Anglachel does an excellent job of summing up what just happened:
Now, the more the media behaves in a way specifically designed to delegitimize our candidates, the more the left accepts and repeats what it hears. Bob Somerby and Paul Krugman are nearly alone in their insistence on telling the truth.
A few days ago I wrote up my disgust about the willingness of some people to go along with what seems a very clear ratfucking operation by the Republicans involving a tasty mix of misogyny, racism and anti-Muslim sentiments. What I also want to make clear is that should this particular attack continue – and it will – and should others of this kind surface and gain traction against Obama, then that part of the left that eagerly embraced a reprise of the MSM assault on the Clinton White House and the Gore presidential run have no ground to stand on. You whored your brains, your logic and your leftist credentials out to the bottom feeders of the right to try to gain a little advantage for your candidate and in the doing you have undermined him and every Democrat running for national office. You cried ”Yes, yes!” to painting millions of Americans as racists, you turned a blind eye to grotesque misogyny, you prostituted the corpse of a dead man to spread a lie, you eagerly defended nullifying votes of people in Michigan and denying full representation to Florida to rig the vote for your candidate, you continue to threaten to riot if anyone denies you what you want. . .
Whatever one can say of Hillary, she was not and never has been the beneficiary of the rightwing noise machine. Obama has benefitted from the cooptation of the MSM and now the willing capitulation of the opposition netroots to that operation, behaving like extensions of Drudge, Scaife and Murdoch. If you support Obama, you are all right with that.
Well, are you?
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Update: See The Unity Carousel at Clyde's Place: "It's even worse for women, because saddling up with Obama is an invitation for them to be shunned aside once again just as they always have been while the likes of Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, John Avarosis and Marcus smile warmly down upon them knowing they were right all along. Yes, we give you permission to join Obamaland with the understanding that all men are are created equal, as are women. They're just not equal to men. . . we don't really pick the candidates do we? The media chooses them for us just as they did this year with the help of delegate manipulation and disenfranchisement by the Democrats who finally figured out that the Republicans had the right idea on how to do it after all."
Graphic seen at Clyde's Place
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