"Chris Hayes Says Conservatives Are ‘Getting High On Their Own Supply’"

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Chris Hayes Says Conservatives Are ‘Getting High On Their Own Supply’

by Tommy Christopher at Mediaite

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-says-conservatives-are-getting-high-on-their-own-supply/

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The much-talked-about and ever-hardening conservative media bubble has been mixed with another apt metaphor, courtesy of Chris Hayes. On Saturday morning’s Up with Chris Hayes, the eponymous host likened the recent conservative poll denial trend to a famous bit of street wisdom, quoting The Notorious B.I.G.‘s fourth crack commandment, which says “Never get high on your own supply.”

When you mix the furious poll-smoking with that metaphorical bubble, what you get is the current conservative clambake.

If you believe the polls, things are looking rather bad for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who trails President Barack Obama by six points in the Gallup daily tracking poll, and by about 10 points in recent polls of battleground states like Ohio. Faced with this news, the choices are to fix whatever is wrong with Romney, or, to paraphrase another rap legend, don’t believe the polls.

I’ll only quibble momentarily with Hayes’ attribution of the rule, which was offered in song a full ten years earlier by N.W.A. in the much better song Dopeman (that’s probably a generational thing), but the comparison is apt. The problem isn’t so much with the poor, deluded throngs who are, as Hayes reports, sending unskewedpolls.com’s hit count into Pete Rose territory, it’s with the contact high that has distorted reality for the Romney campaign spin machine.

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[hrmjustin]

1. The polls will go up and down, but the gop's denial of Obama's lead is priceless.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. First thing I thought reading this was

"Hey, that wasn't Biggie. That was NWA's Dopeman." (I believe Ice Cube actually has the lyrics credit on Dopeman, so it wasn't Biggie, but Ice Cube).

Glad I wasn't the only one.