This is OUR Year

Behaving exactly like the lap-dogs that they are, executives at NBC have replaced MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as anchors for election events, replacing them with the ever-so-dull David Gregory. KO and CM will stay on as "commentators." This action comes on the heels of high-profile complaints from the McCan't campaign alleging media bias at MSNBC. It should be noted that even I noticed that the two of them were left-leaning, but so frickin' what? I could click a couple of times on my remote and get to Fox News and hear absolutely right-wing leaning stuff from Brit Hume or any other anchor there.

This is just another sad example of how cowardly the mainstream media outlets are when they are confronted by Republican politicians and their bulldogs. Witness that Sarah Palin's first interview with the press since her nomination will be with ABC's Charles Gibson, who, along with George Stephanopolous, waited 52 minutes into the Philadelphia Democratic candidate forum to ask a serious question, while hammering away at Obama on flag lapel pins, Rev. Wright, and The Weather Underground.

Guys like Glenn Greenwald are documenting ad nauseum about how the mainstream media are stacking the deck against Obama, and there are panic-stricken bloggers like Adam McKay who write things like:

I'm telling you, we're going to lose this thing. And afterwords we'll blame ourselves the same way we did with Gore and Kerry (two candidates a thousand times more qualified to lead than W Bush.) Just watch.. McCain wins by a point or two and we all walk around saying things like "Obama was too well spoken." "Biden wasn't lovable enough." "I shouldn't have split those eights." "Why did I hit on 16? Why?!"

His solution? Other than calling out the media as puppet-masters in the political arena (more like hog-tied submissives eating ball gags), he suggests:

Obama and Biden should also create a "master sound bite sentence" and repeat it hundreds of times. It should be so true that even the corporations can't screw with it when it makes the airwaves. Here's my attempt: "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming...no more."

The trouble with this is pretty clear: it won't convert a single voter from the Republican side (even McKay admits this), and it's obvious that voters don't respond to this kind of negativity.

Obama put it the right way in his acceptance speech in Denver: ENOUGH. Aside from the fact that Sarah Palin was McCan't's sop to the Christianist (w)hordes, she is just fodder for the argument that we can't afford more of the same. Keep the argument simple. McCan't has no answer to making things better. He's exactly the same as Bush. Exactly the same. Hammer away on that topic to anyone who will listen. Don't let the other side gain any traction with their argument that Obama has nothing to offer (because, in truth, they are gaining traction).

As McKay suggests, use the internet to reach those who don't watch TV or read the paper, but stay away from mainstream media websites. Stage marches through towns in battleground states with party leaders like Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc., at the front. Just as Obama is able to generate untold millions from more donors than anyone, use that same attractive power to get people off their asses. And, if not enough people get up, then the Democrats deserve to lose. This is our year.