{"id":11239,"date":"2010-06-04T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2010-06-04T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T12:50:53","slug":"the-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"The Setup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media’s been starting – juuuust starting – to get a little critical of The One.<\/p>\n

The immigration debate?\u00a0 Jobs For Congressmen?\u00a0 Oil washing up on the media’s vacationing grounds?\u00a0 When you have not only CNN and Brian Willians but also Chris Matthews and Jon Stewart tagging on him, it’s gotta be bad for The Anointed – doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Unless you remember the mainstream media’s prime directive – keep Obama and Democrats in office – it might seem that way.<\/p>\n

Paranoid?\u00a0 Well, Ed Driscoll<\/a> and I are both on the same wavelength.<\/p>\n

Assuming BP is able to get the oil spill in the Gulf plugged, how much of this is the media laying the groundwork for their \u201ccomeback kid\u201d narrative to roll out\u2026right around September or early October, and running to, oh at least, the first Tuesday in November \u2014 and possibly longer, depending upon the outcome on election night?<\/p>\n

Who knows how the next months will play out, but it\u2019s something to salt away for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Best way to tell?\u00a0 If the Media and left (ptr) find a squishy moderate-ish Republican to start building up – a la McCain and Huckabee – for later tearing down, you’ll know Ed’s onto something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media’s been starting – juuuust starting – to get a little critical of The One. The immigration debate?\u00a0 Jobs For Congressmen?\u00a0 Oil washing up on the media’s vacationing grounds?\u00a0 When you have not only CNN and Brian Willians but also Chris Matthews and Jon Stewart tagging on him, it’s gotta be bad for The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11240,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}