Though, Political Machine stopped promoting the link days ago, HowObamaGotElected.com Doesn't Click--about a Web site that claims the news media won the 2008 election for Barack Obama--is still getting a lot of traffic. Interestingly, it's coming from the very right-wing site it criticizes. Even more surprising, the site is claiming that the AOL poll associated with the article "supports its premise."

Now, as any God-fearing American knows, an AOL poll should not be counted as a dependable gauge of national sentiment (unless, of course, the poll is linked with headlines such as Nude Pics Lost at McDonald's Surface or Mystery Piano in Woods Puzzles Police). Therefore, any gloating or preening on the part of site owner Mr. John Ziegler--the author, broadcaster, and filmmaker (pictured right) of the documentary "Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected"--seems a little unfounded.

But there it is, writ large on the homepage, certifiable gloating:

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And of course it would be. Web traffic flocked to the site last week because (a) It's totally absurd to theorize that the news media suppressed negative stories about Obama and promoted negative stories about McCain and Palin in order to sway voters, and (b) in a sense, it's probably true.

While Political Machine readers were aware from the get-go that this was no mere Presidential election but in fact the 2008 LOLection®, it was also quite obvious that the contest would be a battle of image, message and at times Chuck Norris. Sen. Barack Obama projected an image of youth, change, history and healing, while McCain projected an image, I'm sorry to say, of zombies. It's not his fault, but he did have a staff of people whose job was to project an appealing image, and somehow it didn't get through. Writers, broadcasters, filmmakers, artists and others with the ability to send messages to the masses liked Obama and wanted him to win.

However, to say that their message influenced people to throw away something as sacred as a vote, or to imply that Obama voters were largely unintelligent, is not a reasonable or sustainable argument unless the same spotlight is shone on McCain-Palin voters. I sure would like to see if the average McCain voter knows exactly who Harry Reid is. (Wasn't he in the "Smokey & the Bandit" movies?)

HowObamaGot Elected.com is not resting on its laurels, though, promoting the results of a Zogby telephone poll that was conducted because, as the homepage says, "obviously interviewing a relative handful of Obama voters, while interesting, is hardly scientific proof of anything."

One of the poll's revelations? "88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket."

I don't know about you all, but that is a travesty.

B. Brandon Barker can also be found here.