Posted on 08/05/2004 5:17:52 PM PDT by Bob J
This has been one of my mantras since I arrived at FR in '97 ('96?). Holding rallies, working to get candidates elected, etc., is of immediate importance, but until we solve the media prejudice issue, we will always be pushing that boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down on us the moment our attention is diverted.
Liberals have to rely on propaganda and intimidation, in the media, in education, in unions, etc., to maintain control. They know it is the mothers milk of their effectiveness. Conservatives, if we are ever to achieve a lasting ascendancy and eliminate liberalism as a significant cultural influence, must understand that a long term plan on confronting and overcoming this challenge must be put in place or we will always just come up short of our goals.
Do you think Clinton would have been re-elected, Hillary still sitting in the Senate, Gore almost winning in '00 and sKerry this close in '04 if it wasn't for the lapdog media who decides not only what information is disseminated, but as important, what isn't and how and where it is presented?
People say we have Fox News. Fox News does very well and beats the other cable stations, but when you add up the numbers for the others all together, they beat Fox. And, they still got Rather, Brokaw and Jennings. They still have the NY/LA Times and magazines. They still got our universities, our unions, our entertainment industry (an information dissemination industry all it's own). Yes, we got the internet, but it pales to the competitions advantage.
I'm not going to present a plan, I have my own ideas and am working on some of them. I'd like to hear what the FReepers have to say and what ideas you have, and, how far you are willing to go.
Oreilly is on his show right now with Dick Morris bashing the ad...calling it dispicable.
O'Really and Penis Morris are slamming it now.
But have someone throw out an anti Bush ad and the media gushes over it like it's gospel.
I just turned off O'reilly and will not watch him again! This is Fair and Balanced?
Morris saying ad could backfire. Then again when was the last time Morris was right about anything?
Funny thing is as long as they play the ad, who cares what they say about it.
lol! Beat me by 13 seconds!
They are the propaganda arm of the enemy within.
Yes, and how many ant-Bush, ant-pub books have been number one in the last twelve months? How about Bill and Hills books? How many bookstores will carry it and how many will give it a prominent position in their stores?
Who needs the lamestream when we have the internet?
Wouldn't that be censorship?
Idiots.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the internet.
The only thing dispicable about the add is its main charachter, John Kerry.
I don't intend to :) But that's a lot less easy to fox, pardon the expression, than the lamestream is to fix.
Yes. Right now, attention is actually being focussed on the ad
O was saying that none of these guys served with Kerry. If I recall, one was a doctor who treated Kerry...and wasn't another one of the gunners on his boat? Oreilly needs to STFU and do a little more research.
Wait till the left figures out how to squelch it, like taxation.
Before we had nothing. All we could do was listen by ourselves and snarl at them. One of the media's favorite tactics before the internet was "Nobody else thinks like you. You're an extemist." That one doesn't fly anymore.
Gotta reset my tagline.
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