Thomas (#2) wrote:
“And, you Mr. Riehl? Here’s your problem: ‘…based upon my observations here in Washington, D.C.’
Unlike your whining, hand-wringing worries of being painted by the left media as fanatic in the bubble you live, we in the midwest simply don’t give a damn what the media thinks. Anyone who is terrified of the main stream media is a RINO.”
I was going to say it a bit less bluntly, but “Thomas” has all of the basics. I’m not in the Midwest; I’m in the Southwest, so this viewpoint is not as regional as “Thomas” suggests.
What I’m hearing in your piece, Mr. Riehl, is the voice of a “marketing professional” for the Republican Party (or one looking to get hired).
I’m not a big fan of Beck. He’s lukewarm ok. I think he’s sometimes amusing, but unstable and edgy. He doesn’t have the leadership skills or strength of personality to lead a group of girl scouts in selling cookies. I think it possible that under the right pressure he might go off the edge and be a fine whip for the Old Media to beat us with. Still, I agree with “Thomas”.
Limbaugh addressed exactly this point today, with some passion. It makes him crazy when people he knows anxiously advise him to avoid supporting Sarah Palin, “because she doesn’t know anything; did you see that interview with Katie Couric? They [Old Media] will destroy us!” Limbaugh’s argument is that the Old Media no longer have that power–so long as we actually defend our own, unlike the Republican Party establishment, when they turned their backs on Gingrich and the Reform Congress.
I think Limbaugh is right. In any event, I’m fed to the gills with all this worry about how something might “play” in the Old Media, or when the Democrats get hold of it.
You sound like a beaten wife.
Your hyperventilation over Beck’s saying Obama is a racist is diagnostic, as is your denunciation of Beck’s silly idiocy over internment camps being set up for dissenters. How does that compare to a member of Congress (African-American)asserting on the House floor that sharks still gather in the Middle Passage after 150 years in anticipation of a feed of slaves thrown overboard? I know: “They can be idiots; WE cannot.”
You might respond that my viewpoint is not wise, cautious,
realistic, or professional thinking. Yes, I’m a Yahoo–college-educated through graduate school. It is exactly your kind of professional political class thinking that has made the Republican Party losers again and again and again in my lifetime, fielding “safe” candidates: broken-down, party hacks like Bob Dole and John McCain, with Mitt Romney still to come in 2012 because it’s Mitt’s turn, and the entrail-readers say he “could” win.
The Republican Party is going to find plenty of elbow-room in its “Big Tent” in 2012 if they try to use the old “trust the professionals” wheeze yet again. I’ve been around long enough not to be fooled. Your piece is ostensibly about Beck, but the real Message I’m hearing is the same old, “Let the Pros handle this.”
Been there; done that; never again.
P.S.
..Obama IS a racist. Do you think he slept through
Rev. Wright’s raging, mad-dog sermons for 20 years? If I said that Obama was a “typical black person..” in his response to whites, would you think ME a racist?
I’m getting madder and madder; time to quit.
