Comment by armadillo — 11/8/2008 @ 4:31 pm

I heartily agree with both of your comments, sir…

It doesn’t seem to matter though, to Obama & Co, that their policies are viewed as ruinous by many in the Investor class. What is puzzling though, is how they still voted for him and hoped he would change his tune when the time came…

What I’m about to say will make all wonder whether I’m wearing a tin-foil hat, but here goes; Obama-Reid-Pelosi-et al, need for the economy to be totally tanking. Just like they wished for the Iraq war to be hopelessly FUBARed. These people need the public perception of any issue they wish to move on to be one of apocalyptic crisis; that’s where the MSM comes into play. When folks think that there is absolutely no hope in the status quo, and impending doom due to the crisis, they are willing to accept almost anything that could possibly make things better; and believe me, when the time comes, the MSM will be trumpeting how the proposed socialist hopenchange will solve all of their problems…

Basically, the majority of folks want to trust their government so that they don’t have to pay attention to all of the things being done-in their name. They’d rather watch TV sports, American Idol-esque pablum, play video games, or engage in some alternative self-serving pastime. Among the ways that the MSM has worked the electorate into a change lather was to harp so much on the failures of eeeeeevil Booooooosh! that they felt like they couldn’t trust what was going on. You can be sure that the MSM’s reprise to their Obama love fest during the campaign season will be to convince all that they can trust him to take care of their business. The MSM will try to do this in the hope that we will all go back to our pastimes, and pay no attention until the next election; when they can tell us all how much we like hopenchange and to feel free to vote for him and his congressional allies, again…

Best Wishes…

Rob-Rod – That’s the most stupid thing I’ve seen you say yet, but nobody can bat 1.000. The comp practices are egregious, I agree with you there.

I am not really serious about this, but…

Do any of you remember an episode of “The Outer Limits” (or was it “Twilight Zone”?) where the Earth was visited by aliens who were technologically advanced, enforced peace on Earth, etc., and started taking shiploads of people to visit their planet?
Somehow a group of researchers obtained a copy of their book entitled “To Serve Man” which described their intent to be benevolent. As one of the group is boarding the spaceship for her vacation a coworker comes running up and yells, “It’s a cook book!”, but the alien guards won’t let her turn around.

Makes one worried what a “civilian security force as large and well equipped as the military” might be guarding.

-Bill

You put a bunch of losers who don’t believe in the profit motive in charge of a paper WTF do you expect?

Be so happy when the NYT, Wash Post, etc go down the toilet.

It explains the Casino on Wall Street as well as the grossl;y over-valued compensation packages of money changers.

Well, if I got the link formed correctly, this is a youtube recording from Rush Limbaugh’s show of a series of clips from 10/20/2008 Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw pretty much saying they don’t know anything about Pres. Elect Obama. (don’t know about how he sees China–do we know anything about the people advising him–etc.).

Since many in the financially troubled media, the LA Times (and other newspapers) in particular, are on a sinking ship, it’s no surprise that the quasi-Socialist sympathies of many of them are at a fever pitch right now. They probably hope that an Obama White House will be more favorable to the idea of giving government subsidies to friendly voices throughout corporate America, or that laid-off workers in Obama-nation will receive increasingly generous and easygoing unemployment (if not eventually welfare) benefits similar to those found in Europe.

Comment by MD in Philly — 11/8/2008 @ 5:32 pm:
Says Rose, “You know, we really don’t know that much about him … During his speech you could tell he was not only giving the speech and observing the crowd, but he was observing himself interacting with the crowd, everything he does is calculated… There’s this cult of personality that is spooky”

If your quote is accurate — and assuming I’m correct in guessing that Charlie Rose’s political preferences are very close to or identical with those of the tens of thousands of wealthy Democrats (aka limousine liberals) throughout New York’s Manhattan — I’m not sure if it reflects nervousness…

“Yikes, Obama is distressing me the same way that Mayor Bloomberg, with his many proposals for new higher taxes from A to Z, is scaring me!”

Or a peculiar form of respect and excitement:

“Obama’s cult of personality is awesome — like that of the many wonderful Hollywood celebrities I’m always interviewing — and his calculated approach to politics is so reassuring, similar to that of impressively clever Bill and Hillary!”