This will be a day long remembered...as the death knell for the media

Barack Obama is going to be elected president today. I don't see any way of getting around that. And, for the third time in my life, the media will have elected a liberal democrat president. You'll see it tonight, in the knowing grins and smirks on the faces of the talking heads on TV (except Fox News) and in the glowing ledes in the news stories. And the fabulous "MANDATE FOR CHANGE" headlines that will come in the papers and Time and Newsweek.

But get a good look. That ends tonight. The media, as we know it, is about to die. And a well-deserved death it is.

There is no question that the press, at all levels, is in the tank for Obama. Just as they were for Clinton and for Carter, and in losing causes for Kerry, Gore and Mondale. But there's a difference today -- people not only recognize it, there are alternatives gaining strength on a daily basis: the Internet and talk radio.

For decades, the CBSs, NBCs, ABCs, CNNs and now MSNBCs of the world have been able to control the discussion (and information) delivered to the public on television. Fox News has punctured that bubble and, as you can see from the fury with which that network is attacked, it has done a very good job of showing the blatant bias exhibited by the others. Is Fox News right-leaning? Maybe a little bit, but here's why they are so drastically different -- they're not slanted so far to the left that they're off the table in the pocket of the Democratic Party.

There is no question that the print media is 100 percent liberal. I know from experience. The media, and the print media in particular, is an echo chamber of foolish liberalism. The farther up the ladder you go, the worse it gets. By the time you reach the "pantheon" of print, the New York Times, Washington Posts and the like, you're dealing with the worst kind of libeals -- ones who have no idea how the real world functions, but know exactly how it should. They all think the same way, possessing neo-socialist ideals and the arrogance to think they not only know better than the masses but are intent on saving them from themselves (i.e. conservatism).

The current print media is as disgraceful and partisan as it has been at any point in American history, going back to Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora, which unfairly skewered President Washington. Back in the 1790s, however, this was expected; there was no hiding the partisanism of the press.

The current print media will never admit that they're biased; instead, they'll mock you as a fool for insinuating that they, the high-minded elites, are attempting to manipulate the public (which, of course, is exactly what they're doing). And there is no print counterpoint today. But they're doesn't need to be--there's the Internet and talk radio.

The Internet is remarkable for the variety of discourse that can be found on it. While the media likes to scorn those who do online reporting as amateurs, I can say without reservation that many people, like those who run Redstate.com, Captain's Quarters or Powerline (powerlineblog.com) do a far better job checking their sources and doing legitimate research than the idiots in newspaperland. It has taken some time for people to figure out that the established sentinels of truth in our society, the TV and newspaper reporters, are frauds. But the change in public opinion towards these entities show that the change is happening.

Everyone knows the effect of talk radio. What Rush has started has been continued by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt and thousands of local broadcasters nationwide. They are partisan and make no bones about it--but they are also reporting information that our "friends" who know better than us in TV and print are trying to squelch. The result is a better informed public.

You can see this better-informed public turning away from the traditional liars--I mean, sources of information. The New York Times has hemmorhaged readers to the point that their stock is considered junk. Every major newspaper in America, save the Hotel Floor (I mean USA) Today and the Wall Street Journal lost readers at a significant rate last year, as they did the year before that. And the year before that. Print media is dying, and its death cannot come too soon. They'll have to go to the Internet to survive, and competition will be fierce. It will require honesty, fairness and complete reporting to survive, or they'll just have to try to steal readers from the Daily Kos or Huffington Post. One way makes money; the other will just start a leftist pissing contest.

TV ratings are also down. Nobody takes the talking heads seriously, as the masses have figured out that they've been lied to. The only two stations seeing an increase in viewers are Fox and MSNBC, who has gone rabid leftist. And, considering that the only place you can go from zero is up, it's no shock they've added a few hundred idiots.

The Obama phenomenon is a one-time perfect storm. The media has gone all in to get the man elected, thinking he'll stomp out the Fox Newses, the talk radio hosts and the Internet reporters. But he can't, and the public will be disappointed to find out that he's not much more than hot air. He'll be a one-termer, like Carter, and will be easy pickings for some fortunate Republican who has yet to make themselves known.

The traditional media, of course, will try their damndest to get Obama re-elected in 2012. They will fail. At that point, perhaps, they'll realize that their century of manipulation is up and the game belongs to someone else.