The post Obama America

Three weeks before the election it appears Romney has gained the momentum and Obama is starting to panic.  It is time for some "hail Mary" disclosures and the like from the Obama campaign.  Should Obama lose, and lose decisively as is possible based where we are now, it is timel to speculate on what could happen after the election.  Who would be the winners and losers in a Romney administration. The biggest losers should be the MSM for its complicity in bringing us Obama in the first place and doing its best to keep us misinformed after he was elected.  One has to feel for those who have depended exclusively on the MSM for their news over the years because  they have been ill-served.  Likely the MSM will shrink rapidly in influence after Obama's defeat for, among other reasons, the country will get back on track under a pro business administration, and jobs will begin to materialize.  Clearly, and in the knick of time, the unions, especially the government employees unions, will take a big hit.  Sweetheart retirement deals will be revisited and scaled down and collective bargaining rights will be challenged and hopefully rolled back.  Right to work laws should be passed in many states in order for them to compete with states not burdened with closed shop laws.  Teachers unions in particular should be reigned in or simply abolished in order to put in place education reforms necessary to keep American workers competitive in the global marketplace.  Government jobs at all levels should be eliminated, probably as many as 1/3d to 1/2 of the current number and of course many of the programs should go the way of the dodo bird as well.  In short, government must be scaled back in order to free up the private sector which is the only place productive, wealth generating jobs are created.  The statist and collectivist members of Congress should take a big hit too, as their influence will wane in an economy that is expanding and creating jobs.

Crowley to the rescue

Candy Crowley, the obese so-called journalist from the left-wing CNN cable network, managed to put the MSM in the spotlight at the Romney-Obama debate October 16.  By covering for Obama on the Lybian, Benghazi debacle, Crowley demonstrated how far the media is willing to go to ensure Obama's reelection.  In a nutshell they will go to any lengths necessary.  In the debate Romney had Obama dead-to-rights on the dis and misinformation put out by the WH and the entire administration for two weeks after the attack, Crowley covered for Obama by claiming he was right in asserting he pronounced the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism on the day after, and by simultaneously changing the subject to another topic for debate saved Obama from the embarrassment of trying to explain why it took him and his acolytes another 13 days to officially declare it an act of terrorism.  Obviously it took this long because the administration was trying to create a different narrative than the one dictated by a terrorist attack.  Obama's entire foreign policy initiative has been built on appeasing the Arab world by hard lining relations with Israel and coddling the Islamists.  His campaign has fully vested in the message we have fostered the Arab Spring, ended two wars in the ME, and put Al Qaeda on the run after killing Bin Laden.  Should the attack that cost the lives of four Americans actually be an act of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism, obviously the campaign claims would be rendered a nullity.  And so it took two weeks of spinning an alternative version of events, built around a bogus claim the act of terror in Benghazi was a reaction to a bogus video produced by a Coptic Christian residing in the US.  This shameful attempt to mislead the American public in order to protect the Obama reelection campaign was aided and abetted by the "cover" provided by Candy Crowley in the debate and the rest of the MSM by their coverage of these events for the previous two weeks.  Not the finest hour for the media in the US and a vivid example of the bias and corruption of the MSM

Another lie

In his appearance before spanish language Univision today the President told another grand lie when he said that the Fast and Furious gun-walking scheme was a "field initiated program started under the previous administration."  This is an out and out lie since the program started in October 2009, nine months AFTER Obama was inaugurated.  Let's see in the coming days if any of the MSM will hold him accountable for this outright, blatant lie.  If one looks for one reason why politicians are held in such disrupt, here it is.  Like Clinton, Obama lies repeatedly and because he has the media covering his backside, there are never consequences.

Media bias

One has to wonder what the influence of the MSM (Mainstream media) would be without the mitigating influence of Fox News, Talk Radio as well as a number of conservative blogs that expose their bias and corruption.  Media Research Center is another extremely important check on these so-called journalists.  An example of how this wing of the Democrat Party operates, from the MRC:

* During the first 72 hours of the Akin controversy, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows ran a combined 40 segments totaling nearly 89 minutes of airtime compared to less than 20 minutes for Biden.

* NBC and CBS both immediately attempted to link the “firestorm” created by Akin to Romney even though his campaign openly supports rape exemptions.

* Obama’s extreme pro-abortion record – including his support for partial birth abortions – was almost entirely ignored by the networks in 2008.

