Just Another Day At The Globie Propaganda Mill

At the dying Boston Globe, producing partisan political propaganda is the paper’s primary mission. But does that mean we should ignore it?

Take a look at this work of art, for example:

Future GOP candidates shaking off dust from Obama landslide

Sarah Palin keeping door open for the 2012 election.

November 11, 2008

The 2012 tea leaf reading is well underway for Republicans.

Several pundits see significance in Mike Huckabee – the former Arkansas governor turned presidential candidate turned talk show host – starting his book tour in Iowa, where the first nomination contest will take place in January 2012.

Many expect vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to run for the top job, despite harsh criticism from outside and inside John McCain’s campaign. Palin said yesterday that she would speak Thursday at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami, another high-profile appearance.

On Fox News channel last night, Palin said she can’t predict what will happen by 2012 and will rely on God to show her the open doors in her life. “If there is an open door in ’12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door,” she said.

Meanwhile, Charley Manning, a longtime adviser to Mitt Romney, poured some cold water on the former Massachusetts governor’s ambitions.

“I’d be surprised if Mitt ever ran again for president. . . . I sure don’t think it was the best experience of his life,” Manning said on WTKK radio in Boston, citing anti-Mormon bias in the Republican primaries. “There are other things he can do.”

On the other hand, Romney has been piling up political chits – both from his articulate and steadfast support as one of McCain’s top surrogates and from his raising money for congressional Republicans.

There’s no doubt Obama’s win was significant, we won’t try to take that away from him. But a landslide? Not even close.

At Wikipedia, there’s a flawed attempt at both a definition and historical list of “landslide” victories around the world. One contributor has tried to stick Obama’s electoral vote count into the mix, but that has been disputed by others, especially while final counts are still underway in a few states.

Here’s a partial list of real landslides:

* Lyndon Johnson’s 61.1% to Barry Goldwater’s 38.5% in the 1964 presidential election

* Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 60.8% to Alf Landon’s 36.5% in the 1936 presidential election

* Richard Nixon’s 60.7% to George McGovern’s 37.5% in the 1972 presidential election

* Warren Harding’s 60.3% to James Cox’s 34.1% in the 1920 presidential election

* Ronald Reagan’s 58.8% to Walter Mondale’s 40.6% in the 1984 presidential election

* Theodore Roosevelt’s 56.4% to Alton B. Parker’s 37.6% in the 1904 presidential election

As for “anti-Mormon bias”: if it were against their messiah Obama, we know it would be called “bigotry”. But when it hits groups unpopular with the left, it’s merely “bias”.

In the most recent survey, The Globies have lost 10% of their daily print circulation, now down to just 324,000 copies and dropping like a rock. Yes, web traffic is strong, but who could survive on that tiny revenue alone?

What have you done today to undermine our Globie enemies? Are you still buying the paper? Running ads?

What can you do to help finish off this miserable paper for good?

What Margery Is Afraid To Tell You

Let’s face it: Margery Eagan’s performance at the Boston Herald has been spotty for some time. Occasionally, the WTKK talker makes a decent point or two, but it’s usually followed up with a crappy piece that probably isn’t worth publishing.

In particular, she has an obsession with the appearance of other women, coming across as catty and petty. That is still evident in her references to Sarah Palin.

In Sunday’s Herald, however, she’s played defender of evil, attacking those who dare to question the increasingly-creepy cult forming around Barack Obama.

Clearly, the body-snatchers have full control over Margery, so she’s gone on the offensive, accusing cult critics of suffering from “Obama Derangement Syndrome” (itself a cheap rip-off of Michelle Malkin’s Bush Derangement Syndrome of a few years back).

Subject to the Herald’s standards (which must have been relaxed a bit to run this rubbish), it’s her column, so that’s not my objection.

In two places, however, she’s completely out of line. See for yourself:

Meanwhile conservative talk radio, having failed to prevent Obama’s election, has launched the undermine-him-right-out-of-the box squad. My Herald colleague and fellow WTKK 96.9 FM talk radio host Michael Graham has his own Obama resistance movement, warning about civilian police forces and mandatory youth indoctrination, etc.

Personally, I love Michael. Politically, I think he’s out there.

“So Michael, are you deranged?” I asked him yesterday.

“Just because you’re paranoid, huddled in your bed in the fetal position doesn’t mean somebody’s not out to get you,” Michael said.

Deranged? I let you be the judge.

First, Margery wants you to think that conservative talk radio “failed” to defeat Obama, despite being burdened with John McCain, a candidate the right never wanted.

And if Rush Limbaugh and others are so ineffective, where does that leave Margery Eagan? She fails to note in her column that in the most recent Boston ratings, Rush is now beating her program in the critical 25-54 demographic.

That’s thanks to a 22% drop for her team, versus a 44% gain for Rush over spring 2008 figures.

Second, many talk programmers I know would be quite uneasy over the way Eagan has used her column space to attack a fellow host so directly. An oblique reference to The Felon in Howie’s column is one thing, but at most stations, Margery would be in hot water this morning with management.

The problem is that she’s undermining WTKK’s image and credibility by making a co-worker out to be a nutcase. A station’s brand name can be damaged this way.

Obama cultists will be looking for a variety of ways to attack resisters in coming weeks and months and Margery has offered her own approach, weak as it may be.

Sore Winner Attacks Carr

Since yesterday, I’ve been tracking the sore winners out there, Obama supporters who still can’t find reasons to be happy despite their victory.

Here’s another example of an unhinged Obama fan who would rather lash out at Howie Carr than celebrate:

Exile for Carr

Yesterday morning, Howie Carr was just another tired, cranky, bitter old man (“It’s moonbat nation Рbut I’m no citizen,” Nov. 5). Oh wait, that was John McCain. Howie is living in his usual delusional place if he continues to blame just the Democrats for the economy tanking. McCain and all his fellow Republicans were gleefully shuffling up to the trough throughout the whole process. I understand Howie is upset because his grandfather lost, but let’s be real.

By the way, has Howie Carr, in his delusional state, ever met Sarah Palin, who lives in her delusional state (Russia/foreign policy)?

- Bruce McPhee, Yarmouth

Rush Limbaugh had a great point yesterday, that Obama’s “progressive” left will be forced to find new outlets for their eternal rage and anger. With Bush gone, what will they do?

Clearly, as Bruce McPhee indicates, attacking those who dare to criticize their cult leader / messiah will provide one avenue for rage release.