{"id":8351,"date":"2006-08-31T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8351.html"},"modified":"2006-08-31T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T19:32:12","slug":"a-good-craftsman-never-blames-his-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-good-craftsman-never-blames-his-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"A good craftsman never blames his tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican National Committee, with just eight weeks to go before the midterm elections, has reviewed the polls and come to an important conclusion: they’re losing and it’s all the media’s fault<\/a> (.pdf).<\/p>\n

“When voters are informed about the clear choice between our Party’s vision and the Democrats’ radical agenda to cut and run in the War on Terror, the Democrats’ media-driven lead in the polls is erased and Republicans are in a strong position to maintain our majorities in Congress.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course. All the GOP needs to do is explain to everyone that Democrats are pro-terrorism. Then the election-year advantage Dems currently enjoy — which the media was kind enough to create on its own — will magically disappear. Why didn’t I think of that?<\/p>\n

As Brendan Nyhan put it<\/a>, “If anything, press coverage has been pretty friendly to Republicans…. But in RNC bizarro world, all political difficulties are inevitably the result of media bias.” (Confirming the “pretty friendly” claim is surprisingly easy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

When Republicans are making excuses in August for losing in November, the mood at RNC headquarters must be pretty dour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican National Committee, with just eight weeks to go before the midterm elections, has reviewed the polls and come to an important conclusion: they’re losing and it’s all the media’s fault (.pdf). “When voters are informed about the clear choice between our Party’s vision and the Democrats’ radical agenda to cut and run in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}