As Election Day nears, Romney crowds are surging
I simply had to laugh.
I’ve covered Mitt Romney events in Bow, in Nashua and at St. Anselm College. All three of these rallies had huge crowds particularly for a small state like New Hampshire
All of these events were long before AP discovered large crowd for Mitt.
Stacy McCain as well has covered huge Romney crowds in Ohio
Last night’s rally in Fisherville, Virginia, was so crowded, I couldn’t even get inside with media credentials, and really was lucky to get there at all. When I turned off the ramp from I-81 onto I-64, I was confronted by an absolutely gridlocked traffic jam, backed up all the way to Exit 91, more than four miles away.
None of these events were private, none of them were secret and the Media that follows Gov Romney could see them, yet the size of these crowds somehow were not newsworthy at the time.
For the few voters who still believe them it is VITAL to the MSM that they be seen saying what is actually going to happen. As long as there was a chance that they could change the narrative into a democratic victory they soldiered on…So instead their new mission is to be perceived as actually reporting news rather than spinning it. Thus comes media credibility day, the day the press decides to act like actual reporters instead of liberal advocates
The clock is running down and Far left delusional chimps not withstanding nobody with skin in the game thinks Joe Biden turned this around.
So now comes the stories of Romney’s strength, they will start as a trickle but as it becomes clearer and clearer where this race is going, they will become a deluge until the media says with a straight face that of COURSE they saw how this race was going Romney’s way and will point to their coverage in the coming days to show just how unbiased they are.
Just make sure you aren’t drinking anything when you hear them say it.
Polls are lagging indicators, and it is the trend that matters. The RCP average for Ohio has Obama leading 1.7 points, whereas the lead was 5.5 points on Oct. 3. The latest poll from the Democrat firm PPP has Obama still leading Ohio by 5 points, which goes to show you: Don’t let polls freak you out.
As this trend continues expect more examples of the coming Media Credibility Day™.
Update 2: Instalanche thanks Glenn a second example here.
Update 3: Right wing news wants to believe but is nervous. John every candidate in anything resembling a contested race with the possible exception of Niki Tsongas has been running away from Obama for a year. When I see such candidates running toward him then I’ll believe I’m wrong.
I DO advocate cocky, I just don’t advocate lazy.
I’ve covered Mitt Romney events in Bow, in Nashua and at St. Anselm College. All three of these rallies had huge crowds particularly for a small state like New Hampshire
All of these events were long before AP discovered large crowd for Mitt.
Stacy McCain as well has covered huge Romney crowds in Ohio
Last night’s rally in Fisherville, Virginia, was so crowded, I couldn’t even get inside with media credentials, and really was lucky to get there at all. When I turned off the ramp from I-81 onto I-64, I was confronted by an absolutely gridlocked traffic jam, backed up all the way to Exit 91, more than four miles away.
None of these events were private, none of them were secret and the Media that follows Gov Romney could see them, yet the size of these crowds somehow were not newsworthy at the time.
For the few voters who still believe them it is VITAL to the MSM that they be seen saying what is actually going to happen. As long as there was a chance that they could change the narrative into a democratic victory they soldiered on…So instead their new mission is to be perceived as actually reporting news rather than spinning it. Thus comes media credibility day, the day the press decides to act like actual reporters instead of liberal advocates
The clock is running down and Far left delusional chimps not withstanding nobody with skin in the game thinks Joe Biden turned this around.
So now comes the stories of Romney’s strength, they will start as a trickle but as it becomes clearer and clearer where this race is going, they will become a deluge until the media says with a straight face that of COURSE they saw how this race was going Romney’s way and will point to their coverage in the coming days to show just how unbiased they are.
Just make sure you aren’t drinking anything when you hear them say it.
Polls are lagging indicators, and it is the trend that matters. The RCP average for Ohio has Obama leading 1.7 points, whereas the lead was 5.5 points on Oct. 3. The latest poll from the Democrat firm PPP has Obama still leading Ohio by 5 points, which goes to show you: Don’t let polls freak you out.
As this trend continues expect more examples of the coming Media Credibility Day™.
Update 2: Instalanche thanks Glenn a second example here.
Update 3: Right wing news wants to believe but is nervous. John every candidate in anything resembling a contested race with the possible exception of Niki Tsongas has been running away from Obama for a year. When I see such candidates running toward him then I’ll believe I’m wrong.
There’s another reason they tanked-in for this pathetic creature: Back in SEP 2009, Obama strongly hinted at the possibility of a “bailout” for the MSM (perhaps in his second term, when he could be, “more flexible”). My translation of Obama-to-MSM: “Play ball, -cover for me, and we’ll see what we can do for ya sometime in the future”. The story lasted for two days and then pretty much went down the memhole; I can only find two surviving references to it today.
Places like the NYT, LAT, WaPo, HuffPo/Newsweek are hemorrhaging $$$$.
It’s a lot more than their ideology at stake, folks. Their financial lives, fortunes and careers are on the chopping block.
Their retreat from obamabs began at least as far back as Newsweek’s cover article by Niall Ferguson. We’ll now be treated to a gradually growing retreat under fire.
