SO, SO MANY THINGS TO SET STRAIGHT - The Moderate Independent

http://moderateindependent.com/v2i21bico.htm

NOVEMBER 15, 2004 – My, my, my. Look at the non-Moderate Independent media at work.

People who believe our elections should have integrity are ‘conspiracy theorists.’ George W. Bush’s winning margin is historically large, the first actual majority in ages. John Kerry – and his horrible, borderline psychotic wife – ran a horrible campaign. George Bush ran a smart campaign and won thanks to the ‘values vote.’

This is the world of the non-M/I media, and this is the filter America gets its information through. And with all of the above, we are just talking about the mainstream non-Moderate Independent media. For Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. it is even better.

People who believe our elections should have integrity are ‘lefties,’ ‘liberals,’ or part of a ‘radical fringe.’ George W. Bush’s victory was a massive ‘mandate.’ And John Kerry – and his horrible, over-the-borderline psychotic wife – not only ran a terrible campaign, but were terrible candidates (even if she wasn't actually one,) and terrible people. Bush ran a brilliant campaign and won thanks to the fact that America is an evangelical Christian dominated nation.

This is the world of the Fox/Limbaughians.

All of this ‘perspective’ and coverage simply shows once again that the entire non-M/I media is nothing but a battle of right-wing and right-winger. So, for the sake of having somebody deal with all of these issues from a place called reality and a perspective called American, let me take a moment to set a few things straight.

People who believe our elections should have integrity, that people should actually both get to vote and have their votes accurately counted, are not of any particular party, they are of all parties. Those who pretend people battling over the election’s results are just sore losers trying to come up with conspiracy theories obviously have missed the last four years.

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I particularly like this part...

"As for the ‘values’ vote, that term, of course, is being happily misused, just as labels like “liberal” are constantly misused with glee. First off, the ‘values’ vote the media is talking about is truly the amoral, overly self-righteous hypocritical bigot vote. Hating gays while approving of killing children with increased air pollution is not a ‘values’ vote. Just because people claim to have ‘moral values’ obviously doesn’t mean it. The actual values vote was split between the parties, as some people on each side put what were truly matters of moral principle – for some, standing up against abortion, for others, standing up against the killing of innocents through horrible environmental policy and horrible acts of war – before other issues in choosing their candidate.

And, as has been pointed out, that even the self-righteous hypocritical, “We have values,” voters did not do anything so much more massive than they have done in the past, turning out, when the numbers are looked at, in about the same proportion as usual.

What did help President Bush – in fact, what has been his most important base – was a group the non-M/I media pretends doesn’t even exist: the proudly amoral vote, which also can be referred to as the ‘bad boy’ vote. This is the central strength of the Bush coalition. The guys who say, “My Hummer is going to give people asthma and make global warming happen sooner? Cool, I’ll buy two.” The people who say, “We tortured people in Iraq? Great, I just wish I could have helped out.” The ones who said, “I don’t care if we lied to attack Iraq just so we could take the oil – as long as I get cheap oil, I really don’t care.”

Yes, these are the people the rest of the media pretend don’t exist – and that is exactly what these ‘proudly amorals’ love so much. They get to be this scummy yet, at the same time, brag that they are the truly righteous ones, the ones with ‘values.’ They boastingly call themselves ‘conservatives,’ by which they mean ‘the ones with values,’ and then sit around insulting anyone who takes a moral stand on any issue. These people were the true base that gave Bush any chance of competing at all."