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November 06, 2012

Goodbye to the Liberal Media
— Ace

Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel pen a scorching column about the coming death of the establishment media.

. The point is that many in the press are every bit as corrupt as conservatives have accused them of being. The good news is, itÂ’s almost over. The broadcast networks, the big daily newspapers, the newsweeklies Â— theyÂ’re done. ItÂ’s only a matter of time, and everyone who works there knows it. That may be why so many of them seem tapped out, lazy and enervated, unwilling to stray from the same tired story lines. Some days they seem engaged only on Twitter, where they spend hours preening for one another and sneering at outsiders.
By the next presidential cycle most of these people will be gone. TheyÂ’ll have moved on to academia or think tanks or Democratic senate campaigns, or wherever aging hacks go when their union contracts finally, inevitably get voided. TheyÂ’ll be replaced by a vibrant digital marketplace filled with hungry young reporters who care more about breaking stories than maintaining access to some politician or regulator.
All of this was probably inevitable, but it came faster than expected. Through their dishonesty the legacy media hastened their own end. Their moral authority has evaporated. So has their business model. Wave them goodbye on the way out.

Posted by: Ace at 10:51 AM | Comments (174)
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1 First!

Posted by: David (NOT Dave!), infamous sockpuppet at November 06, 2012 10:52 AM (pcnpf)

2 TCJ Research ‏@TCJResearch As of 2 o'clock in Pasco County, FL 63.7% of registered Republicans had voted. Only 57.4% of registered Dems had done the same. #anecdote

Posted by: Evilpens at November 06, 2012 10:52 AM (ck76k)

3
Finish him and Finish them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk says Mitt 303 to 235 at November 06, 2012 10:53 AM (PHb2k)

4 I've heard this before. It never happens.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 06, 2012 10:54 AM (8sCoq)

5 Megyn Kelly just called it the NFM.

Non-Fox Media

Posted by: Double Wide at November 06, 2012 10:54 AM (J8jzK)

6 Can;t say it's been a pleasure. Adios, motherfuckers.

Posted by: logprof at November 06, 2012 10:54 AM (jKE+Z)

7 These fuckers can't fade away fast enough. I was talking to a friend who is (unexpectedly) also a conservative last night. We were talking about Benghazi. I mentioned the fact that it cannot be healthy that I have spent the 7 weeks since September 11 consumed with rage towards the cocksuckers who left those men for dead in order to score political points and the little Goebbels that have protected them with every trick at their disposal. He agreed with me.

Posted by: David (NOT Dave!), infamous sockpuppet at November 06, 2012 10:54 AM (pcnpf)

8 If Romney wins, yes.

If Obama wins, no matter by how much, the lib media will know that they can carry even Obama's busted ass over the finish line. A bronze statue of Nate Silver will be erected in front of the New York Times building, and MSNBC will immediately fire Joe Scarborough and purge their network of anyone who's voted Republican in the past three elections.

Posted by: Lou at November 06, 2012 10:55 AM (xp1pq)

9 Good bye to bad trash.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at November 06, 2012 10:55 AM (Gk3SS)

10 Finish Them! (deep mortal combat narrator voice)

Posted by: Fire with Fire at November 06, 2012 10:55 AM (lcwvr)

11 11th ? Bacon Pudding. That is all.

Posted by: Psycotte at November 06, 2012 10:56 AM (Hk10/)

12 The $1B+ spent on campaign ads over the last few months will keep them going for a little while longer.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at November 06, 2012 10:56 AM (+lsX1)

13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hHDxlm66dE

Posted by: Guy Mohawk says Mitt 303 to 235 at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (PHb2k)

14 Bacon Pudding. That is all.

Posted by: Psycotte at November 06, 2012 02:56 PM (Hk10/)

_______

I'm listenin'...

Posted by: Double Wide at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (J8jzK)

15 Pres Romney could facilitate this by the way the WH allocates access. Why have all these media slots occupied by the MSM when they are essentially one uniformly corrupt organization. Why not revoke CBS's press pass and give it to PJ Media, Drudge, (AoSHQ?)? Start revoking access to top officials, briefings, interviews etc. and these organizations will rot and die even quicker. The flipside is to give access to younger digital platforms.

Posted by: scofflawx at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (N1Rjx)

16 good riddance to bad rubbish

Posted by: phoenixgirl, ROMNEY/RYAN2012 at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (Ho2rs)

17 Really? So, what will take over the frequencies of the broadcast networks?

Posted by: Gerry at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (QK54y)

18 MSM is already dead to me.

Posted by: USA at November 06, 2012 10:57 AM (RIg+t)

19 I won't need to wave at them on the way out. The wave that sweeps them will be horrible and fast enough. They will not have time to even say "But..." Good riddance. They will all spend eternity in Hell with the Used-Car Salesmen and the Union Thugs.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at November 06, 2012 10:58 AM (71LDo)

20 If Choomer loses tonight, it will be the stake through the heart of the MFM. The bastards have sucked the Barbed Cock of Satan for far too long to be of any good to the American people.

Posted by: Mjölnir, the banhammer from the gates of Hell at November 06, 2012 10:58 AM (Jls4P)

21 Megyn Kelly just called it the NFM. Non-Fox Media Oh, that's gooooood.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 06, 2012 10:59 AM (B/VB5)

22 >>>Wave them goodbye on the way out.

