Many people out there are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the iceberg that will bring this abomination down, sinking to the bottom of American politics like The Titanic. I don't know if there is actually an iceberg out there or not. I have no inside information on the subject. What I do is to examine the whole situation from the outside. I call it looking at The Big Picture. What I see the most clearly in this case is that the MSM does not want to derail their gravy train. This is the most important point I shall ever make concerning this subject. Anyone who still believes the MSM is just too lazy to carry out its job of investigative journalism, although a valid truism up to a point, is shrouding the issue in naivete. The circumstantial evidence indicating that not only does the MSM already know the truth, they know a lot more secrets than you or I know, is absolutely overwhelming. No matter how stupid you may think the corporate media can be, the one thing they never do is to go around slaughtering their own cash cows. The corporate media has no intention of sending this one to the slaughterhouse until she can no longer be worth more to them alive than dead.
There is a pattern, a very intellectually sickening pattern, that you can follow from the beginning of the entrance of television into politics and continuing to the present day. Let's hit the high points, shall we? JFK was a President on television, but Marilyn Monroe was rarely mentioned on the television news in relation to him. After the JFK assassination, the conspiracy theories were kept as buried as possible by the visual media for many years. Watergate changed the way we looked at politics on television. We elected an actor President. The right wing attack machine hounded Clinton from the beginning of his national political career. OJ' s ride in a Bronco could not be shown enough times on television. Monicagate was endless. Anna Nicole Smith used to be the biggest abomination on television. Now she has a replacement, and the corporate media continues to rake in millions. What will stop this particular example of the madness? The answer most assuredly will fall under one of three categories.
(1) The FBI or some other operation with serious power to override the corporate media's greedy little circus will finally announce the results of their investigation. This could involve (in no particular order) Arctic Cat, the house, tax frauds of other origins, Troopergate, Dairygate, Prisongate, AIP, Exxon, or any one of many other known scandals. The main weakness of this concept is that, unless the charge and the sentence are serious enough, her career may not be permanently halted. There have been countless examples of politicians and cookie jars in the past whose careers are still intact after the scandal has subsided, particularly following the obligatory corporate wrist-slap.
(2) One of her more serious scandals is finally voiced by the corporate television media because they fear being scooped by a particular voice who insists on screaming the truth for profit. That may be a tabloid or a nationally recognized newspaper. It won't be an internet site. The MSM has little fear of the blogs simply because the corporate media have managed so successfully to marginalize the blogs' credibility with the masses of morons that make up the U. S. population. Most of the more intelligent voters of course follow the blogs quite closely, but these numbers pale by comparison to the massive horde who are still under the illusion that primetime cable news presents any more than a passing resemblance to reality. The driving force of this second scenario would be when the MSM decides that the scandal in question is ugly, juicy, or prevalent enough to bring down The Queen once and for all, and they had better jump on the bandwagon of her last hurrah or they risk being the caboose of her final gravy train. I think the most likely issue of this type will be Babygate, and who knows exactly which iteration of this multifaceted scam will be the one that will actually bring her down? Religiongate and her support of the slaughtering of wolf pups and bear cubs should be the pertinent issues, since they are intimately related to the running of the country and environmentalism respectively, but it has seemed so far that the corporate television media intends to beat these drums using only feathers as drumsticks. They have reported these stories, but they have staunchly refused to give them the OJ treatment they so rightfully deserve!
(3) The final methodology for getting rid of the abomination is a sort of blowback approach. The official charge or the scandal may fail to bring down The Queen, but her public reaction to it is so outrageously blatant, self-centered, crazy, or just plain entertaining, that the response overtakes the original story. In terms of the final result, it matters not a whit precisely what the original issue is; it only matters that the MSM is finally unable to resist repeating The Queen's response to it absolutely to death. Again, as in the first two scenarios, the corporate television media must collectively decide that the tracks of the gravy train truly lead to oblivion. As long as they think they can milk more money from the further escapades of the despicable clown, they will continue to supply her with cameras and microphones.
The scariest part of modern American history is the realization of just how often the morons win, and this is only one phrase that captures the perspective. Overestimating the intelligence of the American people is another. Repeating the same action while expecting a different result is another. Never argue with crazy people. We did not believe in 2004 there was a housing bubble about to pop simply because it was more immediately profitable to ignore all the obvious signs. We thought another Bush term could not possibly cause that much more damage. We elected an actor President; why not a moron?
See Also: Palingates (for a complete description of the issues mentioned here)
Heil Hitlerette!
Why She's Dangerous
Save the Wolf Pups
A Little Perspective
Quiet at the Top
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