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July 23, 2008 - 1:49 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-07-24 01:01:54

(from a Fox News Interview, via Limbaugh)

DEZENHALL: Oh, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve been doing this for 25 years and I think what’s really happening here is the media are motivated more than anything else right now by the sense that they are making history.

It’s more about them than it even is Obama, and everything that Obama does is framed in the context of being visionary, and I think that the desire to personally help make history, to say you were there when it happened, probably is even more of a motivator than political bias, which I do think is part of it.

RUSH: That’s an important point. He didn’t throw the political bias, the ideological simpatico out the window, but it’s an excellent point because these people, it almost is more about them than Obama.

He is the vehicle for them to be able to say they made history.
Not he made history, they did, because they got him elected. He continued with this.

DEZENHALL: It’s about narratives. In a Disney movie, the little blonde girl is not going to be the villain.
She is going to save the day.

And Obama really owns the Hollywood narrative right now. He is the one who has the more exciting story. It genuinely is a history-making event, regardless of what your political bias is.

And that really is what I mean by the media’s devotion to what the narrative is, what the exciting story is.