Eric Alternman - "Midterm Media Meltdown"

[Bill USA]

13. Corporate media's job: misdirect the public's attention from GOP's tactic of sabotage & blame Obama

then explain the election as a Republican "wave" election;

But if you look more closely at some of the contradictions underlying those results, then you suddenly have what Ricky Ricardo used to call “some ‘splainin’ to do.” How is it that four states that gave victories to Republican Senate candidates also happened to approve ballot initiatives calling for an increase in the minimum wage? And how is it that this election ended in a GOP sweep, even as Americans, according to The Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb, routinely told pollsters that they share the Democrats’ views not only on the minimum wage, but on virtually every issue across the board: raising taxes on the wealthy, addressing global warming, repairing (rather than repealing) Obamacare, supporting same-sex marriage, you name it?

Election 2014: The GOP's war on Obama works, or: sabotage and proclaim: "Look he can't get it done!"