When you woke up Wednesday morning you may have been surprised to see it all seemed like business as usual.
    And it will be the same on the day after Obama is inaugurated.
    And so it will continue.
    Soon after, though, things will begin to change, but the whole point is that you will not notice. There is actually a plan out there, actually more than one as we believe the Obamailis are not on the same page as the Democrat leadership in Congress. It will take a year to sort that out, only you will find yourself more and more out the loop.
    So let's begin this how-things-will-change discussion with how the flow of information will change. As we all know a leftish press changes changes the ways it reports depending on who's sitting in the White House. I recall all sorts of cute articles, one from Natural History in the 1970s especially, about the quaint and piquant life style of New York's street people in the mid-1970s when Carter was in the White House. The day after Ronald Reagan was sworn in, they suddenly became "homeless" and a national disgrace.
    Similarly, when Clinton left office in 2000 all the stories was about his leaving office, not about the in-coming Bushes. Now it's all about the in-coming Obamas and nothing about the exiting Bushes. Get it?
    I'm sure you can think of another 100 examples. But these are examples of a gushing MSM. That will change and change rather suddenly, for they will be split asunder between those members of the press who still want a good story, especially a titillating, shocking tell-all kind of a story, and those who are willing to trade away what little professionalism and respectability they still have in order to be media insiders with the new regime. Every newsroom, from New York to a local NBC affiliate in Omaha will have its own Walter Duranty, and that person will be the chosen one for getting approved news out. If you were ever in the USSR in the 1980s and watched "Vremiya" (The Times), their national news station, you will know what I mean; car wrecks, fires, laying of wreaths somewhere, but never a word about Chernobyl, or that union leader in Poland, or about some people in Germany trying to tear down a wall in Berlin.
    The rest of the media, alas, will be farmed out to dog shows and garden clubs and other manure-like human interest features that already afflict prime time news. To be sure, there will be attack media dogs to send out against known enemies of the new regime. Sarah Palin will be in their cross hairs forever, but also look for Bobbie Jindel and other as yet unknown luminaries to be singled out. There will also be attacks made on threats to the new realities of socialism, e.g, home schooling, the new "rich business" sector, i.e, businesses too small to be Big Business but having already been politically re-defined by the Obamailis as something other than small business. Remember in the 1970s when the media went after religious sects like the Amish and Menonites who ran their own schools? Only this time, it will stick. News will be used, just like Goebbels used it, to celebrate some things, make you hate others, and put you to sleep with boredom about the rest. After 70 years in the USSR it was all somnambulence.
    The point is, the only relevant media will be an arm of the new regime, doing it's bidding. There will no longer be any independent media out there, digging around, asking questions. They will all be approved or they will be running to get coffee for Brian Williams.
    That leaves the alternate sources of news, such as talk radio and the internet. But talk radio will probably succumb to the Fairness Doctrine unless the GOP can filibuster it. We expect M'Cain will cross the aisle yet one more time to prevent a filibuster, for God knows, he shown in more ways than we can calculate, that he hates his enemies more than ever loved the Constitution...or a free America, for that matter. Talk radio will lose.
    This includes local talk radio, although I doubt the Democrats really care that much what some local radio hack is saying about them, or local politics. In fact, they may throw conservatives and local talk a bone and make them exempt. Sure, a few of the luminaries such as Limbaugh may go to television or XM, but the whole point is, the new regime and the Democrats will hold the big ace hole-card (we can't say "Ace of Spades" anymore) in that they can use the same sorts of filters Yahoo and Google developed for the China market, and actually limit the flow of information on the internet. Look for it. Look for limits being placed on YouTube, FacePage, MySpace, as well the publishing of  camera-phones pics. When Drudge finds it harder and harder to get info, so will Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity...and so will everyone who wants to know anything other than approved news. Can you spell "samizdat"?
     This won't happen over night. As I said, it will come slowly, so that no one will notice. The truth will still be out there, we will all know it is out there, only we won't be able to find it. But they know, in time, our children will stop looking.
     We just got an email from the Christian Coalition stating that this is still a center-right nation, and exit polls proved it. Excuse me, but when the Red Army marched into Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, et al,  in 1944, they were still Christian nations. Somewhere between 1960 and 1980 they almost quit being one, simple because almost everyone forgot what being a Christian even was...except that it was bad. That's how it happens when a center-right nation finds itself under the boot of a left-left government.
     If you're used to knowing what's going on, and far too many Americans don't seem to care, which is why we're in this fix, without access to news, real news, it's like being locked away in a dark jail.
     Hold that thought. It gets worse.
VB
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