*Pulls out the morgenholz*

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 06, 2012 10:59 AM (zlvkY)

23 Threadus novum

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 06, 2012 10:59 AM (jo069)

24 If Obama loses, expect big changes in msnbc's programming.

Posted by: soothsayer at November 06, 2012 10:59 AM (jUytm)

25 @MMFlint Someone who isn't voting but might if I called or texted them, text me their cell # at 810-522-8398

Targets in the open. Fire at will, gentlemen.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (8sCoq)

http://tinyurl.com/ma49tr

Like I said. Bacon Pudding.

Posted by: Psycotte at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (Hk10/)

27 I blame cubicle dividers. And computers.

Bernstein and Woodward didn't have any of that stuff...

http://tinyurl.com/crn3hl6g

I think today's reporters are all holed up in each of their own cubicles, surfin' the net all day long. I opine for the days of wide open office spaces.

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (UypUQ)

28 if the republic votes for Greece-ification, I'm sure a bailout for financially shaky news organizations is not far behind, "for the public interest" and all. state media, not just in fact, but in law as well I can only hope that such a vision is rejected today.

Posted by: Kevin at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (EE28L)

29 "...the coming death of the establishment media."

From their lips (or fingers typing) to God's ears.

Posted by: Hoss at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (ATxq2)

30 They can't get out of town soon enough. The only thing I will miss is the investigative reporting done by the local newspaper here in Raleigh. They're lefties, to be sure, but they uncover the trash with great zeal, even if their targets are usually Dems these days.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (4Mv1T)

31 I've been saying, here, that the MSM has never tried to hide who they were. They were practically screaming it in our faces. But Republicans/cons/libertarians still whinged about how the MSM wouldn't own up about it. Again, they weren't hiding anything from us, they were out there, loud and proud for all the world to see.

So now can we stop with the "If a Republican had done/said X what Y Democrat just did...blah blah blah"?

Posted by: CozMark at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (AogGt)

32 "... TheyÂ’ll have moved on to academia or think tanks or Democratic senate campaigns... "

They left out "lobbying," "cabinet appointments," and "administration czars." But, point well taken.

If you'll excuse me, I'm going shopping for pudding now.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (Jdtsu)

33 @25: Heh heh. I think he's going to be very, very sorry he posted a live cell # on Twitter momentarily.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 06, 2012 11:00 AM (B/VB5)

Don't let the door hit ya..

I gave up on MSM years ago and even now only watch Fox on a limited basis. The blogs is where it's at baby!!

Posted by: jewells45 saysRomney wins in a landslide at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (l/N7H)

35
We may be portrayed as cocksuckers, but let it be known we only suck the cocks of liberals, such as Rachel Maddow.

Posted by: Liberal F'n Media at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (lDWQr)

36 Note to all morons:

Dipping in vanilla vodka is not the same as dipping in vanilla pudding.

It's hell on jock itch, though.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (zlvkY)

37 It's what free markets are all about. The freedom to choose.

After the Big three networks lost their lock on audiences, because of cable, the choices became very clear.

Fox is getting rich, MSDNC is sucking wind.

I hate that for them.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (wR+pz)

38 I am not sure we can kill the MSM and infotainment complex (eg Letterman, Daily Show, SNL) until we get pols who freeze them out. They are given too much relevancy now.

Posted by: Y-not hunting and pecking on the phone at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (yFFC0)

39 Bacon Pudding?....I just caught a MAJOR clue....and first instant "semi" in a while!

Posted by: Ron Reagan the Elder at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (f95vc)

40 Pres Romney could facilitate this by the way the WH allocates access. Why have all these media slots occupied by the MSM when they are essentially one uniformly corrupt organization. Why not revoke CBS's press pass and give it to PJ Media, Drudge, (AoSHQ?)? Start revoking access to top officials, briefings, interviews etc. and these organizations will rot and die even quicker. The flipside is to give access to younger digital platforms.

Posted by: scofflawx at November 06, 2012 02:57 PM (N1Rjx)

Don't revoke anyones. Just add the others, and have no assigned seats. Make them work for it and show up early.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (z1N6a)

41 @31: The "If a Republican" stuff was never for the media, it was for people who aren't paying attention and think the media is perfect and unbiased.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (B/VB5)

42 .

Let's try that again...

http://tinyurl.com/d4oxfc9

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 06, 2012 11:01 AM (UypUQ)

43 If Obama loses, expect big changes in msnbc's programming.Posted by: soothsayer

How so?

They will have bigger targets than the TEA partiers or random GOP Reps/Sen. to go after.

The common wisdom in political commentary is that having the opposition in power is your boom time.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 06, 2012 11:02 AM (jo069)

44 #7

I have a friend whose just got out of the Navy SEALs a few months ago.

So I said to him (kind of pulling his leg a little), so I hear Obama isn't well-liked in the special operations community, is that true?.

His response is not publishable here, but suffice it to say that he agreed with my premise. He also wasn't "impressed" with the administrations response to Benghazi, to put it mildly.

Posted by: Looking closely at November 06, 2012 11:02 AM (PwGfd)

45 Romney has landed in Pittsburgh--well at the Pittsburgh airport.

Posted by: tasker at November 06, 2012 11:02 AM (r2PLg)

Tucker Carlson? He's lecturing us on the ineptitude of the media???

Whatever dude. And why does it take two people to write a column?

Notice I didn't say "men."

Posted by: BurtTC at November 06, 2012 11:02 AM (TOk1P)

47 http://twitpic.com/bawu9m

Posted by: Evilpens at November 06, 2012 11:02 AM (ck76k)

48 > Heh heh. I think he's going to be very, very sorry he posted a live cell # on Twitter momentarily.

