Super Bowl Game Tape Leaked
“Ben Shapiro Shows the Right How to Beat the Media,” John Nolte of Big Journalism writes:
For years now the media’s used rhetorical tricks to bait our side into divisive arguments based on the kind of false premise Democrats never face. Whether it’s abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, or guns — the media hits us again and again and again until someone like a Todd Akin says something stupid enough it can be used to tar the party as a whole and our presidential nominee.
This isn’t fair, but it is reality. Complaining about it will get you nowhere and exposing it has proven absolutely worthless because you can’t shame the shameless.
Instead, we have to start beating the media at its own game.
After Fox News rose to prominence, Democrats trained themselves to face the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly. Because Democrats weren’t used to being challenged, they were frequently caught off guard, the videos would go viral online, and the damage would be done. You don’t see this happen anywhere near as often as you did ten years ago. That’s because Democrats fixed the problem.
Republicans need to first come to terms with the fact that they have a problem, a big one. Then they need to man up, go to school, and do something about it.
And they can start by studying Shapiro’s CNN appearance last night like the Super Bowl game-tape it is.
Read the whole thing. How bad was it for Morton Downey Morgan? “WaPo: Yeah, Morgan got pwned last night,” Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air.
And finally, via Jim Treacher:
Best comment I’ve heard all day: Piers wanted a serious conversation about guns in America? Well, he sure got one from @benshapiro
— Brad Thor (@BradThor) January 11, 2013
As Jim notes from Morgan’s petulant reaction afterwards, both on the air and on Twitter, Morgan’s none-too-happy about having that serious conversation.
Unexpectedly.
Update: “Sore Losers: Piers Team Mock Shapiro on Twitter After Debate:” “In summation: This is how CNN senior producers treat guests who don’t roll over and play dead.” You stay classy, Time-Warner-CNN-HBO.
More: Always question the MSM’s premise, Joel Pollock writes:
Ben put into practice something that Andrew Breitbart preached throughout his career of battling the mainstream media: Question the premise, whether it’s an assertion that you don’t care about the victims of Sandy Hook, or a faulty definition of Critical Race Theory, or that Barack Obama is a nice guy who only wants America to succeed. Ben destroyed the faulty premise of the gun control debate last night. And the debate is now changed.
And via Kathy Shaidle, video of Ben’s appearance on Canada’s Sun News:
Ace suggested that Piers Morgan is modeling his career on that of Geraldo Rivera. But I would note just describing Piers as Rivera or Downey does not capture entirely what he is up to.
Since Piers had failing ratings at CNN, he decided to jump all over a controversial issue, go to the left on it, and hope he could get some attention and ratings. I am sure it has worked, at least in the sort term. But he has to sustain it now. Can we expect Piers to be a mini MSNBC franchise over at CNN? One Martin Bashir is enough!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/336482.php Here is Ace’s take on it.
The classic Catch-22 question – “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”
No matter how you answer it, you look bad unless you recognize the tacit accusation and confront it directly. These kind of questions come at you all the time (I once had a cold caller ask me something to the effect “Do you want to be a financial failure all your life or take advantage of this sure-thing penny stock I’m offering to sell you?” I wonder if the hearing has come back in that ear yet) and can derail you if you aren’t prepared.
Someone should give conservative politicians who want to go national classes in dealing with journ0list creeps and these kinds of questions.
If Ms. Shaidle would be so kind as to overlook this modest display from a formerly undercover Breitbart “fanboy”, I’d like to sign up as a Card Carrying Ben Shapiro Fan Boy.
This is the first time I’ve seen this Sun Interview linked by any of the usual suspects. It’s better than the CNN smite. You can observe the endearing host asking for instruction. Priceless.
Thanks Eduardo!
“Republicans need to first come to terms with the fact that they have a problem, a big one. Then they need to man up, go to school, and do something about it.”
IMHO – this was where Republican’s failed in 2008 and I had hoped they learned their lesson in 2012. They didn’t. My feeling was that it didn’t matter who the proposed field of candidates was that ALL OF THEM should receive solid, effective media training and support from the RNC in order to deal with the destruction that the media was delivering against all of the candidates on a daily basis. By allowing the MSM to control the candidates, it didn’t matter who won the primaries… they had been significantly damaged early and often which left their hands tied in the General Election.