9.17.2008

the media is full of itself

From the Drudge Report on Monday, "CBS: The Sarah Palin Phenomenon is Doomed". I clicked in earnest (part of being conservative and the track record of conservative politicians is beaten-dog syndrome, we just expect our candidates of being a closet socialist). I partly expected more details on the "bridge to nowhere" earmark issue or maybe some other new thing. However, what I found was this:
The primary reason why the Palin bubble will burst is that the media will decide that they are bored with her. They'll need to move to shine a light on a fresh issue or individual.
I literally laughed out loud in my cubicle (sometimes I wonder what my cube-neighbors think). The media is so absurd and full of itself that it actually believes Sarah Palin would not have become so popular if they had not ran so many stories and as if they were to stop covering her so much the excitement would disappear.

I'm paraphrasing, but I've heard it quoted often that a prominent journalist in 1984 said "I have no idea how Reagan won, I don't know anyone who voted for him". That says it all right there (Reagan won by a landslide).

And this is just vicious:
Now that we've built you up, it's about time for us to knock you down.

Can Sarah Palin withstand the body blows that are being inflicted by the national media?
I don't buy that the media is responsible for building Sarah up, and I don't think that she will be knocked down by the media. If anyone will knock Sarah Palin down, it will be herself (either on the campaign with a mega-gaffe or in a debate with Joe Biden).

2 comments:

Zach said...

This is unsurprising and slightly depressing. Why can't journalists just report the news?

I blame the postmodernists.

Odysseus said...

I think the media is perturbed, because they keep slinging mud at her (and I will be honest and say that she probably is not perfect and has, in office, done some misdeeds) and it doesn't stick.

It doesn't stick because many in the "silent majority" (which, I think, is smaller than in Nixon's time and may not be a majority anymore. We'll see in November) have already made up their minds. Palin, or McCain, would have to publicly commit some seriously heinous crimes before any of us would vote for Obama. In fact, I can't think of a crime that would make me vote for Obama! Maybe one fo them being caught sacrificing animals in a Satanic mass would do it for me. That might make me vote for Bob Barr.