We have said that if there is a tsunami in voter turnout from the Tea Parties, give credit to a degree of technological interconnectedness that is not visible using traditional polling techniques. The chart above from IBD provides some evidence of the relative web activity of Tea Partiers versus others. Impressive.

When you think about this, it’s the most natural thing in the world. In 2004, only 40% of voters got any election news via the internet. But the internet, now high-speed and taking up where talk radio leaves off, is the obvious alternative to the dreary left-wing media — media that doesn’t even bother to conceal its contempt for the majority any more.

There used to be pretty much a single media narrative in the country, with an important axis being the New York Times and CBS. That slowly lost power, and then came along Rathergate (and the pathetic way that the elite media reacted to that scandal). Eventually it became clearer and clearer that the old guard, as is so often the case, wouldn’t change and wouldn’t go quietly. How long ago that seems — in the last five years or so, the insurgent Right has completed the construction of an alternative media pipeline.

Now there are two strong media narratives in the US. There’s no clearer recent evidence of that than Representative Brad Sherman’s (the audience laughed at his ignorance) and CBS newsman Bob Schieffer’s complete unawareness of the very serious DOJ / New Black Panther Party scandal.

The funny thing is that conservatives are all aware of the power and presence of the old media, where beltway journalists wield influence and pretend objectivity when we all know they are 12-to-1 in the bag for the Democrats. But these same journalists, their fans, and their political allies all seem really perplexed at what’s happened to make a majority of freakin’ moron-Americans so very angry. It’s ironic that the people who believe they possess superior education, knowledge and wisdom seem quite a bit less informed than their adversaries about one of the great societal events of our time.

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