Posted on 02/08/2013 10:35:53 AM PST by Kaslin
On Thursday night’s“The Kudlow Report” on CNBC, conservative commentator Ann Coulter called the media a “threat to democracy” and ripped what she claimed is the blatant hypocrisy of most mainstream outlets.
Host Larry Kudlow focused on the conversation on the Thursday hearing at the Senate Committee on Armed Services, where senators peppered top military officials with questions about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya.
“I mean, you really wonder if Democrats would win any elections if we had an honest media in this country,” Coulter said. “As Pat Caddell says, the media is becoming a threat to democracy. The things that they went crazy over when Bush was president — I mean, remember that video at the White House Correspondents’ [Association] dinner? …. He had a little video — I don’t know, like the dog looking for weapons of mass destruction under the White House furniture. … You would think someone died.
“Well, here in this case under Obama, four people did die,” Coulter said, referring to the embassy attack, “and this is coming out five months after it happened, four months after the election? What is with our media?”
The “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama” author also agreed with Kudlow’s observation that President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were nowhere to be found the night that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens died.
“This is a major story,” Coulter added. “Americans were dying. I mean, on a few news outlets you would hear about this before the election, that there was time to get helicopters there, to get fighter planes there, to have saved some of these Americans, and we get the cock-and-bull story about some American made video ramping up a spontaneous demonstration, and now we find out that the president and the secretary of state were AWOL.”
He is right.
YEP!
We’ve contended with “liberal bias” for decades, but since Obama, the media has genuinely crossed over into the new territory of full-fledged “partnership.” And as a result, the country is rapidly reconfiguring into a one-party statist rule. It’s indeed a huge danger to democracy, and it’s about time this is recognized. No more checks-and-balances, as every element from the media to Hollywood to Wall Street to the wishy-washy GOP-E all gravitate and bow to the ruling socialist order. As the power gets more and more concentrated, then more and more anger, fury and persecution gets directed outwards towards those who refuse to submit, from tea-party types to Christian conservatives to libertarians and such.
“I assume the poster was your son.”
Yes. Found that at a paintball enthusiast’s site out on the web after he was killed. I’m in awe of that kid. I think I merely dreamed him.
I can listen to 9 straight hours of conservative talk radio on WJR here in Detroit. It signal is strong enough that it is heard across a good portion of the lower peninsula as well as northern Ohio. That said, the news reports at the top and bottom of the hour which are, I believe, CBS news feeds, are total propaganda, if you ask me. Sound bites seem to be only of Dems bashing Republicans. There is no balance and a seeming concerted effort to steer away from bad Obama news.
If there were some way we could encourage stations to get their news from other sources, that would be great. If it's that bad on a conservative station, what is it like elsewhere?
She is only a true conservative when she has a book coming out. Watch for one. She will talk it up until she hits the book and beltway party circuit then back to RINOing.
When you get more truth from Pravda than the alphabet media, things are serious.
I had to get my info on Bill Clinton’s character flaws from shortwave radio back in 1992. No media outlet would cover it.
Things have gotten much worse. Now the media practices censorship.
You NAILED the entire causative for our demise, starting with the public schools, curriculum, NEA, and union teachers, university and academia. 50 years for the Marxists has paid off, and yet not a peep, not one, from our illustrious, nor anywhere on their agenda. Of our celebrated consertaves, who has EVER nailed, as you did, the 50 plus years of methodical indoctrination and final entrenchment of generations of American students?
No one.
Tag line still holds.
Right here, she stated the problem. There is no "media," at least as far as honest reporting, and there hasn't been in quite some time. Long ago, you had Walter Durante and the NY Times covering up for Stalin's genocidal use of starvation against the Ukraine. Moving more towards the present, you have "the media" working with the North Vietnamese to ensure that public opinion turned against the war. Then "the media" brought down a president for a couple of screwed up burglaries, blowing it into "the worst thing ever!"
That added to their self-importance, where they've worked to turn public morals on their head, and to bring society down to the lowest common denominator.
Then, with Clinton, "the media" realized that they could protect "their guy" against anything, including perjury and bald-face lying to the American public.
Which led to Obama, where what used to be called "the media," has become the defacto "Ministry of Propaganda," in a symbiotic relationship, which is something that NO free society can possibly survive. Because even if the Ministry were to get around to publishing some of the evils of the government, that's when they'll be relegated to the camps, and a new set of "Ministers" will be installed.
Mark
That is the Question? What can we do? When they lie and lie and lie about anything Obama and his Fairy Band of Communist do then what is our recourse. We have been pushed and shoved and made out to be nothing but redneck trash to these people. So what can we do? They are demonizing us at every corner, “Gun nuts, Traitors,Seccetionist,Enemies”, what can we do? I say soon we need to fight back. Protest at every news outlet and let them know we are angry and are not going to take it anymore. And if that fails????? That’s the question?
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.
There is only one reason that Obama is even president and that is the because the media loves everything about him. If they were doing their job properly, he would have been exposed for the fraud that he is a long time ago.
They even love his lies.
I thought we are a CONSTITUTIONAL republic...
Perhaps Ann is trying to make herself 'relevant' after her enthusiastic support of establishment republican, Mitt Romney.
Coulter IS the mainstream media. She's a fraud.
More like a banana republic.
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