I just emailed it to the blog owner. Maybe we can have some fun with it.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 06, 2012 11:03 AM (8sCoq)

49 It's not going to be anything sudden. It's just going to be that blogs and websites will continue to become more important, and news shows and newspapers will become even less important. Eventually, the newspapers will have moved to the web, and the networks will decide that they can make more money showing reruns of How I Met Your Mother than news shows will get them.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at November 06, 2012 11:03 AM (P8oOy)

50 Is it wrong of me to hope that they trip, fall, and break their necks on the way out the door?

Posted by: Adam at November 06, 2012 11:03 AM (/YJYi)

51 Oh sure, these cockroaches will just fade away. Not. Who wants a "reformed" sex offender living next door?

Posted by: Fritz at November 06, 2012 11:03 AM (/ZZCn)

52 Ok I'll give it a shot, but Pixy will probably shoot me down.

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Posted by: MikeTheMoose Trying to have Faith and not worry, no matter the outcome. at November 06, 2012 11:03 AM (0q2P7)

I just voted, the tension in the room was obvious. We waited 45 minutes, first time ever I've had to wait to vote and it was in the middle of the day.

I'm in MD so I'm not kidding myself but hoping for some down ticket wins.

I feel like crap still, but screw it I'm having a glass of wine, at least if I throw up it will be RED

Posted by: spypeach at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (pwTow)

54 Jon Ralston ‏@RalstonReports While Adelson will be in Boston tonight, Steve Wynn will be in Houston w/Bush 41. Wynn sounded confident, had just talked to @karlrove.

Posted by: Evilpens at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (ck76k)

55 Hahahahahahahaha. CSS is a number of decades more advanced than what minx.cc supports.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (B/VB5)

56 Ann Romney just emailed again. I think she's into me.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (8sCoq)

57 I still don't like this running around on the last day.

It smells wrong. I hope I am wrong.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (wR+pz)

58 BS. The MFM will rediscover their love for a story, investigation and hard questions.

They may die, but they won't die without throwing as much crap as they can at President Romney.

Posted by: g.w. mclintock at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (qwUGR)

59 Na na naaaa na...na na naaaa na...heeey heeey heeey...gooodbyeeeeee...!

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (GBXon)

60 "...Wave them goodbye on the way out." Kick them in their rotten fucking teeth on the way out. Vayr ge hargit and go to hell.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 06, 2012 11:04 AM (vCK/R)

61 I'm hoping the Comcast overlords pull the fucking plug on MessLSD and their countdown to no ratings.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at November 06, 2012 11:05 AM (sw/4Y)

62 Is it too early to call it for Romney? Yes, the MFM sux.

Posted by: Justamom's having an election day bash at November 06, 2012 11:05 AM (Sptt8)

63 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at November 06, 2012 11:05 AM (9XBK2)

64 2012 EV in Democrat heavy Palm Beach county was only 86% of 2010/2008 levels.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 06, 2012 11:05 AM (5eV7t)

65 I just went to pick up kid from school...and went out of my way to swing past my earlier polling place. The parking lot is full, and cars are parked rather dangerously on both sides of the street. There is a line of about 40 people snaking outside the door. This is a red county in PA, (Wayne), and the people in line aren't there to vote for four more years of the cotton candy farts Obama is promising them.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at November 06, 2012 11:05 AM (L7hol)

..."the coming death of the establishment media"

Let it be so.

Dear God, please...let it be so.

These fuckers deserve to all be out on the streets, begging for spare change.

Posted by: wheatie at November 06, 2012 11:06 AM (ICEh3)

67 Oh and after years of bragging on ace I finally got my hubby to visit here at least once a day. Now if I can just get him comment...

Posted by: jewells45 saysRomney wins in a landslide at November 06, 2012 11:06 AM (l/N7H)

68 I wish Romney would revoke passes to any nyt people "who weren't working there the last time the nyt endorsed a republican president". Eisenhower. Do the same thing with all of them.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at November 06, 2012 11:06 AM (1JsIV)

69 I can't remember the last time I watched the Sunday morning spin shows. It's been at least 5 years. Evening news-a decade or more. Local paper-late 20th century.

DONATE TO ACE! He's the new Tim Russert.

Posted by: CozMark at November 06, 2012 11:06 AM (nDeB2)

70 Ann Romney just emailed again. I think she's into me.

I got an inbox full of email from Joe Biden...

...I'm scared.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 06, 2012 11:06 AM (5eV7t)

71 My favorite book title "Good-bye To All That"

Posted by: Janetoo at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (/TVdO)

72 Romney froze out Letterman. Let the lazy left media die. Sixteen years of Romney/Ryan ought to finish them off.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (D7tbl)

73 I still think Fox could take over the broadcast network news ratings if they would produce a 30-60 minute hard news show and run it from all the affiliate stations. Make Brett the anchor and maybe use bill O as the commentator at :27 past the hour.

Posted by: Dax at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (gUYGX)

74 Oh and after years of bragging on ace I finally got my hubby to visit here at least once a day. Now if I can just get him comment...

Give him the same advice as we did to BCochran and tell him to post pics of his wife.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (GQ8sn)

75
The mfm will be out for revenge.
The mfm will go after President Romney in such a way it will look like Bush got treated the same way the scoamf did.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (1PE/J)

76 Thanks for being so upbeat! My nerves are killing me

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna not greg/gerg at November 06, 2012 11:07 AM (9+ccr)

77 and maybe use bill O as...

