Today's headline in today's Politico screamed "Obama checkmated by Bishops" It was later changed to "Obama boxed in by Birth Control". That is Bullshit. It should have read Obama boxed in by the Corrupt Media.
As we all know, there are virtually no women in the "opinion forming" part of the media with the notable exception of Racheal Maddow (Sorry Mika, your not alllowed to speak.) In addition to that, every single one of them is in the one percent. What we get in the media is a distorted world view. Never has that been more obvious in this last debate.
Over the past week, we have been treated to morning interviews with every Bishop and Cardinal in America, and every "progressive" male Catholic in America and nobody of any note or gravitas to defend the other side. In fact the only person to defend Obama's decision of any note was Doug Scheon, of all people, on Hannity, no less. Yes, that Doug Scheon who wrote an Op Ed telling Obama not to run for a second term.
We have been told how horrible the politics is for Obama and the Democrats (especially at MSNBC) in a transparent effort to move Obama on this issue despite the fact that his polls have been rising for him everyday since this issue has "exploded". The final straw for me was today's Rasmussen Report. On the front page of the Rasmussen Report, Scott Rasmussen a noted conservative, wrote an opinion piece of how Obama fumbled this and how this may cost him the 2012 election. Then I went to his daily tracking and what did it say. Obama approval 51%, the fifth consecutive at 50% or above which hasn't happened since forever. Then I scrolled down a little and it says Obama 50%, Romney 40%. Poll That's 10 fucking points and his biggest lead over Romney in any poll ever. And this is a conservative poll who polls "likely voters" however they figure that out. Is anybody at MSNBC let alone the MSM going to report this, nope, Chuck Todd maybe, nope. They wanted Obama and the Dems to bend on this and today they got their wish. Congratulations Chris Matthews, you won through distortion.