We’re in that strange season of Liberal Limbo where everyone feels safe piling on a Democrat president. In the most glaring example, the media’s finally caught up to the Solyndra scandal and have decided to give it the attention it deserves. Which leaves only one question…
Why?
Because when you’re 14 months out from an election none of this matters. For now, these media reports might help to drag Barack Obama down into the thirties approval-wise, but we’re only in the middle of the second act of The One’s political story which means plenty of time remains for the thrilling 2012 comeback climax the MSM is most certainly crafting this very day.
You see, there’s no mustache-twisting villain yet. Republicans haven’t chosen a front-runner. But once the Right has a standard-bearer, the MSM will have their target — their villain — and Solyndra, the rise in poverty, chronic unemployment and even a second Great Recession will disappear from media-memory like last week’s thrilling chapter of “The Perils of The One!”
Moreover, the Palace Guards in the Obama-enamored media are also looking for cover. In the future, when the breathtaking bias they’ve shown these last few years is thrown in their smug faces, they’ll attempt to defend their corruption by pointing to Solyndra in the same way they once pointed to their heavy coverage of Whitewater, which also hit its peak — wait for it, wait for it — when it didn’t matter.
And don’t think for a second the MSM will allow Solyndra to do any kind of permanent damage to Obama. Politico’s already building a firewall:
Solyndra’s headline-grabbing demise has brought the White House a big PR headache.But this isn’t Watergate, Iran-Contra or “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” So what is it? Is Solyndra simply a bad $535 million investment from a previously obscure government program that went south? Or a full-blown scandal where senior administration officials are going to end up spending more time with their families (and lawyers)?
Nothing to see here folks, just media smoke. Please return to being scared by Rick Perry.
Sounds an awful like, “It’s just about sex.”
There’s always the possibility that something undeniable might be found during these congressional investigations that even the media can’t wrist-flick away. And with New Media on the rise the MSM is going to have to work a little harder at that wicked alchemy of theirs that once turned “perjury” into “just sex.” But for now all we’re seeing is the media playing dress up as a (deep voice here) credible, skeptical, unbiased watchdog of the public trust!
This too shall pass.
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