Sharp Elbows, Mavericks, and Newsmedia Reporterbots

For the entirety of the campaign, John McCain did his best to pin the label "maverick" to Sarah Palin. However, I venture to guess that the only time you ever heard the term pinned to Sarah was when Sen. McCain said it. I'm pretty sure that the mainstream media resisted the notion of calling her a maverick, although the term fit her reputation perfectly.

In light of this, I find it altogether telling that as soon as Rahm Emmanuel was picked as Pres.-elect Obama's chief of staff, the whole army of mainstream newsmedia reporterbots began to chant the phrase "He has sharp elbows."

One of the great things Rush Limbaugh does is to turn the spot light on mainstream media to show how they are a carbon copy of the Democrat Party. In regard to sharp elbows, Rush did this simply by playing a montage of reporterbots giving their report. He compiled at least 10 if not 20 different reporterbots saying, in quick succession, that Emmanuel has sharp elbows. It is comical to hear this kind of proof that the Democrats put out their little soundbyte about Emmanuel and that the newsmedia do their duty to repeat it verbatim.

I suppose we first noticed this when suddenly all the reporterbots came out saying back in 2000 that George W. lacked "gravitas."

The mainstream newsmedia have squandered their true duty to the American people. As an industry, it needs to wither and die.

Don't Blame Sarah

This summer, I had decided not to vote at all. I reasoned, what's worse?

• A McCain presidency which would devastate conservatism?
  

or

• an Obama presidency which would give an opportunity for conservative resurgence in two years?

I figured that they were pretty much equally bad, fueling my decision not to vote. I was not the only one to be thinking this way. In my small circle of friends, a number of us had come to the same conclusion.

But then McCain brought Sarah Palin into the picture. This was enough to encourage me not only to vote but to put forth my best arguments against Obama's candidacy.

Word is that McCain people are trying to lay the blame on Sarah for his failure. They could not be more wrong. McCain could hardly draw a crowd unless Sarah were on stage with him. Sarah enthused the base and brought volunteers to disheartened county GOP headquarters throughout the U.S. McCain should be sending flowers and thank you letters to Sarah every month for the next four years to express his much owed appreciation for her tireless, enthusiastic effort to boost him over the top.