Congeries of cross connected concepts
The key lesson from the Senator Rubio drinking water is that for conservatives Old Media is an implacable enemy and will drive the most trivial stories if its politically apt1. Conservative politicians need to learn that you might as well be hung for a wolf as a sheep and not even try to appease the political hacks who comprise Old Media.
P.S. I must note the incredible gullibility of Old Media when the story is channeled by The Narrative. Just recently we have the Sarah Palin joins Al-Jazeera and now the flagrant misquote of Rand Paul. It’s not that mistakes are made, its that no effort to verify is done.
1 Just contrast coverage of Senators Rubio and Menendez vs. the severity of the underlying scandal.
| erp Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 09:09 |  |
In the making-lemonade-out-of-lemons dept, the Rubio campaign sold 100,000 bottles of water since the episode (sorry don’t have link). I wouldn’t mind having one myself, although I don’t think his conservatism will hold up under pressure.
| Annoying Old Guy Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 10:38 | |
We can contrast with coverage of President Obama, such as articles talking about the crushing burden of new taxes that somehow manage to not mention Obama, as if these policies just happened, like hurricanes.
