The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship trivializes an
election.
By Michael Knox Beran, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321100/how-republics-fall-michael-knox-beran#
The weird ecstasy of the media-political complex at the
convention in Charlotte last month was the first sign that its attachment to
President Obama, always fawning, had become morbid.
In spite of the anemic economy and a real unemployment rate above
11 percent, the high priests of pontificating liberalism were giddy with
euphoria. The Democrats “put on a nearly flawless convention,” Paul
Begala opined, and it was soon all but incontrovertibly established
that, come November, the president — beautiful, magical, and lovable as he was
— would vanquish his boring opponent.
Like the decadents of France’s ancien régime, the liberal
literati of mainstream journalism are convinced that the party will go on
forever. Islamic zealots can be talked out of making nuclear bombs; stagnant
growth and high unemployment can be counteracted with a Caesarian policy of
bread and shows, free food and even free
cell phones; a moribund economy can be propped up with the saline drip of
Ben Bernanke’s liquidity transfusions.
As detached from reality as Marie Antoinette milking cows
with Sèvres buckets, liberal journalists fail to grapple in any serious way
with the “crisis of
liberalism” at home and abroad, preferring instead to compose billets-doux
to Barack praising his basketball prowess and panegyrics on Michelle’s
dexterity as a horticulturalist… http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321100/how-republics-fall-michael-knox-beran#
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