two question on impeachment & media reaction if proceedings start:

[yurbud]

• Would the media be able to get away with ignoring or offering minimal coverage?
  
  
• If not, how could they spin away the damning evidence presented?

If you remember the 9/11 Commission hearings, even the boot-licking MSM couldn't minimize Richard Clarke's apology or Condi reciting the title of the August 6, 2001 PDB "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."

When I was in college, our football team had a horrible coach. His only plays were hand offs, and short passes because he was so afraid of the ball being intercepted. It rarely was, but they also rarely won a game.

When that coach was finally fired, the next coach opened up the game with some long passes. Since he still had most of the same players who weren't familiar with taking chances, there were fumbles and interceptions and the team won maybe one more game than they did the previous season, but the fans were energized and could see the seeds of better things to come.

The Democrats are too much like the first coach who is so afraid of fumbles that he doesn't notice he's never winning except when they other side screws up even more.

The only Democratic victory like this before 2006 was Bush's abortive attack on Social Security. It was so profoundly unpopular that the Democrats simply had to let Bush keep talking and further repulse the public until there was no chance of it passing.

But that safe play does not work on all issues, particularly those where the Bushies don't give a fuck about public opinion like starting wars to funnel money into the pockets of their cronies that make Social Security look like chump change.

[lonestarnot]

1. No they will not get around it.

[nuxvomica]

2. The media would treat it purely as a contest

The same way they treat elections purely as horse races.

[yurbud]

3. if they broadcast any significant portion of it, public opinion will take care of itself.