Seriously. How long is this "Blame the Media" shtick gonna be useful?

[jtuck004]

Palin the Puppy made it fashionable to use this to deflect crticism, and I am hearing it more frequently, it seems.

Will using that phrase publicly ever become the show-stopper it should?

[trumad]

1. I "Blame the Media" for a great majority of the problems today.

She blames it for political use because it's a catch phrase in her limited mind...Lamestream Media.

I blame it because I think 99 percent of the MSM are whores who helped lead us into war and continue spouting horseshit.

[liberal N proud]

2. It has worked for many years for the right wing

How long have they called it the liberal media?, Since when has the media been liberal?

[gratuitous]

3. As long as it keeps working so well for Palin, et al

Of course, when the media are sucking up to power (and when aren't they?), when you mention that it might look the weensiest bit biased if viewed in the right light from a certain angle, the media chuckleheads all adopt the look of a dog watching a card trick.

[fifthoffive]

4. Spiro Agnew

is the first politician I heard using this tactic (to defend Nixon), although it may very well have been used even before then.

It will never lose its appeal as there's always a new generation of fools who will believe it.

[thucythucy]

5. Nixon had already used it in 1962

during his "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" drunken concession speech, after losing the race for governor of California to Jerry Brown Sr.

The fact that Brown was a popular sitting governor, that the economy was good, and that Nixon knew nothing about Californian issues and was clearly only interested in using Sacramento as a stepping stone for another presidential run (he at one point told a reporter he was running "for governor of the United States&quot had nothing to do with it. Neither did Nixon attempting to label Governor Brown a communist and/or communist sympathizer.

No, it was that gosh darn awful librul media. They'd had it in for Nixon ever since the Checkers speech, if not earlier.

Just as an aside: I bet if someone asked her, Sarah Palin would be unable to tell us what years Nixon was president. I bet she also wouldn't have a clue who Spiro Agnew was.

[jtuck004]

6. I know and remember others using it, but it seems to me that when what's

her name started using it, it became much more acceptable.

I remember people that used to kinda stop and shake their heads for a moment of skepticism. I no longer see that even among folks I would expect it from. In person I can craft an answer to that kind of response, but it is being repeated incessantly on the air, with no way to rebut it, and seems almost to be more accepted as "the answer", cause the discussion ends at that point.

Maybe the media is at fault for allowing reports that accept that as a comment without an editorial remark.

Or maybe we have just had skepticism bred out of us.