Defeated Once Again, Right-Wing Media Wage War...On Voters
Raise your hand if you thought conservatives would respond to President Obama's convincing re-election victory by lashing out at voters and the country as a whole, denouncing the presidential pick as the act of a greedy, lazy nation.
Well, that was part of Sean Hannity's media message yesterday, as the Obama basher tried to make sense of the president's surprisingly easy victory on Tuesday. Having spent the last four years smearing and denouncing the president with every passing breath on the radio and on Fox News, Hannity was faced with the humiliating reality that most voters paid him no mind.
"Americans, you get the government you deserve," the talker told listeners yesterday, his words dripping with contempt. "And it pains me to say this, but America now deserves Barack Obama."
Hannity wasn't alone in lashing out at voters. The disdain has been completely unvarnished. Perhaps it flows from the fact so many people dismissed the far-right warnings about Obama.
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Fox and the others are all opinion outlets and they are there to serve their target audience demographic: poorly educated whites and racists. They have to keep the outrage going to keep their target audience tuning in to watch the ads they sell. It's a dwindling audience, to be sure. Like the cartoon accurately jokes,
But, like the GOP itself, their "base" audience is diminishing in size as each day goes by. We're beyond the tipping point. The histrionics we're seeing and hearing are their death throes. As the election showed, they have no real influence anymore beyond their already-convinced but shrinking demographic.
