Simply put we are witnessing the culmination of what started with Nixon and then progressed to the Clinton years. This was when the press realized they could actively participate in the building up or bringing down of a President. They learned they held the trump card. For sure this began to worsen and metastasize under the hyper-stress of building up Clinton and a need on the MSM’s part to help control events.

During Bush I and Reagan the MSM played a partisan attack dog game, but they were one person at a time. In truth the full stress came from a complicit protection of Clinton coupled with the reversal of fortunes in politics (Democratic Presidency, Republican Congress). This led to double overreaching by the media, vacillating between protecting the public from the “Radical Republicans” (a President is one man, but a majority in congress is a multitude) and protecting Clinton. Face it they needed to kill Newt Gingrich and every other “right wing nut” as they Protected Clinton, they rode “Hi-Gear” throughout.

This led us to a “Perfect Storm” the MSM was not prepared for. This perfect storm became obvious during the mid-terms of 2002 and I hold little hope of it being relieved soon. This is why I refer to our current decade as the new Sixties, this time the “squares” must win out. (yes Roger this time around you are the uncool square deal with it!).

But let me explain the components of the perfect storm…

1) The election of 2000 and a split congress.

2) September 11th 2001

Those top two coupled with leftover simmerings of the Clinton Presidency created a very potent brew and basis for the storm to follow. This takes us to:

3) Midterms… BANG! Post 911 bipartisanship had run its course, in truth many Democrats and the media never really were on board 100%, but Bush’s 80% approval ratings and fear of reprisal by the public kept Democrats and the MSM “in a cage” to stew for a whole year. As the sentiments simmered the Republican’s regained a majority in Congress in historical fashion and the Democrats they walked away with nothing! This was too much burden to bare, in fact this is when I started blowing up myself.

4) Realities of Republicans controlling everything. This finally sunk in a struck a nerve with the MSM (the Democrats were already long gone) so they felt a need and/or responsibility to “police” Bush, effectively lining them up with Democrats as a “Loyal Opposition” to Republicans, all senses of professional responsibilities have now completely been lost in this shuffle. While it is akin to the 90′s when the Republicans took over Congress, it in truth was greatly exaggerated by 911, the Midterms and a Republican controlled Washington.

5) Iraq War – This was the last straw, now Bush has taken these people way beyond and I mean waaaay beyond what their instincts ever would have accepted, how could such a thing happen? For this they feel a renewed and exaggerated responsibity for correcting this, in fact they are now on a mission. Ironically their mission carries the same level of resolve to stop Bush as Bush’s is to stop Terrorism, for this they are blinded to the needs in the WOT because their focus is their War on Bush, this leads to instinctive undermining of the War. Now if anyone can turn this into Vietnam the press could if we allow it. By the way this is the point when the Democrats lost me, early last summer.

I could go on but you get the picture, this is where the media is at and how they got there. There is only one solution beyond being held accountable by blogs. Bush needs to win and win big so the MSM like with Reagan will be resigned to the realities that Bush is not going anywhere, and is not going to be controlled by them. Bush must after winnig big take his political capital and go over their collective heads and knock them on their asses if they start up again. Unfortunately it only worked when they feared Bush. Anyway that is my take on things.