Posted by
Andrews on Monday, May 12, 2008 7:07:19 PM
I had forgotten how surreal watching the MSM can be.
Today I saw George Stephanopolis and Charlie Gibson discussing how McCain has an "uphill battle" against Obama. When every poll I see, except apparently one that ABC news sponsored, show McCain at least tied with, if not beating Obama, despite the much greater coverage Obama is receiving, I have to wonder if they are serious.
Are the MSM just whistling past the graveyard, trying to convince themselves their guy is not going down in flames? Or at they trying to convince the electorate that McCain is losing in order to prop up their favorite?
Either way, the polls say it isn't working. At least every poll I have seen. Despite positive media coverage, despite efforts to bury the Wright scandal, the Rezko scandal, the Ayers scandal. Despite denunciations of the "brutal" debate questions, Obama is still losing. And the best the MSM can come up with is mentioning Bush's low poll numbers and trying to tie him to McCain. I don't know how to tell them, but congress gets even lower numbers, and the other party controls that. Not to mention the fact that McCain is about as close to Bush as Obama is.
Actually, maybe that is it, the debate. George and Charlie have been chastised for daring to question the preordained anointment of Obama and are now trying to make amends by acting as if he is certain to win.
It really doesn't matter. America has seen Obama, and, despite the MSM's efforts to prop him up, to save him from his own best efforts to lose, he has managed to upset enough Americans. And once he has the nomination, it will only get worse, when he faces an opponent who is not afraid to really criticize him. The MSM can try all they want to pretend Obama has a chance, but there is simply no way he can win. He has made too many serious mistakes, and has failed to recover from one before making another.
But we will see who is right in November.