Seeing the Republicans and their right-wing media wurlitzer criticizing the president for going to Denmark to lobby for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in the United States, I’ve become convinced of something. The Republicans have a strategy to attack every single thing that the president does. They don’t care if the criticism is absurd or hypocritical or fair or even sensical. They just don’t want him to get one news cycle, one event, that doesn’t have some kind of criticism attached to it.
Whenever possible, they want to put a racial angle on things. So, in this example, they discovered that an innocent Chicago teen was killed last Thursday in some kind of gang-related street-brawl. Therefore, the president shouldn’t be focused on bringing the Olympics to Chicago, he should be concerned with cleaning up all the crime-creating blacks on the streets of Chi-Town.
There isn’t really any logical connection here. But it makes a perverse amount of sense once you consider that they are meeting two of their prime directives at once. They criticize the president even when he does something completely uncontroversial, thus making it controversial. And they continue to morph the Democrats’ War on Christmas into Barack Obama’s War on Normal White Folks.
I hope there is some kind of breaking point coming where the semi-decent people in the national press corp finally decide that they can’t share a profession with the likes of Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, and call them out for the latter-day Father Coughlins that they are. This is getting ridiculously reactionary.
Perverse is an apt description for a political party which cares only for its own welfare. I think the republicans have gone over the edge and would be willing to suffer the ruin of the United States if only they could discredit the current incumbent in the White House. Without question, the republicans have become toxic to the well being of all of us. Here’s hoping the electorate takes notice and votes for sanity and safety in 2010.
And they’re going to keep on doing this. It’s like the campaign, Obama didn’t CARE about winning news cycles. So whether that’s good or bad, they are going to keep on doing it.
hey Boo- throw it on the wall and see if it sticks. then, if it does, milk it thru their controlled national media sourcers. this is the stragedy and it is well proven that in an ignorant and poorly educated society, this stragedy will work. nah- not will- but it is working. and it will be getting more outrageous as time marches on. we aint seen nottin yet.
remember- it’s the damn uppity you know whats.
And the GOP will continue to lose because for more and more folks the news cycle is becoming irrelevant; even conservatives are tuning out Dobbs’s ranting. FoxNews survives because of 3 million largely elderly TV addicts and a captive audience waiting in line or running on a treadmill or in some other business establishment.
The majority of Americans are not falling for it, but the media insiders keep pushing it. Interesting disconnect there, isn’t it. Which is just like the 2008 campaign.
Of course, feckless Democrats could lose their advantage by listening to the media instead of to the people.
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(Guardian) – The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year.
The milestone marks a watershed for the embattled TV industry, the leading ad medium in the UK for almost half a century. It has taken the internet little more than a decade to become the biggest advertising sector in the UK.
UK advertisers spent £1.75bn on internet advertising in the six months to the end of June, a 4.6% year-on-year increase, according to a report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. To put this in perspective, in 1998, when the IAB first measured internet advertising, just £19.4m was spent online.
The internet now accounts for 23.5% of all advertising money spent in the UK, while TV ad spend accounts for 21.9% of marketing budgets
Digital divide
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Now includes Chicago’s gun ban and an affirmative action lawsuit regarding the Chicago Fire Dept.
Nothing to see here. The Court have a political agenda? Perish the thought and ignore Bush v Gore. It’s just the endless grind of American justice system.