Framing. We still don't get it.

I am watching with alarm as people who express concern about the words of Rev. Wright get flamed to death.  The general theme here seems to be that these things don't matter.  That they are not the words of Obama.  That they show how Jesus-ie Obama is.  That other churches are like this too.  That this stuff is truthful.  That this is only Fox and the even the far right isn't too up in arms about this.  That the real issue is a diarists spelling and screen name.

Were you people born yesterday?  

Whether a candidate is stiff, wear's earth tones, or wouldn't be enjoyable company over beers shouldn't matter.  Whether a candidate lets out an enthusiastic 'heee-awwww' shouldn't matter.  Whether a wingnut group puts out a package of lies to smear someone's good name shouldn't matter.  But guess what folks.  It does matter.  It is the type of narrative that is difficult to overcome.  It is the type of thing that decides elections in this nation of idiots who for the most part have their opinion molded by the gaggle of prostitutes known as the corporate mainstream media.

When are we going to realize that truth and logic only matters to us?  We just saw how the NYT article about McCain was framed to be about the NYT.  We still see the crew at CNN doing everything it can to diminish the political aspects of the Spitzer affair, with Anderson Cooper breaking out his special furled brow skepticism to diminish the legal thinking of Alan Dershowitz.  We can look at any news outlet and see them framing the most improbable of circumstances as reasons why Hillary should stay in the race.

When are we going to realize that the media is not going to approach things like this in an objective fashion?  When are we going to realize that they repeatedly fall in love with this type of narrative like it was a missing white girl?  When are we going to realize that the media is going to frame this type of thing to form a narrative of its, or our rivals, choosing?

This Wright thing is a concern.  Pointing it out doesn't make a poster a concern troll.  It makes them genuinely concerned over something that we all should be genuinely concerned about.