…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.
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?
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 )
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.
Wisconsin is divided. Some part of the electorate don’t mind being slaves for public employee unions. The majority object.
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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/washington/25scotus.html
A more in-depth article for National Affairs:
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-myth-of-campaign-finance-reform
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!
“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.”
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):
Rush played CNN’s Wolf Blitzer back (exit poll 50-50!) to back (Walker wins), contrasting the clear joy, then despair in his voice.
“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.
“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)
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)….
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
I get a kick out of the fact that the CMDY Daily beats Maddow in viewership.