Posted on 10/06/2012 7:12:49 PM PDT by jfd1776
I address it in my Illinois Review column this week, here, if you're interested:
I think the “lame-stream” media is long past redemption at this point. The fact that Obama got elected in the first place due in no small part to their help forever cost them whatever modicum of the public’s trust they may have had prior.
It is too late. The establishment media is the enemy. It should be destroyed. On social media sites (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.), always downvote a page from an establishment media source, regardless of the topic or content.
Corrupt groups tend not to be self-correcting. It usually takes burnt-to-the-ground elimination for true correction to occur.
Having said that, I do not suggest taking action to do that. God is able on his own to get that done in his time, in his way.
Nope...sorry.
It IS too late. They are whores and traitors and nothing can make up for the misery they have inflicted on the regular Joe in this country.
They are enemies. They are ignorant. They are arrogant.
They must be defeated.
I’m afraid this is unrealistic. The left turned against LBJ and threw him in the trash purely because he was blamed for continuing the Vietnamese War. By that time the left’s strongest desire was to cut and run, which LBJ refused to do, fast enough to suit them.
And the left turned against Jimmy Carter not because he was a leftist, but because he proved to be incompetent at achieving leftist goals. As you point out, they abandoned him for someone even further to the left.
The Journolist scandal after the Rathergate scandal after the CNN-SaddamHussein scandal should have forever put the contemporary business model in the grave.
And they have the nerve to continue mocking and denying those who point out their bias.
I saw something much different back then. The MSM employees finally yielded to the "anti-war", pro-Ho demonstrators and their red, blue, and yellow "protest banners" (Viet Cong flags actually but the MSM employees dared not mention the connection.)
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. (They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.)
These 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, spoiled brats and their underground press (Berkely Barb, East Village Other, Ramparts, and more) had been after LBJ for years. They had virtually taken over the Democratic Party by 1968.. the take over was finalized in the 1970s.
By 1968 these radicals owned the MSM; to wit, Walter "North Viet Nam's most trusted man in America" Cronkite finally admitted his ideological preference and came out foursquare with the "anti-war", pro-Communist, one-world government radicals.
“If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.” LBJ
Opposing LBJ had nothing to do with the streets rioting (the MSM backed protesting the war and "racism"), businesses taxes and regulations and the growing welfare state (the MSM favored both); the only concern the hijacked Party and the MSM had about our soldiers in southeast Asia was how soon can we get them out of there and let the Communist win.
The worldwide MSM and entertainment world have been pro-leftist FROM DAY ONE, and there’s no actual end in sight, as they continue to get worse and worse! The MSM, and the rest of the left, will do all that they can do to “trip up” Mitt Romney, all they way to general election day, and they will do all that they can do to make Mitt Romney look very bad, during the next debates.
Any “fair Coverage” by the MSM of the debate aftermath was not their first choice. However, due to the fact that there were millions of witnesses to the stomping that was visited upon ‘The One’, the MSM knew that to try to portray it as something less would be to totally expose themselves as the democrat propaganda machine that they are. Therefore, I give them no credit. Any microscopic shred of credibility they had with me has evaporated over the last 4 years. Perhaps when 1960’s leftists are no longer running the journalism schools and their pupils either wise up or retire, the MSM will start to regain some credibility. Until then, NO SALE!
A Freeper on another thread mentioned that when the nation collapses as a result of Leftist policy failures that were perpetuated by the bias in the Media, that we should go after them and bring them before the American people for their betrayal.
After all, Liberals would have never had the positions of power they’ve enjoyed over the last 50 year’s had it not been for the blatant dishonesty and corruption in the media.
In a representative republic, we the people vote on our representatives based on what information we can gather from the media. The people can’t make informed and responsible choices if the truth is kept from us.
The media basically enjoys unlimited constitutional protections based on the notion that they are the responsible for keeping the people accurately informed and they have failed in that responsibility. For that they should be held accountable.
No mercy for traitors.
None.
Few people living today in this nation will live long enough to see, let alone reap the benefits of what will be required to undo/fix the heap of a mess liberals have built. Their 'redemption' will need be earned when they individually or collectively meet the Maker!!!
The Most Interesting President in the World.
I do not often speak the truth, but when I do, I prefer to lie. Stay stupid my friends.
He can lower the unemployment rate without creating a job.
He can brag about non existing accomplishments over the last
2-1/2 years, while being in office for four.
He can move his lips while reading a teleprompter and nobody
cares.
He can envision the day when the country runs solely on the
gas he expels in his sleep.
He can double gas prices, while claiming increased drilling.
He speaks with numerous accents, while speaking the same
language.
He can bow to foreign leaders, but remain pompous at home.
When he loses a debate, the press makes his excuses.
He can provide security to his White House advisors, yet
leave embassies vulnerable.
He can party in Vegas, but tells others not to go.
He plays golf constantly, in spite of his swing.
He is so cool, global warming has ceased.
An ounce of his sweat sells on MSNBC as cologne.
With just his attitude, he can stop world terrorism.
Even his dog is on food stamps.
Hugo Chavez has him listed as his emergency contact.
His organ donor card lists his teleprompter.
He disrespects Israel, but yet expects the Jewish vote.
He can regulate dust, while talking dirty.
Ahmadinejad finds sanction in his policies.
He gives his Secret Service agents a sense of insecurity.
When he plays chess against himself, he rarely loses.
He can say “the fact of the matter” with a straight face.
His driver’s license picture was taken in Hollywood.
He believes Air Force “One” was named after him.
When dealt a bad hand he whines like a baby, yet has the job
of a man.
He can lower expectations just by entering a room.
For he is: “The Most Interesting President in the World”
The MSM will try to undercut Romney in the next debate. We need to start putting them on notice that we will be watching REAL CLOSE and publicizing and criticizing every tactic they try.
Didn’t waste my time reading whole article on this one. I’m too young to remember the MSM during Vietnam, but seeing them cheer the terrorists for so many years during Iraq conviced me they have no mercy or charity in their heart, only Satanic hatred for America. They and their cohorts are my enemy every bit as much as al-Queda itself.
oops, make that al-Qaeda
oops, make that al-Qaeda
(but don't hold your breath )-:
The MSM will continue to be in the tank for the Democrats until they just wither away from the lack of an audience. What I fear if Obama is re-elected is that by regulatory fiat from the FCC and DHS, talk radio, Fox News and Internet blogs will be muzzled leaving the MSM in command of all the news again. I hope talk radio and Fox have plans to move overseas and continue to broadcast by shortwave and satellite from beyond the Obama curtain.
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