Palin Phenomenon Accelerates Downfall Of Old Media
By Christopher G. Adamo
September 18, 2008
The 2004 contest between President Bush and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry marked the beginning of the end for the old media monopoly. On the one hand, clumsy media attempts to fabricate a story, complete with phony documents hastily fabricated using modern word-processing software, clearly indicated that CBS bigwig Dan Rather and his minions were stumping for Kerry. Meanwhile, the old media failed miserably in their shameless attempts to discredit the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. That organization's thoroughly documented evidence completely unraveled Kerry's baseless claims of heroism in Vietnam. By so doing, the Swift Vets struck the fatal blow to his inept campaign.
Of course the old media, devoted exclusively to liberal ideology, are wholly incapable of admitting their outrageous slant. Nor can they fathom their current inability to successfully function in the absence of their former almost total domination of information. Not surprisingly, the current crop of nasty and small minded leftists throughout the "news" and entertainment media (and to an ever increasing degree, the two institutions are becoming indistinguishable) are at it again. This time, their target is Alaska Governor and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
The entire dynamic of the 2008 presidential race changed dramatically, the moment Republican candidate John McCain announced his pick of Palin for VP. Grassroots Republicans, who at best had previously been lackluster in their support for McCain, were suddenly enthused. And Palin has since become the most notable and influential political figure on the national scene.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has had to completely alter its strategy in order to hold any hope of challenging Palin's spectacular rise in national renown. Formerly, Barack Obama was all about "hope" and "change," a message which resonated with those Americans who were otherwise blind to the realities of his political philosophy, but have understandably grown tired of business as usual inside the Beltway.
No real substance was necessary to support Obama's rhetoric. He simply sounded better than more of the same from Washington. But in the wake of Palin's arrival on the national stage, everything changed. In stark contrast to Obama's vacant oratory, Palin does indeed intend to shake things up in the Federal Government, and has an impressive and inspiring track record to prove it.
So the Obama campaign has had to regularly switch from his vacuous message of "change," to denigrating Palin's supposed "lack of experience," in order to cast her as somehow unfit for the nation's second highest office. Yet this strategy poses its own risks, and requires a great deal of dexterity by Obama, since any real scrutiny of experience among the candidates reveals him to be by far the least qualified among them.
Thus, the liberal political machine is forced, once again, to rely heavily on media complicity in order to pull off this ruse. And of course its minions among the "news" and entertainment industry are fully willing to comply.
For starters, the level of discourse on national "news" programs has seriously degenerated, while members of the "entertainment" industry are becoming ever more vocal with their opinions. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to tell the two entities apart.
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