Don't worry Obama - in your temper tantrum in getting your own way, the MSM has your 6 - Granite Grok

Don’t worry Obama – in your temper tantrum in getting your own way, the MSM has your 6

Obama has been nothing if not a petulant little kid with a temper the last couple of days (“I don’t have to offer anything!”).  Will he take a hit for the absolute jerkiness he has been displaying over the CR, as if he was not to be defied or King or something.  Probably not – from Newsbusters yesterday:

But there’s one thing on which the President is surely right. In devising his strategy for dealing with the shutdown, the prez can count on the MSM to blame Republicans.

Mark Halperin bared the president’s calculus on today’s Morning Joe, saying the Obama admin has little incentive to negotiate because it believes a “sympathetic” press will blame Republicans like they did in the 1990s, accusing them of being “obstructionist.” View the video after the jump.

Halperin offered what amounted to an indictment of MSM bias.  But no one on the panel made a peep. They apparently just took it as a given that is neither controversial nor objectionable.

WILLIE GEIST: Mark, at this point then, what is President Obama’s incentive to negotiate? Because if he sits there, the law that he championed and the law that he got passed and the law that was upheld by the Supreme Court will go into effect. If he doesn’t — if he doesn’t give anything up on this he gets what he wants. Why does he negotiate with Republicans?

MARK HALPERIN: Here what’s the White House and to some extent the Hill is going to monitor. One is how the press covers the shutdown and does it just go back into the ’90s mode of saying obstructionist Republicans are causing a shutdown and people, real people are hurting? And the White House is assuming that’s going to happen. Then they’re going to watch the polls and see whether it’s not just partisan. Whether by the end of the week there are surveys that show public/private, that people are blaming Republicans and that that’s going to put pressure on Boehner to come to the floor and either force his — some members of his own conference beyond the handful who will never be with him on this to have a compromise. So they don’t have to capitulate on the floor. They don’t let Nancy Pelosi dictate what gets passed. So the White House does not have much incentive. Because they think–they think–those trends are going to go in their direction by the end of the week or early next week at the latest because again, the press is largely sympathetic to their arguments on this that it’s the House Republicans’ fault.

Study after study after study shows that campaign contributions from MSM newsrooms go 90% or more to Democrats over Republicans and Conservatives in those newsrooms are a rarity (even those that are called “in house Conservatives”  that we actual Conservatives would call “squishes” like Frum or Brooks or, now, Huntsman).  Ideologically, the reporters and staff are solidly Leftist and are so in the tank for Obama, you might as well call them shock troops.  Or better, First Responders to any Progressive or Progressive stance in need.
It’s just a fact that most Conservatives have to face (right, Micheal Kitch of the Laconia Daily Sun, who all but slimed Ken Eyring as nothing better than a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist (as if Kitch had actually spent the thousands of hours that Ken has in analyzing government document after document)).  It is the Liberal mantra and standard operating procedure:
If you can’t win the actual debate, go all Alinsky and demonize the hell out of the opposition
After all, the LIVs won’t know the difference that your incivility is just politics instead of truth.  And the MSM knows this oh so well to the point where they gain a 5 – 10% margin boost to “their candidates”.
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