Media Driven Shitstorm


Underscoring the vapid, juvenile, middle-school nature of the American body politic is the the media's reaction to what, yeah, isn't Barack Obama's finest hour, but hardly a terminal nose-dive, well, unless...the media goes into clampdown mode and obsessively locks its jaw around what they've decided is the shiny object du jour.

Because that's what this kerfluffle is all about--the media reaction. Funny enough, a good bit of this reaction has been orchestrated by Team Clinton, and readily consumed by a press corpse that normally has Hillary's name permanently etched on their shit list. But for whatever reason, possibly, incredibly, in yet another example of how childish the media really is, because of a fucking comedy sketch on a show that's been little more than a place marker for the last twenty years--they've decided to at least for now hold a sort of bizarre Hillary Saturnalia...it'll be interesting to see when things revert back to the mean, no pun intended.

Because they will revert back to the mean. The only question will be how seriously Obama is hurt by this Coalition/Tag-Team of Convenience. I'm sure they're hoping to knock him out, but, then again, he wasn't even supposed to be around at this point, much less ahead. The idea all along has been Clinton versus, well, Romney, but given that Romney lacks the requisite qualification of actually being human, and Ghouliani was, Ghouliani, so, by default, McCain, Republican versus Republican Lite; above all, a continuation of Bush-rule, which, for them, actually hasn't been all that bad. Sure, the rest of us are anxious if not actually suffering (all the better by their reckoning: anxious workers are docile workers), but they're doing pretty good with all the government contracts (too bad about the bloody war, but hey, the surge worked, right? And too bad about New Orleans, but hey, New Orleans had been abandoned by the federal government for years prior to the flood).

Obama, for all his reality (he's NO librul) throws a kink into the plan. And that can't be tolerated, even if--hell, PARTICULARLY IF--he inspired the otherwise politically apathetic.

It's sort of like how Hollywood works these days. Why risk making a good movie when you'll get plenty enough audience with the usual crap?