"Their stories will worm their way into our heads"

A great quote from The Daily Howler, also wringing his hands in near despair over the sheer brainlessness of David Geffen (and sometimes born-again progressive Arianna Huffington, for that matter) -- repeating the RNC-planted, mainstream press-adopted "narratives" about the Clintons that took hold in the 90s:

We know, we know! We say that we hate the corporate media—but God almighty, how we love their Big Narratives! Inevitably, their stories will worm their way into our heads, and we often don’t even know how they got there; even as we denounce these media, we end up repeating their tales!

. . . . Can we tell you a dirty secret? We progressives don’t play this game very well. We thunder about that corporate media. But we’ve heard their tales again and
again, and we’re often too weak and too dumb to resist them. Inside their board
rooms, fixers laugh hard as they watch their tales pop from our heads.