Hit & Myth
Terrific column by Kimberley Strassel in this morning's paper of record, The Wall Street Journal. It's about the myths the Democrats are promulgating to explain their unpopularity--and how the mainstream media pass those myths along. She covers the mysterious foreign spending myth, the we-didn't-explain-our-policies myth, the insane tea party myth and on and on.
It's locked up behind the paywall, so I have hired a team of medieval German Carthusian monks to actually transcribe one paragraph by hand:
There are indeed many ads up about gay marriage and abortion. It so happens they are being run by Democrats spreading fear about their opponents. To a remarkable degree, Republicans have campaigned purely on economic issues. The idea that lower taxes, less spending and free markets are "extreme" positions says far more about the accusers than the GOP.
Sing it, sister. Now go out, buy the paper and read the rest. And, er, thanks Monks.
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Oct '10
Re: Hit & Myth
It's amazing what you have to come up with when you can't run on your policies.
Oct '10
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Reminds me of something the pro bono liberal propagandists on my facebook feed have been posting. The subtitle is: "A Tea Party Patriot tries to explain how our freedoms are in jeopardy," but it should read: "How establishment drones quell their troubled conscience with crude animation and witless sarcasm."
http://www.youtube.com/user/ndintenfass#p/a/u/0/nnUfPQVOqpw
I'm just glad I'm no longer a slave to a trendy ideology that has to be explained to me in cartoon format.
P.S. Klavan, how much do your Monks charge to illuminate the WSJ?
Oct '10
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Andrew, did you rip off your idea from the Robert Lynn Aspirin series of novels?
Oh, and FWIW, I can read medieval German. I am a calligrapher. But I'm not a monk. That means I can only charge $5 per illuminated letter instead of the union fee of $35.
May '10
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Are we perhaps (I say with some hope) reaching a point where such attempts to spin a situation in the press have no effect, either because no one is watching/listening/reading, or because such statements are widely disbelieved and discounted?
Attempts to marginalize the Tea Party movement appear to have failed or even backfired, but not for lack of effort or imagination. How wonderful that people are choosing to believe the evidence of their own experience, rather than the unsupported allegations of pundits and politicians.
I find it remarkable that anyone still reads the New York Times, but much more remarkable that some actually believe what they read there.
May '10
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I'll tell you a secret Drew if you promise not to pass it along to RM at your next Contributor bacchanal. If you copy the article headline into Google, the site will return the entire behind-the-pay-wall story.
May '10
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Ooooohhhh, tricky Trace!