Reply #32: Actually... Wolf's comment is very telling. [View All]

[Skinner]

And here's what sucks the most about it: Wolf is right. Clinton, and Democrats, don't understand the news media.

Our problem is that we Democrats still cling to the anachonistic notion that the media actually has some sense of ethics. Our party and our candidates believe that the media has a sense of fairness, and wants to act as the arbiter of what is true and what is important.

This is, of course, ridiculous, and it's high time that Democrats start to recognize this. The media has no interest in making those sorts of judgements. As Jon Stewart pointed out, the media's bias is in favor of the most sensational stories. The Lewinsky scandal was completely unimportant, but it was extremely sensational.

We will continue to get our asses handed to us if we do not learn to play the media game. The Republicans know how to hightlight the sensational, the hot-button. Democrats keep thinking that we can win by being honest, and by focusing on "important" issues.

Wolf knows that this is a loser's strategy, and he is saying so. If we learned anything this year, it is that lying is better than telling the truth, because the media is AFRAID to act as the arbiter of truth. Just ask the swiftliars. The media repeated their lies, precisely because LIES ARE SENSATIONAL. But the media did not feel that they had any responsibility to discern truth from falsehood.

LYING. It's the wave of the future. And no, I'm not joking.