It Doesn't Fit the Narrative

Democrat Janice Hahn won a special U.S. House election in California yesterday after the Tea Party tried every underhanded trick - including suppression of the women's vote - to defeat her. Some of their dirty tricks were so virulently bigoted toward women and minorities, I'd rather not mention them here.

Janice Hahn's victory, though, pretty much went unmentioned. I had MSNBC on for over an hour early this afternoon, and when the talk wasn't about the debt ceiling, it was about Casey Anthony and a Michigan woman arrested for planting a vegetable garden that violated local codes. I got to thinking about E.J. Dionne's comment from this past fall how Democratic successes and strengths are ignored by the media because they don't fit the narrative of a return to Republican perspectives on the issues.

Oh yeah, all six Tea Party henchmen running in the Democratic primaries for legislature recall elections in Wisconsin (now Wiskonsein) were defeated, and so the Democratic candidates intended to oppose Republican incumbents in the recall election on August 9 advance to that crucial round. MSNBC didn't mention that either. I learned both of these stories from e-mails from liberal activists groups.

The American media have been playing up the disastrous sloppiness of the British media and their incecstuous relationshops with polticians, as if to say the U.K. media are much worse. But the U.S. media aren't all that much better.

Chris Matthews is on soon, maybe he will bring up the California and Wisconsin stories on his show . . ..

One last thing - Rupert Murdoch gave up his attempt to buy a controlling interest of the BSkyB satellite channel in Britain as a result of the News of the World fiasco. I learned that from my British ladyfriend Therisa's mother.