When campaigns are conducted it’s virtually impossible to discount the affect the media has on the candidates and the issues. The Press (both print and broadcast media) has the effect of helping the candidates to construct and destroy edifices. These false fronts are where they posture and preen so they can create more false fronts to present to the American people. The media constructs the silk screen the candidates hide behind with strategically placed holes through which they’ll sneak a peek. They report what they see from a limited viewpoint.
The conservatives have FOX, The Washington Times, the various conservative blogs and internet sites catering to the desire for more traditional forms of government, and reminiscences of the “good old days”. Each effort put across by the pimp is to get you to recognize your fantasy and their ability to produce what you want in the body of the candidate they find most favorable, at the moment. Sometimes truth works; other times it’s a lie, a form of misdirection because they have an agenda of their own.
Pimps have no loyalty to anybody other than themselves. They’ll sacrifice, at the drop of a hat, their prime money-maker for the sake of new talent. You must only pay attention to the roller-coaster ride a national campaign represents to see the ups and downs of any particular candidate and how he/she fares in polls and/or primary results. Like sharks the media pick-off the weakness of the candidates floundering in the surf while nurturing the remora (sucker-fish) living off the waste given them by the shark.
All Presidential candidates have a percentage of their character base centered in their narcissism. They love themselves so much and want to share it with us – the voters. The problem is the go-between for this illicit love affair is the pimping/pandering action of the media. They meet us in the shadowy side-streets of a campaign and report what they believe we want to hear. The liberals have their pimps: MSNBC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The L.A. Times etc.
It’s a parasitic relationship feeding off of headlines. Headlines are what get readers/viewers. Lead stories require controversy to titillate and entice the audience to buy their wares. Selling their wares ensures the growth of their advertising dollars and increases their monetary solvency. Truth, innuendoes, lies, suspicions and fabrications have no barriers between them and the truth for some in the media. The format used in framing a question can be either negative or positive dependent upon the needs of the reporter. The greatest ally of a reporter is the candidates’ own narcissism; their overwhelming self-love and self-centering is prey for the opportunistic in the gallery.
Mitt Romney, for a while, was the candidate of greatest expectation. He’s been running so long he’s catching up to Ron Paul as a caricature of the perennial candidate. He’s nearly become a redundancy as much as others before him. But when the combative element of Newt Gingrich’s personality exerted itself, the media started the near magnetic attraction they have for controversy. He’s a multi-time philanderer and a Speaker of the House rejected by his own party at one time. He’s a self-centered lexicographer, a student of the lexical component of language crafting words and pithy statements to attract audiences and push them toward his agendas. He’s cotton topped geriatric Obama.
He and the media work well together - for the moment.
But this is a matter of comparison, a place where one camp lays claim to a shoreline on the Rubicon, a point of crossing over, a place where commitment becomes solidified. After they cross it, there’s no turning back. One has to wonder how much of a push either candidate gets from the pimps pulling the connective strings makes them dance.
No matter the candidate: Obama v. Gingrich/Romney/Paul, the media will be pandering to the prurient desires of the American people to watch a candidate’s destruction and possibly the ascendancy of their favorite son in the contest.
The winner doesn’t matter; the media will have a guiding role in the selection of the platform these strange bedfellows lay on together.
Thanks for listening