...the janitor.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 06, 2012 11:08 AM (5eV7t)

78 If Obama loses, expect big changes in msnbc's programming.

Posted by: soothsayer
............
If Obama loses, MSNBC will cease to exist.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 06, 2012 11:09 AM (f9c2L)

79 Did the deed, without incident. Breezed thru you-know-where for a Spicy Hate-fil-a sandwich, Hate Shake, and Waffle Fries of Ineffable Disdain. All is right in my world...at least, for a few hours. Then comes the waiting. I hate the waiting.

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at November 06, 2012 11:09 AM (GBXon)

80 Shouldn't we be hearing some exit poll stuff by now?

And, yes.. I realize it will be next to useless..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (f9c2L)

81 >>>>Now if I can just get him comment...

Tell him it only really hurts the first time, after that most folks learn to enjoy it.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Trying to have Faith and not worry, no matter the outcome. at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (0q2P7)

82 I've heard this before. It never happens. Posted by: Jones in CO at November 06, 2012 02:54 PM Agreed. People have been saying this for years. And yet the lying media remains. They only thing that stays the same is the "Fox News Lies!" crap. In my office, there are probably around 300 people, out of around 15,000 in the building. I bet I could take a poll of those 300 people with whom I directly work and ask them where they get their news and I bet 75% of them would say the media and most of those would also say "Fox News Lies!" Alternative media is not as popular as people within the alternative media like to think it is. Not yet anyway. Hopefully that gradually changes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (vUK/h)

83 O/T: Insty has a link to a story about how Obama's good friend Jay-Z recently used eminent domain to seize low-income housing for his new basketball stadium. Who's the 1% again?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (B/VB5)

84 Mister Romney, what are you going to do about your high unemployment???

Posted by: The MFM tomorrow if Romney wins at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (UjSt7)

85 #78

Hardly.

MSNBC will just turn into "All Romney bashing, all the time", just like it was with bush prior to '08.

Posted by: Looking closely at November 06, 2012 11:10 AM (6Q9g2)

86

# 80

After the polls start closing.....

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at November 06, 2012 11:11 AM (L7hol)

87
I approve of this post.

Posted by: A B at November 06, 2012 11:11 AM (PHb2k)

88 I hate the waiting.

/nods

Posted by: Tom Petty at November 06, 2012 11:11 AM (w+lzM)

89 Yes 72 thats a good sign. He also froze out the View iirc. OTOH he started out somewhat antagonistic toward Fox so I am not sure what that might mean.

Posted by: Y-not hunting and pecking on the phone at November 06, 2012 11:11 AM (cK3Ih)

90 If we're voting here I vote for no exit polls please.

Posted by: eleven at November 06, 2012 11:12 AM (KXm42)

91 Jeez...even the UN jokers over here observing can't believe we don't require ID to vote. Well, congrats to them, a lot of us can't believe it either.

http://tinyurl.com/bomqtgd

And what the hell is up with Drudge's dumb ass leaving the sad puppy photo of Barky up for what? 12 hours now?

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:12 AM (qEkGZ)

92 82 Yeah,why would they go elsewhere when they hear what they want to hear?

Posted by: steevy at November 06, 2012 11:12 AM (9XBK2)

93 Pssh, I'm not afraid of any exit polls. Bring 'em on.

Posted by: JDTAY at November 06, 2012 11:12 AM (a0nis)

94 Pending the outcome of the election, I have something to write about this as well. The media is doomed, seriously. They are a staggering, dying dinosaur with outsized influence, like private unions, but their day is done. Obama was their last big gasp and now they will fade away.
Don't get me wrong, there still will be a leftist media complex it just won't be magazines and newspapers and nightly news. I bet CBS will be the first alphabet network to kill their nightly news program.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:12 AM (r4wIV)

95 He also froze out the View iirc.

Ann went on The View, to be asked galactically-ignorant questions by that fucking numbskull Whoopi.

Posted by: Waterhouse at November 06, 2012 11:13 AM (w+lzM)

96 Oh, and Mormon Tabernacle's been on loop for me all day. Volume off, but hey...

Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at November 06, 2012 11:13 AM (GBXon)

97 Romney froze out Letterman.

Let the lazy left media die. Sixteen years of Romney/Ryan ought to finish them off.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at November 06, 2012 03:07 PM (D7tbl)

I gave Willard high marks for how he completely ignored the gap-toothed cocksucker as he continued the cheap shots to B-list fuckheads like Colbert. It's too much to wish complete financial ruin on those jizzmops, because that's never gonna happen; but their egos challenge the national debt in hugeness and ignoring those fuckers is a bitter pill that challenges their horse-fellating throats.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at November 06, 2012 11:14 AM (sw/4Y)

98 the current msnbc lineup cannot last with an even smaller viewership they're not gonna keep paying all those fools just so the DU crowd have somewhere to commiserate msnbc has zero credibility already, it will be a laughing stock by February next year when people realize that we haven't had a president in the last 4 years.

Posted by: soothsayer at November 06, 2012 11:14 AM (jUytm)

99 The death of the MFM will be a cause for some real celebration

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 06, 2012 11:15 AM (1Jaio)

100 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at November 06, 2012 11:15 AM (nUH8H)

101 [[i]"Mister Romney, what are you going to do about your high unemployment???"

"I'm going to add to it by seeing all you quote-journalists-close-quote out of work. If your struggling former employers survive, they might replace you with citizen journalists who will do the job you all haven't."

