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The MSM is working—actively—for Hezbollah -- Part 1: The Irresolute, Soft Westerner.
ModernConservative.com ^ | Christopher Cook

Posted on 08/07/2006 10:58:53 AM PDT by connell

I wish I were just being sensationalistic with that headline, I really do. Unfortunately, it appears that the MSM are not just unwitting pawns of Hezbollah's propaganda machine, they are active participants. In Part 2, we will aggregate some analysis of these specifics. However, we begin in Part 1 to look at why it may be so very easy for them to get away with it.


Hezbollah cannot win by force of arms alone. They need to change the opinion of the electorates in the democratic countries they oppose. These days, that is not hard to do, for two reasons.

First, with the exception of the World War II generation (who are rapidly leaving us), most Americans alive today have no clue about real hardship. Our society has been so successful, and we now have it so easy, that we have become...

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; adnanhajj; enemedia; fauxtography; geopolitics; hezbollah; iran; iraq; islam; israel; lebanon; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediajihad; msm; muhammadsminions; muslim; qana; reuters; terrorism; wot

1 posted on 08/07/2006 10:58:57 AM PDT by connell
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To: connell

I was just thinking earlier today about what kind of leadership our country will have when we are very old and gray. It will be a dramatic difference from the WWII & depression era generation, God bless their souls - they are/were tough old birds that truly knew how to stand up to hardship.


2 posted on 08/07/2006 11:08:11 AM PDT by sasha123 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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I agree, the Vietnam generation is tearing this country apart. My generation is too old to join. But my son joined up and I can only pray that he blows a lot of them rag heads to Allah. I wish I was 2 years younger then I could join the Army.


3 posted on 08/07/2006 11:40:30 AM PDT by flynmudd (Proud Navy Mom to OSSR Richard T. Blalock-USS Ramage)
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To: connell

Some of the MSM ought to be in US prison. Or else emigrate to where they like things better.


4 posted on 08/07/2006 5:09:02 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: connell

No Problem! Here comes your Bomb!


5 posted on 08/08/2006 8:48:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave
Those are freakin' great!

Part 2 is now up

(BTW - my wife had a Grampa Dave. I suppose lots of people do.)
6 posted on 08/08/2006 9:33:24 AM PDT by connell (Christopher from ModernConservative.com)
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To: connell

Thanks for the kind words and the link.

I had a Grampa Dave and a lot of them in my genealogy on both sides of my family.


7 posted on 08/08/2006 10:41:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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