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Dan Chavez The elections are past and the media is dropping this story of one of the most historic elections in one hundred years down an Orwellian memory hole. The party of a sitting President wins both houses of Congress! Such an event has not occurred within the memory of a person alive on the planet.
The recent elections point out as plain as can be to even the densest and most politically ignorant observer where the loyalties of the "mainstream" media are. Were the victors liberal Democrats, we would see follow-up stories, interviews, analyses of the lives of the victors, questions as to the election's meaning and significance for the future. Democratic politicians would be fixtures on the TV morning talk-show circuit and there would be massive free publicity given by the media to their political allies. We've seen it all before. So, what is different? The "mainstream" media wishes it could stuff the ballots back in the box, get some compliant court to contest the elections or declare winners prematurely to skew results like their VNS did in the last election. And since they couldn't do any of these things, they would rather sulk and, by their lofty silence, imply that the recent elections are unworthy of further coverage. If there were one story deserving of follow-up, this would be it. To those of us dedicated to the destruction of the power of the "mainstream" media, the recent elections are a very good sign that our goal is approaching ever closer. Programs, policies and legislation, currently viewed as anathema to the liberal media and their allies, more likely to be implemented. More importantly, the goals of those the media pander to and give favorable treatment are very unlikely to be given consideration by the government. We all know who they are. Now, the damage they can do will be far less. Thank goodness. This silence of the "mainstream" media is a sign of their weakness as well as their bias and makes it all the more obvious to even the least politically astute observer that their vaunted "objectivity" is a lie. Read Dan's previous columns:  |
Certainly this is a story with many ramifications for the future and questions as to what led to this event. Why did voters decide to give their support in an off-presidential election year to the party of the President when customarily voters do exactly the opposite? Instead of the journalistic output one might expect of the mainstream media when dealing with an event of this historic magnitude we get a silence of Olympian proportions. To divert us, we are treated to the legal troubles of a kleptomaniac Hollywood actress and given solemn pronouncements that the country is now "evenly divided". Right! Evenly divided enough to have elected both a President and a majority of both houses of Congress of the same party!