Daily Howler: Challenge media script NOW or it's McCain in the WH in 2008.

[Karmadillo]

The Howler is dead on. We need to be prepared to effectively fight back against the corporate media or we will lose again and again and again. They smeared Gore in 2000, they smeared Kerry in 2004, and they'll smear whomever we put up in 2008.

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In our view, Arianna judged extremely unwisely during Campaign 2000—but of course, that sometimes happens. Sadly, she was worse than unwise when she savaged Gore as a serial liar—when she typed the phony scripts which plainly sent Bush to the White House. (By the way: Gore always was pro-choice.) This is precisely the “horrific” conduct which Heilemann knows he must never report. And Arianna refuses to mention it too—though she practiced it, back in real time. Today, she says it’s Gore who has changed—and, without mentioning how she has changed, she once again sits down to judge him.

By the way: Why does Arianna endorse someone whose “entire career has been laden with untruths—all demonstrating a pattern of serial abuse of language, truth and reality?” We’re puzzled when we see such a reversal. Is it because he seemed funny last week?

Heilemann will never tell you the truth—and neither, it sometimes seems, will Arianna, at least when it comes to this matter. And here’s the problem—the crucial problem—with bad-faith posts by various people who criticize Gore for Campaign 2K and fail to mention the “horrific” conduct which made that campaign so astounding. Even as we speak, the press corps is scripting our next White House race—and their script will send McCain to the White House. But guess what? As Arianna (and others) keep misdirecting young liberals, young liberals fail to understand how our elections are getting decided. Like Heilemann, Arianna disappears what happened in Campaign 2K—and that encourages us to overlook the ongoing scripting of Campaign 08. And make no mistake—John McCain will be elected unless we challenge the press corps’ script now. They invented a demon in Campaign 2K. They’re inventing a brilliant saint now.

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