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Home Front: Politix
The WaPo, baffled again
2008-09-21
A righteous rant. Excerpt:

Why hasnÂ’t she granted the fabled Washington Post an interview?

Maybe itÂ’s because sheÂ’s kindaÂ’ busy right now.

Maybe itÂ’s because youÂ’re not the Official Gatekeepers anymore and your oversized egos are in the way.

Maybe itÂ’s because two long tv interviews in two weeks is enough.

Or just maybe itÂ’s because you people have wiretapped her home and stolen her mail, accused her husband of infidelity, attacked her children, called her a whore, a thief, a liar and an unfit mother. If you could get any drunken Democrat guttersnipe from here to Anchorage to mouth an accusation between bouts of vomiting in an alley, you printed those accusations as facts on your front pages in screaming banner headlines.

You’re like some kind of Peeping Tom stalker, standing on a box outside her bathroom window, touching yourselves and mumbling “I know she loves me–why won’t she talk to me?”

You’re like a bunch of jaded old whoremongers in an old Western; as the calico cathouse curtains flap in the breeze, you look out the window and see a fresh-faced girl get off the noon train, holding her hat against the wind. You’re all thinking that in no time at all, you’ll have her working in Madame Hillary’s DC House of Ill Repute–”Whores Re-Formed While U Wait!”

But I think sheÂ’s going to have you working for her.
RTWT
Posted by:lotp

#8  Considering that Sarah drew an audience of 60k in a Florida city that normally boasts 75k, I think the WaPo needs her more than she needs them.

(Note....yes, I realize that not all 60k were from that town. But, The One's biggest crowd has been 75k and that was only for his "coronation". Florida was recently considered a battlefield state, but hell....I coulda told 'em that it was gonna go red after that delegate seating fiasco at the DNC....)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2008-09-21 23:50  

#7  The MSM is a delusional collection of Rags and rabid Video oracles that are determined to spread their Anti-American Lies & their Leftest Agenda!

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
IS SO WARPED AND CONCEITED THAT THEY HOLD FORTH THE PROPOSITION THAT IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PICK UP THEIR TURDS BY THE CLEAN END.
Posted by: Red Dawg   2008-09-21 20:57  

#6  Mmmmmm, not necessarily, DoDo - if the McCain campaign can get the truth out about their how their edits were actually lies to the American people.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-09-21 18:49  

#5  The Washington Post, the NYT, and most other newspapers are only read by people who have already made up their mind. McCain does not need to talk to them.

The problem with the ABC interview was not ensuring that it was live. Allowing ABC to edit before showing was a mistake.
Posted by: DoDo   2008-09-21 17:47  

#4  Why won't she grant the WaPo and interviews? Perhaps because the WaPo (and NYT and LAT) have lost any shred of credibility that they had with voters.
Posted by: DMFD   2008-09-21 17:25  

#3  Very succinct.
Posted by: newc   2008-09-21 17:25  

#2  "... every time you try to lob a grenade at her, you stumble and lose a few more fingers and toes as the bomb goes off at your own feet. ... [T]he charade is over. Americans are finally hip to your game. Cockroaches, meet Kitchen Light."

ROFL!

Righteous rant indeed. :-D

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-09-21 14:13  

#1  Note to the MSM. You are teaching the Trunks that they can effectively communicate without you. If they win the White House in November, they won't need you to communicate with the American people. They can use the alternate media instead. They won't need a 'Press Office' anymore or your gad flies mucking up the White House anymore. Just a secretary to organize 'exclusive' interviews for 'friends'. Just remember, its the bed you made.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-21 13:49  

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