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Finally, the Best of the Web Today Catches Up With The Blog from the Core

Here's a bit from James Taranto, Tuesday. Pay special attention to the last paragraph.

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Dems in Bizarro World—I

From USA Today's Jill Lawrence, here is the most laughably partisan piece of reporting we've seen since the election:

Imagine a Democratic presidential candidate and his allies assailing the character of the Republican nominee in ads and speeches every day for eight months.

Having trouble? That's because Democrats generally don't have the stomach or the discipline to do it. Often they don't even effectively fight back when under attack themselves.

But with George W. Bush's second inauguration next week, Democrats are pondering their choices in a Feb. 12 election for party chairman and rethinking what might be called their character problem.

Democrats "as a group are uneasy" about attacking and defending on character, says Harold Ickes, a former Clinton aide who heads the Media Fund, a political ad organization. "But they damn well better get the stomach," he adds, because "we've seen way too many of our candidates taken down on issues of character."

It seems Jill Lawrence was in Bhutan all last year when the Democrats were busy calling President Bush a liar, a moron, a coward, a military deserter, a puppet of Dick Cheney and the Jews, and another Hitler. What are they going to say if they "get the stomach" to wage character attacks—that he's the original Hitler?

This is the sort of thing that drives conservatives crazy, but it actually illustrates why the liberal media are the Republicans' secret weapon. The Democrats are the victim of their own con game. They put out the most outrageous spin, which reporters like Lawrence dutifully regurgitate, and then Dems believe it because, hey, the "objective" media have reported it! It's as if Communist Party functionaries actually believed what was "reported" in the old Pravda.

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This is the sort of thing that drives conservatives crazy, but it actually illustrates why the liberal media are the Republicans' secret weapon. The Democrats are the victim of their own con game. Where have you seen something like that before, Faithful Reader?

Well, if you've been paying attention — and you have been paying attention, right? — you saw it here at The Blog all last year:

Core's Law of Old Media: We see the Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode partly because America's liberals believe their own lying propaganda.

In fact, you could have read it here almost a year ago, in Podhoretz Nails It (Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CXLIV):

.... I think we need a new law. How about Core's Law of Old Media? We see the Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode partly because America's liberals believe their own lying propaganda.

P.S. If you would care to alert them to having been beaten to the punch here by nearly a year, I wouldn't stop you, even if I could. :-)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 01/13/05 07:13:03 AM
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