I have to hand it to the republicans out there. They are working the MSM system like symphonic conductors.
What I'm referring to is the daily blast of some outrage or another regarding the President & opposition party. I mean, they did the very same thing during President Clinton's terms.
Now I don't mind an opposition party forcefully pushing their views. But I really think that when their 'Obama is leading us all to HELL' line is something like Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan....well I think the proper media response should be to possibly bring up the new outrage point, and then place that on the scale of things and say how it weighs out. I don't need nor want the media to mock the points mercilessly like Jon Stewart (I'll leave that to Jon, Colbert, Olbermann & Rachael) but I do think they should laugh it off, not repeat the claims breathlessly.
The reason Republicans are doing it is it works for them. They figure if they can use a misdirection play, a 'Hey look at that over there!' they can take the wind out of energy progressives have in trying to reshape the system to be less bush43/Darth/Addington/Yu biased. Sadly, it's working.
Really I have to think the Corporate media companies are in cahoots. They want to skew it to their advantage, and they side with Republicans. The piece de resistance is the continually repeating the 'liberal MSM' meme acting like it's remotely true. Keeps those damn libs off balance and makes them try to defend a straw man media that doesn't exist. And certainly doesn't exist in any sense that would paint progressive ideas in a remotely reasonable light.
And the band plays merrily along....
Too funny. I finish this and go over and see that Balloon Juice has this same notion with a different perspective: Ungovernable