MSM: More of the Same Merde

A few days ago, Deus Ex Macrame and I put together some predictions for how the MSM would react to Kerry and Bush victories. We fleshed out the Kerry response in detail, but we really went out on a limb regarding a Bush victory, asserting that the MSM would just deliver more of the same merde.

We are shocked (shocked!) to be proven correct.

On the way home from dinner tonight, listening to CNN on XM Radio, we heard all the hallmarks of a delusional moonbat meme: "there was nothing wrong with the KEdwards platform, we lost because it turned out to be a "values" election, with a high evangelical turnout, we were bested by the mysterious necromancy of Karl Rove, and our young cell-phone-using liberal voters failed to materialized at the polls."

Two points:

1) Most of these conclusions are based on the same exit polls that were proven horrendously and consistently wrong on election night, and the Rove fixation is clinical at this point--see your doctors.

2) None of them acknowledge any of the fundamental flaws in the left's message and delivery (e.g., the mistaken belief that the liberation and democratization of Iraq is a diversion rather than a central pillar of the war against Islamist fascism, or the vomiting-forth of a stream of incoherent hate laced with nuggets of outlandish conspiracy theory).

MSM and fellow travelers:

The first flaw has prevented you from understanding why so many Americans continue to support the President, and the second energized those Bush supporters to go out to the polls more effectively than anything the dastardly Rove could have managed on his own.

UPDATE (11:04 PT):
CNN currently has a web page up that includes a picture of President Bush with the First Lady. If you right-click on the photo, you can see that they named the photo "asshole." (via poster Rayra at Little Green Footballs)

UPDATE (12:39pm 11-05-04):
CNN has issued a statement on this:

A photograph of President and Mrs. Bush featured in online election coverage by the AOL Time Warner companies uses a graphic slur in the coding of the picture.
A spokesman for CNN, Matt Furman, said the network had nothing to do with the slur.
"It was an image produced by an employee of another company," he told WND. "We didn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it.
"Most importantly, it was never on CNN.com. … It's our picture, but it never appeared on our site."
The image did appear, however, on cnn.netscape.cnn.com, which is labeled as "Netscape network news with CNN."
A further statement from CNN reads: "A Web image and text disparaging President and Mrs. Bush currently circulating on the Internet was not created, disseminated or posted by CNN at any time, as is alleged. It was done by an employee of Netscape and posted on Netscape.com. CNN had no knowledge of it until it surfaced on other websites."
Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for Netscape, reiterated the fact CNN itself had nothing to do with the slur. He says the Netscape employee responsible has been fired.
"A junior employee at Netscape identified two election photos with image tags that used inappropriate, disparaging terms," Weinstein told WorldNetDaily. "As soon as the situation was discovered, it was immediately corrected, and the employee has been terminated."
He said Netscape apologizes to CNN and "anyone else offended in this matter."