I can report that there really is an electric feeling in the city, unlike any I’ve seen before, going back to Jimmy Carter

And there you have it folks, Jimmy Carter II. I’m so happy I could just %$@!.

But after the year-long mediagasm, they have little credibility left. Who’s going to trust them to report honestly and not cheerlead for The One?

Answer: the same idiots — meaning Leftists, liberals, and other assorted lukewarm Americans — who voted for the Writer-in-Chief.

“But how is that possible?” Because Leftists aren’t concerned with truth, only ideology…liberals happily believe what they’ve been told to believe by Oprah and Bono…and the rest can’t even spell “propaganda”, much less recognize it.

“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.”
– Vladimir Lenin

He told everyone in the campaign what they wanted to hear, even if he contradicted himself hundreds of times, and the media never compared notes and let him get away with it.

But tomorrow, the WORK starts. Obama will have to DO something, and some people will get PO’d, not only on the right. If he governs from the left, he’ll lose the middle. If he vacillates, people won’t know what to expect, and businesses will be hesitant to invest–the WORST thing for an economy.

Obama might have a year-long honeymoon in the media, but if things don’t get better by early 2010, we’ll start hearing GOP Congressional candidates asking “Are you better off than you were two years ago?” If the answer is NO, Obama might find himself in the same situation as Bill Clinton in 1995.

It was easy to bash Bush–everybody did it, and Bush never defended himself adequately in his second term. Now this is your baby, Bambi, pick it up and run with it. But beware of fumbles, the voters can be fickle. But there’s no more magic in that wand. It’s time for down-to-earth action.

I told the brits on another forum
Do not expect america to be able to save britain and europe from the economic mess.

America is almost Broke.
And obama no matter how much he spends or prints money
Cant change that simple fact..
I am sorry but if your expecting the messiah to come save you

FORGET about it..

BTW, how is it that all of these guys missed the whole Jeremiah Wright thing until after Super Tuesday? Or that news of Blago’s fall from grace came after the election? It kind of makes you wonder what else they are not telling us.

They’ll try, of course, but with Democrats in control of not just the White House but Congress as well, trying to spin a pile of awful numbers into a bouquet of roses is going to be like Chip Diller standing on the sidewalk during the pandemonium of the Faber College homecoming parade in ‘Animal House’, yelling “All is well!” as he’s trampled by the mob (such as the similar failed efforts in 1980 and 1994).

Kurtz: Partisan adulation in the media
If anyone doubted the bias in the media during this election, the
inauguration appears to have had the singular salutary effect of
proving it. Howard Kurtz
has a good look at the phenomenon up close and……

Don’t buy their rags. Don’t click to their channels.

Cut their market by 50%.

That’s the most important thing you can do.

If you don’t do it; if you can’t drive them out of business; the country is lost. And we will descend further into playschool and will very soon be defeated by other countries who won’t be shy about destroying us.

But after the year-long mediagasm, they have little credibility left. Who’s going to trust them to report honestly and not cheerlead for The One?

The people will, because most of them are the dumbest POS people you know and meet everyday. They are easily led. The Media knows this and will continue to cheerlead for liberalism until the head Pig decides not all animals are equal anymore. The people don’t pay attention to the minutiae that so many of us do. They don’t see the bias and frankly, don’t care. If they can barely pay their mortgage because the wife or husband got laid off, if they can’t even raise their kid without having junior failing school in an environment where an A should be a given if you are breathing, how in the hell will they even think about how biased the media is?

Get over it, until the media is called by the masses for their bias, nothing will change.

I’m still a little fuzzy on what exactly was so amazingly difficult about Obama’s win. He was running against a guy large portions of the base didn’t like and a sitting President with a low approval rating.

BadgerHawk on January 20, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Plus he had the benefit of a synchophantic MSM that acted like the propaganda arm of Obama’s campaign. Add to that some blatant cheating (ACORN registering dead, non-existent, and illegal alien voters for Obama, and Obama’s campaign deliberately disabling the security checks on their credit card processors so that they could accept all sorts of illegal donations, etc.), and Obama’s victory looks quite a bit less “miraculous” than it might otherwise appear.

I agree that that’s how Obama and the drive-bys will attempt to spin things. But that will offer little comfort to the American people who are out there struggling and discover that they’re worse off than they were under Bush.

As Obama himself once infamously said, “you can put lipstick on a pig….”

Doughboy on January 20, 2009 at 12:04 PM

Exactly right…the media was able to create the impression of Bush’s economy being horrible because they caused people to think, “I’m doing fine but everyone else is suffering.”

That’s easy, it’s much much harder to make people think an economy is doing great when they’re thinking, “My situation sucks and so does my neighbor’s.”

Class-warfare has also ensured that “My situation sucks but my neighbor’s is great.” won’t help Hussein’s poll numbers.

I see this trend, the One says he poops Skittles out his ass and the Obama team says that he will poop Skittles out not now but later in his aadministration.

Kurtz has been part of this media bias. He pulls this schtick again and again. He will be front and center with the tongue baths and then criticize others for doing what he has been doing months on it. Then he will go back to the tongue baths.

I think Kurtz and his ilk do this so they can pretend they aren’t biased. Someone should tell him only the left is that stupid to fall for it.

The media have selected an empty suit who speaks well…much like empty suits in academia who have PhDs in their fields are are complete fools in daily life.

+1!