You're Hurting the Party: Pundits, Get Out of the Race

 

CROW IS BEING SERVED THIS MORNING AT BUFFETS EVERYWHERE POLITICAL PUNDITS GATHER FOR BREAKFAST. After Hillary proved to have the same blood as her husband, the "Come Back Kid", the punditry ilk this morning is scratching their heads, looking down at their plates, and thinking of how to rationalize Hillary's wins in yesterday's primary wins in Texas and Ohio that left egg all over their faces.

As a recovering minor political junkie who has occasionally been more than observer (a paid reporter), Crabby has been agog at the obvious vitriol and imbalance among the chosen few who get paid to report on our nation's most important election. I won't pretend to have read every single political story ever written, but this is the first time I recall reporters telling a candidate when to get out of the race. That's not journalism, that's presumption, which I'm sad to say is an ailment from which many journalists suffer. They transfer the importance of their jobs onto themselves, thus ending up arrogant, out-of-touch, and with senses of entitlement as big as the candidates they cover.

Thank God, the little people reminded the hot shots yesterday that they are in the driver's seat and refused to eject Clinton from the race. Hell, even Karl Rove, considered the devil incarnate by many journalists, thought that the pundits showed poor sportsmanship when they called for Clinton to bow out to allow the coronation of Barack to begin. And don't waste your time calling his comments part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. This year, left-wing pundits are proving better at the tactics.

Here's what I say to those who think they can see the future: You wanna prognosticate? Skip the polls and talk to Americans. And if you are short on topics to talk about, here's a few to consider:

Dig into America's LOAN CRISIS, budget-breaking OIL prices, LAX food inspection, housing's COLLAPSE, overcrowded PRISONS, underperforming schools, ZONING practices that BENEFIT the rich and HURT the poor, political TV advertising, SO-CALLED children's programming, prescription medicine's COSTS, global WARMING, television and film standards, SUBSIDIES for corporations, farmers and fat cat fundraisers (Tony Rezko comes to mind) -- follow them all to the end and you'll find weak legislation favoring those who give money to politicians. That includes media conglomerates, who increasingly make journalism, a once-honorable profession that benefited the public, look more like a pipe dream.