Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Don't Play The RW Media Game

[stopbush]

Well, well. So ABC has come clean on the Dean Scream. Funny, but I had an e-mail from a friend last week that he titled "Dean=Freak." He bought the whole media line. I opined that maybe, maybe Dean was shouting into a mic that fed directly into the media pick-up and that almost no one in the room actually heard him. How did I know? I've been in those situations.

But the damage is done, and Dean will have an impossible time trying to rehabilitate himself after the media helped deliver NH to ABD. They've already started the "where will the disheartened dean supporters go now?" crapola.

But what has the media been trying to do all along? Answer: they have been trying to nip the Dem selection process in the bud by declaring an early winner. First, they picked Dean. Then, when Clark entered the race, he was the big saviour. Then, they took down Dean and focused on selecting Kerry. Anyone notice a pattern? I do, and here it is:

The media wants the Dems to pick a candidate as early as possible because they know that they will need the next 9 months to tear down that candidate sufficiently to make him look worse than bush. They did it to Al Gore last time, and they were able to do it because they had plenty of time to grow their seeds of hate. Remember when bush's DUI was uncovered at the last minute? Had the media wanted to go after him, they didn't have time to build their case à la their Gore-ing of our candidate.

So you see, if we pick a candidate early, they can focus all their bile on one man. If it's Kerry, they'll tear him apart. Trust me, his cancer surgery WILL BECOME an issue with the media, fueled by *Kerry health watch* segments on Faux. If Dean gets it, they will resurrect the "angry man" scheme.

But the important thing to the RW media is for us to abandon our nominating process and declare the race over. As a kicker, they get to bash the DNC for their "major blunder of front-loading the nominating process." They'll say "had they spread it out, the Dem voters would have had time to really vet their candidate, but since the selection process happened so early, they're now stuck with this loser (fill in the blank)."

I'd urge every Dem activist to stick by your guy and encourage them to stay in the race as long as possible. Every one of our guys is offering IMPORTANT discourse to the voting public. I don't want to see any of them gone prematurely, especially the two Johns, Dean and Dennis.

The RW is salivating at the prospect of attacking a single target. Let's make it as hard for them as possible.

[patricia92243]

1. But it makes it hard to get their messqage out whith so many in the race -

also - I;ve been saying over and over - if people don't face the fact of Kerry cancer now - they will HAVE to face it when Bush and friends run him in the ground. All his "supporters" now will want to hang themselves for being so stupid for putting this man as our candidate.

It will be too late then.

[cthrumatrix]

2. I'm not leaving Dean...I'm livid at the "media establishment hit" on Dean

he was taken out by them...on purpose. They work with those mics all day...they were there..they knew the situation...but they buried him, his supporters and was place in "hole"

A hole that he spent digging out all week...a lesser person would have failed.

The media better make amenda really fast...becuase there are plenty of people that know what just happened...and they will be more than "upset".