"We become the thing we most resist."
-Antero Alli
I see a frightening thing happening on this website. If it gets much worse, we will not be able to tell the difference between DKos and MyDD. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.
And it doesn't stop there. MSNBC is getting so carried away with the hype of a failed primary campaign that they are ignoring their duties to the public. Isaac Chotiner, in the New Republic, calls it a Dangerous Liason. It could very well blow up in our face.
As much as I find MSNBC entertaining, their creation of a parallel, pro-Obama universe is the type of thing I'd expect of Fox. That's when I know it's time to change the channel.
The article is just a diving board for my rant today. There is sort of a meta madness going around that is really getting to me.
We must keep our eyes open, and they cannot become fixated on the loud noises coming from the traditional media.
I have not been here long, but I have seen an ugly shift on this website already. Lately it seems that most Kogs only want to talk about The Primary Rival Who Shall Not Be Named, instead of keeping their eyes on the prize.
Stop staring at the car accident and drive! Please?
Seriously. Why are you wallowing in the hype-driven talking-headish psycho-drama of the twitching end of the primaries? Why are you NOT focusing on the task we have ahead of us? Why are you not lifting your spirit and your mind upward on the wings of Barack Obama's message? Why are you obsessed with the gutter when some of us are looking at the stars?
Maybe you are blinded by the traditional media. If we would have stopped watching after Indiana, when WE KNEW IT WAS OVER, and started watching again this coming Wednesday, we could have saved ourselves a great deal of grief. Or maybe that is it. You like to cause grief. You like to get riled up and "score points". You like to take swings.
Well guess what. Hope is not a boxing match.
Of course this whole exaggerated "support" did not start with the clinching moment in Indiana, and Isaac Chotiner thinks it is more than just a nuisance.
In fact, MSNBC's bias has actually hurt the Illinois senator. After all, it was the Obama cheerleading from MSNBC (among others) that helped lead to Clinton's New Hampshire comeback. And even if you think (as I do) that the Clintons have made too big of a deal out of the "sexist" and "unfair" portrayal their candidate has received in the press, if you watch enough MSNBC, you realize that their claim isn't without truth. How could you believe otherwise when Olbermann, with his trademark hauteur, told Hillary that "voluntarily or inadvertently, you are still awash in this filth [of the campaign]," or when Matthews took such self-evident glee in trouncing Clinton in between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary?
Invictive rhetoric does NOT advance the cause of Hope and Progress as much as most spitters think it does. In fact, by lowering yourself to Fox News standards of behavior, you may actually be hurting your own cause.
Relax, reflect, and re-focus. Make sure your blood pressure is rising for good reason, and that your words are advancing the campaign. We can learn to calm down now, before we become what we most resist.
Yes we can.