You know what would be sweet? The New York Times, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and ruin, being acquired for pennies on the dollar by Bain Capital.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at November 06, 2012 11:15 AM (Jdtsu)

102 I really really really really hope they are right.

Posted by: mnm at November 06, 2012 11:17 AM (6mijs)

103 17 Really? So, what will take over the frequencies of the broadcast networks?

Lace wigs and Machines for Sale.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at November 06, 2012 11:17 AM (IlZPo)

104 Current TV is on the block, for sale, and probably MSNBC will be too. Microsoft has been quietly divesting themselves of the crapfest for a while now. It was the NBC leftist CEO's pet project and I don't think the company will keep supporting a net loser.
Although the opposition is usually more fired up, and they tend to do better when not in power in terms of interest, so it might salvage Olbermann's career etc.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:17 AM (r4wIV)

105

These guys are weasels, brown-nosing, c...k-sucking lib beta males and if you looked at them cross-eyed, they'd wet their pants. What has happened to real men?

Personally, I'd pay really good money to see someone like Steve Hayes of Fox just blast one in the face with a perfectly placed punch. (I have no knowledge of Steve Hayes having any propensity to engage in a fist fight, but I'd love that.)

These were the kids who were viewed as weenies in elementary school, the kids who were tattle tales and they "grew up" into progs who went to journalism school or, more likely, got a degree in "communications" or "media."

As for the females like that airhead on CNN, Soledad O'Brien. An IQ test would reveal no higher than 110, very bad for someone with that mic in front of her.

Posted by: gayle in ca at November 06, 2012 11:18 AM (wgmUB)

106 Trying to decide between 2 posts for Facebook tonight:

Enjoy the night Mitt and Paul you earned it!!! Starting tomorrow everything and I mean EVERYTHING will be your fault.

or

Fuck you liberals you trusted Nate Silver and he screwed you!

Posted by: H Badger at November 06, 2012 11:19 AM (n/0Nw)

107
My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?

Posted by: YIKES! at November 06, 2012 11:19 AM (1PE/J)

108 My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?

Stretch Coulter.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at November 06, 2012 11:20 AM (IlZPo)

109 I would like to see a scenario like this: in 5-10 years the network TV channels stop broadcasting regular show schedules and instead produce shows that are put on demand streaming and shown through your TV when you desire. Advertising has died to the point of a brief banner and product placements in the shows, and you watch only what you want, when you want.
I think that's a very real possibility, going from channels to just publishing houses for shows.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:21 AM (r4wIV)

110

"Ann went on The View, to be asked galactically-ignorant questions by that fucking numbskull Whoopi."

I'll be the first to say that I have enjoyed a few Whoopi movies and recall when she did some funny stand-up. She is not an IQ challenged person, just an incredibly biased one, so biased she can't see her propensiy for it.

What I've never understood about her is why she works so hard to be physically unattractive. She *works* at it.

Posted by: gayle in ca at November 06, 2012 11:21 AM (wgmUB)

111 My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his
chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?

John Sununu

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 06, 2012 11:21 AM (1Jaio)

112 I think Whoopi is just flat ugly and knows it and doesn't try to fight it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:22 AM (r4wIV)

113 My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm? Newt!!

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 06, 2012 11:22 AM (JWLqy)

114 My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his

chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?

Greg Gutfield.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:22 AM (GQ8sn)

115 >>My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm? Kevin Madden.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (TMB3S)

116 They're cockroaches and cockroaches never die...

Posted by: Walkers! at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (C4dFv)

117 The mfm will be out for revenge.
The mfm will go after President Romney in such a way it will look like Bush got treated the same way the scoamf did.

The point is that nobody will be listening. They'll be like the crazy guy yelling in Rumanian on the street corner. People will simply avert their eyes and walk past.

Posted by: pep at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (YXmuI)

118 You really should put someone you hate in as press secretary because its the steaming turd of all jobs. You couldn't pay me enough.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (r4wIV)

119 Oh frabjous day!

Woke up to SCOAMF tears which I thought foolish to hope for. Then got to vote against him finally, followed by a great breakfast, naughty time and now a few job possibles lining up.

Grinning muscles are going to cramp up at this rate.

Posted by: esch at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (9XVgh)

120 I got into tonight's celebratory lox and now I have a bellyache! Eldest son is on his way to polls now and that is the last of our clan. Virginia, don't disappoint us again.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 06, 2012 11:23 AM (l3vZN)

121 I'm old school. I miss Huntley and Brinkley.

Fuck the rest of them.

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2012 11:24 AM (iYbLN)

122

The only problem, and it IS a big one, with having to revert to citizen journalism because the networks have abdicated their responsibilities, is that you further Balkanize an already too diverse population. There will never again be a sense of unity in being an "American." The word will only refer to a person who lives on some geographic mass.

I'd rather have two countries.

Posted by: gayle in ca at November 06, 2012 11:24 AM (wgmUB)

123 John Sununu

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 06, 2012 03:21 PM (1Jaio)

My respect for Sununu went to zero under that shithead Poppy Bush to infinity from his performances giving Alcatraz O'Brien and Trandrea copious golden showers and his appearances on Dennis Miller's show. UNLEASH THE SUNUNU!!!

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at November 06, 2012 11:25 AM (sw/4Y)

124 I would like to see the fat man from NJ do one press briefing as press secretary.

Posted by: teh Wind at November 06, 2012 11:25 AM (HBU8E)

125 Been hearing this for years. I believe it's true, but I'd like a bit less of the "hearing this," and a bit more of the "it's done."

