Just as it is obvious that the mainstream media was discredited in this election, it is even more obvious that the NYT hasn’t gotten it yet.

“If I get me a innernet I’ll stop that homo marridge.”

Superb. As the MSM produces boring drivel, America produces talent in astonishing abundance.

They used to say in the 19th c. that God made men but it took Samuel Colt to make them equal. I guess the 21st c. equivalent will be that the Constitution gave men freedom of the press but it took the internet to give them presses.

Here.

Proving I enjoy a good crack more than I’ve got good sense.

I know… I know. I had intended to go for vacation but always ended up somewhere that had trees and mountains and streams and stuff like that.

I hate cities.

But Indianapolis is a big city, being in the midwest however it is an outpost in the wilderness to the smart, chic people in NYC. My niece likes it there however, in fact she was in Manhattan the day the WTC was attacked as was her father. Bad day.

But the folks of NYC and the coasts have got to get over themselves. Midwesterners are not heathens.

One of the reasons the Dems got beat so bad is that they have managed to convince a lot of people out here that the National Democratic Party wants nothing to do with them.

They need to stop treating the NYT as if it were the Gospel according to the God of secular liberalism and nominate somebody like Evan Bahy from someplace like Indiana.

The stories are always approximately the same. Arrogance results in producing a poorer quality product, typically at a higher cost, than the marketplace demands. Arrogance is always characterized by denial at the senior management level of what is happening, and a resorting to contorted explanations and non-economic solutions, such as government regulation or legislation… Most amazingly, in example after example, the cultural inertia remains intact: the companies do not change much, despite their declining fortunes. — Of Arrogance and Ignorance: The Declines of the New York Times, United States Steel, and other American Giants

(which includes a wonderful Guardian quote in which Howell Raines tells John Kerry to sell his positon on social security to the rubes by using disinformation(!))He also has an analysis of the decline of the Democratic party that I believe a lot of people here would appreciate.(By the way, his candidate for “Closest to being able to become the ‘Paper of Record’” is The Washington Post.)

Where’s the psychiatrist crack? I missed it somehow.

We psychiatrists, nous sommes tres sensibles…

My favorite definition of a psychiatrist, BTW (and it fits me) is “A Jewish doctor who is afraid of blood.”

Jamie Irons

Anyway…

I loved the piece; as Jamie says (if I suck up a little he may forgive me for the psychiatrist crack below) it has a compressed dry and trenchant wit that, sadly, probably won’t be understood by the people who most need to.

But, there’s another interesting aspect to it: one thing I’ve noticed quite a bit in this political campaign is that, while the MSM continues to think they can determine what the information is, what the narrative is, blogs from Iraq, like Ala’a, like Greyhawk, like SMASH and Chief Wiggles before them, are telling their own stories, can react to what the MSM is saying and refute it, and the story gets out

There was a book I loved as a kid, Don’t Go Near the Water, by William Brinkley. It reminded me a lot of the stories my father told about the Pacific Theater in WWII; what it was about, though, is public relations in WWII by a man who had done PR. One of the major antagonists is a reporter who insists on telling the worst possible story all the time.

I stopped reading the Times’ “news” pages years ago. Until “Bombgate” I still forced myself to scan the editorial pages on line. I guess I just needed to confirm that Paul Krugman still saw the President as Hitler. But after the latest fiasco, I quit cold turkey. I didn’t want to give Pinch the satisfaction of a single web hit.

And it’s been great. I see their most egregiously inane stuff as it gets shreaded by the blogosphere, and I don’t have to suffer the psychic shock of reading it first hand.

Abstinence works!