Ace of Spades on the Media and the Economy.

by Little Miss Attila on May 13, 2009

He is, as usual, more pessimistic than I am about whether Actual Data are reaching the masses; I think they are, despite the best efforts of mainstream news sources not to disseminate Real Information.

I’ve said this before, but when, exactly, is the media going to alert the public that higher taxes are absolutely required by Obama’s spending?

Isn’t the public deserving of informed consent on this issue? Or does the media plan on covering up this most open of open secrets until the damage is such that there simply is no other conceivable alternative?

That’s rhetorical, of course.

We know the left — and people on JournoList, for example — are busy, busy, busy inventing new “broad-based” taxes to make up for Obama’s huge revenue shortfalls.

Ergo, regular media people know this. Certainly business and economics reporters know this.

But the media is pretending they don’t know this, and that Obama’s promise to not raise “a single dime” of new taxes on 95% of the public is not only provably false, but provably fantastical, as they make fun of Tea Partiers for “not “knowing that Obama’s not raising taxes on them.”

Um, he is. You know it and I know it. Many of us know it.

Obama’s leftist supporters know it. They’re counting on it, in fact.

There is one group that doesn’t know it: The ill-informed, politically soft-headed group of voters called “centrists” or “swing voters,” most of whom voted for Obama (and the Democratic Congress), and whose continued support is absolutely vital to the Democratic project.

But the media is not telling them, for the very reason that they are so vital to Obama and the Democrats. Obama can’t afford to lose them, ergo the media cannot afford to break the bad news.

Wait—how many people was it that you could fool, and what percentage of the time was it that you could fool them? We need some precision, here: “some” no longer cuts it.

The fact is, you are not going to see a lot of people out there telling pollsters out loud that they are disillusioned with the President. But they aren’t happy at the directions in which things are going, and at this point it will take some a level of screwing up beyond even many of our worst clowns in the Republican Party to keep from making gains next year, and re-taking the White House in 2012. At this point it’s all about stalling for time, reducing the damage that can be done, and trying to nurse the patient back to life once it’s over.

Am I worried about the next three years, though?

Fuckin’ A I am. But I think a lot more people are “getting it” than are admitting they get it. (And don’t take the comments thread right into the gutter, boys: not unless you can think of an original way to do it this time.)

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Desert Cat May 14, 2009 at 10:49 am

I wouldn’t have thought to take it in that direction and needed to think for a moment to realize how it could be taken in that direction…

Psh, miss. Who has the dirty mind?

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