I Knew Things Were Going Well…

…last night when, after a full day of “it’s gonna be a coin-toss!” chanting from the media and leftybots (pardon the redundancy), MPR threw to Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) at 9PM…

…just as NBC, Fox and the AP all more or less simultaneously called the election for Walker as returns showed it wasn’t even going to be close.

And the WPR hosts sounded…crestfallen?  Morose?  On suicide watch?  Big gaps of dead air ensued. the kind of thing that you only hear on Public Radio when things aren’t going according to “The Plan”.  The hostess – her name eludes me at the moment, so let’s just call her Greta Leftmeyer – sounded subdued in the kind of way you do when you don’t want to cry.  Or that’s how I heard it, anyway.

And Public Radio at all levels – WPR, NPR and “No Rant, No Slant” MPR – have been working overtime to keep Democrats off the suicide watch all day.  Notice how few Public or mainstream media operations will refer to Walker beating or defeating Barrett (as he most assuredly did).  Their headlines and on-air ledes invariably (!) say Walker “avoided being recalled”, as if it was some closely-decided question, and that that “decisive repudiation of the Democrat, Media and Union petulant push for a mid-cycle putsch” thing never happened.  Winston.

The lefty noise machine is already busy trying to rewrite yesterday, to keep the dream alive in the minds of the low-information voters that are the Democrat party’s main demographic.

And the other words you never hear (along with “Defeat”, “Repudiation”, “Crush” or “Ass-Whooping”) is “Tea Party”.  Last night was most assuredly proof that the rumors of the Tea Party’s demise were not only premature, they were deception and wishful thinking.  The Tea Party is, if anything, much more potent a force than it was three years ago.  Back then, it was about carrying signs.  Today, it’s about turning low-information voters into smart voters (ergo conservatives) and moving them to the polls.

And the media will softpedal that with all their might.

And, increasingly, they’ll lose.

And that’s a great thing for America.

14 thoughts on “I Knew Things Were Going Well…

  1. WaPo says the exit polls were off because they did not include data from absentee voters, and absentee voters went heavily for Walker.
    That makes Obama’s claimed 7 point lead over Romney in WI look a little less solid, doesn’t it?

  2. MPR had a story this morning, ostensibly about “divided La Crosse County.” Except the focus of the piece consisted of interviews of mopey morosey Democrats. How is that news? There was a token quote from a Republican, presumably as a nod to the word “divided” in the title, but that only illustrates that absolutely every electorate everywhere in the history of the planet is “divided.” There is always a winner and a loser in an election.

    But, did I learn anything from the piece? Did it serve any purpose other than a piece by lefties for lefties so they can all commiserate about what a bummer it is, not being able to farm the peasants for taxes like they used to?

    (this was the piece: http://tinyurl.com/7u2rupl )

  3. I didn’t catch the public radio stuff but out of curiosity I did check out MSNBC a little after 10PM. Rachel Maddow worked herself up into quite a tizzy, the Walker win left her totally bonkers. It was fun watching her rant! I didn’t get to see it but from what I’ve heard Schultz literally in vapors. Thankfully they haven’t come up with “smell-a-vision” or the room surely would’ve reeked of cat piss.

    CNN didn’t have much to say about the election, they replayed the British Queens diamond jubilee.

  4. Wisconsin is divided. Some part of the electorate don’t mind being slaves for public employee unions. The majority object.

  5. If you read this single, short article from the NY Times you will know more about the “Citizens United” decision than anyone in Dane or Milwaukee counties (with the exception of Althouse).
    It’s not about whether “corporations are people”, it’s about whether we have the right to free speech in this country. In May of 2009 even the NY Times seemed to grasp that.

    Several of the court’s more conservative justices reacted with incredulity to a series of answers from a government lawyer about the scope of Congressional authority to limit political speech. The lawyer, Malcolm L. Stewart, said Congress has the power to ban political books, signs and Internet videos, if they are paid for by corporations and distributed not long before an election.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/washington/25scotus.html

    A more in-depth article for National Affairs:

    But in the course of the ­argument, Justice Samuel Alito interrupted Stewart and inquired: “What’s your answer to [the] point that there isn’t any constitutional difference between the distribution of this movie on video [on] demand and providing access on the internet, providing DVDs, either through a commercial service or maybe in a public library, [or] providing the same thing in a book? Would the Constitution permit the restriction of all of those as well?” Stewart, an experienced litigator who had represented the government in campaign-finance cases at the Supreme Court before, responded that the provisions of McCain-Feingold could in fact be constitutionally applied to limit all those forms of speech. The law, he ­contended, would even require banning a book that made the same points as the Citizens United video.

    There was an audible gasp in the courtroom. Then Justice Alito spoke, it seemed, for the entire audience: “That’s pretty incredible.” By the time Stewart’s turn at the podium was over, he had told Justice Anthony ­Kennedy that the government could restrict the distribution of books through Amazon’s digital book reader, Kindle; responded to Justice David Souter that the government could prevent a union from hiring a writer to author a political book; and conceded to Chief Justice John Roberts that a corporate publisher could be prohibited from publishing a 500-page book if it contained even one line of candidate advocacy.

    http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-myth-of-campaign-finance-reform

  6. Scott, I was watching Fox about that time, but I too, fIipped over to MSNBC and saw the Rachel Madcow rant, too. How anyone can watch that moronic lineup of left wing moonbats, is beyond me!

