EmptyTimCup
06-20-2012, 01:20 PM
Politico Crybabies Over 'Small Ball' Politics It Created (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/06/20/Politico-Crybabies-small-ball-politics?)
Let's remember that Politico is nothing more than MSNBC's unofficial Web-branch and that two of its very worst left-wing hitmen disguised as reporters are Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman -- whose Indian name should be: She-Who-Does-Oppo-Research-On-Private-Citizens (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/16/Politico-Attacks-Private-Citizen-Protect-Obama). Today, both of Obama's operatives whine and moan on the pages of Politico with a pathetic piece titled "The 2012 Campaign Is the Smallest Ever."
For years, operatives, reporters and potential nominees envisioned the 2012 presidential campaign as a titanic clash of media-swarmed combatants with big ideas about the future. In the Republican primaries, this was almost a mantra: this is the most important campaign in a generation.
So why does it feel so small?
Dating to the beginning of the cycle, 2012 has unfolded so far as a grinding, joyless slog, falling short in every respect of the larger-than-life personalities and debates of the 2008 campaign.
There have been small-ball presidential campaigns before, but veteran strategists and observers agree this race is reaching a record degree of triviality. Nothing previously can compare with a race being fought hour by hour in 140-character Twitter increments and blink-and-you-miss-it cable segments. Not to mention an endless flood of caustic television ads.
Blame the campaign strategist, blame the operatives, blame the reporters. They know it’s a drag. And they know they’re responsible.
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In 2008 , Romney and those of us paying attention watched as Politico and the rest of the corrupt media used "winning the day" as a partisan tactic to constantly keep John McCain in a defensive crouch through the daily pounding of "small ball" -- of real and imagined gaffes, phony fact-checking, the media-manufactured behavior of supporters, the drip-drip-drip of important issues like Bristol Palin's pregnancy, wardrobe, and tanning beds, and of course RACISM RACISM RACISM.
This distraction machine was intentionally designed by Obama's Media Palace Guards to ensure Obama would not get a proper vetting. Because, as they knew and we now know, Obama never would've survived the fact that there are 38 lies in his auto-biography, he ate barbecue with a domestic terrorist as a sitting United States Senator, his own lit agency falsely advertised he was born in Kenya for over a decade, and was once a MEMBER of the socialist New Party.
Let's remember that Politico is nothing more than MSNBC's unofficial Web-branch and that two of its very worst left-wing hitmen disguised as reporters are Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman -- whose Indian name should be: She-Who-Does-Oppo-Research-On-Private-Citizens (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/16/Politico-Attacks-Private-Citizen-Protect-Obama). Today, both of Obama's operatives whine and moan on the pages of Politico with a pathetic piece titled "The 2012 Campaign Is the Smallest Ever."
For years, operatives, reporters and potential nominees envisioned the 2012 presidential campaign as a titanic clash of media-swarmed combatants with big ideas about the future. In the Republican primaries, this was almost a mantra: this is the most important campaign in a generation.
So why does it feel so small?
Dating to the beginning of the cycle, 2012 has unfolded so far as a grinding, joyless slog, falling short in every respect of the larger-than-life personalities and debates of the 2008 campaign.
There have been small-ball presidential campaigns before, but veteran strategists and observers agree this race is reaching a record degree of triviality. Nothing previously can compare with a race being fought hour by hour in 140-character Twitter increments and blink-and-you-miss-it cable segments. Not to mention an endless flood of caustic television ads.
Blame the campaign strategist, blame the operatives, blame the reporters. They know it’s a drag. And they know they’re responsible.
[clip]
In 2008 , Romney and those of us paying attention watched as Politico and the rest of the corrupt media used "winning the day" as a partisan tactic to constantly keep John McCain in a defensive crouch through the daily pounding of "small ball" -- of real and imagined gaffes, phony fact-checking, the media-manufactured behavior of supporters, the drip-drip-drip of important issues like Bristol Palin's pregnancy, wardrobe, and tanning beds, and of course RACISM RACISM RACISM.
This distraction machine was intentionally designed by Obama's Media Palace Guards to ensure Obama would not get a proper vetting. Because, as they knew and we now know, Obama never would've survived the fact that there are 38 lies in his auto-biography, he ate barbecue with a domestic terrorist as a sitting United States Senator, his own lit agency falsely advertised he was born in Kenya for over a decade, and was once a MEMBER of the socialist New Party.