{"id":19775,"date":"2011-05-05T05:22:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19775"},"modified":"2011-05-05T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:25:55","slug":"prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19775","title":{"rendered":"Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As re the Bin Laden photos:<\/p>\n

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  1. Obama, citing perfectly valid security and moral concerns, will decline to release photos of a dead Bin Laden. (CHECK<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. The media will devote slavish news coverage to the tiny fringe of conservatives, Republicans and Tea Partiers that question the “Bin Laden is Dead” story (studiously\u00a0ignoring any leftists<\/a> who do), and giving obsessive coverage to “polls” (that will, inevitably, present “questions” as “doubts”), making a tiny non-story into a “story”. \u00a0Absent any empirical evidence of a significant trend (other than giving premium air time to a few highly-placed doubters – see Orly Taitz), the mainstream media will\u00a0build\u00a0a potemkin trend – purely to discredit conservatives. \u00a0Read: “purely to discredit Obama’s opposition”.<\/li>\n
  3. This coverage will rise to a crescendo right around the time a GOP nominee starts to push for some traction against the incumbent, right about the time non-wonks and non-news-junkies start paying attention to the election; figure around Labor Day, 2012.<\/li>\n
  4. Look for the pictures to be released (via an elaborate leak – maybe Wikileaks or something similar) about a week after that crescendo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “Gosh, Berg, you’re cynical”.<\/p>\n

    As re the relationship between the Democrats and the mainstream media, “cynicism” is just another word for “Zen-like perfect awareness”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As re the Bin Laden photos: Obama, citing perfectly valid security and moral concerns, will decline to release photos of a dead Bin Laden. (CHECK) The media will devote slavish news coverage to the tiny fringe of conservatives, Republicans and Tea Partiers that question the “Bin Laden is Dead” story (studiously\u00a0ignoring any leftists who do), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775","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=19775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions\/19783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}