Democratic Underground - Republican negative attacks work, because they own the corporate media

And their negative attacks will continue to work.

As the republicans and the media (one In the same) warn and criticize democrats that going negative doesn't work and will hurt the democrats at the polls.

The stupid, spineless democrats believe this shit, back off and play "nice, nice" then promptly get their ass kicked by the republicans lies, smears and distortions, while the republicans laugh at the stupid, spineless, accommodating democrats.

A front-page story in the Washington Post marveled at how effective the Swift boat smears were against John Kerry for the bargain price of $546,000. Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. observes that “the sheer negative genius of the Bush campaign is worthy of close study.”

So, even when the Democrats can roughly match the Republicans in election fundraising – as occurred in 2004 with each side spending about $1 billion – the Republicans have a huge, built-in advantage because the conservative media reinforces their messages. This infrastructure also works between elections – day-in-day-out, year-in-year-out – to keep the Republican base engaged and the Democrats on the defensive.

"From Rush Limbaugh and his many imitators on AM talk radio to the scores of right-wing commentators filling TV seats and Op-Ed columns, to Internet bloggers and Fox News, the conservative media has successfully pitched its own narrative of history. That storyline portrays liberals as a shadowy conspiracy of traitors who use their secretive influence, especially over culture, to undermine the United States.

Liberals get blamed for nearly everything that’s wrong in the world; conservatives – despite their dominance of the U.S. government – are the victims. For their part, liberals have done little to build a counter-media that can challenge this portrayal."

http://consortiumnews.com/2004/010505.html

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