Sabrina Siddiqui describes how Conservatives Struggle To Explain How Mitt Romney Lost 2012 Presidential Election in a poignant and heart rending tale of media bias, distortion, and conspiracy; unlucky storms; dastardly Democratic voter suppression and negative advertising; incompetent and biased fact checking, biased debate moderators; excess nobility and "niceness" by Mitt Romney; two unlucky storms, one which's damage to Romney was compounded by betrayal by Governor Chris Christie; misuse of the incumbency by the President; "Benghazi Blindess;" and just plain voter ignorance that will break your heart --- Not!
Or, more likely leave you laughing, and shaking your head in disbelief, depending on how much of an intact memory you have to remember what actually happened in our "mainstream" collective reality.
WASHINGTON -- Republicans across the country were shellshocked as President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election, finishing the race with 332 electoral votes and winning every battleground state except for North Carolina. The blame game began almost immediately, as Republicans looked to determine how a vulnerable incumbent like Obama had found a pathway to reelection.
The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stronger appeal to middle-class Americans, one of the most formidable ground games in the history of politics, and serious failures within the GOP to attract Latino and women voters. But a faction of conservatives were having none of it -- offering up instead a series of explanations for their nominee’s loss, rounded up below:
Ms. Siddiqui pulls in examples from a half dozen astonishing articles with examples told with such flamboyant and self-righteous indignation that even my own heart was pounding, at the outrageous "injustices" perpetrated on American by a conspiracy of liberal political zealots, funded by unbelievable amounts of cash, media overlords spewing distorted memes, and such an unlucky collusion of "perfect storms," and gullible voters, you just won't be able to believe it.
But, you will better understand the five stages of grief, with a special emphasis on denial, anger, grief, and bargaining. Acceptance? Not so much.
I should probably have just stop before the fold, but Sabrina Siddiqui's exceptionally well researched articles quotes extensively from Rich Noyes' Five ways the mainstream media tipped the scales in favor of Obama, who found his own five distinct ways conspiracy of bias and elitist media "tipped the scales of public relations" in favor of "liberal Obama,' and is worth of a whole post of its own. And, it is well documented with compelling "statistics."
1. The Media’s Biased Gaffe Patrol Hammered Romney: The media unfairly jumped on inconsequential mistakes — or even invented controversies — from Romney and hyped them in to multi-day media “earthquakes.” Case in point: the GOP candidate’s trip to Europe and Israel in late July. A Media Research Center analysis of all 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Romney’s trip found that virtually all of them (18, or 86%) emphasized “diplomatic blunders,” “gaffes” or “missteps.”
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer blasted the news coverage in an August 2 column, calling the trip “a major substantive success” that was wrapped “in a media narrative of surpassing triviality.”
Similarly, when the left-wing Mother Jones magazine in September put out a secretly-recorded video of Romney talking to donors about the 47% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, the networks hyped it like a sensational sex scandal. Over three days, the broadcast network morning and evening shows churned out 42 stories on the tape, nearly 90 minutes of coverage. The tone was hyperbolic; ABC’s "Good Morning America" called it a “bombshell rocking the Mitt Romney campaign,” while ABC "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer declared it a “political earthquake.”
And, while traditional media distorted and pounded on these "trivial tangents" they virtually ignored "equivalent" gaffes by President Obama. Noyes offered our President's sentence of “the private sector is doing fine,” when trying to explain that the reduction of almost 1 million federal, state, and local government jobs was bringing down our employment numbers.
Yeah, how do expect to have democracy when media ignores "equivalent" gaffes like that folks?
Except for the fact that media didn't ignore this trivial tangent, and with $1.2 billion in Super Pac funding, the GOP managed for us to hear about it quite a lot. But, the collective impact of reading all of these articles and the sub-articles together is that if you are getting older, like me, your brain starts to blur and get overwhelmed, and new "outrages" come so fast, it will be difficult to correctly analyze each one.
Soon, you too, may be "slipping into the bubble," despite the fact you are the the opposite of the low information voter!