McCain was the Media's "Maverick" Token-Republican Darling, until he ran against a Black Democrat

The media love Jeb Bush because he says all the meaningless "Middle of the Road" clichés they love to reprint. He will be their dead meat candidate of choice until he runs against a Democrat. Then they will do all to make him lose. That is the standard pattern. m/r

Republicans Must Stop Letting the Media Manipulate Them

By Daniel Greenfield On June 23, 2015 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage 

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

Groucho Marx used to ask contestants, “Have you stopped beating your wife?”

A number of Republican candidates showed that they still hadn’t mastered that one when the media came asking them about the Confederate flag in South Carolina.

Like so many chumps undone by Groucho, they thought that they were showing off how noble they were, when all they did was answer, “Yes, I did stop beating my wife. And I mostly oppose it now.”

Instead of looking like heroes, they looked like guilty men confessing to a crime.

Like most questions the media asks Republicans, it was a loaded question meant to set up a narrative. The question feeds into the narrative. The answer itself doesn’t really matter.

The difference between condemning the Confederate flag and supporting it is the difference between, “No, I haven’t stopped beating my wife” and “Yes, I have stopped beating my wife.”

Either way it’s a story about the Republican position on beating women and the Confederacy.

The media does this all the time. It manufactures a story. Then it reports on the story that it made up. Then it keeps the story alive by interviewing people about its own narrative.

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