https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/10/01/the-narrative-in-london/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:46:18 -0400<![CDATA[At a dinner party in London Saturday, I was asked to say a few words about the upcoming presidential election in the United States. All of the guests were what my friend Otto Penzler calls “politically mature,” i.e., they regarded Barack Obama with varying degrees of fear, loathing, and distaste. But they had also, most of them, imbibed deeply of The Narrative: the fairy tale dispensed by virtually all the legacy (formerly known as “the mainstream”) media that Obama was as sure a thing to win as was possible to discover in this mutable sublunary world.]]>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:21:41 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2012/10/01/the-narrative-in-london-n117095