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at November 06, 2012 11:26 AM (MRcfR)

126 Oh, wouldn't it be just great to have Greg Gutfled play the part of jester to the press' questions? God, that's a wonderful vision. While looking the jester, he'd show them up as the real clowns.

Posted by: gayle in ca at November 06, 2012 11:26 AM (wgmUB)

127 John Sununu

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 06, 2012 03:21 PM (1Jaio)

Good one.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 06, 2012 11:26 AM (1PE/J)

128 Daughter said she read on twitter....don't know who originally posted it ......but that the prediction was that Obama would have an early lead and then Romney would lead in the evening after folks get off work

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 06, 2012 11:27 AM (JWLqy)

129 I don't want to wait for the natural death of MSM. I want them snuffed out right-fucking-now..

So win or loose today... tomorrow we go after the media thugs. Its still #WAR as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Death to the MSM at November 06, 2012 11:27 AM (kKokP)

130 I really do hope the MFM is done. In a sad weird way we can probably thank the SOCAMF for winning in 2008 and 4 years or brining the MFM activities into sharp focus hastening the decline. Lets hope this does lead to a new more informed media and public.

Posted by: Janir at November 06, 2012 11:27 AM (pOZma)

131 The only problem, and it IS a big one, with having to revert to citizen journalism because the networks have abdicated their responsibilities, is that you further Balkanize an already too diverse population. There will never again be a sense of unity in being an "American." The word will only refer to a person who lives on some geographic mass.

I'd rather have two countries.

Posted by: gayle in ca at November 06, 2012 03:24 PM (wgmUB)

We're headed in that direction. (Except I think it'll be more like 3 or 4 countries at least.) The education system has been teaching everything but how to be an American now for what? 50 years? Tribalism is in; patriotism and love of country is out. If we don't clean out the educational system, that won't ever change.

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:28 AM (qEkGZ)

132 If we don't clean out the educational system, that won't ever change.

Hopefully the advent of computer learning will do for the educational system what it is doing for the news media. Burn off the dross!

Posted by: pep at November 06, 2012 11:29 AM (YXmuI)

133 Well they didn't have to kill themselves so fast, but they went so far, so ridiculously so, and so insanely desperate into the tank for Obama that people just totally abandoned any trust in their reports. I mean, if they had been working hard in good faith, people would have still at least trusted their output, even if they didn't buy the product as much. Now why even pay attention to a single word they say?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:30 AM (r4wIV)

134 We're headed in that direction. (Except I think it'll be more like 3 or 4 countries at least.)

A part of me would be sad to see that happen, but the other half of me would be ecstatic. We could finally get rid of those shitbags by shoving them all into one corner.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:31 AM (GQ8sn)

135

"Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?"

Sununu

John Bolton

Pat Fucking Caddell

Dick Cheney

Dennis Miller

Adam Corrolla

Zombie Sam Kinison

Posted by: Burn the Witch at November 06, 2012 11:31 AM (uD2fR)

136 For a week or two now I've noticed that the left is amazingly silent on the election on Facebook. They were really loud and ill informed for a while but then they just sort of went quiet and sad.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:31 AM (r4wIV)

137 Oh good Lord.. if I told my husband to post pics of me I would never be able to show my face here again!

Posted by: jewells45 saysRomney wins in a landslide at November 06, 2012 11:32 AM (l/N7H)

138 Hopefully the advent of computer learning will do for the educational system what it is doing for the news media. Burn off the dross!

Posted by: pep at November 06, 2012 03:29 PM (YXmuI)

Or getting things like vouchers for everyone, and making homeschooling and charter schools and schools run by private companies who have to put out a good "product" to stay in business and that sort of thing made a whole lot easier for people to do. Having real, viable competition would put the teachers unions out of business.

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:32 AM (qEkGZ)

139 NBC TWIT: Mr Kinison, is it true that President Romney has stopped beating his wife, or are the rumors of his being a pedophile true? PRESS SECRETARY KINISON: (sweetly) well gee I don't know, let me think, do you think maybe, just maybe that's a question only (Roaring) AN ASSMUNCH WITH TEN WEEK OLD BABY DIARRHEA FOR BRAINS WOULD ASK? HUH? HUH? OHH, OHHH!!!!!!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (r4wIV)

140 if Scott Brown loses, expect him to be part of Mitt's cabinet

Posted by: soothsayer at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (jUytm)

141 "We're headed in that direction. (Except I think it'll be more like 3 or 4 countries at least.) The education system has been teaching everything but how to be an American now for what? 50 years? Tribalism is in; patriotism and love of country is out. If we don't clean out the educational system, that won't ever change."

We chat about this in Texas. Many of us see it coming, one day, and are at least theoretically prepared.

Posted by: dawnfire at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (eEeH7)

142 I'd like to see the congressman from SC as the press secretary...Trey something? He's awesome. I can see him shutting down some of the arrogant media creeps.

Posted by: Old Texas Chic at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (lLXZV)

143 Oh good Lord.. if I told my husband to post pics of me I would never be able to show my face here again!
He doesn't have to post those "special" polaroids you slipped into his lunchbox.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (r4wIV)

144 Oh good Lord.. if I told my husband to post pics of me I would never be able to show my face here again!

Hehe...at least he'd be commenting!

"Hey everyone, here's a pic of the missus dancing at a wedding. And this one is of her without makeup. And here's one of her singing karoake."

