A serious time in American politics
Bookworm on Sep 16 2008 at 2:34 pm | Filed under: Media matters, Presidential elections
Almost three years ago, Thomas Lifson wrote what I think is one of the most important political analyses I’ve ever read — and one that goes a long way to explaining the way in which American voters are slowly abandoning Obama and coalescing around the McCain ticket. Thomas believes that their are two political seasons: the attentive and the inattentive season.
With less than 50 days to the election, the public is paying attention right now, and the MSM is failing them, and failing them badly. Rather than providing fairly objective reporting about all four people on the Presidential ticket, they are composing hagiographies for one side of the ticket, and firing vicious partisan attacks against the other side. The media’s conduct is not fulfilling the role the public demands of it right now and, in that vacuum, the public is hewing to the known product — McCain. Palin is exciting and energizing, but I think it’s McCain who, in a quiet and rather graceful way, is filling the vacuum.
Anyway, read what Thomas has to say and let me know what you think.
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Bookie has a great find (here and here) in a review of Thomas Lifson’s article from 2006 that, as she states, goes a long way towards providing the macro reason that we have seen a drift towards McCain.
Because it was written in 2006, it has a cer….