PA Pumps It For Hill (and the media overlords need the fainting couch)
I couldn’t be in PA with the rest of the Hire Heels gang, but my travel embargo meant that as soon as the polls closed, I could start following The High Media Overlords–who believe in their own importance even more than a bunch of Vogue editors declaring that toe cleavage is dead, dead, dead. So many of the media overlords declared Hil dead, dead, dead, but she still beat a guy who outspent her 3 to 1.
Even ultra-conservative Pat Buchanan agreed with me last night on MSNBC. Despite Obama’s huge money advantage, he said, he can’t close the deal. (Pat Buchanan and I agreed on something. That’s weird. That’s “Bigfoot is my baby-daddy” weird.) This morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was beaming that his “girlfriend” won last night while Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” played at the beginning of the show.
That truth, however, hasn’t convinced several overlords to stop calling for Hil’s head on a platter. A New York Times editorial entitled “The Low Road to Victory” says that she’s the one responsible for the negativity in the race and should drop out–this from the newspaper that ENDORSED her before! It’s too bad they didn’t read their own damn paper. A few pages earlier, a news analysis in the N.Y. Times said: “Despite a huge investment of time and money by Mr. Obama and pressure on Mrs. Clinton by the party establishment to consider folding her campaign, she won her third big state in a row. Mrs. Clinton showed again that she is a tenacious campaigner with an ability to connect with the blue-collar voters Mr. Obama has found elusive and who could be critical to a Democratic victory in November.”
The High Media Overlords can polish the halo they’ve created for Obama all they want, but they can’t obscure the truth. Barack Obama had lots of big advantages, but he couldn’t close the deal in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton was on the ropes and way behind in money, but still won by double digits. It’s like the old saying about Ginger Rogers: she did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. Hil proved that heels are tougher than halos.
on May 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
I dunno- I think the media overlords completely set the tone for this “battle”. First off, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee from the start, even on Fox News, based on her (experience as First Lady?? , one term in Congress?) Then Obama entered the fray, as the “dark horse” pardon the pun, based on his (brilliant speech at the DNC in 2004, state senate record? year in Senate?) Let’s not pretend that any one else got real attention in the debates- Gravel and Kuchinch- voices outside the base platform views- were marginalized, and their speaking time held to minimum, same as Ron Paul on the other side, all with far more experience than any of the front runners.
No, all of that was sidetracked to hear what Hillary and Barack had to say about each other
Advantages in PA…ha. I live in PA, and that’s simply not true, double M.
The metro philadelphia, a little sound bites paper, but definitely the biggest circulation in the greater philadelphia area. The monday after Obama swept five states, there was a huge picture of Hillary, Hillary’s backing is “super” read the headline, and the article below discussed her lead in the polls and only briefly mentioned her opponent won some states and didn’t mention them by name or by number…which seemed Orwellian to me.
Also…the governor of Pennsylvania and the mayor of Philadelphia were out stumping for her… injecting race into the conciousness of the state
“You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate.” As evidence, Rendell cited his own run against African American and former Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann. “I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was — well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking — but white instead of black, instead of winning by 22 points, I would have won by 17 or so,”
.. and PA is a democratic machine state, meaning you grease the right wheels to get where you need to be, and anybody who works in politics is moving for the machines candidate.
No, the media wants the race to continue… they’ve got better ratings and more money, and they’ve framed this black vs. woman debate from the start.
anybody read manufacturing cons(t)ent?