Strange New Respect - WSJ.com
Posted by in Politics at 10:35 p.m. on April 06th, 20100 Comments 0 Pings
I had no doubt whatsoever that the Democrats’ (and by extension, the US media’s) insistence on the character assassination would backfire:
How is it that the media’s approach has changed so dramatically in just the past couple of weeks? Perhaps the Democrats simply went too far when they claimed that tea-party protesters had shouted racial slurs at black congressmen during the ObamaCare weekend.
[From Strange New Respect - WSJ.com]
I really couldn’t figure out what they were trying to accomplish there. The vote was going, it was decided before the name-calling began. Public opinion obviously had no meaning once they started filing into the Capitol (and probably not before that, either).
There was no way that they could think that making shit up about the 3rd-party opposition, which the Tea Parties represent, could raise public opinion by 30 points in time for the bill signing. Was there?