skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, August 25, 2008

paging mr. machiavelli...mr. prince machiavelli, please pick up a gop courtesy telephone

tbogg nails the convention reporting by the media today over at fdl:

reporting from the lockers by the girls gym and, omg! just, like, three days before the prom, this is tiffany.

back to, like, you, heather.
they are all gossip girls, insisting on creating the narrative of a rift between some of sen. clinton's followers (and the clintons themselves) and obama.

tho there are hardly any cited sources or highly-placed people speaking for attribution, that doesn't stop the media from creating a picture of a party in complete disarray.

we were going to write something about how the gop is obviously feeding poison into the cw, accusing its enemies of its own failures. but a commeter at time's swampland beat us to it:

i appreciate this, but the real story is republican disunity.

how about mccain hating romney, but possibly being forced to pick him? mccain clearly lied about romney during the florida primary, and romney was bitter about it. well, for a little while because he doesn't have much of a soul to actually feel pain.

how about mccain liking huckabee, but knowing that huckabee is a religious extremist who is broke and would scare people? sure would be interesting to see the texts of all those huckabee sermons they won't release. if he gets picked that would be a fun circus!

how about all those paul supporters? is mccain going to stick a thumb in their eyes?

how about guilani - the all adultery ticket?

how about pawlenty, the empty suit who can't even get 50% in his own state and who seemingly brings nothing to the table but platitudes?

republicans are roiling under the surface, with the conservative authoritarians in a slow death match against the conservative libertarians. i'm praying lieberman gets the nod, because that will bring it all down. one can reliably count on kristol to be completely wrong, and of course he is on this score as well.

bush has really damaged this ship, and that story still gets lumped under all this nonsense clinton drama.
to which we would add, what about the rank and file religious fundamentalists that aren't so comfortable voting for an adulterer like mcmuffin?

in other words, to distract the american public (and to try to turn the conventional wisdom narrative around), the corporate press is ignoring the huge rifts in the repubbblican constituency and manufacturing one among the democrats.

granted, there are those that will vote contrary to their own needs just out of spite, and such nitwits are in both parties.

but we posit that any "trouble" among hillary supporters is, at the very least, being exaggerated, and probably is made up of whole cloth.

certainly, a new cnn poll says that

27 percent of clinton supporters now say they'll back republican mccain -- up from 16 percent in late june.
but this same poll says obama and mcmuffin are now tied.

to which we reply, how interesting, considering that the latest washington post/abc poll has obama 6 points ahead.

cnn can, as in this case, pull its own poll out of its ass context and make whatever result they need.

and that's what we think most of the media is doing. we are not surprised. but we are dismayed.

addendum: 538.com agrees w/us, and provides a much more detailed explanation of how cnn jerks us all around w/their polling results.
posted by skippy at 5:22 PM |

4 Comments:

You know,...it's because they were pissed about him not telling them his pick before hand.... so, they had to just sneak the info and release it first anyway...
commented by Blogger Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J.,, 6:10 PM PDT  
all the media has to do is make a mccain victory look /believable/ -- otherwise the election cannot be stolen. anyhow, this whole situation is the fault of you meddling bloggers, otherwise the "permanent republican majority" would have been assured.
commented by OpenID Mahakal / מהכאל, 11:33 PM PDT  
Despite the Dems and the allied main stream media’s desperation to see Romney as McCain’s Veep, Mitt is clearly out, with (1) Obama doubling down on the class warfare theme (McCain’s 7 houses) and (2) McCain doubling down with ads showing the hypocrisy of Biden attacking Obama in the primaries — Romney did way more than that contra McCain.

This leaves only Govs Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty. Pro-abortion Ridge and Dem-Lieberman were never real considerations, despite relentless media goading. Pawlenty’s lackluster TV performances, coupled with Palin pizzazz, the primacy of oil drilling and the ticked off women/Hillary voters, does now portend a McCain/Palin checkmate on the Dems. This is so albeit the Dems and liberal media dare not mention Palin’s name, that is, everyone but…..

And if there’s any question as to Palin being uniquely positioned and able to more than nullify Biden in debate, see the excellent discussion at palinforvp.blogspot.com

Team McCain, well done!!!
commented by Blogger Ted, 1:40 AM PDT  
They're doing it now (manufacturing the neck & neck meme) so that WHEN they steal the election, we won't protest.
commented by Blogger SB Gypsy, 8:48 AM PDT  

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