For once, Lou Dobbs is right

By Michael J.W. Stickings

(This is post #4000 at The Reaction, a major milestone. Thanks as always to all the co-bloggers and contributors who have made this blog far better than I could ever have made it on my own.)

From Dobbs's CNN column, entitled "Pundits take it in the teeth":

Many of our political savants and pundits took one in the teeth last night. I couldn't be happier about last night's surprising results, and not because I favor one candidate or another. I'm just glad the so-called experts in the national media were wrong about their premature assumptions that the Democratic and Republican nominations for president were a done deal.

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At this point, all of the geniuses in the mainstream media, mainly in television news, need to summon the courage to tell their audiences that there are a few important issues to be discussed and a few important facts to be collected before permitting a public coronation of any candidate based on dynasty, momentum, charisma or, God save us all, likeability.

I don't much care for Dobbs, a populist-nativist with a prominent platform from which to spew his daily idiocy, but on this he's absolutely right. The mainstream news media should be ashamed of themselves. Unfortunately, they're incapable of such self-criticism. They will learn nothing from this, and they will make the same mistakes ad nauseam and ad infinitum.