A 33 point swing to disapproval in only one year
A year ago Senator Obama won the election with 52% of the vote or so. Shrinkwrapped wondered which Obama would show up on January 20, and now we know. Of course we might have known a lot sooner if the media had done their job in 2008. But they didn’t and we’re stuck. The encouraging news, such as it is, is that quite a few Americans have caught on to the scam that’s been perpetrated on them. The bad news is that we have three years of this to go.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Now that America is learning who Obama is, they’re deciding they don’t like him after all. Will the press understand their role in this whole fiasco? Or will they pretend that they’re merely observers of history as it unfolds? I was telling anyone who would listen as long as 18 months ago that press coverage of the 2008 would be a case study in journalism schools in future — if there were still journalism schools. F
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Americans are discovering they were betrayed and defrauded by the news media they relied upon to give them facts and information. Is it any wonder the decline in readership for the print media, or viewership for the televised media, is in direct proportion to the decline in Obama bin Lyin’s approval? Or that Fox News’ ratings are increasing in an inverse relationship?
And, F, I don’t believe they’ll ever understand what they’ve done to themselves. The capacity for human self-deception seems virtually unlimited – just look at Congress.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:06 am
A great deal of marketing/media energy goes into marketing the “extreme” difference between “vanilla” and “French Vanilla”.
When people find they are one and the same, they usually look for another flavor to add to the spice of life.