  7. “It’s gonna be a toss-up,” is better interpreted as “let’s see if we can get enough illegals, indigents, felons, mental deficients and union interlopers to push us over the finish line.”

  8. Rachel Maddow, queen of credentialism! She’s a lesbian and a Rhodes Scholar!
    Doesn’t keep her from being a frikkin’ idiot.
    “[Maddow Said] I’m undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I’m in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.”
    http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11725

    Here area few items from the 1952 GOP platform (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25837#axzz1x37Dldoe):

    We assert that during the last twenty years, leaders of the Government of the United States under successive Democrat Administrations, and especially under this present Administration, have failed to perform these several basic duties; but, on the contrary, that they have evaded them, flouted them, and by a long succession of vicious acts, so undermined the foundations of our Republic as to threaten its existence.

    We charge that they have arrogantly deprived our citizens of precious liberties by seizing powers never granted.

    We charge that they work unceasingly to achieve their goal of national socialism.

    We charge that they have disrupted internal tranquillity by fostering class strife for venal political purposes.

    We charge that they have choked opportunity and hampered progress by unnecessary and crushing taxation.

    They claim prosperity but the appearance of economic health is created by war expenditures, waste and extravagance, planned emergencies, and war crises. They have debauched our money by cutting in half the purchasing power of our dollar.

    We charge that they have weakened local self-government which is the cornerstone of the freedom of men.

    We charge that they have shielded traitors to the Nation in high places, and that they have created enemies abroad where we should have friends.

    We charge that they have violated our liberties by turning loose upon the country a swarm of arrogant bureaucrats and their agents who meddle intolerably in the lives and occupations of our citizens.

    We charge that there has been corruption in high places, and that examples of dishonesty and dishonor have shamed the moral standards of the American people.

    We charge that they have plunged us into war in Korea without the consent of our citizens through their authorized representatives in the Congress, and have carried on that war without will to victory.

    . . . . .

    By the Administration’s appeasement of Communism at home and abroad it has permitted Communists and their fellow travelers to serve in many key agencies and to infiltrate our American life. When such infiltrations became notorious through the revelations of Republicans in Congress, the Executive Department stubbornly refused to deal with it openly and vigorously. It raised the false cry of “red herring” and took other measures to block and discredit investigations. It denied files and information to Congress. It set up boards of its own to keep information secret and to deal lightly with security risks and persons of doubtful loyalty. It only undertook prosecution of the most notorious Communists after public opinion forced action.

    . . .

    For twenty years the Administration has praised free enterprise while actually wrecking it. Here a little, there a little, year by year, it has sought to curb, regulate, harass, restrain and punish. There is scarcely a phase of our economic and social life today in which Government does not attempt to interfere.

    Such hostility deadens initiative, discourages invention and experiment, and weakens the self-reliance indispensable to the Nation’s vitality. Merciless taxation, the senseless use of controls and ceaseless effort to enter business on its own account, have led the present Government to unrestrained waste and extravagance in spending, irresponsibility in decision and corruption in administration.
    . . .
    Our goal is a balanced budget, a reduced national debt, an economical administration and a cut in taxes. We believe in combating inflation by encouraging full production of goods and food, and not through a program of restrictions.

  9. Rush played CNN’s Wolf Blitzer back (exit poll 50-50!) to back (Walker wins), contrasting the clear joy, then despair in his voice.

  10. “let’s see if we can get enough illegals, indigents, felons, mental deficients and union interlopers to push us over the finish line.”

    Big Stink, I think you’ve defined the greater percentage of the DFL.


  11. “And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.”

    Candidate Barack Obama, 2007.

    “It’s Election Day in Wisconsin tomorrow, and I’m standing by Tom Barrett. He’d make an outstanding governor. –bo.”
    President Barack Obama, 2012 (via twitter)

  12. I’ll bet that MSNBC had terrific highest ratings on recall night….because a lot of conservatives wanted to see Schultz, Maddow, and O’Donnell’s anguish. (Lean forward)….

  13. Joe, I’m sure they got a boost from some conservatives that were curious how unglued they’d be, but from what I read on Drudge this morning it wasn’t a viewership boom:

    CABLE NEWS RACE
    TUES. NITE, JUNE 05 2012

    FOXNEWS OREILLY 3,108,000
    FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,973,000
    FOXNEWS GRETA 2,802,000
    FOXNEWS BAIER 2,441,000
    FOXNEWS SHEP 2,147,000
    FOXNEWS FIVE 1,590,000
    CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,516,000
    MSNBC MADDOW 1,256,000
    CMDY COLBERT 1,226,000
    MSNBC SCHULTZ 1,119,000
    MSNBC HARDBALL 790,000
    MSNBC SHARPTON 771,000
    CNN COOPER 630,000
    CNN MORGAN 591,000

  14. I get a kick out of the fact that the CMDY Daily beats Maddow in viewership.

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