In yesterday's New York Times, columnist/dragon lady Maureen Dowd penned a screed comparing the Tea Party to movie monsters of all sorts. My guess is that her attack came, in part, to atone to her readers for writing such a scathingly negative piece about president Obama the other day. The column was unremarkable for the most part, just the usual venom from the biggest snake in the jungle. There was, however, one true glimpse into the psyche of those in the media/government liberal bubble. MoDo talked about the reaction of the people (meaning others in the bubble) to the debt negotiations. Here is her exact words: "We continue to be paranoid, gripped by fear of the unknown, shocked by our own helplessness, stunned by how swiftly one world can turn into a darker one where everything can seem familiar yet foreign."
This is quite an insight, even if it was inadvertent.
For the last fifty years, at least, the liberal "government is good, more government is better" crowd has controlled the levers of power in Washington, New York and Hollywood. This meant that government, newsmedia and the entertainment industry all worked together to push more and more government on America. There certainly have been those fighting on the other side, and there have even been ocassional successes for them like the brief interlude when Ronald Reagan was able to slow the move. Nevertheless, the liberal government and media complex have always maintained controll. Indeed, the zenith of their power came with the election in 2008 when America got an unabashed progressive president who had lopsided majorities in both houses of Congress, while the mainstream media acted as cheerleaders for that result.
Now, as MoDo mentions, it has all swiftly changed. The sleeping American people, the silent majority of Nixonian days, has awakened and taken control from the liberal poobahs who consider their control of the country to be a God given right. (OK, since many are secular, they do not consider anything God given, but they do consider control their birthright at least.) Just look what has happened. In Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy's seat has a Republican in it. In Congress, all of the liberals are sitting on the sidelines with no power. There are fewer liberals in this House than in any during my lifetime. Nancy Pelosi, that symbol of unrepentant liberalism, is now so unimportant that she has to struggle to be heard in the media. Barney Frank who used to be in charge of Wall Street now struggles to have influence without success. In the Senate, there remains a Democrat majority, but the senators up for re-election next year struggle to hide their liberal ways. And in the White House, Obama announces principled stands on one day, only to change them to something else on the next. Of course, with all the announcements, Obama includes no actual plans for anything. The philosophy of liberalism has now so totally failed as to provide essentially no ideas to Obama as to what to do next.
The media is having the same thing happen. The network news shows, which used to set the agenda for much of the country, are now watched by just a few. Scott Pelley replaces Katie Couric at CBS and no one cares (because no one watches.) All of the old style cable news channels together cannot muster an audience the size of that at Fox which is not part of the liberal cabal. Liberal press sources like the New York Times watch their circulation and their future wither away. The average age of the New York Times reader is now in the mid 60's. In 15 years, they will mostly be gone, and there are no replacements. Liberal control of the media is gone. And then of course, there is talk radio, a medium that now gets out the news without anyone having to read or listen to the old, dying liberal media. What a nightmare for those in the bubble. MoDo is right. They are helpless and things have changed our of their control.
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