The White House.gov drinking game

I'm not a drinker, but playing the White House.gov drinking game would surely be a hoot.

Here is the general concept.  Go to www.whitehouse.gov and explore the website for a few minutes.  For every blatant lie you find you take a shot.  If I had tequila I would be drunk before I got off the home page.  Fortunately I'm drinking lemon-limeade so I just have to watch for an unhealthy blood sugar spike.

I don't know where to start.  The lies, the blatant partisanship, rank hypocrisy, the mean-spirited tone......  It is all very off-putting.  I just went there to find the text of today's presser (I'm sorry, but I just can't listen to that petulant little Marxist.  I can't afford a new TV and if I had to sit through one of his speeches I know I'd be throwing things).  I got sidetracked by looking at the text of recent presidential imperial speeches.  Oi vey! There is one common theme that I always go back to; this man deliberately and confidently lies because he knows he can get away with it.  Think about how dangerous it is to have any politician who feels comfortable lying because he is absolutely sure that he won't be questioned by the news media.  Now think about an entire political party that can say just about anything, no matter how dissociated from reality, and be sure of never having to defend their position.  This is the political world manifestation of the old saying; "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."  Now think about what happens when an arrogant narcissist, indoctrinated from birth on Marxist ideology wields this absolute power.  OK, you don't have to think too hard about it.  This dangerous scenario has been played out in real life for 5 years.

This goes beyond just winning and losing elections.  The mainstream media only gives the liberal view on just about every issue.  A representative republic like ours relies on the citizens being able to make INFORMED choices so that their representatives can do what is right for the country.  The MSM's support for the Left has knocked that vital support out from under our nation.  The people are no longer able to make informed decisions because they have been deprived of objective facts.

So what is the solution.  Well you try to run candidates that have the backbone and intelligence to stand up to the liberal media.  That only goes so far, because you will always be on the defensive as long as the media remains unchanged.  What we need to do is destroy the liberal media.  The traditional media is already on the ropes.  Their credibility is being questioned, they are rapidly losing readership to new media and the business model that has supported them for decades is failing in the digital age.  The mainstream media is vulnerable.  It is just a matter of cutting into their market enough to push them over the edge.

We need to break the back of the news media's credibility with those who are just casual observers of current events; the low-information voter.  The low information voters lack information because they are lazy or disinterested.  They are not interested in politics or anything outside of their narrow scope of awareness.  You will never reach these people through intellectual arguments.  You have to make it personal for them.  You have to trigger their emotions.  We need to make the low information voter feel angry, insulted and betrayed by the liberal media.  You need to personalize the media's faults for them.  Link specific media lies to issues that hit home with the low information voter.  Listen to what they complain about and provide them with specific examples of how the media allowed or encouraged it to happen.  Every example of media bias or malfeasance must have an emotional hook if you expect to get through to them.  That is how the Democrats have been doing it for years their entire history.

I have never been a big fan of boycotts, but the precarious financial condition of many traditional media outlets make them particularly vulnerable to loss of advertising revenue.  I wouldn't go with general boycotts of the media; rather focused attacks on specific advertisers of a single media company.  The New York Times or Washington Post would be a good targets for such an attack.  They may be big, but they are also vulnerable.  They are surviving more on reputation than sound business plans at this point.  The NYT took an enormous loss with the Boston Globe deal and is still on the hook for the Globe's pension liabilities.  Getting just a few major advertisers to dump the NYT might put them in a hard spot.