The Young Turks

An American Moment

It’s time to take a minute to step back and think about what just happened.   We have observed over the years how the media can sabotage a candidate.  We have our hopes for a better direction, and then a smear comes along, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and that hope is torpedoed.  A classic example was the Howard Dean campaign.  He was starting to show us a new possibility and then the MSM pounced on that one victory speech.  There was something wrong with the sound system, he wasn’t really that loud but that one mic was right there to pick up the sound and make it seem insane.  Well, none of that mattered, not the circumstances, not the relevance to his candidacy, nothing.  It seemed to many they had been waiting for ‘something’ and this gave it to them, they played it hard and he was OUT.

I have been through this many times, the MSM and the ‘powers that be’ patiently play along until that one opportunity comes along and then get what they want. 

But, take a minute; did you see what just happened?  They found their ‘issue’ to bring Obama down.  They thought it was the Wright issue.  They threw that raw meat up there 24/7 for weeks.  They were probably popping the champagne bottles.   As usual, I felt like I was going to be pushed aside again.  But, the line held, no one blinked.  They waged an all out smear at Obama, they threw their bombs, their battery acid, their smirks and innuendoes but the money kept coming in and there was a little 2% blip in the polls that tightened back up.  We didn’t buckle to their standard attack.  He crushed in those last primaries.  It was like in the Star Spangled Banner, the bombs, the rockets, the great battle, but in the morning, in the dawn’s early light, there was that banner still flying, we had withstood the onslaught.  That’s an American Moment.   We are on the way to taking back our country. 

This is a tremendous opportunity for us.  We clearly showed the MSM that this is not going to be dissolved by those tactics.  I think we should also take advantage of this opportunity. 

When you see something on TV that offends you, email them.  Recently there was Paul Begala calling us all “Volvo driving”, “latte drinking”, etc.  I wrote CNN a strong email saying that I am educated and I did not appreciate being called names.  I asked them if they thought it was a good idea to be throwing mud and spitting at the biggest political movement in recent history, people who are obviously paying attention.  I suggested to them that if they thought so, maybe they should talk to their people in marketing.   I think we can start to stand up for ourselves.  I think they must be a bit nervous.  They have just seen their ‘machine’ as fallible.  Push the point home.  Remind them in your own way that we are here, we are historically large, we are determined, paying attention and they better stop pissing us off.  I think you will see that they have enough sense to start moving. 

Another indicator of the shift for me was when the ‘big donors’ came and gave Nancy Pelosi the letter demanding that she change her rhetoric about the super delegates not overturning the will of the people.   I saw somewhere that this group of people has raised $10 million in the last several years, or something like that.   I thought doesn’t Obama raise that much every month?  Shouldn’t that take some of the pressure off their minds when threatened by ‘the powerful elite”?  I think we can start bringing this to the attention of our politicians, that a few donors cannot match the strength that we can bring when we are motivated.   We can make the point that they have more power by paying attention to what we want than trying to please a few big donors.  Obama just proved that too. 

I think this “American Moment” provided us with an opportunity to stand up and sing a bit.