Insty gets a hot scoop!
A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working." I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.
Distressing news indeed from the inner sanctum of the Bumfuck Beacon. However, I regret to inform our friends on the right that, strictly speaking, it may not be precisely true that the MSM's refusal to call Barack Obama a terrorist is what is swinging the election towards the Democrats. The fact that the GOP has created multiple disasters at home and abroad may be more relevant.
I wouldn't worry, though -- if the nation does somehow return to peace and prosperity, I don't doubt the New York Times will eventually become bored enough to care about preposterous trivial shit once again. For the rest of us, the upside of the botched wars, the mounds of corpses, the torture regime, and the financial meltdown, is that the media is finally focusing (badly, but still) on issues that actually matter. But this too shall pass. Wingnuts will be able to dangle their bright shiny objects again at some point in the future. (That is, if we even have a future at all, and we are so fortunate as not to die screaming from multiple infected bites inflicted by mutant rats, or be compelled to start living in caves with nary a poachable wi-fi network to grab signal from.) So, chin up, conservatives! Turn that frown upside-down, etc.
Insty's add-on is also entertaining:
UPDATE: The Anchoress hears similar things. And reader Eric Schubert: "The Edwards debacle was proof enough of where the heart of the MSM lies, and lack of curiousity of the press about Edwards probably cost Hillary the nomination...."
Two points:
1. It is not remotely surprising that people who like to dress up like pretend nuns & gad about on the Internet hear all sorts of fascinating things. In a clinical sense, anyhow.
2. The point about how the MSM not caring about who Edwards was fucking ended up costing Hillary the nomination: that is, as the professionals say, all my shiny balls.
MORE. Insty updates to point out that the Dinosaur Media is dying, dying! and that the future lies in the news being provided to us by ersatz suburban nuns and illiterates with free email accounts, and that this will be a net gain for Democracy. By 2012, the MSM will be dead, dead!
It's a good gig Insty has, MSM-doom-prophesying, as stable as en endowed chair, if dumber. I'm quite sure he'll be able to sell the same old warmed over gibberish for many election cycles to come. Unless the mutant rats get us first, something I myself am right now sort of rooting for.
AND MORE! Hi there, mutant rats.
EVEN MORE! Patterico weighs in, in his patented "fuck the forest, trees full speed ahead" idiom:
The article also says:
During an October 2006 debate in the Alaska governor’s race, Palin urged that evolution and creationist ideas be taught together in state schools. “Don’t be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides,” she said.
But the L.A. Times doesn’t mention that, after the debate, Palin clarified that — contrary to what the L.A. Times says — she did not intend for creationism to be taught in the schools:
In an interview Thursday, Palin said she meant only to say that discussion of alternative views should be allowed to arise in Alaska classrooms:
“I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
She added that, if elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add such creation-based alternatives to the state’s required curriculum.
Because the walking back of the gaffe -- here meaning the honest expression of what one sincerely believes that it turns out sane people think is stupid -- is even more important than the gaffe itself. Here's the link Patterico neglects to provide us. Here's the actual full story:
The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.
Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night's televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."
How silly of anyone to think she could have ever claimed she supported "teaching" creationism in public schools when THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT SHE FUCKING SAID. Then when she realized that what plays in Wasilla Wingnuttia sounds nuts in the wider world, she faked like that's not what she meant, at all.
Excuse me if, given this anecdote, I have nothing but the desire to urinate from a great height upon those who want to cite the Ayers nonsense as Ironclad Proof that Obama is a Stealth Radical.