Make The Stupid Stop....

I may have to go "off grid" until after the election.....
This strikes me as maybe the best description of this whole insane campaign, with the fewest words: Charlie Pierce's righteous bitch slapping of DFB (David F@%king Brooks) in his Sunday gasbag roundup. (http://www.esquire.com/blogs/p...
"One party is insane and has forced it's candidate to act like the lead act in a $50 donkey contortionist show in a Tijuana brothel. The other candidate is forced to point this out. So it's everybody's fault. I feel for David Brooks, and for the gentle fairy-folk of the land in which he lives."
Apparently also this fine weekend, the Orc squad at "Rupert's Freak Show and Idiocracy Emporium", in addition to flailing away at the President using our dead ambassador as a club, finally got to dog whistle in the "he's an angry black man" fantasy.. they have been so drooling to utilize... because the President had the temerity in the last two debates, to point out, that his opponent may be the biggest liar to ever ooze over a podium in the history of the concept of political debate.
I don't think the term "anger" adequately describes how I have felt about the "mainstream" media's treatment of this President, not just in the last infuriating few months, but for his entire term. ....but this trumped up Benghazi shit storm... this outrageous, nakedly political desecration....being discussed as if it were something real, on actual non-Fox...network news programs .... is the last fucking straw.
All of this, especially so close on the heals of their historically epic fail during the run up and duration of the Iraq war. A failure so massive, it should have produced gravity altering piles of resignations in newsrooms nation wide, but instead gave inexplicable birth to a level of hackery not seen since the term "yellow journalism" was first coined.
The Hannitys, Rushes, Becks, Coulters, Malkins et als.. were racist soulless, un-salvageable, immoral whores to begin with....but this smarmy new breed of beltway hacks from the big three, and the national "paper of record" are really something very special. 
If by any chance in the next few years, I have the misfortune to encounter David Brooks, David Gregory, Chuck Todd, George Will, Peggy Noonon or Tom Brokaw in passing.....I only hope they are wearing their finest, most expensive, Scotch guarded London Fogs.
They have and continue to denigrate not only themselves, but their profession, a profession so important the founders thought it necessary to enshrine it in the constitution.... beyond redemption. 
Every time one of them equates some new right wing atrocity, with some meaningless failure from the left, using their worthless, merit-less "both sides do it" lie.....and every time they book, for the millionth time, some discredited, character challenged, mealy mouth current or former politician..or know nothing "pundit".....they are taking a literal dump on the graves of not only their better predecessors, but their colleagues who have actually died in service of their occupation.
They have failed us all regardless of the outcome of this election. 
They deserve nothing but absolute utter contempt: Because over the last three years, as they have raked in ever more preposterous stratospheric salaries....contempt is the only thing they have most certainly earned.

I am starting to feel like agent Smith in the last Matrix movie: "I saw this, you were there...and I said something??".
By any reasonable viewing of this election cycle, at this stage, Romney / Ryan shouldn't just be behind, they should be politically dead.
His own stupid and or lunatic opponents in the primaries exposed him repeatedly.
When he emerged from the world’s tallest midget contest, he embarked on what will be remembered by historians as the single most stumbling, contradictory filled, mistake prone Presidential campaign in modern times.
 It seemed at times as if he were trying to wear down the media and the electorate with cognitive dissonance. Walking back entire policy positions in a shortening spiral, culminating in actual paragraphs and sentences which took opposing positions.
His own surrogates must be exhausted from trying to articulate a single coherent thought from anything he has ever uttered.
On the other side, Obama and his team have been as consistent as is possible for a modern President. He has taken everything they have thrown at him, and still managed to somehow eke out an economic recovery from the abysmal state it had been flogged in to over the previous eight years.
His deft nuanced foreign policy has elevated us from the most hated country on earth, to once again being perceived in most quarters as the champion of the values put forth at our founding.
As a politician, he is articulate, cool, unflappable and as knowledgeable on any and all issues as any President in my lifetime.
Why then is this race looking like it is?
If there is not some major poll movement in the President's direction in the next few days....somebody should call the worlds biggest instance of "Shenanigans !". ......or we really are living in the fucking Matrix... 

P.S. forgot to mention this:

 "[I]t's widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes," - Mitt Romney

 "My cats breath smells like cat food"- Ralph Wigum

 Really America? Really?