Our Finest Hour
By Randall Nunn (11/04/04)
The spinning by the media won’t be able to conceal what happened last night in this country—a huge win for traditional American values (i.e., conservatism). Despite the open hostility of almost all the mainstream media, most of the academic world, the “one worlder” international community, Michael Moore, George Soros, the assembled wealth of the guilt-ridden leftists and the rantings of the hippies (both old and new models), President Bush won a resounding victory.
What is even more impressive is that the Republicans won more seats in both the House and the Senate, in addition to winning the presidency handily. This was a “realigning” victory for sure and the first time since 1988 that a presidential candidate won a majority of the popular vote. With all the forces of the media and the money of the left arrayed against us, we still turned out in record numbers and defeated liberalism openly, cleanly and decisively. No matter what spin the media moguls try to put on this, it was a victory of major proportions, both symbolically and in reality.
It was apparent last night that all three of the major broadcast networks were openly against President Bush. Most of the cable networks were equally hostile and displayed their lack of objectivity, courage and independent thought. Even FOX News was disappointing in their inability and unwillingness to “call” Iowa, New Mexico and Nevada for President Bush when it was obvious that he had won those states. The false exit poll data that made it into the Internet yesterday afternoon rattled many people and caused doubt and the herd mentality, driven by that old bugaboo “conventional wisdom”, to move the ideologically weak to express fear for Bush’s chances. The “high water mark” for the liberal media came last night when Peter Jennings of ABC News “projected” Nevada for President Bush at the same time that they showed 100% of the precincts reporting and a comfortable vote margin for Bush. Excuse me, Peter, but I think that is called “announcing the result” rather than “projecting” a winner. But then I don’t have the journalistic training and expertise that Jennings has.
The other sure sign of defeat of the liberals came late last night when the anchors of all the networks started asking how the Republicans planned to bring a divided country together and “heal” the divisions. When you hear that, you know they are on the ropes. My formula for “healing” the differences would be to stop airing phony documents shortly before an election in an effort to influence gullible voters, stop praising false and malicious propaganda films as “documentaries”, stop maligning people because of their religious views or what part of the country they are from and show a little objectivity and humility instead of arrogance and condescension. But somehow I think the answer the liberal pundits are looking for is for conservatives to “moderate” their views, accept liberal viewpoints and compromise their values in the spirit of “coming together.” This is like saying “You’ve won a great victory after a hard-fought campaign in which the issues were clear cut—now share power with the losers until we can re-group and try this again.”
Sorry Peter, Tom and Dan—I think you are swell guys but you should retire, go write books explaining how we are all just not enlightened enough to understand our errors and leave us to interpret reality for ourselves. Never in the history of the media have so many, with so much money and power, tried so hard for so long to skew the results of an election and failed so miserably. The election of 2004 was truly historic and now those who used their positions of power for purely partisan purposes should accept that their day is over and fade away into the mists of time.
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