Republicans always allow media to re-frame a debate, never once speak up that real subject is swept under the rug, so Obama can do whatever he wants

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Not one Republican politician has been heard standing up to the media about the fact that they reframed the narrative. GOP types are only interested in getting the media to like them, nothing else.

3/2/12, "Republicans Fall For Manufactured Story," Big Journalism, Dana Loesch

"The Obama administration withered for several weeks under the intense criticism from Catholic leaders regarding the forced violation of religious liberty within the HHS mandate. In an effort to turn the tables, Democrats suggested that the GOP want to abridge women’s rights because Republicans expect women to obtain and pay for their own birth control. This afternoon John Boehner, Carly Fiorina, and Rick Santorum bravely provided cover for the President and the ridiculous narrative of “the war on women.”

Each of them utterly failed in this response, but unlike Santorum, Boehner and Fiorina aren’t running a presidential campaign with the hopes of becoming the nominee so they can battle the media in the general.

This reason right here is why Republicans defeat themselves: It doesn’t matter what Barack Obama’s record is if Republicans so willingly allow the media to reframe a debate about religious liberty as a fight over women’s rights.

More have admonished Limbaugh’s description of Sandra Fluke than admonished a 30 year-old woman embarrassing herself before congress by testifying that she simply cannot stop getting it on and her inability to control her urges constitutes infringing upon everyone else for a bailout. CNS News did the math....

And, as noted, the bailout would come by way of jacking up everyone else’s premiums. The excess cost can’t be covered by magic.

Emily at NakedDC, who went to law school, calls BS on Fluke’s calculations:

… the idea that they are paying $1000 per year for birth control is a little crazy. Condoms at CVS cost $1, so that means, if you take this cheaper option, you are actually having sex three times a day, which is kind of insane and you’re going to have a lot more medical expenses than just birth control. Like chafing. Also, you need psychological help. If its birth control pills they’re using, well, Planned Parenthood, which has plenty of offices within driving distance of the DC area, seems to think those only cost $15 – $50 per month, which is half Ms. Fluke’s estimate. A fitted diaphragm costs about $60 and can be used all year long, including special occasions. And IUDs and the Depo-Provera shot are half the estimate cost (at about $500 each).

I’ve not heard a single Republican politician stand up to the media narrative on this. Instead of projecting surrogate modesty towards Fluke, they project it towards Limbaugh, who is calling the truth for what it is. Fluke, a 30 year-old (presented as a 23 year-old college coed by the media) women’s activist/professional student, is likely not having monogamous sex with the same man approximately 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years (in order to satisfy the calculations about which she felt confident enough to present during a congressional testimony). If she is, kudos! But promiscuity is not the hallmark of a virtuous woman. Is it Limbaugh’s fault for pointing it out or Fluke’s fault for the behavior? It’s a rhetorical question and the answer proved Limbaugh’s entire point....

I also apparently missed the statements released by Congressman John Boehner and Carly Fiorina condemning Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a “slut,” or when progressive talking heads called Sarah Palin names. I’m also disappointed that Rick Santorum didn’t turn this narrative around on it’s head and end it right then and there. The Santorum from the Florida debate would have done so.

Mark my words: Republicans will not win in 2012 unless stop playing along with attempts to divert discussion from the real argument."

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Andrew Breitbart explains:

The cultural left "trafficked in self-assured righteousness, a vibrant network of transmitters and supporters, and a belief in the moral inferiority of their opposites. With these things,

• they crafted and pushed narratives that
  

• crushed conservatives every time."

3/1/12, "Andrew Breitbart: marrying new media with political principle," UK Guardian, Joshua Trevino

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10/11/11, "State of the Race: Establishment and the Regime Rally Around Mitt Romney," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"Our guys are still out, the Republican establishment is still totally interested and focused on what the mainstream media says about them. It’s one of the big problems that we face. The Republican establishment still craves the

• approval, the relationship that they have with
• the mainstream media.
  

The Republican leadership in the House and Senate both still use the mainstream media as their primary means of disseminating information. They think that the

• mainstream media
• is still the power broker, still the power maker,
• and they’re gonna go through them."...

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Ed. note: The Soros wing of the GOP (McConnell, Fiorina, the Bush crowd, McCain, etc.) all despise talk radio and would love to get rid of Rush anyway. If you bash Rush you get big headlines and love from Soros Republicans. Down the road if it looks like the GOP candidate might beat Obama, they'll sabotage him as they did McCain. He didn't want to win anyway so that was no problem.

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