21/02: All the News That's Fit to Print
Category: Politics
Posted by: A Waco Farmer
A prediction: as more and more liberal commentators and newsreaders castigate McCain for being a conservative, the more conservatives will develop warm feelings for him. Many of us hate him as a result of the people who seem to fawn over him. Ironically, by November, most of us will like him in reaction to the same coterie of jackals, who will excoriate him relentlessly for his admirable lifetime record of defending the things we hold dear.
The mainstream media barrage upon the presumptive Republican nominee has officially begun--albeit with a surprising lack of subtlety.
Page One of the New York Times, the paper of record for the axis of liberalism in America, charges today that John McCain engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a beautiful female lobbyist thirty-years his junior.
The New York Times evidently sat on this story since December. Why?
The main thrust of the story--McCain and the young femme fatale--allegedly transpired nearly a decade ago. Again, why now?
An Aside: according to the Times, this relationship reached its peak during the year prior to McCain's unsuccessful run for the White House in 2000. If true, the Bushies, who ran the most "despicable whispering campaign in the history of American politics," somehow missed this major story that the Times somehow uncovered through good solid investigative journalism. Kudos to the Gray Lady. They must be smoking big fat cigars over there on Eighth this morning.
Okay. So what?
Here is how the Times will try to play this story? They have already floated the idea that conservative opponents of McCain were shopping this scandal. Perhaps this is true. Of course, the Times must contend with the question as to why the same story was unworthy of publication back when the revelation might have helped some of McCain's Republican opponents--but it is now in the public interest to air all of this now that McCain's opponent is most likely Barack Obama--who, ironically, is currently in minor trouble with the press for the first time in his magical campaign.
So, in a perfect New York Times world, this story will further torpedo McCain with social conservatives, while at the same time affixing guilt for the bloody work on them as well.
We will see how well that works. It will be a hard sell--but the Huffington Post crowd will surely swallow the double-reverse conspiratorial narrative hook, line, and sinker.
~~Bosque Boys, 10 days ago
The mainstream media barrage upon the presumptive Republican nominee has officially begun--albeit with a surprising lack of subtlety.
Page One of the New York Times, the paper of record for the axis of liberalism in America, charges today that John McCain engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a beautiful female lobbyist thirty-years his junior.
The New York Times evidently sat on this story since December. Why?
The main thrust of the story--McCain and the young femme fatale--allegedly transpired nearly a decade ago. Again, why now?
An Aside: according to the Times, this relationship reached its peak during the year prior to McCain's unsuccessful run for the White House in 2000. If true, the Bushies, who ran the most "despicable whispering campaign in the history of American politics," somehow missed this major story that the Times somehow uncovered through good solid investigative journalism. Kudos to the Gray Lady. They must be smoking big fat cigars over there on Eighth this morning.
Okay. So what?
Here is how the Times will try to play this story? They have already floated the idea that conservative opponents of McCain were shopping this scandal. Perhaps this is true. Of course, the Times must contend with the question as to why the same story was unworthy of publication back when the revelation might have helped some of McCain's Republican opponents--but it is now in the public interest to air all of this now that McCain's opponent is most likely Barack Obama--who, ironically, is currently in minor trouble with the press for the first time in his magical campaign.
So, in a perfect New York Times world, this story will further torpedo McCain with social conservatives, while at the same time affixing guilt for the bloody work on them as well.
We will see how well that works. It will be a hard sell--but the Huffington Post crowd will surely swallow the double-reverse conspiratorial narrative hook, line, and sinker.
martian mariner wrote:
From AP article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...
Good call, Farmer. Oh, and I know that McCain can't get Leiberman as a running mate. But I'm still sure that conservatives will, sooner rather than later, join around McCain as the *most conservative candidate. So I hope that he doesn't pick some lame-o just because he's got conservative cred. McCain's solid enough with conservative voters (or will be) to get a running mate on his own merits and not just to suck up to the Rush-ites and Falwell-ians.
btw, nice job on the radio. I was hoping they'd mention bosqueboys, but it's all good. The Dems in Texas should be interesting.