Demosophia

Inagaddadavida. We'll Always Be True.

According to Sully all four MSM resources (CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC) have decided that Kerry won the third debate, and did it without the help of a crooked French judge! Well actually he did it with the help of four.

The dynamic is surely transparent, isn't it? It's not as though the major media were going to pick anyone other than Kerry--not when there was the slightest fig leaf to conceal their naked preference. "The woman gave it me, and I did eat." Sure, Dan.

This is turning into something more than a Presidential election. It's a referendum on the media's headlong design to swing an election. My solace is that there's a deep philosophical and empirical foundation that has been laid for the support of this President's strategy of destroying Totalitarianism while sewing Civil Society. He's Johnny Appleseed, with a big stick. It's not that complicated, and it's clearly working... but there are other agendas. I'd like to believe that the depth of this message will prevail "in the long run," though.

I think the problem with Kerry's position is that the public recognizes, and generally agrees with, the proposition that it's better to fight the enemy "over there" than over here. And that's why Kerry's poll numbers just haven't clapped and barked as expected, to mainstream media's tune. The blemishes are visible through the makeup.

On the debate itself Bill Kristol observes that, in his opinion at least, Kerry didn't win a single question decisively, and was beaten decisively on all but a half dozen. That's pretty much my take as well, plus the fact that on both the question about religion and the final statement the President looked genuine and sincere, while Kerry looked calculating. And if one is attracted to what seems a reflection, perhaps that explains the choices of French skating judges, and network pundits.

I'm thinking the media has become so openly partisan because they sense that their fundamental social status is at stake. If Kerry loses, he only loses an election. If they lose, it's the end of the ancien regime. The two events are tied, because if Kerry loses they'll have to acknowledge that even with most of their weight thrown behind their candidate, the public simply went a different way. And I'm sure they blame whatever slippage they've been able to acknowledge to themselves not on their own mistakes, but on the upstart rabble who just refuse to eat cake, no matter how much of it is shoved down their throat. If Kerry loses, the rabble wins.

But if all that righteous indignation over the misuse of media power doesn't provide you sufficient solace, there's always the fact that John Kerry bears not the slightest resemblance to the Great Mr. Doody.

Update: Is it that we see ourselves in the cowboy marionette's image? Is Howdy a prophet?

Posted by Demosophist at October 14, 2004 03:07 AM | TrackBack