Virginian Pilot Celebrates "Gotcha" Moments and Negative Campaigning

Pravda was a beacon of journalistic truth and technical prowess compared to the Virginian Pilot.

Isn’t it the Drive-by-media that is always opining that we should “stick to the issues?”

That “negative campaigning” (defined as telling the truth about Democrats) is taking the low road?

Why, yes it is!

So what’s the headline news in today’s Virginian Pilot?

Senate candidates' staffers look for that 'macaca' moment.

And why is that, boys and girls? The writer, Austin Wright, explains:

Two years ago, former U.S. Sen. George Allen looked into a video camera and doomed his re-election bid. This year, the campaigns for Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner are tracking each other, ready for any slip-ups.

Actually, Austin Wright is being – as they say – disingenuous. That’s the term polite use when they don’t want to say that someone is lying. You see, it wasn’t Allen’s use of a term that no one had ever heard of and that no one with any sense believed was a racial slur that doomed Allen’s campaign. It was the fact that the Virginian Pilot, the Washington Post and the rest of the Drive-by-media used the term to brand Allen as a racist. Dozens of stories followed to cement that image in the public’s mind.

The Drive-by-media was in the tank for James Webb and decided that “negative campaigning” was perfectly fine as a way of torpedoing George Allen and they led the charge with gusto. All of the things that we are not allowed to talk about with Messiah Obama were trotted out with the good offices of the Drive-by-media to destroy the reputation of George Allen.

So what is the Virginian Pilot celebrating? Why, the use of video cameras to as a way of creating cutting edge negative campaign fodder. And why is the Pilot doing it? Because thanks to the Pilot and the Drive-by-media, we have proof that it works.

Except when it’s applied to Messiah Obama because the Drive-by-media tells us what we are allowed to criticize and what we are not … otherwise we’re racist running dogs of capitalism.

Rush Limbaugh has a list, and it keeps growing.

RUSH: With Obama we started out, we couldn't talk about his big ears 'cause that made him nervous. We've gone from that to this: Not only can we not mention his ears...

We can't talk about his mother.

We can't talk about his father.

We can't talk about his grandmother unless he does, brings her up as a "typical white person."

We can't talk about his wife, can't talk about his preacher, can't talk about his terrorist friends, can't talk about his voting record, can't talk about his religion.

We can't talk about appeasement.

We can't talk about color; we can't talk about lack of color.

We can't talk about race. We can't talk about bombers and mobsters who are his friends. We can't talk about schooling. We can't talk about his name, "Hussein."

We can't talk about his lack of experience. Can't talk about his income. Can't talk about his flag pin.

This started out we can't call him a liberal.

It started out we just couldn't talk about his ears.

Now we can't say anything about him.

So negative campaigning is a bad thing, dragging up the past, what your handlers do and who financed your rise in the political world is not to be discussed, except when it’s aided and abetted by the Drive-by-media. Then it’s a free press at work.