BUSH NUMBERS ARE LOW BECAUSE THE BIASED MSM DELIBERATELY EXACERBATES ANGST

VDH has written another BRILLIANT essay; RTWT. HERE ARE A FEW KEY EXCERPTS:

Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood. ... In sheer numbers, more people are working than at any time in our history. Home ownership is at record levels. We haven't been attacked in more than four years.

And yet even low unemployment, low inflation and low interest rates have not brought the public a sense of calm, given the worry over energy costs, national debt and the war abroad. Usually such angst — less than half the population expresses confidence in the administration — would lead to the opposition’s advantage. It hasn't, as the Democrats are offering no systematic alternative to meet the growing anguish.

And the fatalism of a normally can-do public grows. Voters no longer trust once tight-fisted Republicans to balance the budget, while the old war party of Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy is no longer credible on national security.

The voters want to both expand traditional domestic energy sources and to curtail consumption, but the two horn-locked parties see these solutions as either/or rather than compatible.

The result of this petrified leadership is that while things are not nearly as bad as they seem, the public in its frustration feels they are far worse.

ME: If the MSM were not dominated by the Left (as NEWSWEEK editor Evan Thomas -- son of famous Lefty Norman Thomas -- asserted in 2004, and as ALL studies prove -- more HERE and HERE and HERE) then the public would FEEL better about where we're at right now. And Bush's poll numbers would reflect that. mThe MSM is DELIBERATELY tryoing to foment a GLOOMY MOOD in order to drive Bush's numbers down and thereby help their Dem/Left comrades.

Take for instance that the current economic numbers on unemployment, employment, inflation, home ownership ARE ALL GREAT - as good OR BETTER as during the "boom-boom" Clinton Years. Yet the MSM NEVER plays it that way; they have always consistently portrayed the economy as doing badly. This has depressed Bush's numbers, too. As does the incessant negative reporting about Iraq; the MSM NEVER reports any good news; they just give a running body count. Even the election and referendum were reported in muted ways, and SHEESH: these two elections were the two of the most important POSITIVE events in the CENTURY!

NOT TO WORRY: (as VDH points out) as long as the Dem/Left fails to articluate a viable alternative set of policies which reflect our CURRENT situation - (AND NOT MERELY A KNEE-JERK REACTIONARY DEFENSE OF FDR/LBJ DOMESTIC POLICIES, AND NEO-ISOLATIONIST ECONOMIC POLICIES AND AN OVER-EMPHASIS OF MULTILATERAL PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS) - the Dem/left will fail to achieve a majority.

Thank God.