single payer is, others won't care and want what's best, and I'll say it's beyond blatantly unconstitutional. But unfortunately, for all of us, the "truth" will be decided when the Supreme Court decides. How do you ever "deliver the truth" here?
Really, the only thing that would do any good would be to legalize the hunting, killing, skinning and eating of the DC press corps.
And these same press corps say nobody can ever agree on anything.
