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The President has been dicing and slicing the Republican idiocy and leaving the parts in the water. Now the media sees the "jaw dropping" change in the polls.
For those of us watching it hour by hour you will have just noticed that the media has now turned. It now feels almost Watergate like (for the old folks).
You will see the media growing more and more hostile, especially with these silly little pressers where they answer only one question and then run away after going over their talking points with shaky voices.
Boehner is about to face a shitstorm, including open hostility from Wall Street.
You can feel the change. Democrats are united AND relaxed. The media senses a wounded animal and now with the peoples anger quantified have started hunting the bastards down.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)"The media" by the way, is a pack of dogs.
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Hekate
(90,202 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)dogs are not that clever.
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)the longer they tried to deny, obstruct & lie, the worse it became for them! This is similar because it will only continue to get worse from here....
Yesterday they had historic lows of 28%, today they're at 24%! I'm beginning to wonder if they're trying to see how low they can go....
grantcart
(53,061 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)in the water whenever it is needed. Up until now, the Dems have been unwilling to draw blood, but I'm glad to see it's finally happening.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)But, the odd thing is, they are fighting themselves and doing all the damage to themselves.
We are just getting watch.
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)....even during Watergate, some republicans thought Nixon should be impeached!
In today's situation, it's like they're all in the same club....afraid to say something that criticizes other members of the club!
it was fun watching the coverage yesterday....
tulsakatz
(3,122 posts)I saw Carl Bernstein on O'Donnell's show the other day & he made the important point that, unlike many political arguments, this one is not to be blamed on both parties. Then yesterday when that devastating poll came out, that seemed to bury them!
Unfortunately, some conservatives are still too stupid to realize they've already lost!!
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)...I'll believe it's watergate.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Those thieves on Wall Street are scared the nutbags in the House will actually permit a default next week, which would obviously negatively affect their own portfolios. Those bastards may love to gamble other people's money; but when their own net worth is threatened, they scream bloody murder.
liberalla
(9,166 posts)Man, it's about time! Sometimes the media is so slow to catch on.
I'm going to enjoy this. Hopefully this leads us to a successful 2014 retake of the House.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)Cha
(295,926 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:08 AM - Edit history (1)
can get behind. So they finally smelled blood in the water after those fell on them?
Random relaxed pic of POTUS and VPOTUS out among the people in DC..
mahalo grant
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)chum, Cha!
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)Das ist sehr gut, viele bier drinkin time!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(295,926 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)Oh, nevermind. I read it too fast without my glasses.
ffr
(22,649 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)With your glasses. It only gets better the second time around.
ffr
(22,649 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)I owned a liquor store near the Capitol building.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)I'm not one to think he's playing eleventh dimension chess or anything but I'd say it's possible he knew all along that if he showed anger, the media would be just as likely to turn on him.
If he remains above the fray, the media will attack whoever they perceive to be the more wounded animal.
Right now the GOP is gravely wounded and the lighting is just right for the cameras.
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JHB
(37,132 posts)...plus the headless nature of the Republicans (and, IMO, a lot of highly-paid media people and owners worried about their own portfolios) has given them some "permission" to not fret about looking "liberal" by being harder on the Republicans.
Flatpicker
(894 posts)I don't see how the press could slip their masters leash for too long.
Some false equivalencies will have to be brought to the front to keep the status quo. Just give them a day or so.
If the media had done their job, this never would have come to pass as the Teabaggers would have not gotten legitimate airtime.
calimary
(80,700 posts)But I don't underestimate the stupidity of the American media OR a fair number of American voters. After all, many of them have seen fit to vote the louie gohmerts, ted cruzes, mitch mcconnells, boners, and michele bachmanns into office.
I hope you're right, grantcart! This is what SHOULD happen.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)That's how I know the tables are turning. To me, they look like the same old low information, half the story media.
I swear that woman was a Nazi prison guard in a former life (the teabagger queen.) I just have to get that off my chest, our local nut cases are raging.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)being so much higher than MSNBC's, then they claim that the media is controlled by liberals.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)pscot
(21,023 posts)make me smile.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)talking like he knew this all along ... LOL!
Cha
(295,926 posts)gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)I hope the next person running for president openly campaigns that they will not negotiate with anyone regarding the debt ceiling and expect it to be honored without exceptions... maybe make it law that it will be automatically paid without any bribery or "conversations".
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Plus, I'd like to see these illegally gerrymandered districts redrawn along more ethical lines and the law(s) against gerrymandering ENFORCED, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)What kind of democracy do we have if someone can't be voted out of office? I can't believe we are stuck with those Rethugs till 2020.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)But the GOP has been wiggling its way around restrictions like a snake. Unless (and even if) the law got changed when I wasn't looking, it needs to be tightened up or reinstated, and then enforced severely.
blue14u
(575 posts)When I saw that going on ... about Feb of 2013.. I was fuming mad!!!
That should be illegal and we must change it asap!!!
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)11 Dimensional Chum!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)and appears to be pulling its teeth as well.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)They've been having a hard time painting the Republicans in a neutral light so far, and now the polls, as you astutely observe, are going to make them simply take an objective view. They want what sells and the American people don't want to hear a neutral message.
Lex
(34,108 posts)This was their go-to story for so long about everything political that most people who casually observe politics actually believed it.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)with no more claim to a "higher morality" than any other ideology; in the case of MSM, centrism has become bi-polar myth.
I hear that "both sides" crap, I turn to something more grounded in reality.
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)doubt it. The voting American public has the memory of a nat...... I hope what they're feeling will last until next voting cycle, but past experience......nope, they ain't gonna remember this at all, JHMO.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)and keep doing the same tactics it will.
There is an immediate benefit however, candidate recruitment.
We will be able to recruit a better class of candidates in Republican districts.
They, on the other hand will find it increasingly impossible to recruit non Tea Party type candidates to run in districts currently held by Democrats.
Politicub
(12,163 posts)On DU and across the country.
I know thus thread is about media, but our party solidarity is having a huge impact on the news.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)Unless it's a rat, or a shark, or a one-celled virus, or a republican.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...now the Wall St sharks are going to make the GOP pay dearly.
salin
(48,954 posts)The issue of corporate conglomerate media ownership still exists. While the news coverage is not so tethered on the other networks as it is on Fox per the companies views, there is an influence.
The tea party, and the ceding in the GOP to the whims of the tea party now present a potential greater threat to corporate profits than does the prospect of returning to preBUsh2 levels of corporate taxation. Hence the encouragement of the shift that we see - that does appear as you describe as analogous to throwing chum into the waters for sharks.
Not related to any concern for citizens or the health of the country - more related to taking fetters off in order to derail the now much greater threat to corporate profits of the conglomerates owning the networks.
YMMV