I’m not big on the whole “fisking” thing, who has that kind of time, really? But Paglia’s Salon article on the end of the election offers something for everyone.
Eat dirt, you sour Clintons, who said Obama was “unelectable.”
Whoops, you probably made the Clinton Death List there, sweetie.
And the formidable Michelle Obama, with her electric combo of brains and style, is already rewriting first ladyhood.
Maybe. But let us not forget she has never previously been proud to be an American.
McCain’s brusque treatment of his long-suffering wife, Cindy, was also off-putting — nowhere more so than after his concession speech, when he barely remembered to give her a perfunctory hug. Probably no one is more relieved by McCain’s defeat than Cindy, who seemed too frail and tightly wound for the demanding role of first lady. Now she can slip away once more into blessed privacy.
This is ENTIRELY CP’s perception, and as we all have been rather rudely reminded, media perception = obedience in the American people.
In the closing weeks of the election, however, I became increasingly disturbed by the mainstream media’s avoidance of forthright dealing with several controversies that had been dogging Obama — even as every flimsy rumor about Sarah Palin was being trumpeted as if it were engraved in stone on Mount Sinai.
I… Um…can someone get me a portable defibrillator? Quickly?!?
For example, I had thought for many months that the flap over Obama’s birth certificate was a tempest in a teapot. But simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction. Thanks to their own blathering, fanatical overkill, of course, the right-wing challenges to the birth certificate never gained traction.
*blink*
But Obama could have ended the entire matter months ago by publicly requesting Hawaii to issue a fresh, long-form, stamped certificate and inviting a few high-profile reporters in to examine the document and photograph it. (The campaign did make the “short-form” certificate available to Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.) And why has Obama not made his university records or thesis work widely available? The passivity of the press toward Bush administration propaganda about weapons of mass destruction led the nation into the costly blunder of the Iraq war. We don’t need another presidency that finds it all too easy to rely on evasion or stonewalling. I deeply admire Obama, but as a voter I don’t like feeling gamed or played.
But you voted for him anyway, eh?
Hence my concern about Ayers has been very slow in developing. The mainstream media should have fully explored the subject early this year and not allowed it to simmer and boil until it flared up ferociously in the last month of the campaign. Obama may not in recent years have been “pallin’ around” with Ayers, in Sarah Palin’s memorable line, but his past connections with Ayers do seem to have been more frequent and substantive than he has claimed. Blame for the failure of this issue to take hold must also accrue to the conservative talk shows, which use the scare term “radical” with simplistic sensationalism, blanketing everyone under the sun from scraggly ex-hippies to lipstick-chic Nancy Pelosi.
There it is…the blame for not fully investigating the President-Elect’s ties with fucking Domestic Terrorists is all Rush’s fault.
You know, I don’t have time for this. Nor do I have the patience for members of the Mainstream Media (yes, Camille, fucking Salon counts) to start dragging out the, “well, I was worried about X…” or “I had unresolved questions…” You’re all fucking full of shit. YOU bought this election with your constant partisan fellatio of the Obaminator, and now YOU get to reap the rewards. I genuinely look forward to the collapse of your readership and businesses as people realize the Hoodwinking you’ve perpetrated. McDonald’s is ALWAYS hiring, you bitches.
P.S. She says a nice thing or two about Palin, but she’s still an intellectually dishonest cunt.
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