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| Chicagoboyz: The DemocratsÂ’ Denial-of-Service Attack |
| 2008-09-03 |
| ...The distributed Obama campaign — including the Obama organization, leftist bloggers and MSM — quickly figured out the dynamics of the situation and are responding effectively. The campaign or bloggers introduce daily talking-points that are repeated and amplified by a media cascade and can generate enough network (online and TV) discussion to crowd out most other topics. That’s what happened today and yesterday. Today’s main talking point was, McCain didn’t adequately vet Palin. This is clearly not true, given that McCain’s people were checking out Palin months ago. Yet given the story about the daughter, the talking point is just plausible enough to give media people cover in keeping it alive for a day as a major story. Conservative and Republican bloggers and MSM people unwittingly help their opponents by focusing even more attention on Palin in order to defend her and correct the record. While all of this is going on, Obama is almost invisible, and he appears to have picked up a few points in the polls. (Notice that the bounce didn’t begin until waves of Palin stories rescued him from the media spotlight.) The concurrent weather story, which isn’t really a story but is being hyped for all it’s worth by the pro-Obama media, further distracts scrutiny from Obama. Conservative MSM people haven’t quite caught on to the full extent of what is happening. Their supposedly non-partisan colleagues are gleefully helping Obama by repeating endlessly “questions” about Palin that displace both McCain’s message and serious scrutiny of Obama. Who wants to talk about Obama’s relationship with Ayers, or about offshore drilling or tax cuts, when there’s juicy gossip (or merely reckless speculation) to be spread about Palin’s family. On Brit Hume’s show tonight, the conservative commentators were almost sputtering with rage at the Democrats’ dishonest attacks on Palin. Yet these same conservative commentators spent most of their time attempting to rebut the attacks, which means they didn’t talk much about anything else. Larry Kudlow devoted much of his show to defending Palin. Conservative media people watch impotently as their leftist colleagues do Obama’s work. The big-media conservatives aren’t temperamentally or tactically equipped to respond effectively. Perhaps the pro-McCain bloggers will do better. Obviously Obama would like to keep Palin at the center of media focus. Obviously McCain would like to keep his own policies, and Obama’s failings, at the center of focus. McCain’s electoral prospects depend on how quickly he and Palin can maneuver to shift the focus back to Obama. McCain may yet come out OK if public disgust with scummy media partisanship generates a backlash, or if voters lose interest in the MSM’s dishonest Palin-as-soap-opera meme. Whatever happens, it’s clear that Governor Palin and her family are in for a nasty ride. The leftist political-media complex will go all-out to destroy her as long as attacking her deflects attention from the radical leftist at the head of the Democratic ticket... |
| Posted by:Abdominal Snowman |
| #8 Percy et al -- our new slogan: "vote McCain/Palin -- stick it to The Man" (The Man being G.S.) |
| Posted by: Querent 2008-09-03 13:21 |
| #7 Soros dead would just mean that all his money would go toward his favourite Progressive groups instead of just some of it. You've heard of the Wills & Trusts section of the law school curriculum, Percy Crainter4524 dear? Right now he needs most of his funds to go swanning around the world impressing the international Progressive elites, as they all like to think of themselves... not to mention a reserve to take down the currency of the next nation that catches his rapacious eye. I'd rather dear Mr. Soros live long enough to see all his efforts and his money spent in vain, as those he hates take over. After all, how frustrated must he be, after three elections where his causes lost instead of gained? Y'all remember the millions marching against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, versus the few hundreds and paltry thousands that marched recently? As I recall, Cindy Sheehan couldn't even collect enough signatures to get on the electoral ballot -- she wanted to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi, poor thing. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-03 13:02 |
| #6 Moderator note: We don't wish other Americans dead, not even Soros. I'm not redacting the comment because I think the expression was a rhetorical one, but let's not do it again. AoS |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-09-03 12:48 |
| #5 This is the best explanation I've seen yet for the events of the last few days. "The distributed Obama campaign - including the Obama organization, leftist bloggers and MSM" deserves to become the next big meme of this political season. The media's assault on Palin reminds me of WW2-era Soviet Army tactics (appropriate considering most MSMers' politics): line up the artillery hub to hub and start firing without much regard to accuracy. Even if individual rounds don't hit important targets, the smoke, noise and whizzing shrapnel will keep the adversary's head down. Now the next question...what's going to be the Distributed Obama Campaign's equivalent of a Guards Tank Army exploiting the breakthrough? |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-03 12:44 |
| #4 Me, I just want Soros dead. His money has been the seed behind much of this corruption. Wouldn't help. He's the most visible but he's far from the only one of his kind. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2008-09-03 10:56 |
| #3 "McCain may yet come out OK if public disgust with scummy media partisanship generates a backlash" That backlash is already forming in mom-n-pop, small-town and middle class America. The urban hipster doofus elites who are spreading this alsong with their allies in the MSM also include their typical sneeering looking downon middle class peopel and middle class values. The backlash is coming, and the more the press does this elitists partisan crap, the more the press will be the target, and if they keep this up, there will be violence. Right now there are people that are so furious they are talking about "when the day comes they will hang the press elites from the ceilings of their offices or shoot them down in the streets" The partisanship of the mainstream press is shredding the very foundation of democracy in this country, with its deliberate mis-informaing of the population, and its support and pushing of radical fringe agenda. Me, I just want Soros dead. His money has been the seed behind much of this corruption. Hurry up and die you evil bastard (and if things do fall apart, some people are likely to speed up the day of his demise with bullets or bombs). |
| Posted by: Percy Crainter4524 2008-09-03 09:19 |
| #2 Obviously Obama would like to keep Palin at the center of media focus. Which only will create a "Obama who?" situation by November. Wait till they start getting the message that the public perception is that its a Obama-Palin race which clearly means the one person with experience and calm is McCain. The O'team identified the threat to their candidacy but they've responded disproportionately in resources and focus. In a difference parlance, it's known as a soak off attack, drawing the opposition's needed resources from the main effort. You go O. Keep slinging, keep throwing your fanatics and sycophants into the fight. Show us what the real O'world will look like. [This is not going to make those bible thumping end timers any more comfortable. Heh] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-03 08:19 |
| #1 it's clear that Governor Palin and her family are in for a nasty ride. The leftist political-media complex will go all-out to destroy her as long as attacking her deflects attention from the radical leftist at the head of the Democratic ticket... We're all in for a nasty ride, not just the Palins. |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-09-03 06:50 |