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Friday, August 21, 2009
Warnings Ignored
NOT
the Messiah.
INSTAPUNK IS (MOSTLY) ALWAYS RIGHT. Just a reminder that we tried to tell you, long before this crisis descended like a ton of bricks. We were right about everything in the last election except the act of insanity that caused the Republicans to nominate John McCain. (Yes, we endorsed him, but what else could we do? The alternative was incomprehensibly worse.) And we've been right all along about Barack Obama.
We warned the press:
Start nitpicking his cabinet
appointments,
legislative agenda or policy decisions, and you will perish in a
wave of hurt euphemisms which will make it clear to the most extreme
sycophants and true believers that you are, ahem, probably a resentful
racist. Watch as, one by one, the most illustrious and invulnerable of
your number are disgraced into retirement for having dared to use their
verbal talents against the new pharaoh. If it can happen to Geraldine
Ferraro, it can happen to you, too.
Continue being the same adoring cheerleaders you've been so far -- through the inevitable crises and missteps and blunders and failures -- and the already tottering structure of the MSM will collapse in cataclysmic ruin. You will bore your dwindling audience absolutely to death, and they will begin seeking honest news reporting elsewhere. (As they have been, btw, for some time now; how's NYT stock doing these days, kemo sabe?)
The nature of your bet thus far is idiotic -- that Obama really is the absolute answer to everyone's prayers you so want him to be. He isn't. He's a flesh-and-blood man who will stumble and err and make some truly awful decisions. When that happens, your extravagantly uncritical support for his rise to power will make you accountable to many Americans before you cover the first act of his administration. And when he does take office, the fact that you have let him rewrite all the rules of what is and is not fair coverage in political reporting will do you in no matter what course you choose. Criticize him and be branded with some of the worst labels available in these United States... Suck up to him and go rapidly out of business -- not to mention lose all the power you have so jealously acquired and used so self-righteously in the last hundred years.
Take your pick.
Continue being the same adoring cheerleaders you've been so far -- through the inevitable crises and missteps and blunders and failures -- and the already tottering structure of the MSM will collapse in cataclysmic ruin. You will bore your dwindling audience absolutely to death, and they will begin seeking honest news reporting elsewhere. (As they have been, btw, for some time now; how's NYT stock doing these days, kemo sabe?)
The nature of your bet thus far is idiotic -- that Obama really is the absolute answer to everyone's prayers you so want him to be. He isn't. He's a flesh-and-blood man who will stumble and err and make some truly awful decisions. When that happens, your extravagantly uncritical support for his rise to power will make you accountable to many Americans before you cover the first act of his administration. And when he does take office, the fact that you have let him rewrite all the rules of what is and is not fair coverage in political reporting will do you in no matter what course you choose. Criticize him and be branded with some of the worst labels available in these United States... Suck up to him and go rapidly out of business -- not to mention lose all the power you have so jealously acquired and used so self-righteously in the last hundred years.
Take your pick.
We warned the irrationally smitten voters and pundits:
Do
you believe the lie that the government really cares about your
health, your healthcare, and your lifespan? Then you don't understand
the circle of power at all. Have they outlawed tobacco and cigarette
smoking? No. Because then they'd lose the incredibly onerous and
regressive taxes they impose on cigarettes. They care about your
healthcare only if it enables them to make more businesses --
insurance, hospitals, medical practices, pharmaceutical giants --
dependent on them for profit, permission, existence. That's what it
means to be "liberal." Inside the circle, that is.
Your side is dedicated to only one constituency: power. If you don't understand that, you're outside the circle. Any good they do you is the sheerest accident, an unintended consequence of a strategy whose prime purpose is to maintain your pitiful dependence on their breathtakingly humongous lies.
Enjoy the next four years. Obama's inside the circle now. Where the hell are you? And more importantly, what the hell are you? You're the meat that baits the trap.
We even warned
the libs who wanted a black president principally to expiate their own guilty
consciences:Your side is dedicated to only one constituency: power. If you don't understand that, you're outside the circle. Any good they do you is the sheerest accident, an unintended consequence of a strategy whose prime purpose is to maintain your pitiful dependence on their breathtakingly humongous lies.
Enjoy the next four years. Obama's inside the circle now. Where the hell are you? And more importantly, what the hell are you? You're the meat that baits the trap.
[I]t's the absolute worst time
to elect a first black president. Nothing he does, or can do, will be
analyzed in nonracial terms. He will be handcuffed by his race,
criticized for every act of compassion and restraint, and there's
absolutely no chance in the current circumstances that he will be able
to govern as a "trans-racial" pioneer of some new age.
I won't labor the point. If times are going to be genuinely hard, there's no rationale for compelling a black American to be identified with hard times in perpetuity. If Obama really were as talented as a Lincoln, there would be some reason for taking the risk. But he isn't. And there isn't.
The presidency right now is a sour apple. Hand it to McCain. He's used to sour apples. Hold your fire. Elect Obama when the time is propitious for success rather than years of darkness and failure.
I know you won't listen. But there's nothing ironic about the advice offered.
I won't labor the point. If times are going to be genuinely hard, there's no rationale for compelling a black American to be identified with hard times in perpetuity. If Obama really were as talented as a Lincoln, there would be some reason for taking the risk. But he isn't. And there isn't.
The presidency right now is a sour apple. Hand it to McCain. He's used to sour apples. Hold your fire. Elect Obama when the time is propitious for success rather than years of darkness and failure.
I know you won't listen. But there's nothing ironic about the advice offered.
Of course, we didn't specifically predict that he would compound the mess by having his Chicago foot soldiers brand all his opponents as racists. We sorta thought he would, but we were too afraid of being called racists to predict that. But you're all smarter than we are. We know. Live with that.
