Posted by
Ion2012 on Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:37:48 AM
On election day, anticipating the impending calamity, I canceled my newspaper subscription. No, I'm not a techie who prefers news from the internet. I have subscribed to a daily paper for 30 years. But it has become obvious that my paper, like many, many others, consider themselves advocacy vehicles for the Democratic Party. I am therefore paying to help them support policies to which I object.
I am not saying, however, that the media was the main cause of Barack Obama's victory, just that it was a significant factor. Perhaps, I would not have cared so much, if Obama had not been able to outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars (I know, in large part because of McCain's own sanctimonious support of campaign finance reform), but the fact is that Republicans need to try to get their spending advantage back to help compensate for the political popularity of appeals to "spreading the wealth." At the very least, I can stop supporting Democratic views financially.
So, after canceling my newspaper, I changed my internet homepage from MSNBC to Fox News. I have decided to avoid movies of the stars who are actively and visibly involved in trashing Republicans (Matt Damon, John Cusack, and on and on). I help build their reputation, which they then use to help them impose their policies on me. I'd stop watching Oprah, too, if I had ever watched her show. Subscriptions to Time and Newsweek? Gone, too. Republicans should all try this. Democrats have politicized more and more areas of our lives. The media, both news and entertainment, for example, unfairly and dishonestly reduced Sarah Palin to a caricature, and I say that as someone who was underwhelmed by her (what, the media couldn't think of any good jokes about Biden and Obama?). We don't have to sell them the rope (in this case, buy the rope) to hang ourselves.