Carpe Datum

Rant Mode On

My Fair and Balanced foresight proved correct about the Gore speech in that conservatives basically decided to lie and claim Gore was exaggerating. The Fair and Balanced mainstream media either ignored the speech or only analyzed it in terms of the horse race. Will Gore enter the race? What is Gore trying to accomplish? They ask any question except, "Is Gore right?" They don't ask that one because they know the answer, and they choose not to talk about it, for whatever reason.

And now I will apply my Fair and Balanced foresight once again to current events: Somewhere, somehow right now, some conservatives are trying to find a way to pin 100% of the blame for the power outages along the East coast yesterday on liberals. Even though conservatives have controlled both houses of Congress almost uninterrupted for 2+ years, the executive branch, most of the judicial branch, most of the governorships, etc., somehow the fault for the problems in the power grid will be laid at the feet of Big Government Liberals, in that Fair and Balanced way that only conservatives can accomplish with a straight face (that means STRAIGHT, did you hear me, I'm not a homo, and I don't want the human race to cease existing because godless gays recruit everyone and we stop having babies).

It will happen in the media today all over the place. It will be the topic du jour on all the conservative talk radio stations (who will, every once in a while, go on about liberal media bias of course even though "conservative" and "talk radio" in the same sentence is redundant). If this power outage had been the result of a terrorist attack, can there be any doubt that according to the current administration and conservatives everywhere, Clinton and liberals would be to blame?

This business happening on the wacko conservative end of the spectrum is understandable, and it honestly doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that the stories will bubble up to the Fair and Balanced mainstream media in a "he said, she said" format with the president and other Important Government Officials on one side and then some Democratic spokesperson on the other side like New Mexico governor (and former energy secretary under Clinton) Bill Richardson. At least Richardson is well-spoken (and truly honest about the situation, based on what I know about energy policies and politics), but he'll still be at a disadvantage because of the way the Fair and Balanced media will spin things.

And so the Moron-Americans will continue to say "a pox on both your houses" and plan to vote for the best haircut in 2004. Thanks, Fair and Balanced liberal media!

In case you hadn't noticed, it is Fair and Balanced Friday.

Posted by Observer at August 15, 2003 07:15 AM