This might be a short diary and might not be some peoples cup of tea, but I am shocked looking across the web right now by something which has a silence from the media that is quite amusing. The Dow was up nearly 300 points today. This is usually a front page story if it's down this much. But not even one news site has this as a front page linked story. Not even one has a story regarding how great a week Obama is actually having. Lots of coverage of Issa teeth gnashing, Republican teeth gnashing, etc.
Now, this isn't quite like a killing Osama week, but let's see. RCP has gone from a +0.8 to a +3.9 this week for its polling average. Obama is up +5 now in Gallup, and even +1 at the House of Ras. His signature health care law was held up as constitutional. The House finally passed a bill that could help infrastructure and students. And the lead in to my story, the market is closing in on 13K with a huge rally day to end the week (the day after the "economy killing" aforementioned health care bill was upheld). So imagine my shock to see many stories about Etch a Flopney's various responses to this ruling, a few fast and furious dog and pony show posts, a story about nothing happenning yet in the Zimmerman case, Governors Jindal and O'Donnell stomping their feet like children, etc. Yet not a single major news source has a peep on this great news (you can only imagine if the market tanked today what would have been said about yesterdays developments at the Supreme Court, but thankfully, we'll never truly know).
Now, to a lot of people, paying attention to the Dow (or the market in general since both the S&P and NASDAQ were up far higher) is a key economic indicator, especially to us newer generations folks. Could be that whole all I have saved is a 401K, that more resembled a 200.5K during a lot of the last administration. I'm not really one who thinks it's the end all be all that it's made out to be, good or bad, but it is telling how the media has completely abondoned both its usual insistence that the Market tells us what is good and bad and the media's insistence on measuring everything in terms of the horse race. But last week, on a few down days, you couldn't get away from it, nor the impact it would have on Obama that it was more evidence the sky is falling. I find the silence deafening. It'll be interesting to see the Sunday shows and if one actually reports on this fascinating conundrum of how Obama's in deep trouble, and the financial folks hate "Obamacare" yet this week, both Obama's numbers, and the stock market, have soared.
Obviously not saying it's over, it's only June, but the crickets you are hearing are definitely evidence of how the media will enable Romney to stay in it.
Liberal media, bleh.