Monkeywrenching the political process

[unixronin]

With the popular vote in the just-past election so close, one could be forgiven for wondering how much the election may have been influenced by what amounts to an elaborate practical joke.

Of course, the article points out that the perpetrators observed that the news media could easily have exposed their hoax had they put the least effort into checking their facts.  But in this last election, by all appearances the media didn't WANT to check their facts, as long as the report involved something damaging to the McCain-Palin campaign.  Can you imagine the witch-hunt had Eitan Gorlin and Dan Mirvish chosen Barack Obama as their target?  Ah, but wait, we don't have to imagine — we have the persecution of Joe the Plumber as an example.

When I consider how one-sided the reporting of this past election campaign was, and yet how close the popular vote was, I find it hard to avoid speculating that in this Presidential election, the people of the United States did not elect Barack Obama; the news media did.

Comments

[msa.livejournal.com]

Under the circumstances, it is very close.

It's amazing, the absolutely glowing press BHO received... the Fourth Estate has definitely proved they can manipulate elections (note, if anyone else did it, it would be called election fraud, and they'd be jailed for it.)

On the bright side, this sword cuts both ways...now that Obama isn't just Obama, but the OBAMESSIAH... he'll either wind up having to moderate in his second term, as Clinton did when the pendulum swung back the other way, or he'll be Cartered, tossed out after one term and far more effective as an ex-president than in office.

Meanwhile, now that I live in a free state, I'm considering waiting a couple of months for the run on the gun stores to abate, then purchasing some implements of freedom.

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

What second term?

I hope the SOB gets two years, and another two with a Congress stacked so hard against him that he'll wish he were Clinton in `95-`96.

[msa.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely, he's going to wind up Clintoned or Cartered, possibly both.

That said, I suspect it's going to be more of the latter than the former. They're up too many seats for there to be balance in two years....

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

BTW, jog my memory about where you moved to?

[msa.livejournal.com]

Arizona!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Another refugee to the Southwest. How's it treating you?