I Want to Believe
“Story the Media Won’t Tell: Obama Is Losing,” John Nolte writes at Big Journalism:
Meanwhile, President FailureTeleprompter is relegated to rationalizing his lack of turnout into a “deliberate” desire for smaller, more intimate crowds. Yeah, that sounds like the Mr. Greek Column we’ve all come to know and grow tired of.
Meanwhile, the media refuses to report on the size of either side’s crowds.
Meanwhile, across the country, the documentary film “2016″ has just opened wide on over 1,000 screens and in the heart of Hollywood’s biggest season hit #3 at the box office.
Meanwhile, though their Media Palace Guards assure us this is not the case, the Obama campaign’s increasingly desperate and shrill campaign is acting more and more like a campaign so far behind and so in fear of losing, they feel they have nothing to lose. From “felon” to “chains” to “Mitt killed my wife” to one bald-faced lie after another, President Obama has forsaken the dignity of the office and — should he win a second term — all hope of bringing the country together after the kind of scorched-earth campaign only the terrified wage.
Meanwhile, the media is behaving in a manner no less shrill and desperate than their Presidential Master. When the unemployment rate increases, the media tells us that’s a good thing. When the economy shrinks from 4.1 to 1.5%, the media still call it “the recovery.” When an idiot in Missouri says something stupid about rape and abortion, the media launches into a week-long narrative accusing Republicans of being soft on rape.
Meanwhile, Obama supports infanticide. Romney opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s life is at risk. Yesterday CNN released a poll showing 62% of the American people agree with Romney and only 32% with Obama.
Read the whole thing, and then click over to Erick Erickson at Red State, who adds that the antics of the Obama campaign team and the MSM (yes, that’s redundant– just ask them) are “Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign:”
The media keeps showing its rear end. Let me just make that clear. If you are a competent reporter, I’m not sure how you cannot be embarrassed by the majority of those in your profession right now covering politics.
From Mark Halperin, to Jake Tapper, to Chuck Todd, more journalists are actually now admitting just how pliable the media is when it comes to Barack Obama’s spin. All week long, as the economy deteriorates, most every anchor at most every news outlet, most every editorialist in most every paper, and most every “centrist” and liberal pundit has been pointing out the GOP’s extremist abortion position.
Few, if any, have pointed out that Barack Obama’s abortion on demand position is extreme. Few, if any, have pointed out how most Americans favor restrictions on abortion. Few, if any, have pointed out that Mitt Romney’s position is actually more mainstream than Barack Obama’s. Few, if any, have wanted to go beyond Politifact’s ham-handed cover for Obama on infanticide and get into what Barack Obama actually said in 2002. Hear him come out for infanticide yourself right here. Remember, the media is hiding behind the left-leaning Politifact (and yes, it does lean left) to avoid having to deal with this.
They cannot help themselves. But why are they doing it?
They are doing it for the exact same reason Joe Biden is claiming the GOP will put black people back in chains and why Barack Obama would rather talk about uteri than jobs ? they all know Barack Obama is losing this thing.
And as Moe Lane of Red State wrote earlier this week, “Did you know that Republicans can smell fear?” And the force of the flop sweat is strong in Team Obama right now. (QED.)
Are they right? Well, we’ll know in the fullness of time. In any case, insert the usual Insta-rejoinder to avoid the unnecessary appearance of supercilious arrogance at this particular juncture here.
Related: “Box office shocker. 2016: Obama’s America at #3?”
More: “Hell No, It Isn’t the End!”
President FailureTeleprompter is relegated to rationalizing his lack of turnout into a “deliberate” desire for smaller, more intimate crowds.
Yet one source closely connected to the party assured us that the lack of Hollywood types this year is very deliberate, as the “Democrats try to keep celebrities away as they think it hurts their image.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/24/hollywood-bailing-on-president-obama-and-democratic-national-convention/#ixzz24btTwcqn
Democrat House members were advised by their leader Pelosi to stay home so the Convention could be even more deliberately cozy.
2008 Hope and Change
2012 Deliberate and Intimate
Make sense. After all, the VP has had “intimate” relationships with three former presidents.
What will the media do on November 7th? I forecast a loss by Obama and by a wide enough margin to eliminate the very idea of voter fraud. This is no big deal as many, many people anticipate the same. My question is more along the lies of “now what?” What will the media do in response? Will they be “shocked”? Will they start saying “We knew all along he was a flash in the pan. An empty suit.”
The whores of the front page will have the vapors initially, I think. But more likely they will go into a rage.
“Will they be “shocked”?
