Hey, pseudo-liberal Obamiacs – stop the MSM-bashing

I love all the dyed-in-the-wool Democrats seeing a “horse race” line coming out of the so-called mainstream media, or MSM, about how Tuesday’s election was a “referendum” on Obama that he lost due to the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races.

The truth? Not quite that.

Here, the New York Times, the old gray lady of the mainstream media, reports in detail on Republican party angst after an intra-party split cost it the NY-23 Congressional seat. Tim Pawlenty and Mike Huckabee are quoted chiding fellow Republicans not to go to such a state again. Others comment as well.

Here, Politico, about as MSM as you can get in “new media,” being founded by Washington Post expats, interviews S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham, warning his party not to move too far right for more such details.

Or, like Glenn Greenwald, why don’t you Obamiacs look at a race Obama may well have cost his party by being a no-show, namely, his refusal to campaign against New York City’s authoritarian plutocrat mayor?

Besides, you need to get at the back of the line, behind third-party supporters, for real rights to MSM bashing.

If the MSM is missing an angle, it’s not talking more about the two-party duopoly’s stranglehold on state and federal election laws. With Chris Daggett in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race and Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23, this was an ideal opportunity.

For that matter, what about the op-ed pages? Why isn’t the NYT editorializing for nationwide public financing of Congressional campaigns, including for third-party candidates? Here in Texas, why aren’t major papers calling on the Legislature to undo onerous third-party ballot access laws?

Or, gay rights activists. You have room to complain. The “Bradley effect,” after the late former Los Angeles mayor, Tom Bradley, is supposedly when polls report an assured black candidates win, but the actual vote is much closer, or he or she even loses. After the win of Prop 1, there, overturning the Maine Legislature’s gay-marriage bill, you have to wonder if the same applies on gay-rights initiatives, with people saying they’ll vote to support gay rights, then turning around and voting against.
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