Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Perhaps I'm Just Seeing the Darkness Before the Dawn ...

Marc Ambinder is calling McCain’s campaign “Keyser Soze Rules.” He says, “Go further than your opponent is willing to go. So long as you commit to this strategy 100%, it can work.”

I’d just like to echo Matt Yglesias’s comments from the other day. Marc Ambinder is one of a handful of people who can point out that what McCain is saying is not true. And yet he continues to report it like it’s some sort of horserace, with nothing at stake. Like he’s some sort of distant observer, and not a member of the institution that is supposed to inform Americans. This election has made the run up to the Iraq War look like Watergate.

After talking to my mother tonight, who said that Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood were both talking about how Obama called Sarah Palin a pig, I’m no longer sure exactly what to think. I guess my steady media diet of reading newspapers, blogs and the candidates' policy positions is no longer adequate to actually understand the moronic dynamic that actually exists in the United States. Honest to god, if the media doesn’t start to call out the McCain campaign on this stuff soon, is there any hope for it? I’m not a huge fan of corporate news broadcasting to begin with, but if they allow McCain to walk through one of the sleaziest, most fact-free campaigns ever – has there ever been a campaign who has made so much hay out of so little? – I don’t know what to think.

You, if you’re reading this, and I, we know what McCain is up to. I’ve spent my twenties on a steady downslide in my opinion of the intelligence of the American public. We’ll soon see if the media can do their job, or if my darkest opinions have turned out to be justified.

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