John Nolte
Big Journalism
11/18/2011
Occupy Wall Street’s imploding, Obama and the Democrats own the chaos, and now the AP is panicking.
But first a little context…
Something happened this month that the mainstream media and the Left (but I repeat myself) never expected. Two months ago, the White House, Democrats, and the MSM were all sure that the #OccupyWallStreet movement would save them in 2012. With thousands of astro-turfed morons in the streets raging against Wall Street, Obama’s allies hoped to use said morons to create a silver lining in the economic cloud he himself created.
…the Left and their media allies didn’t expect New Media to own this story and to use the truth to drive the narrative out of their control…
…now Democrats like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are way out on a limb and have been caught in bed encouraging, endorsing, and attempting to legitimize a wildly unpopular movement most voters now find repulsive.
So what’s a shameless left-wing media to do?
What they always do. Rewrite history.
And it looks as thought the Associated Press has decided to start the memory-holing…
Read the entire article at Big Journalism.
Related: Media Puts Blind Trust In John Kerry’s Claim of Blind Trusts
Kerry says that the various accounts in which he mad lots of trades armed with nonpublic information could not possibly be a cause for scandal, as these accounts were in blind trust.
The media reliably parrots this…
…I mentioned earlier: there are two aspects of media bias to the media’s determination to tank this story.
The first is simple political bias. Democrats have been robbing us stupid for decades, and they want to protect their beloved socialist thieves.
The other bias is due to institutional turf-protection and defensiveness over incompetency.
The media could have had this story. But they were too lazy and/or too biased to report on it. It wasn’t fed directly to them by a prosecutor making a case, so why bother doing any digging?
Laziness and incompetence…
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