MSM is killing me

Quick note: This post is going to be slightly chaotic.

The MSM (mainstream media) is killing me to the point of hilarity and slight disgust. I write this because the media is so utterly predictable, and it will be sad and fun to watch what happens in the next few months.

Some polls (Zzzzzzzz...polls) are apparently saying 22% of Dems think Obama should bow out, and the same percentage of Dems say Hillary should bow out. In a not-so-surprising twist, they are both wrong. The left-wing Dems are wrong, that includes my girl Rachel Maddow. Hill shouldn't be leaving this race, and people like Alter and others in the MSM are DEAD WRONG. Hillary CAN still win this folks. Not by the numbers, but she can win this by causing Obama to implode or by showing strength in key states. She won Ohio by a solid number, and it could be she lamb-basts him in Pennsylvania. She has won many major states that are essentially must-wins to gather those infamous Electoral College-Sham votes.



The media is being SO hypocritical it's sickening. They are saying this campaign is nasty, they're whining it's unfair. All the bitching about what James Carville said, etc, etc. Are you kidding me???!!! As I have written on many a occasion, this is puff-politics. This has not been that nasty of a race. You have the first woman candidate and first candidate of color in this race. By it's very definition it couldn't have been that rough. If someone had crossed the line that far, this race would have been over by now (Bill Clinton damn near did deep-sink Hill, though I still say that was a phony-baloney story trumped up by the MSM). The MSM is being hypersensitive.

But, again, these bastards are hypocrites, they will turn. The second this nomination IS decided, no matter how it is decided...the media people (like the Times) who have been kissing Obama's ass secretly and ignoring his warts will come swinging them at full blast.

It's almost a sadomasochistic thing with the media. They want to love their left-leaning politicians, they silently (sometimes openly) root for them and write puff pieces about them ignoring serious problems. Then when they get into a general campaign, they suddenly have buyer's remorse. The media members begin to think about what they possibly could have had. Drawing Pollyanna-ish memories of the former candidates during the primary season, and then getting upset this Democrat nominee doesn't do some tiny thing they wish they would do/or some issue they would support. They begin to see and highlight the flaws they once overlooked. They chronicle those flaws and they enhance them in the stark light of a Presidential campaign, causing them to become bigger than they ever should have been.

Whenever this Hillary-Obama battle ends, the media will turn on them. Perhaps this could be an argument for allowing this nomination to go through the summer; Allow them less time to turn their guns on the anointed nominee. Interspersed with notes on McCain's old, white man pick for Veep, and his seemingly delusional self as far as his foreign and domestic policy views.

Final note, however: Hillary should not get out, neither should Barack. But, Hill seems like she's not in control of her campaign again. The campaign seems to be flailing about yet again, last time it was just before the Bill disaster quote that nearly sunk her. Carville's comments were not out of line in my view, but Richardson also did not OWE an endorsement to the Clinton caampaign. But, the Obama campaign slam about Clinton being compared to Joseph McCarthy is potentially hurtful to him in the Democratic primary. You don't compare the Clinton's to McCarthy, it's unfair, and it's just stupefying.