Obama said something the other day along the lines of "increasing the debt ceiling does not add to our debt" - absolute nonsensical gibberish, sure - but what struck me about it was how some Republicans were of the opinion that this showed that either Dear Leader is not nearly as bright as some would like to think or how he is quite unsophisticated when it comes to economics and fiscal matters - but the reality with the statement, far as I'm concerned, is that it was an example of media bias at work and Obama exploiting it like the expert he is. There's no way I believe the man is so crude in his thinking that he actually considers what he said reasonable or true - that wasn't the point of what he said - the point was to send a message, the message being if the Republicans fight him on the debt ceiling they do so because they're unreasonable extremists [and, at this point, it's understood that this extremism also references an implied racism]. All Obama needs for that message to get out is for the media not to challenge the statement on its merits, which is what happened - and there ya go, a perfect example of how low info voters and media bias are a lethal combination that the Democrats under Obama are learning to exploit to maximal effect - and if conservatives don't soon wake up to smell that coffee, they will eventually be made obsolete. I mean, just ask yourself a simple question: if Bush had made such a nonsensical statement, what would the result have been? I think we all know the answer to that.
Now, some will argue this media bias has been around a long time and Republicans have survived - and that is true - but there are several important differences now. Last time you had a Democratic president, media was not nearly as pervasive as it is today - you have people on welfare walking around with smartphones for Christ sake - almost everyone in the society is constantly being exposed to and just as importantly interacting with simplistic messaging - that's a big change from the Clinton days. The other big change - demographics, the country is increasingly sympathetic to leftist propaganda. The other big change - Clinton was actually a centrist, Obama only pretends to be one - Clinton had no agenda to push the country irretrievably to the left - Obama does. Which brings us to the biggest difference - Obama - whether it's him or his handlers, I don't know - I suspect it's him because I've always maintained his one true political talent was his recognizing how pliable the media is when it comes to him and his Machiavellian willingness to exploit that advantage without shame - but wherever it comes from, it's under Obama that Democrats have truly mastered the ways to maximize the benefits of media bias - and the next liberal presidential candidate is sure to build off of what has been learned - which is why if Republicans don't start taking this threat seriously and figure out ways to address it, they're screwed and the country screwed along with them.
[is the effort to defund Obamacare an example of Republicans simply not understanding the witheringly toxic effects of media bias in the current era? Let's assume there's a practical, workable logic behind the defund scheme - I don't really think there is, but let's assume - for the scheme to work it's utterly dependent on the media carrying forth your message on the awfulness of Obamacare - and why would they do that? It's absolutely meaningless if Rush Limbaugh agrees with your efforts - you need the New York Times to agree, and that obviously ain't going to happen because even if they do sort of agree that Obamacare is maybe a disaster in progress they're not gonna come out and say that if it's to the benefit of the GOP, especially if it's to the benefit the extreme wing of the GOP - so where's the logic of the defund movement? Is it just a case of completely self serving political grandstanding for Cruz et al and to hell with the consequences? Or do these people just not grasp the way media bias under Obama works? The true appeal of universal health care for liberals is not that it helps people, it's that it helps liberalism - and therefore, as far as liberal media is concerned, Obamacare could be the worst legislative nightmare ever thrust upon the American people and the liberal media is still going to support it, possibly in some cases grudgingly, because they see the vast political utility of universal care and that's what really matters to them - and therefore hatching a plan to defund it that is dependent on the media selling the plan is quite foolish - but also quite foolish if this simply about political grandstanding by Cruz et al because although such theatrics may help you with the GOP base the media in the end will forever hold it over the head of the party, not just the individuals who supported it and therefore you're just costing your party in the long haul - although must say I am intrigued by notion Boehner put this motion forward for the very purpose of making Cruz et al look bad]
