‘Why Are They So Bad At This Game?’

[kentuck]

http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/why_are_they_so_bad_at_this_game.php?ref=fpblg

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Longtime reader, but this is the first time I’ve commented or written.

Watching the Dems (lack of) reaction to the news that Republicans much fabricated self-serving quotes (or misquoted if you care to be generous about it) from the Benghazi e-mails and fed them to the press makes me wonder (again) why are they so bad at this game?


If Democrats had fed something like this to the press and were found out we’d have seen at least 100 Republican Congressman on TV already using the opening to describe their opponents as unreliable and willing to do anything to win. They’d have explained that the entire Benghazi affair was nothing more than the leaked e-mails writ large — where their political opponents were twisting the truth and presenting misleading information in the hope that something will stick with the public. That they were more concerned with undermining the President and hurting Hillary than in governing. They might even make it a consistent meta-narrative over a period of months calling back to all the other times Republicans had distorted facts to mislead.

Obama? Congressional Dems? They let the media do their heavy lifting, as if they’re somehow above the fray. It’s infuriating.

[Arugula Latte]

1. A lot of us have been wondering this for 20 years.

And, yes, the media is corporate-whoredom times fifty, but too many Democrats don't even try to combat anything.

[DJ13]

2. Its no coincidence that 20 year span coincides with DLC control of the party

They are more than happy to let their buddies on the right control the message, as it makes their own right leaning ideas sound moderate by comparison.

[nenagh]

3. TPMLivewire: by Igor Bobic: "Obama Officials on Benghazi Response...

'Incompetence' Not 'Cover Up' "....

Maybe I'm misreading this...and it's actually from the Onion...

Can't be an accurate quote, surely?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Name a TV station that has more Democrats on than Republicans. They're

not invited on to MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, nor Faux.

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. They're very good at the game. They're just playing a different game than the one we

would like to believe they are playing. Neither party can allow the other to become completely irrelevant as that would leave a space for another team, one which they don't own, onto the field. No matter how awful the republicans get, the Democrats will legitimize them.

Just think of how awkward 2009 and 2010 were for the Democrats. Holding all three branches of government and still trying to play the helpless-in-the-face-of-those-mean-republicans card as their excuse for implementing hard-right, anti-people policies.

[RandiFan1290]

6. It's in the script?