Message: Stay Home! / Howard Kurtz

[Contrary1]

Well, our secret is out.

Someone must have leaked the confidential plan.

It was diabolically clever, I must say. We MSM types, after meeting in a parking garage, decided that our best hope for handing this election to the Democrats is to suppress Republican turnout .

Bwahahahahaha.

You see, it's not that we care about the carnage in Iraq, or members of Congress cyberstalking teenage pages. We just want Republicans to stay home, thus ensuring Democratic control of Congress and the continued dominance of the liberal-media worldview.

Brilliant, don't you think? And it might have succeeded if only some traitor hadn't given us up.

I don't know how this became the new Republican talking point. I mean, I'm all for criticizing the media for, say, overplaying the Foley scandal or running too many polls-say-Democrats-will-win stories. But what journalist even thinks about convincing voters to stay home?

Yet there was the star of "Hannity & the Other Guy" on Friday--the same Sean Hannity who is campaigning for Republican Michael Steele today in the Maryland Senate race--declaring that "the media seems somewhat complicit. I argue that there's even sort of an institutionalized bias to sort of suppress voting and take away initiative from people -- that's how I feel -- based on the news coverage."

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html/

[acmavm]

1. Maybe they think they will be able to guilt fed-up repubs into

voting for them.

[colonel odis]

2. they have to have someone to blame. it's a compulsion with repubs.

what little shits they must have been in the schoolyard, constantly blaming the other kids for everything they always did.