From Yes, But, However:
Last week Mark Knoller of CBS broke a seemingly big story. He released partial audio of President Obama talking to donors on a mic that was inadvertently “hot”. The tidbits CBS released were great. Chief among them was Mr. Obama calling some Federal employees “slugs” and his taking a much nastier tone with the GOP than he does in front of the cameras. The most famous, Obama asking his donors if the GOP thinks “we’re stupid”, was choice.
However, CBS has not released the entire tape to the public or other media outlets. After several tweets by Yes, But, However! to Mr. Knoller as to why the full tape hasn’t been made public, he responded: “My editors decided against it.” Mr. Knoller offered (no) further explanation…
As what was released was pretty bad, the only rational presumption to be made is that the un-released portion was even worse. This is probably “Bitter Clingers II”. But, the MSM doesn’t care about that – they know their job. Their task, first and foremost, is to help Obama in his re-election efforts. All MSM coverage will be geared towards downplaying anything bad for Obama, highlighting anything good and, of course, a relentless examination of Obama’s opponents – with there being no requirement that accusations against the opponents be credible. To put it bluntly, the MSM will lie through its collective teeth from now until election day, 2012.
The good news is that fewer and fewer people are paying any attention to the MSM. The New Media is rapidly becoming dominant – and especially dominant among those forces most determined to oust Obama.