* The networks have given Akin 10 times more coverage than they gave to credible allegations by Juanita Broaddrick back in 1999 that Bill Clinton actually committed rape.

Media Research President Brent Bozell reacts:

There’s no denying that what Rep. Todd Akin said was completely inappropriate, but for it to receive four times more coverage than the Vice President of the United States’ indefensibly racist gaffe is unconscionable. Todd Akin is a congressman. Joe Biden is one heartbeat from being the leader of the Free World. Once again, the media’s double standard is exposed for all to see.

Why Conservatives hate CBS's 60 Minutes

Okay, CBS and all the other so-called MSM (Mainstream Media) are in the tank for the democrat party.  This is not news, has been the case for ever and blossomed after Walter Cronkite decided in the late '60's that it was okay for news reporters, stations and the networks to take sides in "important" political issues of the day.  Since that time the liberal bias of the media has flowered to the point we now see on display in this 60 Minutes interview of Obama by Steve Croft over the weekend.  Conservatives have a hard time getting their message and the truth out when all these media outlets are this blatantly in the tank for the opposition. In this interview, Obama, who along with Joe Biden has been running all over the country blaming the Bush Administration for the financial meltdown of '08, is not asked by Croft to account for the fact the legislation enabling the deregulation of derivatives and the like to take place occurred during the Clinton Administration -- not the Bush Administration -- with the full support of the congressional democrats.  So much for the veracity and truth seeking by these MSM reporters.  Like all liberals (and Communists, and Muslims, by the way) outright lying and the omission of the truth in the promotion of a greater good is morally acceptable and even desirable. This point is usually overlooked when accounting for media bias, however it is the primary reason why no liberal is trustworthy.  Some refer to this particular tactic as moral relativism, which is as good an explanation as any.

The pathology of the liberal media

Of all the stars that lined up right for the election of Obama, none was bigger or brighter than the craven MSM and its irresponsible reporting, or lack thereof.  This post by Scott Johnson of Powerline is but one of countless examples of the liberal media's, aka MSM, failure to perform its basic role as watchdog for the people.  Unarguably had MSM thoroughly vetted Obama's past associations, political and personal, instead of white washing them, it is unlikely he would have fooled as many people as he did.  As it was, the MSM papered over and refused to dig into all the troubling people and events in this weird candidate's past. Voila, we are stuck with a radical and incompetent head of state for at least four years.  In this particular case of malfeasance and abject dereliction of responsibility,  the Minneapolis Star Tribune virtually ignored the obviously illegal establishment of a Muslim religion based private school supported by tax payers.  Were it not for the work of Scott Johnson and the lone conservative investigative reporter, Katherine Kersten, on the staff of the Trib, this important story would never have seen the light of day, and the stealth Muslim invasion of our free society would have continued on its merry way.  If ever there was cause to award a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism, this one is a slam dunk.  Wanna bet  she doesn't even get nominated for one by the uber liberal Pulitzer Committee?

Laying blame

Rex Murphy identifies the MSM as the real culprit in the Obama disaster, tragedy, fiasco, mistake, nightmare (pick one, or more).

Liberalism and totalitarianism

City Magazine's Bruce Thornton reviews Showdown with Evil,  by Front Page magazine's Jamie Glazov here.  The book, a series of interviews with 30 "astute" commentators, discusses the reason for the left media's inability to come to grips with the threat of Jihadism.  Based on these interviews it seems the Muslims are seen through the prism of the left's world view that if a people are not western, christian or white, then they are victims and need defending from those oppressive groups.  This attitude accounts for the refusal of the MSM to connect the dots on the Muslim Jihadist Major who killed 13 people at Ft. Hood in 2009 despite the evidence.  It's hard to conceive how a reporter could miss the fact that the Major was heard screaming "Allah Akbur" while he went on his shooting spree and yet not connect that act with that of a Jihadist.  And yet no MSM news story made that connection. But it did make a connection between  the murder attempt on Gabrielle Giffords and the climate of hate promoted by right wing extremists without  any confirming evidence.  The obvious point here is that if the presentation of the news is influenced by given assumptions it is bound to be distorted and usually wrong.  What we must be seeing is the influence of  liberal, left wing professors in colleges and graduate journalism schools who have dominated those institutions for well over 50 years now successfully brainwashing a generation or two of students.  Jonah Goldberg of National Review has written an extremely successful book on this subject: Liberal Fascism.  Here is Jonah writing about the book and subject in a post from NR.  Jonah is one of the major talents in the conservative movement.