WASHINGTON -- I believe I made a mistake when I decided not to
attend the Democratic National Convention. The consequence of that decision
has been that I have had to watch its highlights on national television.
There the media gaggle, with few exceptions, plangently has repeated --
tediously and cheerlessly -- many things that I know to be untrue. The
pre-eminent untruth resounding across the airwaves is that the Clintons are
political geniuses. They are to electioneering what Ludwig van Beethoven was
to the piccolo or Slobodan Milosevic was to ethnic cleansing, to wit,
consummate artists. Since the early 1990s, I sedulously have researched the
Clintons' lives and work. My finding is that they are mediocrities in all
things political, save one: huckstering. Moreover, they are accomplished
hucksters solely because the media are composed of credulous ignoramuses. Do
you think I am being ungentlemanly? I am not alone.
This week, after but two days of watching the media's coverage
of the looming Democratic convention, columnist Tony Blankley -- a gentleman
to the utmost -- coined the term "the mainstream moron media." My guess is
that Blankley was perfectly serene when he typed out that line. Most
probably, he was wearing an immaculately starched English shirt. Possibly,
he was wearing a tie, and almost certainly, he had his pants on. But really after two days of the media's homogenized mush,
enough is enough. "When I turned the TV on," Blankley wrote at the outset of
the convention coverage, "the political cable shows were filled with liberal
pundits, liberal anchors, liberal guest historians, liberal weather gals and
guys, liberal news-you-can-use chicks and liberal political 'strategists'
(i.e., out-of-work former Democratic National Committee gofers)."
Practically everything they droned on about was stupid.
Blankley was particularly critical of the blah, blah, blah that
followed the Prophet Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in
their Campaign for Change. Joe is a minor Washington monument, complete with
a stone head. He has been a senator for 36 years. He may have been a
congressional page during the administration of Grover Cleveland. Yet the
mainstream moron media were in the raptures over the Prophet's bold choice.