Reply #37: Great points - and I blame the media mostly - and not just MSM, and not just on line

[robbedvoter]

I just tuned in on Randi - who I used to love - and was hoping to listen to again after the the primaries. She was saying: "can you imagine what they would be saying about Obama if he lost 11 races? "get out of the race" and worse?" Unlike obviously - all that pampering Hillary got....
I was quite surprised reading yesterday that Obama didn't think he was favored by the media - and now here I see one of "our media" during the favoring daily - also not seeing it.
Believing one's press leads to arrogance and mistakes. That's what made Dean's supporters in 2004 act like bullies - not dean himself, but the validation they were getting - for a short time. The media was telling them they were better than us, and they bought it.
The BO people had much more of this - and way more intensely.
So, first of all, my respect for those BO supporters who still behave like decent people - increased ten fold. And there are many of those here.
The others - accepted the superiority mantle and they are wearing it, like the bushies before them. It's human behavior - experiments have been done on it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/plotsummary
I remember one version of it PBS had it - lower key - a seminary where attendees were split in 2 groups - by eye color. Alternatively, for one week, one group was empowered while the other insulted constantly - behaviors like these occurred. And like now, the bullies were unaware of it. "they all do it" was the universal defense.
To me that's the mind boggling part - the lack of awareness of the empowered ones.
I believe now that W genuinely believed that the press was against him, just like BO& supporters do not see any free ride they might have gotten. And they always say 'they all do it" when called.
At least that taught me that this is not about party politics. Given the validation/berating treatment a "progressive" is just about as liable to beat up on a fellow progressive as a right winger was (maybe less guns). We are not in any way superior to the freepers.
And I agree, Tom. Such attitudes, in the likelihood BO wins the nomination will make the rallying in the GE very improbable.