Yesterday, and into today, we seem to be seeing rightwing meltdown. Maybe it's Bush's subzero numbers or the slip he made in his last speech, admitting that somebody else was going to need to clean up the Iraqi mess after he's gone.
But after some of the Washington Post's new Bush-embed blogger Ben Domenech's previous racist, inflammatory rhetoric was revealed, the Post's entire blog operation was flooded with complaints and either overloaded or shut down. Chris Matthews's world is crumbling as he comes to grips with the fact that no, people really don't like Bush. Joe Leiberman flipped out on a journalist. And ABC's The Note just lost it:
Note from the White House political staff to the communications staff:
Forget about the "timetable" that the press is obsessed with. Focus on THIS timetable for an October, 2006 full of surprises:
Oct. 4: gas prices drop below $1.50/gallon
Oct. 9: Ron Bonjean writes a press release heralding the strong economy that actually gets quoted in newspapers
Oct. 14: Bin Laden is caught
Oct. 15: Howard Dean says he isn't sure that America is safer now that bin Laden is in U.S. custody and worries aloud about the prisoner's due process rights
Oct. 19: Harry Reid walks into the Radio-TV Gallery without a script
Oct. 22: Katherine Harris finds a vision for her message for her vision
Oct 27: Jenna Bush's Great Big White House wedding
Oct. 28: every righteous pastor in the country explains to his parishoners that if they don't vote correctly in November, it is a biblical certainty that a gay married couple will soon be living next door to them
Oct. 30: major RNC money hits the airwaves, the streets, and targets the DNC will figure out in 2012
The so-called 'mainstream media' has now gone so far right they've fallen off the edge. They're losing it. And I think a great deal of that is because the activism spawned by the netroots is getting to them. Keep those cards, letters, phone calls and emails coming!
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