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:34 AM (GQ8sn)

145 A part of me would be sad to see that happen, but the other half of me would be ecstatic. We could finally get rid of those shitbags by shoving them all into one corner.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 03:31 PM (GQ8sn)

Well most if not all of the "academic" articles you see these days advocating for secession or some sort of splitting of the country come from the left because they think it would be grand to be rid of us. If only we could get them to do that, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. It would be sad, yes, but I'm starting to think that it's the only way some fairly recognizable version of the USA (recognizable to us, I mean) will survive.

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:35 AM (qEkGZ)

146 Liberal media? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at November 06, 2012 11:35 AM (zbbwn)

147 And for my closing notes I'd like to say to all the ladies and gentlemen of the press I WANT TO SEE YOU SLIDE UNDER A TRUCK AND TASTE YOUR OWN BLOOD!!!! OHH!! OHHH!!!!

Posted by: Press Secretary Kinison at November 06, 2012 11:36 AM (r4wIV)

148 The delusion on this blog is strong.

Posted by: John at November 06, 2012 11:36 AM (HL0e9)

149 Malisha: Daddy, did you steal the election, yet?

Posted by: soothsayer at November 06, 2012 11:37 AM (jUytm)

150 The delusion on this blog is strong.
What are you talking about, its perfectly reasonable I have a shot at motorboating Christina Hendricks!

Posted by: Press Secretary Kinison at November 06, 2012 11:37 AM (r4wIV)

151 Who's gonna be his chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?
Posted by: YIKES!
...........
Doesn't matter.. remember when Bush brought in Tony Snow? He didn't take any shit from any of them... So, they simply stopped putting him on their news shows. You hardly EVER saw Tony Snow on the nightly news.

You see Obama's idiot nearly nightly (when he comes out of hiding, that is)

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 06, 2012 11:37 AM (f9c2L)

152 As if Tucker were not part of the establishment media.

Posted by: Bill Carson at November 06, 2012 11:38 AM (sERr4)

153

..... the canteen media.

.... for all the water they carry.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 06, 2012 11:39 AM (yzX2R)

154 Well most if not all of the "academic" articles you see these days advocating for secession or some sort of splitting of the country come from the left because they think it would be grand to be rid of us. If only we could get them to do that, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. It would be sad, yes, but I'm starting to think that it's the only way some fairly recognizable version of the USA (recognizable to us, I mean) will survive.

I'd be all for it. See, here's my master plan....

* cue James Bond villain music *

We agree to let them secede, let them have their half and us to get our half. We agree to maintain our borders and rule our own halves as we see fit without interference.

Then, after a few years have gone by and Libtardistan is on the brink of collapse, we invade it and seize their half again, restoring the country once again as a contiguous whole. The Libtardistanis then become our manual labour serfs, hazardous waste disposal specialists, space suit testing guinea pigs, etc...

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:39 AM (GQ8sn)

155 The president's position on starving people in the Sahara, you ask? Well...

Posted by: Press Secretary Kinison at November 06, 2012 11:40 AM (r4wIV)

156 We chat about this in Texas. Many of us see it coming, one day, and are at least theoretically prepared.

Posted by: dawnfire at November 06, 2012 03:34 PM (eEeH7)

My wife and I talk about what we'll do if this election goes the wrong way. We're seriously considering moving to another country if we can get the logistics of it worked out. One alternative to that is moving to some place in the US where, if push comes to shove comes to worse, they wouldn't bow down and take it, which leads to talking about moving to Texas instead. :-)

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:40 AM (qEkGZ)

157 "My big fat question for the Romney Administration is. Who's gonna be his
chief of staff and press secretary to handle the wrath of the mfm?"

Johnny LaRue!!

(boy, do I miss John Candy....)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 06, 2012 11:41 AM (wtvvX)

158 When cable is forced to unbundle that will go a long way. Nobody will pay for CNN, many will pay for Fox, and a few deranged lunatics will pay for MSNBC.

For the most part, I think in the future people will be able to find and get what they want content-wise. Personally, I canceled cable and just stream TV shows and movies, and get news off the web.

Liberalism needs free mass media in which to marinate people to create majority opinion. It's a serious problem if people go off into their own little niches of interest.

I'd love to buy a few channels that interest me - like food network, and history channel - but it's not available. Yet. I'm sure those networks will in the near future offer through roku boxes or whatnot and cut out the cable company. Also, I can't remember the last time I saw a TV commercial. The less ads younger people see the better for the culture, imo. Ads tend to make weak-minded people weaker minded and more pliable for progressive ends.

Posted by: Uncledave at November 06, 2012 11:42 AM (nJ32z)

159 and Fred Cannonbear!

Posted by: soothsayer at November 06, 2012 11:42 AM (jUytm)

160 Then, after a few years have gone by and Libtardistan is on the brink of collapse, we invade it and seize their half again, restoring the country once again as a contiguous whole. The Libtardistanis then become our manual labour serfs, hazardous waste disposal specialists, space suit testing guinea pigs, etc...

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 03:39 PM (GQ8sn)

That would be one of high points of letting them have their own country. They'd have it bankrupt and begging for handouts in no time. :-)

Posted by: davidinvirginia at November 06, 2012 11:42 AM (qEkGZ)

161 28 If the republic votes for Greece-ification, I'm sure a bailout for financially shaky news organizations is not far behind, "for the public interest" and all.

state media, not just in fact, but in law as well

I can only hope that such a vision is rejected today.
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And that is why they have been in the tank for Obozo & Co. all along.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 06, 2012 11:43 AM (BDU/a)

162 There's a reason the MSM caters to and promotes a very narrow strip of center-left opinion -- the entire industry was created in order to appeal to corporate advertisers.

