Monday, September 14, 2009

57% would swap out all incumbents and now Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low

Do you get the feeling americans are disgusted with institutions?

As an unresponsive government seeks to create the perception that town hall speakers and firearms carriers are racist fringe freaks, and a crowd in DC which was wel up in 6 figures if not 7, and larger than the inaugural crowd is said to be but thousands by the WaPo and NYT, Rasmussen publishes a poll which says 57% of voters would just get rid of all incumbents, all political labels but Reagan are hideous and the worst is the word 'progressive', and only 33% think we are headed in the right direction.

But what gets reported?

NEWSBUSTERS:

  • Pathetic Bill O'Reilly wannabe Keith Olbermann, calling Fox News viewers 'tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racists.'
  • David Shuster, dually pathetic Olbermann wannabe, profiling the Republican Party as 'all white males with short haircuts.' He then goes on to call the party angry and unhinged, with 'no women, no minorities.'
  • A recent segment in which Shuster, Barney Rubble to Olbermann's Fred Flintstone, suggests Joe Wilson's comments may contain a 'racist or bigoted element.' Tamron Hall was appalled 'to have that southern white male shout down the first black president'. And of course, the Reverend Jesse Jackson chiming in with '...the big C-word, conservative... for some it means a code word for race.'
  • Ed Schultz referring to Senator James Inhofe's criticisms of the President as potentially opening up 'the floodgates to these crazies that show up at town hall meetings.' He also insulted those who believe the President is leading this country in the wrong direction as 'lesser challenged news consumers.' Shuster, Donkey to Olbermann's Shrek, echoes the 'crazies' sentiment, later stating that Inhofe's constituents likely contain 'lunatics' who feel it is their 'responsibility to take out the president'.

Pretty inflammatory list, eh? But wait my friends, there's more...

  • Have reservations about former Obama appointed green-jobs czar Van Jones and committed 9/11 truther, and you are most definitely a racist according to Keith Olbermann.
  • Mike Barnicle and Chuck Todd discussing if race is the real reason for all opposition to President Obama. Todd then bumbles and stumbles his way to explain that the White House certainly doesn't want to cry race, but they are more than willing to point to polls that say detractors are southern racists.
  • Tingly legged Chris Matthews saying that opposition to the President is based on 'who he is, where he comes from, his background'.

News and the MSM has not been so stilted and factually in error, and/or pointedly disingenuous in what and how it is reported since the explosion of the USS Maine in 1898 and the yellow journalism which lead to war.

But what is far more disturbing to thinking and critical americans is the underlying inchoate elite coalescence around a dialectic of 'fact'. 'That which does not fit the dialectic, CANNOT be fact'

Thus Joe WIlson's rudeness (though certainly at least arguably factual) is racism, after all, hey, South Carolina.

Thus the crowd in the mall cannot be the free expression of average people, it must be the manufactured organization of Ron Paulista birthers, which is why only thousands showed up.

But someone once said something about fooling all of the people all of the time ... and he wasn't even president (yet) when this ineluctable fact made itself plain in his thought.

And below the level of verbal expression, the disquiet among average americans across the board about what is being done, and how it being reported, and reacted to ... grows... until it finds ugly fruition in permanently discredited instutions, and a permanent loss of fatih in the way we govern ourselves.

9 comments:

Snarky Basterd said...

Yep...throw them all out, put in all new people, go back to state governors appointing senators, reduce both houses' pay by half...and make them work for us again.

Epaminondas said...

"state governors appointing senators" .. are you kidding?

Can anyone spell TAMMANY?

Massachusetts, where graft is a sport?

Every state would have a 'Blago'.
Sorry I'll stick to votes

Pastorius said...

I think we need to pick 535 well-educated people from the Tea Party Movement and vote them in.

I think we ought to administer a test on knowledge of the Constitution, and use performance on that test as a way to find a couple thousand possibilities, and then have each of those couple of thousand make YouTube videos speaking of their vision, and have voting on YouTube to pick the 535.

Then we run them in popular elections over the next few years.

That's our new Congress.

Epaminondas said...
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Epaminondas said...

There might be some people who would say that anyone who committed a document written by and for old white guys, a lot of whom were slave holders, to memory, ON PURPOSE indicates some kind of non-correct-think, maybe even ....

racism.

OMG.

I'm really losing patience. I need some recreational drugs.

Sometimes I really wish they had not outlawed that drug completely. That way by now all civilization would be destroyed including the middle east where they would finally have gotten some p***y, and we could start over.

Anonymous said...

I say let the media elite continue with their racism talk - the more they do, the more of a disconnect with good Americans who are totally dissatisfied with the direction our country is taking. The obama-media continues to insult the intelligence of it's viewers, and those viewers quietly switch off and turn on Fox.

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Always On Watch said...

Epa,
Quite the post you've got here.

After the rally and in reference to our government, Mr. AOW, who's quite uninterested in politics most of the time, said, "The lunatics are running the asylum."

I kept muttering at the rally, "We need a do-over."

The big rally in DC on Saturday -- and the numbers were huge -- is getting deprecated even on FNC. I think that Juan Williams was the one who played the race card in the interview I saw today.

WTH?

I guess there were some racists there.

But overall the theme of the rally was this: "We're fed up with this administration, President and Congress." Also, "Return to the principles of the Constitution."

A lot of anger out there -- and I don't mean just at the rally, either.

Pastorius said...

Laura,
You're right.

At this point, everything they do, they're just shooting themselves in the foot even more.

Even this example of them downplaying the crowd size of the 912 Rally, saying it was only 60-70, 000 people.

Anyone with half a brain knows that's a bald-faced lie.

Keep on lying, you idiots.

Sometimes you just gotta love your enemies.