Something Happening Here

Remember that 1968 anthem:

“There’s something happening here,
What it is, ain’t exactly clear…”?

Since the earth shook with the announcement of Gov. Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, the usual, hysterical suspects of Sen. Obama’s new politics have been troweling slime onto their web sites at such a disgraceful rate that even the mainstream media are starting to gag at the stench.

They stumbled badly last Spring when MoveOn.org got their special discount rate for full page sleaze ads from the New York Times and were surprised when the nation was revulsed at the Gen. Betray Us argument. Why they didn’t mean anything nasty, it was just a joke. But, people didn’t like it.

They didn’t learn much from the experience. The smearing of Sarah continues apace. They seem to consider themselves above reproach as they load innuendo loaded pieces on top of outright falsehoods requiring, as Sen. Clinton so eloquently phrases it, “willful suspension of disbelief.” Yep, we’re expected to gobble it up and shake our heads at the outrage being foisted upon Americans by those nasty Republicans who do all the smearing that the left doesn’t engage in.

But what happened yesterday over at MSNBC? Did raw economic truth prevail over political expedience? Did they look at the ratings from the two conventions where MSNBC was suckling at the rear-most teat ratings-wise? Did they decide that pandering to the left with those two showboating prima donnas that couldn’t get along with each other even for a few minutes of live broadcast wouldn’t enhance advertising revenues? Was it a breakthrough for rational political discourse when Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews got dumped from prime time commentating to middle of over-night drowse time droning? It ain’t exactly clear.

Now, take a look at this full and detailed three page dissection of some major left-wing smears of Gov. Palin:

Detailed Refutation

That’s Newseek! That’s a core component of the MSM, not quite the socialist house-organ that Time is, but a close runner-up usually. What are they doing with rational coverage like that? Something’s happening here.

And how about this dissection of CNN’s mistruth reporting:

More of the Same

People are catching on. They are looking and questioning. Inevitably the perpetrators masking as journalists are being called out. Something’s happening here.

I hope that when it becomes exactly clear that it is a media trend that we can believe in.