More press dishonesty

  Politico has an article up about how Obama "plays the media like a fiddle." 
  Basically the article contends that Obama is the Comeback Kid, on the ascendency, particularly with independents. Writers Vandehei and Harris contend that "It's just not true" that most reporters are liberal and that conservatives are nuts for thinking otherwise. 
  As always, it all depends on which polls you look at. Politico chooses carefully.
  Vandehei and Harris think, suddenly and out of nowhere (*cough November 2*) that bipartisanship is the key to solving all the country's problems. 
  In fact, bipartisanship is basically the answer to all the country's problems and defines the world view of most political writers (not conservatives).
  Did you know that? Did we all know that?
  Was it true that bipartisanship was the answer to all problems the last two years?
  Was it true that bipartisanship was the answer to the health care mess? 
  Was bipartisanship the answer to all the sob stories we heard about everybody who didn't have health care? 
  Was bipartisanship the answer when Obama completely shut out Republicans when he came into office refusing to compromise and said, "I won," when Republicans tried to have a conversation?
  Most galling is the obeisance Vandehei and Harris give to the "deans' of Washington. They go on to emit reluctant admiration and fawning for the whole "Obama is Reagan" thing and how brilliant the plan is to hoodwink independents. 
  They plead the case for Obama's "centrist" leanings and mock the right wing, because, of all things, these writers believe in being centrist and bipartisan. When was the last time the mockery extended to the left wing, one might wonder.
  It's easy to be deceived by the slicksters, on the left and in the "center" and in the White House and the media. It doesn't take much to read between the lines.
  Apparently the whole "bipartisan" thing isn't working for Pelosi, who hasn't spoken to the Blue Dog Democrats in the House since their rebellion. 
  According to The Hill, Pelosi has had no communication with them at all.
  Perhaps this attitude on the part of both the MSM and this administration and their congressmen is what prompted so many Democrats in the South to go to the other side. 
  In fact, the LA Times reveals that the switch is indeed due to the treatment of conservative Democrats, who apparently no longer exist in the political minds of this party:

Bell, 30, said he had serious issues with the healthcare law and believed that conservative "blue dog" Democrats in Congress who shared his values had been bullied into voting for it.

Bell's defection is one of dozens by state and local Democratic officials in the Deep South in recent months that underscore Republicans' continued consolidation of power in the region — a process that started with presidential politics but increasingly affects government down to the level of dogcatcher.

  It's easy to get caught up in the spin of these shlocksters. 
  We're not buying it.