A funny thing happened on the way to the media Messiah’s coronation: America stood up and said, “Enough is enough.”
All around us, little rebellions are being waged against the left-wing media’s attempt to choose our next President. Our protestations are beginning to be heard where it matters and have a real effect on the way things are done.
Take, for example, the case of US Magazine’s biased, inaccurate article about Governor Sarah Palin. Americans started rebelling against that piece of media trash as soon as we understood that the publication was using a photograph of the candidate and her developmentally handicapped child on its cover to sell the lies and smears found within its pages. Within days, it was reported that US Magazine had lost up to 10,000 subscribers over the incident, and that their advertisers were also starting to feel the heat. Independent web sites began to spring up overnight with lists of US Magazine’s advertisers, enabling everyone upset at the coverage to take a stand on their own.
Earlier tonight, we found out that MSDNC — sorry MSNBC — was stripping the tingly-legged duo of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann of their news anchoring duties, relegating them to the chattering class of pundits during election coverage. There were likely many factors contributing to their removal, not the least of which was the fact that they could not get an audience, but the spontaneous chant of “NBC, NBC, NBC” when Governor Palin spoke out against media bias during her speech at the Republican Convention certainly did not slow down their dismissal. In fact, four days after the chant, the duo was sidelined. Too bad this only happened NINETEEN MONTHS into the Presidential campaign after the damage was already done. The entire news division of NBC will forever be remembered as the most biased “mainstream” media organization during the long death of the dinosaur media.
Later this evening, on MTV’s annual Video Music Awards, filthy looking British host Russell Brand verbally assaulted President Bush, mocked the unborn child of Bristol Palin, and begged America to elect Barack Obama, making that request “on behalf of the world.” We’ll stick to electing our own Presidents, Russ. You stick to doing things like dressing up as Osama bin Laden for humor’s sake on September 12, 2001.
Being MTV, watched mainly by a younger crowd normally amenable to the Obamedia’s message, you would assume that the reaction to Brand would be enthusiastically positive. That’s an incorrect assumption. The reaction to Brand’s outbursts was overwhelming outrage. The comment section on a blog at MTV shows thousands upon thousands of angry responses to Brand’s failed attempt at political commentary.
Another sign that we may be rounding a corner, is the New York Times’ A1 September 8 story on Governor Palin and her son Trig. Initially causing Conservative panic when billed as a Category 5 “exposé” by Drudge (later downgraded to a Category 3 “detailed story”), it turns out to be a fairly straight retelling of the now-familiar tale.
America has had enough, and the silent majority is not silent any more. We notice your bias, and we are through sitting on our hands. You can put Obama on your boards and have him at your swanky parties, but we’re not going to watch quietly while you install him in the White House.