The word is “unexpected”, as in “unexpected” rise in unemployment, “unexpected” drop in GDP,…
For the MSM who told us we could predict climate change 100 years from now are “unexpectedly” clueless for things happening in front of them.
“I forecast a loss by Obama and by a wide enough margin to eliminate the very idea of voter fraud.”
Oh? It depends on how many voted in the cemeteries in Oiho, how many illegals voted in Florida, how many “uncounted” votes found in abandoned warehouses in Virginia, how many votes lost in Republican districts in Wisconsin.
Don’t forget the Minnesota loud mouth Senator won by 300 votes after numerous recounts. And a couple months ago, it was determined that over a thousand votes were fraudulent.
They aren’t any good in creating jobs, but they are experts in creating votes.
I think the headline will be something like, “Obama Loses, Unexpectedly!”
Ooh, that can be a fun game: Predict the MSM headlines should Obama lose.
I like, “Obama Loses! World To End Tomorrow!”
“…women and minorities to be hardest hit.”
Fixed it for you.
Anna writes:
I think the headline will be something like, “Obama Loses, Unexpectedly!”
Anna, what makes you think it will be just one headline — and, for that matter, confined to just one day. Brace yourself for lamentations an a hack job on R&R to stretch through the next 1,460 until Romney gets elected again.
It will make the evil crusade against “W” seem like child’s play in comparison.
The MSM will continue its decline, not only because they haven’t the professional standards they once had, but because they have tied themselves inescapably to the Democratic Party, and the Dems are going down for a long time. That is because their Narcissist-in-Chief and the amateurs around him have done nothing to promote new, young talent in the party – to the contrary they have alienated it. After Obama is gone there will be no one left to lead them but Hillary, and she is getting old and tired. The MSM is like Captain Ahab, Obama is Moby Dick, and the Democratic Party is the Pequod. The GOP, on the other hand is well stocked with rising stars, we all know their names. If Obama loses this election, then the only thing that can save the Democratic Party and the MSM is Repulican hubris.
“If Obama loses this election, then the only thing that can save the Democratic Party and the MSM is Repulican hubris.”
I have a lot of faith that the party of John “MSM Appeaser-In-Chief” McCain and Todd “Foot In Mouth” Akin can easily bring the Democrats back to life. Unfortunately, the Republican Establishment (a.k.a The Stupid Party) has a long history of sucking up to the MSM, “compromising” with Democrats, and never calling out the bias in the MSM.
I have concern about manipulating the ballot count when the voting is close. It will be any means the Dems can get away with.
But I do sense the lack of enthusiasm for Obama and the desperate (or norm from here on) hate from the Left.
I definitely won’t get cocky.
I think the Dems actually are losing (at the moment), but there are at least 2 reasons not to get cocky about it: 1) this is a bunch that has shown itself to have few if any limits as far as fraud/criminality/violence go even when they were on top…real fear of losing will make them even more dangerous and extreme and 2) Romney has to win this thing by more than a razor thin margin…if the election is close, the Dems will steal it; it’s what they do. Just ask Norm Coleman and many others.
And yet, despite everything, the polls show an effective tie. Romney should be up by multiple points right now. I am not so optimistic.
And, according to the press of the day, Carter was solidly ahead of Reagan…
right up until he got blown away, by white working men.
They lie. All the time.
They never fail to lie. It’s what they do.
Let us not forget this, ever.
If Democrats din’t lie and cheat and steal votes, they would never be the majority party.
“Romney should be up by multiple points right now.”
In some polls,especially of likely voters, he is. The fact that he is not farther ahead is due to Obama’s drunken-sailor spending on advertising over the summer. Romney has a huge war chest he can’t open until after the convention, and I think you’ll see him rise after he starts blitzing the jug eared fool in a week or so. Obama will be badly outspent and there will also be a much more effective Republican get-out-the-vote organization this year. We don’t have it in the bag but I feel very optimistic.
Eh. I never trust polls, especially this far away from the election. There are several reasons for this.
1) Most people that answer polls are politically active (good chance of partisanship).
2) People lie. They’ll lie to appear “politically correct” or they’ll lie to avoid trouble, or they’ll lie for partisan reasons. Most of these lies will help Obama in the polls. The PC lies will help the minority race over the majority race. Lies out of fear of trouble will help the party that threatens you (OWS, Barack “ASU gonna get an IRS Audit” Obama). Finally, while I believe that both Republicans and Democrat partisans would lie, I think the Democrats don’t have even the slightest moral problem with it.