And, in order to do that, they consciously chose to foster a sense of credibility by being the mouthpieces for Official Sources.

Naturally, official sources liked the idea, and something of a partnership was created, more or less overnight, between government and "news," shortly after the Civil War. It wasn't the printing press, but rather the telegraph that made it possible.

It's in the interest of the government class to continually expand the power of the government class. The MSM has been there every step of the way, for over 100 years, facilitating the expansion of government power. They created "schools" for journalism, which serve no functional purpose whatsoever, in an area for which no schools are needed, merely in order to function as a gatekeeper of approved opinion and methods -- to indoctrinate the next generation in the System of relying exclusively on Official Sources.

The Internet was really a curve ball for them. It dropped the price of publication down to zero. The cost used to be enormously high -- there used to only be 3 TV stations, and running a TV station is expensive. None of them was going to risk having even the slightest deviation from the Approved Viewpoint, lest the corporate advertisers be frightened off.

Expecting the MSM to offer any real challenge to the premises of the Center-Left corporate state is a total non-starter. It's like expecting the advertising agency for Bank of America to pump out a campaign of stories challenging the idea of banking -- that's not what they were hired to do.

Posted by: Phinn at November 06, 2012 11:46 AM (oFH2D)

163 When cable is forced to unbundle that will go a long way. Nobody will pay for CNN
Except airports. Which I think makes up for 90% of their market.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2012 11:47 AM (r4wIV)

164

>>I'd love to buy a few channels that interest me...

With no NHL season, my TV watching has been cut to a third. All I seriously watch now is NFL RedZone and Homicide Hunter wth Lt Joe Kenda on ID, and Kenda I watch on On Demand.

Posted by: LibertarianJim at November 06, 2012 11:50 AM (XMDuf)

165 69 I can't remember the last time I watched the Sunday morning spin shows. It's been at least 5 years. Evening news-a decade or more. Local paper-late 20th century.

DONATE TO ACE! He's the new Tim Russert.
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Wasn't he the black Vulcan on "Voyager"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 06, 2012 11:51 AM (BDU/a)

166 DONATE TO ACE! He's the new Tim Russert.
*
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Wasn't he the black Vulcan on "Voyager"?

Close.

That was Tim Russ.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2012 11:53 AM (GQ8sn)

167 Newt for Press Sec. Have a Tiffany's account for Callista that gets $25,000 every time he makes a reporter cry.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at November 06, 2012 11:56 AM (D7tbl)

168 Would that no truer words have ever been spoken...

Posted by: DefendUSA at November 06, 2012 12:26 PM (nAHMK)

169 There's all this hopeful talk about the mainstream media disappearing, but . . . I don't see it. These are big, profitable companies. They may not be AS obscenely profitable as they were 20 years ago, but TV networks make money. Print newspapers may be dying, but they're just becoming very well-capitalized, slick online news sources. And while we congratulate ourselves about the rise of conservative news outlets online -- who are the big guys? If you look at the news sites preset on your web browser, it's fucking CNN, fucking NPR, the fucking BBC . . . with the Wall Street Journal tossed in to provide "balance." In short, the same usual suspects. The mainstream media aren't going away without a fight, and I think we have to prepare to give them one.

Posted by: Trimegistus at November 06, 2012 12:28 PM (BHwC8)

170 I want RnR to win just to see all the LSM tards get washed away on the retreating tide.

Posted by: chuck in st paul at November 06, 2012 01:55 PM (EhYdw)

171 Drudge moved OH into tossup.

Posted by: nhwingnut at November 06, 2012 02:10 PM (DhgCF)

172 I sat in on a presentation by two journalists who are now in academia at a Midwest university. They were pitching a new service they propose to allow newspapers and other printed media to connect with readers by smartly consolidating and aggregating stories based on usage.

Their mockups showed three stories, one from Grist (an environmental news source, one from Mother Jones (leftist) and one from Time. They said that newspaper owners were seeing a decline in business and they wanted to get their content into a form that was going to be read by people with smartphones and tablets. I remarked to another attendee that these media owners would rather die than provide content that I would want to read. In fact, no amount of reformatting or repackaging was going to induce me to read any of these left's bilge.

So, up close and in person I saw this mindset, and how absolutely clueless they were as to why their business was on its deathbed. As the old saying goes, if your enemy is in the process of committing suicide, don't get in his way. And these folks are my enemies for they want to enslave me via perpetual debt. In other political contexts, they would be cheering when I was being arrested for Islamo- or homo- phobic public statements, or for resisting government's takeover of healthcare.

(I used to think, well we haven't gone that far, but consider the reaction of mainstream journalism to the deaths in Mexico from a program directed out of the Justice Department to run guns into Mexican drug gangs for the sole purpose of being able to nullify one of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights. Journalism has blood on its hands for its silence and running cover for the Administration.)

Posted by: theBuckWheat at November 06, 2012 02:30 PM (hBb5u)

173 I wonder what would happen if a bunch of morons bought some stock in publicly held media companies, went to the annual meetings, kicked up a stink about the bias and put the videos on youtube? or sent it to drudge?

Posted by: vivi at November 06, 2012 02:59 PM (gA85w)

174 ....and end the nonprofit status of the Associated Press. The Kremlin and the College of Cardinals have nothing on the AP Board of Directors regarding secrecy.

Posted by: vivi at November 06, 2012 03:00 PM (gA85w)

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