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

[smandal.livejournal.com]

I'm not a political junkie, and I don't have time to verify every fact. We do this all the time in our lives -- e.g., we don't go to medical school, we seek doctors who seem to know what they're talking about.

I was hoping you would show me why the MSM can't be trusted in this regard vis-a-vis Obama, but I remain unconvinced. I have given you my standard of evidence, which is no different from that for the criticism leveled at the Republicans.

This being said, I appreciate the time you have spent here.