3) Registered voters ARE NOT ALWAYS REGISTERED IN THEIR ACTUAL PARTY. Multiple states have laws that you can only vote in primaries that you are registered in. My state (Wyoming) is a solid Republican state. As such, I know of at least 3 Progressives that are registered as Republicans so that they can vote in the Republican primary for the moderate candidate. Then they will vote for the Democrat (if there is even one running) in the general. Just because someone in the poll is registered as Republican, doesn’t mean that they actually are Republicans. This is a form of people lying.
4) Polls can be manipulated by the company doing the polling. Let’s face it, the majority of the polling you see are run by left of center outfits. There are some that are more or less unbiased, but their results could be influenced by the people being polled, who might lie.
If there are so many reasons why there might be flaws in the polls, then you cannot really trust them. Instead you have to look at other factors. Turnout at speeches, amount of fundraising, and acts of desperation. All of these factors favor Romney over Obama.
Just remember: If it isn’t close, they can’t cheat.
I have heard all the same arguments about the polls in 2008. In the end the polls turned out to be quite accurate. This election will be another damn nailbiter.
I don’t remember what the polls were saying in August of 2008, mostly because they were made pointless in September of 2008 when McCain suspended his campaign. They were made even further pointless in October, 2008, when the stock market took a plunge and the media set about blaming Bush and Republicans for the economy.
Polls are merely guesses, especially since they cannot predict future events. Poll results in “if the election were held today” polls are pointless when the election ISN’T held today, or even the next week.
If you really want to predict the election, I say look at what is drawing the people. A political movie that puts Obama in a bad light is the third highest box office draw… in summer… in fewer theaters. That is a big indicator of how the election will go.
Of course, I don’t know what will happen in September or October either. Maybe someone receiving federal taxpayer money will discover a cheap form of renewable and clean energy, causing a boom in the markets and jobs. If that happens, I doubt Obama would be able to lose even if he announced a plan to President-for-life.
Let me suggest an emendation: “one bald-faced and poorly-spelled lie after another”
The 0boma phenom is so devoid of substance and so stuffed to the gills with fabrication that now history and everyone else has already moved on. The whole point, if there is one is equally short on substance. He, through lies and deceptions, stuck it to the man, meaning that most people who would support him, knew it was a fraud, at least on some level of their intellect. But since the fraud can’t subsist on it’s own without an elaborate belief system, most think that’s too much of a load for they lazy self to bear. Let someone else do it.
T shirt for the media:
“You didn’t report that”
I agree with the point of this article. But I would like to point out that it is not the case that you can “Hear him come out for infanticide yourself” — if you check that link, you will hear that Obama believes we can trust the abortionist doctor, if he makes a mistake and aborts a “viable” fetus/infant, that he will do his best to save said infant even in the absence of such a fetal protection law. Obama also says the law is wasteful because it requires the doctor to bring in a second doctor if the aborted fetus/baby shows any sign of movement/life. Anyway, those are the reasons Obama gave for voting against an Illinois fetal protection born alive measure. You can judge them as credible or not, but that doesn’t mean you can make up things like “Hear him come out for infanticide yourself” without negatively affecting your own credibility.
Obama voted “present” often enough but he voted several times to make sure that abortion survivors already born and viable outside their mother’s body can be left to die by doctors. It was important to him.
If Romney wins, what wer’re likely to see from the mainstream big media is shock, but at the fringes angry denial and a desire to invalidate the results. That is. Even if the final electoral and popular vote isn’t. close, find the specific places where it is and gin up some sort of vote fraud conspiracy there. In order to claim the entire election and any mandate for Romney is invalid.
We saw this already in 2004 — Florida was the Bush-v.-Gore battleground in 2000, but because Ohio was closer four years later, the most rabid partisans in the media invented the Diebold conspiracy. And while the big media sites were t going to take that story and completely run with it, because they knew it was unverifiable, the had no problem not trying to disprove the allegation, either, so that the idea that the GOP has the ability to manipulate computer ballots would remain out there for public discussion. A Romney win will produce even wilder claims that they won’t claim as their own, but at the same time they’ll make no effort to debunk the people leveling the charges.
“Even if the final electoral and popular vote isn’t. close, find the specific places where it is and gin up some sort of vote fraud conspiracy there.”
No, no, no. The media will never go with “vote fraud” for their topic. That might cause the politicians to pass a voter ID law. Instead of “vote fraud” it is “voter disenfranchisement.” That way they can blame the evil Republicans of preventing the poor minorities from voting. Probably because they were afraid of having to show their IDs; even if they do almost every day for drinks, cigarettes, credit card purchases, etc. If they make it even easier to not know who is voting, then it makes it easier for them to cheat in the future.