8/8/12, "Fear and Shame on the Campaign Trail," Roger L. Simon, PJ Media
"It seems counterintuitive, but journalists are some of the most risk-averse people around. Few of them are really entrepreneurs. Despite bohemian veneers, they have little daring. They work for somebody and that somebody calls the tune. “Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one,” as the great A. J. Liebling reminded us many years ago.
Journalists fear for their jobs and their jobs are increasingly precarious. If they change their opinions, even investigate the possibility that the other side might have some reasons, quite often they are out the door. So not only do they toe the line, they are disinclined even to consider alternatives in their minds, consciously or unconsciously, because those alternatives are dangerous to their livelihood....
And deep down these journos are embarrassed by this (who wouldn’t be?) but they can never never admit it. To do so would injure their self-image and self-respect to the level of personality disintegration.
So this shame is projected out in rage and, yes, loathing toward you, me, Mitt Romney, and anyone else who might deign to disagree with them. We are accused racists, homophobes, sexists, classists, any refugee of sixties group speak that might stick for ten minutes, even though they themselves are more likely to be those things. It is, after all, projection. Ideology is but a pretentious cover for rage.
So no wonder they behave as a shrill gang, banging metal drums like lost characters out of Gunter Grass, “Romney bad and rich! Romney bad and rich! Romney bad and rich!” ad tedium, ad nauseum, as if they were on David Axelrod’s payroll.
And in a sense they are. For to wander off the reservation is a road to penury. And who wants that now more than ever with the number of media jobs contracting?"...via Instapundit
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Zogby poll taken right after Obama's election proves that people voted based on what had been repeated most in the establishment media:
11/18/2008, "Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test," ibopezogby.com
UTICA, New York -- "Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Inteligência telephone poll shows....
When asked which candidate said they could "see Russia from their house," 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of "none" or "Palin" was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin."...
Ed. note: I did not know until Dec. 8, 2008 (after the election) that Governor Palin had not made the statement described above. The Zogby poll proved (if there was any doubt--I myself am an example) that the media elected Obama by making people believe things that never happened, and kept them ignorant of important things that did happen. What greater power is there than being able to get a US president elected? They're doing it again in 2012. (Zogby got some complaints about the poll from the far left but he stands behind it). The left can't tolerate a level playing field. Nate Silver's response to Zogby's poll:
""Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, who has closely followed the controversy, said he saw "significant problems with this poll...."Many of the questions included items that were misleading, taken out of context, or arguably untrue, but which were represented as factual to the respondent," Silver wrote in an e-mailed statement. "The only reason that Mr. Ziegler's original survey got stupid answers from Obama's supporters is because he asked stupid questions.""
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Ed. note: The great Nate Silver. They can't tolerate the slightest bit of dissent.
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