I Hope the Right Blogosphere can successfully keep reminding everybody -endlessly- what a craven flock of poop birds the MSM has been.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening at all.
“As long as there was a chance that they could change the narrative into a democratic victory they soldiered on”
I don’t think that they had any intention of “chagning the narrative.” They would have been happy if they could, but I don’t think that it was their primary urge. I think that they always knew that Romney was going to trounce Obama, and they resisted reporting that as long as they could so that they could keep people tuned in for the latest news from the campaign.
Sure, they are partisans, but let’s look at their true motivations. The corporations want to make money. That means attracting eyeballs to sell to advertisers. The reporters themselves flatter themselves by believing that they are “informing the public” in this grand experiment in democracy. If everyone knows what the outcome will be, no one will listen to the reporters. Then these reporters will be forced back into reporting on the latest stupid antics of drunken Celebutards. It’s hard to pretend that your job is important when you have to report things like that.
“Sure, they are partisans, but let’s look at their true motivations. The corporations want to make money. That means attracting eyeballs to sell to advertisers.”
Which is why Hollywood lost so many millions on anti Iraq war movies nobody went to see… because they’re really all about the profits.
In a corporation, management motives have little to do with profit and the motives of the line workers (reporters, in this cae) even less. Economists call this the agency problem. They care about the good opinion of their peers. They care about their sense of their own importance. They care about what corporate resources they can feather their own nests with. Profit, not so much.
[…] to believe this. However, I refuse to get complacent. Is there a Media Credibility Day™ coming? Da Tech Guy* thinks yes: The clock is running down and Far left delusional chimps not withstanding nobody with skin in the […]
I suspect that the day of reckoning is nigh…when they start reporting reality, rather than what they wish…then that day is very near indeed. I suspect that Mr. Romney is about to unleash upon Mr. Obama the sort of ass-whipping that Mr. Carter explained as “the electrate’s retiring me…”
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There’s another reason they tanked-in for this pathetic creature: Back in SEP 2009, Obama strongly hinted at the possibility of a “bailout” for the MSM (perhaps in his second term, when he could be, “more flexible”). My translation of Obama-to-MSM: “Play ball, -cover for me, and we’ll see what we can do for ya sometime in the future”. The story lasted for two days and then pretty much went down the memhole; I can only find two surviving references to it today.
Places like the NYT, LAT, WaPo, HuffPo/Newsweek are hemorrhaging $$$$.
It’s a lot more than their ideology at stake, folks. Their financial lives, fortunes and careers are on the chopping block.
Their retreat from obamabs began at least as far back as Newsweek’s cover article by Niall Ferguson. We’ll now be treated to a gradually growing retreat under fire.
I Hope the Right Blogosphere can successfully keep reminding everybody -endlessly- what a craven flock of poop birds the MSM has been.
DaTechGuy: I will point out that I was the first to advocate cockiness: http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/is-it-possible-to-enjoy-schadenfreude-too-much/
Great post, and I think you analysis here is spot on. The only thing the elite media hates more than a Republican is a loser.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening at all.
“As long as there was a chance that they could change the narrative into a democratic victory they soldiered on”
I don’t think that they had any intention of “chagning the narrative.” They would have been happy if they could, but I don’t think that it was their primary urge. I think that they always knew that Romney was going to trounce Obama, and they resisted reporting that as long as they could so that they could keep people tuned in for the latest news from the campaign.
Sure, they are partisans, but let’s look at their true motivations. The corporations want to make money. That means attracting eyeballs to sell to advertisers. The reporters themselves flatter themselves by believing that they are “informing the public” in this grand experiment in democracy. If everyone knows what the outcome will be, no one will listen to the reporters. Then these reporters will be forced back into reporting on the latest stupid antics of drunken Celebutards. It’s hard to pretend that your job is important when you have to report things like that.
I think you are correct that they are now showing things like big crowds and better poll numbers because they can’t go straight from “it’s close” to “blowout” in one day.
http://www.ncgunblog.com/2012/10/08/there-is-no-romney-surge/
@Sean D Sorrentino
“Sure, they are partisans, but let’s look at their true motivations. The corporations want to make money. That means attracting eyeballs to sell to advertisers.”
Which is why Hollywood lost so many millions on anti Iraq war movies nobody went to see… because they’re really all about the profits.
In a corporation, management motives have little to do with profit and the motives of the line workers (reporters, in this cae) even less. Economists call this the agency problem. They care about the good opinion of their peers. They care about their sense of their own importance. They care about what corporate resources they can feather their own nests with. Profit, not so much.
[…] to believe this. However, I refuse to get complacent. Is there a Media Credibility Day™ coming? Da Tech Guy* thinks yes: The clock is running down and Far left delusional chimps not withstanding nobody with skin in the […]
I suspect that the day of reckoning is nigh…when they start reporting reality, rather than what they wish…then that day is very near indeed. I suspect that Mr. Romney is about to unleash upon Mr. Obama the sort of ass-whipping that Mr. Carter explained as “the electrate’s retiring me…”
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