Conservative Post-Mortem: Start of the Ugly

E.J. Djionne wrote this earlier in the week:

For years, Republicans have argued that the way to help struggling working people is to give more money to the wealthy. Obama is saying that we should cut out the middleman and help working people directly. My hunch is that Obama's argument will prevail, and that conservatives will then work overtime to try to deny the judgment that the people have rendered.

While nursing their post-election hangovers, conservatives will likely cry wolf, yet again, and blame "liberal media bias" for their woes.

In fact, the whining has already started, Matt Taibbi notes:

In connection with the whole whining theme, something has to be said about Republican third-stringer Michelle Malkin’s column yesterday. As noted, we should all brace ourselves for an unprecedented period of whining about liberal media bias; it's starting already, with hacks like Malkin already cranking out what essentially are early election post-mortems, blaming the already-conceded McCain loss on the campaign press.

As far as any bias goes, Media Matters for America offers this history and analysis of the "argument."

The reason to be concerned is that the media bias narrative is a powerful drug in the hands of enraged conservatives. Jamison Foser of Media Matters does us a great service by reminding us how the bias narrative fed into the paranoid delusions of the right resulting in endless nonsense during the Clinton years.

Be prepared. November 4th is only the beginning of the real ugliness.