re: #78 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Because the GOP and the right-wing media have, against all warnings, become completely radicalized and now stand in basic opposition to the US political process itself.

It’s not just the right-wing media, its all of the print and broadcast media. The Washington Times is (properly) disliked and disrespected by the Washington Post, but on this issue they’re both ticked off with Obama. The left wing of the media doesn’t like Obama’s anti-leak actions much either, as leaks have been very useful to them in the past.

Thus a conservative cannot ‘defect’ on this issue and get the positive media coverage needed to stay relevant having done so. Thus there is no alternative to opposition to Obama on this one.