No one makes fun of the powerful if they know what’s good for them. That’s why when people start to do so, it is a sure sign that the powerful are losing their power and a tipping point is at hand.

I thought this twenty-five years ago when I first saw the now-Classic Wendy’s commercial remembered as  “The Russian Fashion Show.” I’d love to know what the Soviet embassy cabled home about that when they saw it. But within a few years the Soviet Union no longer existed.

This year, I think, we have witnessed another tipping point. It was the “Saturday Night Live” parody last spring of the Democratic debates that spoofed not the debates but the mainstream media’s naked infatuation with–and water carrying for–Barack Obama. While many had complained about media bias over the years, those who needed the media, such as politicians, very rarely if ever noted a systemic problem. But Hillary Clinton had no hesitation in doing so at the very next real debate.

It is, again, a sign that the once overwhelmingly powerful are losing, if they have not already lost, their power. Another, perhaps, is how nasty much of the MSM has become and how careless with the facts. It is an old axiom in the study of international affairs that “Great Powers shuffle on and off the stage of history noisily.” The MSM, like the Soviet Union, is dying.

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