And another election, and another

The Election March of the Trolls | NationofChange

Jour­nal­ists, whose role has been re­duced to pur­vey­ors of court gos­sip, whether on Fox or MSNBC, de­scend in swarms to re­port pseudo-events such as the Ames straw poll, where it costs $30 to cast a bal­lot. And then, al­most im­me­di­ately, they blithely in­form us that the Iowa poll is mean­ing­less now that Rick Perry has en­tered the race. The lib­eral trolls, as they do in every elec­tion cycle, are beat­ing their lit­tle chests about the per­fid­i­ous­ness of the De­mo­c­ra­tic Party and Barack Obama. It is a ges­ture per­formed not to ef­fect change but to bur­nish their cre­den­tials as moral­ists. They know, as do we, that they will trot obe­di­ently into the vot­ing booth in 2012 to do as they are told.