The difference between the M$M and the Repubs? The M$M are _honest_ crooks..

[Fumesucker]

The M$M has been bought by the Repubs, I think almost everyone on DU knows that. The M$M as a whole wants to stay bought but the Repubs are making it harder and harder for them to stick to the bargain.

Cognitive dissonance is one of my favorite themes and the M$M is expert at ignoring cognitive dissonance... The rub is though, that the Repubs are getting so far out in right field that even the M$M can't handle the sheer weight of all the dissonant memes coming from the Repubs.

The Repub way is "my way or the highway" and the M$M, or at least the part of it that still has a vestige of sanity left, has about reached the point of choosing the highway. The media mavens have a good idea how far they can stretch unreality and the Repubs are asking them to stretch it way beyond what the mavens know is the practical limit.

We saw this with the Gibson/Palin interview and we saw it with McCain on the View the other day. Cognitive dissonance has reached the point where the M$M just can't stay bought any more. I think we will be seeing more cracks in the veneer of Repub control over the M$M.

I'm cautiously optimistic at this point, we appear to be reaching a breaking point with respect to the media infatuation with all things Republican, I just hope it happens fast enough to make the crucial difference in November.

[tsuki]

1. Sorry to disagree, but M$M is not called the Jackals of

Corporate Journalism for naught. I personally believe that corporate America has looked at the Palin/McCain ticket and decided that they can suffer through an Obama presidency better than a Palin/McCain presidency. I think that the selection of Palin scared them.

[drmeow]

2. I agree with you. n/t

[Fumesucker]

3. You aren't disagreeing as much as you think you are...

And I agree with you that the M$M has reached the point where the sheer idiocy of the McPalin ticket is becoming a huge liability.

The M$M really really wants to be for the Repubs, but they can't stretch reality as far as the Repubs want them to.

It's going to be the mother of all elections, Palin has galvanized the fundagelical vote like nothing since Reagan while simultaneously the M$M is cracking at the seams under the pressure.

Interesting times indeed.