30 November 2011 | Two Easy Predictions

Here's two easy predictions for you, starting with the most obvious one: Herman Cain will definitely bow out of the Republication race for the presidential nomination. You don't call your staff together to make some decisions about your campaign without preparing to tell them to all go home.

The second prediction? Our Media Glitterati will frown on camera and ask: what was the role of the media in all this?

This is how hapless media fucks operate. Having been cowed by right-wing blowhards, tough questions about allegations of infidelity need to be softened in the post-mortem by "examining" the media's role in the downfall of Candidate X. Lost in all the navel-gazing will be the obvious implosion by Cain himself because you see, the so-called "liberal" media is deeply afraid of looking biased. So we'll be treated to the spectacles of Howie Kurtz and Wolf Blitzer trying to fathom some shallow depth about whether or not a candidate's private life is up for scrutiny or was the media too hard on Cain, etc., etc. It's a routine at this point, but I will say this: media turds often carry on about it like it's the first time.

Don't feel too bad for Cain, though, because he'll quickly go running to Fox News and blather on about how he was railroaded, vaguely deny the latest accuser's words and depend on the friendly, fact-challenged audience of that network to shake their head and wonder who's next on the "liberal" media hitlist. I fully expect to hear variations on "look what they did to Herman Cain" start floating around. Everything else (his painfully bad answers to things he should have an idea about) will be forgotten because in the larger right-wing narrative, it's always some librul's fault.

God, we have another **year** of this bullshit to go.