Sunday, August 14, 2016

Blame the NYT

We all realize that Cheese Dip is not, putting it mildly, a conventional politician. On the other hand, he's a very conventional Republican because when things look bad for him, his default position is that liberal media bias is responsible for his predicament. For two decades, I've been watching for the appearance of Republican politicians who're capable of honest introspection, and I might be able to name 5-6 if I thought about it carefully. Gerald Ford and Bob Dole had the ability to be candid about themselves, and John McCain did for a while, but there haven't been too many lately.

Obviously, Republican voters respond to Cheesy's game. Hell, there's an entire cable news channel that exploits their obsession with liberal media bias, conditioning them to react like lab animals when they hear the stimulus (e.g., code words like Obama, Hillary, Planned Parenthood, gun control, gay marriage, politically correct, IRS, etc). "Liberal media" is a code word sequence that's been used since at least the early 90s, and "New York Times" is another one.

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