Bloodless Coup

On the "Liberal" Base

Posted without comment, but with a few added emphases, 'cause he said it well already :

Per the Washington Post's logic, this Newsweek poll shows that 50% of the American people are unhappy with Republicans leading Congress, and the Post teaches us that only the liberal base of the Democratic party is unhappy with Republicans, so 50% of the American people must be the liberal base of the Democratic party.

Oh, what a sad marginalized lot we are:

Both houses of Congress are now controlled by the Republicans, but public opinion now favors a Democratic takeover this November by a margin of 50 percent to 34 percent. Among Independents, the Democrats are preferred by more than a two-to-one margin: 51 percent to 22 percent.

And on censure, we find the same thing - nearly half the American people are part of the liberal base of the Democratic party:

Four in 10 (42 percent) of the adults in the general public say they would support Congressional censure of the president, while half (50 percent) say they would not. Censure

And even just amongst Democrats, the "liberal base of the party" seems to be actually half the entire party:

Among Democrats, almost half (49 percent) support impeachment

Is that possible that the "base" of the party can be actually "half" the party? That would be the majority of the party, not the base, no?

And finally, we find out that actually 65% of the American people are the liberal base of the Democratic party.

only 29 percent of the people questioned approved Bush?s handling of the situation in Iraq. Fully 65 percent disapprove.

I bring all of this up to make a simple point. The Washington Post and the New York Times are lazy, and the Post in particular will do anything to shill for the Bush administration. Because the traditional media can't quite internalize the fact that their favorite president is an abysmal failure, and roundly deplored by 65% of the American people, they need to keep marginalizing Bush's critics as a somewhat kooky hysterical fringe minority