Whack A Mole

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the unbiased media are playing “Whack a Mole” on the republican candidates for president. Remember that old carnival game? There was a board with four by four rank holes. A plastic mole head would randomly pop up and you had to hit it with a mallet. Then it would go back down and another would pop up somewhere else. While it is an amusing analogy it has profound implications for our material welfare and the welfare of our children.

We have seen quite a few republican candidates rise to the top only to be whacked down by the unbiased media. They put wall to wall coverage of some flaw or fault of the “flavor of the week” candidate. They air unsubstantiated allegations as true, ask questions of people who’s only knowledge is hearsay and post it all as fact. Next year the truth will come out but the whack a mole will have worked the election will be over.

The only republican who seems immune to this is Mitt Romney. He gets a pass from the unbiased media. They target any potential threat to Romney’s candidacy. Because they know Romney can’t attack Obama on his weakest point… Health care. That is why the unbiased media want Romney so bad. A Romney candidacy would, to some extent, suppress the neo conservative (true liberal) vote.

The level and vitriol of the attacks goes up with the level of free market thinking of the candidate. Michael Bachman is probably the most conservative, with the possibility that Santorum is as conservative, and the level of vitriol poured out against her was horrific. Even Fox News called her a kook to her face. Imagine if an unbiased news reporter called Obama a kook anywhere let alone to his face! That reporter and his or her network would be bankrupt in a month.

The unbiased media would be wise to heed the advise of Lycurgus, and not to wage war too much against the same adversary, else that adversary will learn to wage war himself. In the case of the unbiased media we have a core that attacks anyone who is really a free market thinker (ala Hayek). We saw with Ronald Regan, that he could effectively take on the unbiased media’s attacks, so much so, the unbiased media called him the “Teflon President.” Tacitly admitting they had thrown more mud at him than at any other president previously but none of it had stuck.

When a republican points out a democrat’s foible, like blatantly breaking campaign finance laws, the unbiased media say everyone does it, and attacks the republican as engaging in the “politics of personal destruction.” Then the unbiased media destroy that republican personally. Things that are universally overlooked by the unbiased media when a democrat does them are severely attacked when a republican does them. Take for example, the way the unbiased media’s attack on Cain for taking a moment to form a cogent thought in a newspaper interview, to Obama’s not knowing how many States are in the United States.

Isn’t that exactly what the whack a mole mallet is; the politics of personal destruction? Done by people calling themselves unbiased it has had real bite. I am thinking, that it will be a factor in my level of support for a republican candidate, the level of vitriol and bile the unbiased media pour on them. This will unerringly show who they despise and who is, most probably, the best person to turn our Titanic away from the ice burgs in our path.

By eschewing Lycurgus’ advice the unbiased media have thickened the skin of the neo conservative voter. Empirically speaking, the attacks the unbiased media poured out on Herman Cain, were far less effective than they have on previous candidates. Like a body, slowly getting immune to snake venom, the American electorate are reacting less and less to the unbiased media’s attacks on neo conservative candidates.

Thank God for the new media. Where some of the diabolical attacks can be shown to be baseless. Like the papers falsified by CBS about Bush’s Military service. As the electorate become more and more aware of the unbiased media’s agenda we will become increasingly incredulous to them. The conundrum is, when there is a real problem with one of our candidates, wolf has been cried so many times, we will totally ignore when a real wolf comes into our ranks.