Political punditry

This is why I don't bother watching the Sunday shows or watching political coverage on television and why I rarely read the op-eds in the newspaper,

Peggy Noonan, in The Wall Street Journal today:

Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy. She could become a transformative political presence.

Peggy Noonan, thinking her mic is off at the RNC today:

Murphy: "Is she the most qualified woman they could have picked?"
Noonan: "Most qualified? No. I think they went for this - excuse me - political bullsh*t - about narrative. ...

These people are nothing but propogandists. You cannot believe a single word that comes out of their mouths. One must assume that literally every word that they utter for public consumption is spin, half-truth or out-right lie.

I don't know what it says about the state of the corporate media that all of this goes on with the full knowledge, and apparent approval, of the various producers and show hosts. They keep putting these people on the air knowing full well that all involved are just playing roles in a big game.

All of course at the expense of the public, the profession of journalism and oh yeah the health of our democracy.