On The Turning Away

“Children who grow up in a different environment may have very different early experiences, and may process information differently than children from a different environment.”
- BBC

The “Martin Eisenstadt” show writes itself. David Shuster/MSNBC and MSM in general are the gift that keeps on giving. Gawker has the blow-by-blow account.

What does it say about the “shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere”? It’s “not that some in the media don’t check stuff on the web. It’s that they’re prepared to believe - and write - anything about Sarah Palin.”

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We were alerted to the fact that someone hacked this blog and removed the June 10 post, “Deranged Hillary-Hatred”. Once it’s published, it’s in Google’s hands, as they say. We repost it here.

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Perhaps the specter of credit crunch has got into the heads of political pundits in the media, otherwise how can you explain the popularity of CDS, aka Clinton Derangement Syndrome? The US editor of UK’s New Statesman, Andrew Stephen, eviscerates media’s hideous Hillary coverage in the Dems primaries.

Hillary Clinton (along with her husband) is being universally depicted as a loathsome racist and negative campaigner, not so much because of anything she has said or done, but because the overwhelmingly pro-Obama media - consciously or unconsciously - are following the agenda of Senator Barack Obama and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, to tear to pieces the first serious female US presidential candidate in history.

Not to mention maniacal Obama supporters who seem nonchalant at best, happy at worst, with the way Hillary was treated. Her any action, no matter how innocuous, was “proof of evil intent”. Paul Krugman, NYT columnist, believes that most of the “venom” in the campaign “is coming from supporters of Obama”.
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Now that their preferred candidate is the de facto nominee, what do progressives, in particular men who spewed vitriol at Hillary and her supporters, feel amid the postmortem frenzy? Perhaps better late than never - they have come to realize that they cannot “brush aside” sexism after all.

It’s more a sop than mea culpa. Were they so swept off their feet by the maelstrom that they lost their head? “[T]he discourse we all engage in sometimes explicitly, and more often tacitly, reinforces” sexism and misogyny. But a Pyrrhic victory is a victory nonetheless - only it sets back progressive movement for decades.
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Buried in the headlines of “decisively” or “barely” are the intrigues, à la hanging chads circa FL 2000, in Lake County, or specifically Gary, Indiana, last night, and perhaps more importantly, the psychology of the holdup.

In terms of media narrative, Obama camp won hands down. Several hours after Sen. Obama’s victory speech, networks and cable channels still could not call Indiana. Jeff Toobin on CNN and Bob Beckel on Fox News both regaled us with Gary’s dubious reputation in vote-counting that was attributed to the Chicago style politics.

Then Mayor of Gary had this to say: “I don’t know what the numbers are yet, but Gary has absolutely produced in large numbers for Obama here.” “Curious” seemed to the consensus of CNN pundits, whereas Brit Hume uttered “fraud” in the age of “new” politics - the word ricocheted through the blogosphere.
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