Roger L. Simon:
A number of smart people, among them Peter Wehner, Mark Halperin and John Hinderaker, have been pointing out the unfortunately predictable silence of the mainstream media regarding the IRS scandal — not to mention the myriad other Obama scandals that we will soon be counting on three, or is it four, hands.
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times made no mention of the congressional hearings on the missing Lois Lerner emails and putative computer crash; the networks were a virtual silence of the not-so-lambs.  (Remember  how they obsessed on the  Christie/GW Bridge contretemps as if it were the beginning of nuclear war?)
On his Wednesday Talking Points Memo, Bill O’Reilly went so far as to say the media silence, censorship, whatever you want to call it was subverting democracy. That’s an understatement.  It was trampling on it.
The  conventional explanation for this willful blindness cited by the above mentioned gentlemen is that the media is in the tank for the Democratic Party and, by extension, for Obama.  Well, sure. But it is far more than that. Political parties and politicians come and go.  The media doesn’t.  They may be in the tank for Obama, but much more than that they are in the tank for themselves — a whole lifestyle and world view that has been going on for decades, moral narcissism distilled to its purest essence.
It is that world view and lifestyle that is under threat in the debacle that is the Obama administration.  This world view, promulgating  supposedly altruistic values,  but actually stemming from a profound need to be thought of as good for their beliefs irrespective of results of those beliefs, is in a precarious position as never before.  The disintegration of a politician or a political party is bad enough. Far worse is the disintegration of a personality, the disintegration of the self. That is intolerable.
The real reason these media folks cannot face reality is that to do so would mean to see their very persons, everything they have ever stood for, or thought they stood for, or pretended to themselves they stood for, dissolving in a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Obama is beside the point. They don’t even like Obama anymore.  Nothing could be more obvious. Almost nobody does.  But they won’t say so in public because that would mean that they would be revealed as fools who believed the most banal tripe imaginable. It would also mean admitting Barack Obama never really existed, that they invented him. He was their projection. Barack Obama is the creation of the New York Times, et al.  Without them he would never have happened and they know it.
So the media are left in an untenable position. If you say Barack Obama is a mistake, then you yourself are a mistake. Who wants that?
No wonder they won’t investigate the scandals. No wonder they won’t report any of this. They are too ashamed of themselves to speak.
The MSM on TV is losing ratings and market share, Their MSM newspapers and magazines are going the way of 8-track tapes. Only FOX’s national cable news has stayed stable, as has Conservative talk radio. What the MSM has failed to understand is that by making a hard left turn on their bias, they have alienated Constitutional “moderates”, conservative and libertarians. Sadly even FOX has adopted a solidly Establishment “progressive” Republican bias, (except for Hannity and a handful of guest commentators,) so the public recognizes that they can’t trust even FOX to give a true balanced report.
If it’s any consolation to the author, The leftist MSM has been steadily losing it’s influence on the public as they begin turning them off and going on to the internet for their news. Because at least with the internet they can find news and commentary sites without the Washington D.C> and Metropolitan progressive filters. This is also why Obama and the Democrats fear news outlets they can’t control or manage such as Drudge and Breitbart (to name but a couple).
The point of those who so enthusiastically, often to an embarrassing level, supported Obama and his cult of personality cannot self-correct and admit they were snookered (particularly anyone that voted for him TWICE even after a record of failure and lying had been established) is central.
I once worked with a guy that presented the first vision I had of the work-place politician. He had little ability in the field we worked but schmoozed and politicked his way up the ladder. He had all these brilliant ideas that always flopped… but they flopped because someone else worked on them and stupidly screwed them up (ring a bell?). Then, he screwed up; he presented a solution to a problem and forbade anyone else to work on it but himself, so as to ensure success. It failed.
He then had no one to blame; for the sake of hogging all the glory, he made himself the whole show and eliminated the one tactic he had to preserve his false image of infallibility… the blame card. The entire project had to be scrapped and redone…. he quit.
This is the Obama administration. The liberals had all the power, all the weapons. They could, and did, do anything they wanted. Had they corrected the economy, improved unemployment and expanded economic growth, they could very well have enjoyed perpetual political power, being the heroes that improved the economic condition of Americans. As it is, the jumped at the chance to begin the socialization of the economy via Obamacare and, in the process, cratered the economy.
They have no one to blame but themselves (though not for a lack of trying). Of course they can’t admit it, but they did it and, still with 2/3rds of the power in Washington, bear the brunt of the responsibility for economic shrinkage and foreign affairs catastrophe. We will have to wait until November to see if anyone noticed.
Preposterous nonsense.
They have no shame.
They keep still because, were they to speak up, they would automatically void their press passes, and be investigated by the IRS, the FBI, the CIA, the EEOC, the SEC, the EPA, and who knows what else.
Everything is weighed in the balance of “will this lose me my job?”
Nothing else matters.
Truth died a long time ago.
mathman
HI,
yes those jobs are now made to fit their lifestyle, to good to lose, they have secretary who could take over for days, because they don”t have to show up to the public to ask to be reelected, only once every 4 years, A JOB THAT WHEN YOU HAVE NO MORE EMAILS TO READ, YOUR DAY IS FINISH,
YOU CAN PLAY GAMES, AND READ OR PLAY THE MARKET,
they are pamper by thousands of public employees, to wipe their asses,
and their benefits are of the very wealthy, when they come out of the CAPITOL,
THEIR SECURITY IS SUCH THAT, WHO EVER IS CLOSE GET SHOT DOWN, LIKE THAT MOTHER WITH HER TINY SON IN THE BACK SEAT, THEY SHOT HER IN HER CAR THROUGH THE CLOSE WINDOW, ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO GO HOME,
THEY GOT AN OVATION WHEN THEY RETURNED, YEY KEEPING THEM SAFE FROM A YOUNG WOMAN IN HER CAR, AN OVATION
FOR HAVING KILLED A MOTHER,
WHO CARE FOR THE CRIMES WITHIN THE FAMILIES OUTSIDE,
UNSECURE MORE THAN EVER, because OBAMA let out criminals,
and let in illegals, and talk of revenge right inside the USA, AND PUNISHMENTS TO THE CITIZENS, FREAKING UP EVERY GOOD CITIZENS, WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT FIT HE COULD START,
WHO WANT TO LEAVE THAT JOB SECURE FOR LIFE, IF YOU ARE AN OLD CONSERVATIVES, AND
HAVE TROUBLE TO BE REELECTED, TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT,
YOUR DEMOCRAT FRIEND WILL BAIL YOU OUT, WITH BACON,
THAT’S A DAM GOOD JOB, YES, AND DAMN THE CITIZENS,
This scandal is much bigger than Watergate. That was about a “third rate burglary” what got Nixon was the cover up. Watergate was also about ATTEMPTING to get the IRS to audit Nixon’s political enemies. Only an attempt. Still, it was a charge on the Bill of Impeachment.
This is much bigger…Obama actually succeeded in weaponizing the IRS. Also, somehow the FBI and OSHA were sicced on some tea partiers. Many, many questions need to be raised and answered. Great amounts of evidence have already been destroyed. The media are terrified that this might bring their messiah down and will do nothing but block an tackle for the Democrats.
That’s the reality today.
ABCBSNBCNNPRPBS, NY TIMES, WASHINGTON POST = Pravda.