I just heard Karen Tumulty, five years old, say on PBS's Washington Week that the results of the Ohio vote this week regarding SB5 "were such a mixed bag", and painting it as a muddled set of signals, at best.
After all, the people who voted against it, she implied, were doing so for lots of different reasons; no cohesion in the message being sent to the local Tea Partei.
The final vote in Ohio was: Yes: 37% --- No: %63
Lil' Karen -- who, I must admit, has one heckuva [as they say in Texas] large lower jaw -- also said (and I was typing as fast as I could while she did):
The fact is, the campaign this coming year will be negative. The democrats are saying, 'This year isn't a referendum; it's a choice'. And you get that by painting your opponent [as negative], and the Democrats are going to say, 'The Republicans are [negative].
Karen Tumulty is like nearly every 'journalist' and 'analyst' and 'commentator' in Washington: The conversation around the teevee table isn't really for the Rubes tuning in. It's a televised Kool Kidz Club meeting.
These people have national soapboxes -- the chance to deliver honest observation, real news analysis. Instead, they talk to each other; they believe their own press releases. What they say is a better gauge of what the Washington elite are thinking, their take on an event, than an accurate review and a conclusion based on facts.
Their chatter is of the Washington elite, by the Washington elite, for the Washington elite, and their assumption is that it's true because they've said it.
To paraphrase Neil Young: Karen Tumulty's pissin' in the wind / She don't know it / But she is.
There; now you can go back to whatever you were doing before this Tumulty interruption.
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