How crazy do you have to be to get the MSM to treat you like a clown?

Just a quick observation.

In today's "we report, you decide" news environment, there is no such thing as a statement by a major Republican that is so crazy that the MSM will judge to be too crazy to report seriously.  The Republicans have caught onto this and are moving the country so far right so quickly that we now have a major Republican Presidential candidate who not long ago actually suggested that his state should consider seceding from the United States!  Why is this guy considered worthy of respect by the MSM?  And this same guy has just implied that he loves America more than President Obama.

Not only that, but at the same time Rick Perry has warned that if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke dares implement a new qualitative easing program (where the Fed buys government bonds to inject more money into the economy) he will consider it treason and that the people in Texas would react to that in an ugly way.  

“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what you all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,”

In fact the real implication here is that if the Obama administration does ANYTHING to help our economy before the next election, it would be an act of treason because it would harm the Republicans chances to defeat Obama and the Democrats in 2012. 

If Perry is saying things like this and still being taken seriously by the MSM, imagine what kind of red meat he'll be throwing out there by primary time with the MSM reporting it seriously?  (I'm betting that by primary time Perry will declare any unemployed American who refuses to take any job offered, even if it's minimum wage, will be declared a traitor and jailed, or worse.  "How dare those slackers expect that hard-working Americans fund their extended vacations at taxpayer expense?"!).

--Trakker

Comments

[Dan D. Doty]

Dude, you really starting to lose it.

That hate inside is eating you up big time.

[horsec]

A “political-journalistic complex” no less dangerous than the “military-industrial complex” that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about half a century ago.
- RICHARD STEIN, NYTimes 20Jul2011

Get your own teat, we're sucking this one.

There is no journalism today that is Discomforting the Comfortable. The press is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America and the rich, both of whom feed at The Cast Iron Rice Bowl, the contemporary Chinese name for government.

[Trakker]

Horsec, good points. No better example of the political-journalistic complex than Murdoch's Fox News in America. They create the message that the other corporate-owned networks generally follow. At least the Washington Post has hired some pretty good bloggers in Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent, and the NYTimes has hired Nate Silver.