Long have i reckoned that Keith Oblermann and Rachel Maddow would, come the start of the Obama Presidency, have the hardest jobs in show bizness. For on that day, the bulk of the mainstream media (save FOX ofcourse) ceased to be journalists and began working (voluntarily, one hopes) for the Obama adminstration. Shedding the craft of journalism they-the legion of overly miseducated liberal, ambigously hetrosexual, yuppies who run NPR and, more or less, the rest of the mainstream media-took on a new more neblous proffesion, a cross between propogandists and PR people for the Obama adminstration. During 8 years of Bushdome these liberal troopers were, although very often wrong, atleast journalists for they held Bush's feet to the fire and no one in those 8 years had to worry about CNN burrying/suprresing news incovient to the adminstration. But then a charmstic black man by the name of.....you know the rest. Basically liberals because there goals are so often those of naive utopians, whether it be creating a heaven on earth, a worker's paradise, or a society where every neigborhood is perfectly racially balanced and where Africans Americans score exactly the same as whites, and so on are willing to justify the use of disreptubable tactics (often not conciously) to attempt to "achieve" these goals of liberal perfection that they delusionally see within our grasp. The communists of all varities killed hundreds of millions respectivly to achieve there goals. The socialist and communist movements in European states like Italy and Germany committed terrorism throughout the 60's and 70's. Of course, American liberals today don't commit acts of terrorism to achieve there objectives but then again this is no suprise since Keith Oblermann, one atleast hopes, has fair less grandiouse goals and visions than Lenin. As the visions and goals get more moderate the tactics do aswell. There goal is not centralized planning and abolition of private property but to help Obama and the Democrats pass health care, amensty, the fairness doctrine, card check, Cap & Trade, impose higher taxes and more regulation, stregnth affirmtive action, racial quotas, beef up the EEOC so it can go make sure Frank Ricci's everywhere don't get the promotions they earned if "not enough" blacks aren't promoted aswell on a given civil service examination. So while liberals don't employ terrorism or mass slaughter as tactics to achieve there goals they employ, as i'll detail below, slander, defamation, suppresion of facts and stories for poltical reasons, discrimination and even, in one area in paticular, they will employ what i consider treason by actively pushing for policies that are undeniably terrible for America and Americans in order to help bolster there party and there moral leader, Barak Obama. in there quest for "justice".
No two members of the mainstream media have turned into propgandists and PR people for the Obama adminstration more than Rachel Maddow and Keith Oblermann. Like the MSM as a whole during the 8 long years of the Bush adminstration, Oblermann and Maddow where usually quite wrong about Bush, they made all the wrong criqtiques of him and neglected all the most valid critqiues of Bush, but atleast, again, they where holding his feet to the fire, atleast they viewed those in power through a fundimentally skeptical (though all too often conspiratorial and hysterical) and adversarial lens. With Obama, as i've said, Oblerman and company said "goodbye to all that" skepticism and whatnot.
During the Bush years Oblerman and his staffers sought out the most obscure quotes and factoids to nail the Bush adminstration (again often they where wrong), today, much of Oblermann's job is simply just having the lack of integrity or perhaps the ignorance to ignore all stories incovient to Obama as if they didn't even exist. No, East Anglia scandal, no Ricci case, none of that on "Countdown with Keith Oblermann".
Here's a perfect example of why i pity Maddow and Oblermann and believe them or at any rate there staffers to have the hardest job in show-biz. Last night, Scott Brown, the Republican, not only beats the Democrat, Stokely, in the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat but does so by a wide margin. The seat had been de facto Kennedy property literally since 1952 and there are few bluer states than Masschusettes (Illinois?). So Oblermann and Maddow and there producers and staffers have been scrambling since 9 o'clock last night into today, trying to figure how to exsplain how racism, bigotry and general igonarance is the reason Scott Brown won. For in Oblermann world, opposition to Obama can have no conceivably substantive basis and is and must be a result merely of people's racism, bigotry and reactionary provincialism and Oblerman says as much about the Tea Partyers his proxy for the opposition to Obama as a movement. Slandering the right and people on the right as racist without ever caring to prove someones's racism, is what Oblerman and Maddow and there far left ilk do for aliving especially since Barak Obama was elected. If Obama didn't win they claimed it would show that America and Americans just hadn't "evolved" enough and that the nation was still racist and bigoted and unenlightned. They made the election into a referendum on a America's virtue. If McCain won America was still a racist sack of shit. They also made it a referendum on the virtue of white Americans. If you voted for McCain, of course, you were showing your inner racism and your unevolved provincial fear of having a black man as President. If McCain won, white America would be shown to be the dispicable, anti-black, nazi-loving racist scum that Keith Oblermann and Rachel Maddow and Susan Sontag (who once famously wrote that, "the white race is the cancer of the human race") always knew it was. It's important for the Oblermann's and Maddow's to keep depict the poltical scene in this fantastically Manechian and delusion way: where you have a group of people in America called Republicans who are only not supporting Obama because there racists and homophobes and hillybillys who hate black people and worship Adolph Hitler at the dinner table. This way, Oblermann and Maddow don't have to deal with any Republican arguments and facts incovient to Obama because in Oblermann's depiction the GOP has no serious arguments against Obama certainly known worth even dignifying with a responce, they are just racists, racists, racists, racists! You say you whats the proof of there racism? It's obvious who needs proof!
