The Fourth Estate and Their Party are Now the Terrorist’s Fifth Column

The Tin Ear/MND ^ | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 | Will Malven

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Michael Duffy of Time Magazine doesn’t believe that the press should take sides in the war. He doesn’t care if the reporting that he and other people in the MSM are doing might endanger American lives either civilian or military.

We as a nation must understand what is going on now with the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay Prison stories and the exploitation of them for political and financial gain by the Democrat party and the MSM. The press and the Democrat party are now actively betraying our nation. They are now routinely “giving aid and comfort to the enemy while at war,” with their propaganda war against America and Americans. These traitors do not care if they put American lives at risk; they see dead Americans only as tools to achieve their respective agenda. For Democrats, our dead American soldiers are propaganda tools to be used for bashing the Bush Administration and the Republican Party. During the 2004 campaign for the Presidency, we were able to count on the Democrats and their advocates in the MSM for daily reports on the number of dead American soldiers. As the number approached one thousand, there was an almost gleeful anticipation of the “Big Event.” We began hearing, almost nightly, the terms “approaching one thousand,” “almost one thousand,” “nearly one thousand,” or “close to one thousand American soldiers killed so far in the Iraq war.” The purpose of this count up wasn’t to “inform” the public, it was to influence their perception of the war and its progress in hopes that it would drive them into the arms of the Democrat Party and their “American Gigolo” candidate, Lurch Kerry.

The left doesn’t care about the people; they care only for their agenda. Oh, they will certainly protest that they care, it would be political suicide for them not to, but they don’t really care. What, you don’t believe me? Well then if you need more proof than the annual murder of one million unborn babies every year, or the Terry Schaivo case, just look at the record. If the Democrats and their reporter friends truly cared about the sanctity of human life, they would not tolerate Orca Kennedy in their midst. His crime against Mary Joe Kopechne, so heinous that for them to be concerned with John Bolton’s temperament, or Tom DeLay’s ethics questions, is laughable, would irretrievably disqualify him from serving in the Senate. The fact that he has not been disowned by his party should tell you everything you need to know about the so called ethics of the Democrats and their handlers on the extreme left. After the initial shock of realizing that the attack on 9/11/01 had occurred, their first reaction was a political reaction. This was just what Rush Limbaugh said on Monday. “Why couldn’t this have happened while Clinton was in office?” Dang, he missed his chance. Look at the immediate questions from the press. “Why did the president not immediately return to Washington D.C.? Why did the President just sit in front of the school children and continue to read after he was told of the tragedy? Was the President capable of dealing with the news, did he panic?” Politics was the single most important thought for the Press and the Democrat Party.

Following the President’s wonderful, heart felt speech at the memorial service, I casually mentioned to one of my Liberal acquaintances how moving and great I thought the speech was. Her first reaction was “Well he didn’t write it!” There was no acknowledgement of, or interest in the importance or solemnity of the occasion, there was only a desire to make sure that President Bush didn’t get credit for the speech, that he not be seen as intelligent, or capable, or competent. The Democrats and their yellow press don’t care about the morale of the American people. They don’t care about the morale of the American troops. They don’t care about the image America projects overseas, and how the non-combatant Arabs perceive us. They don’t care that, if they manage to make America’s will to pursue the war in Iraq and on terrorism appear weak, it will encourage the resistance. They don’t care about the negative consequences of purveying these kinds of stories to the Arab world, and the threat they may be to our troop’s safety. They don’t care that their talks of setting timetables for withdrawal of our troops only encourages our enemies to fight on. They only care about making political points against the administration.

Yesterday on the floor of the Senate, the treason continued. Dick “Dursban the Poisoner of Minds” Durbin spent an inordinate amount of time talking about the negative consequences this GITMO prison “scandal” was having on our image throughout the world. Quoting the reports from Amnesty International, the ACLU, and useless propaganda rags like Time Magazine, he perpetuated these stories and lent them credence, when we know that occurrences such as those reported by Time are exceptionally rare if. they occur at all. He was accompanied by all of the usual traitorous Democrats, Hateful Harry, Orca Kennedy, Babs Boxhead, and the rest. As far as the “ill treatment” these internees have received, it has been astonishingly mild as far as I’m concerned. Of course I am much more concerned with sucking these monsters dry of any useful information they might have, than I am with how their being treated, but then, I am just a cruel, heartless, conservative, Republican. How could I possibly be in favor of “torture?” What about the safety of our troops when they get captured? Two things come to mind in response to that question, first, if we are successful in our questioning activities, we are much less likely to have any troops taken prisoner, therefore this “torture” makes the troops safer, not less safe. Second, as far as I can tell, our treatment of the prisoners we have taken appears to have no effect on how our imprisoned troops or civilians are treated. It’s hard to get worse than slow beheading.

The press have one additional enticement to drag these stories out and show little actual concern for the casualties Americans have suffered, and that is the economics of the situation. More salacious material they can get the more copy they sell and the more advertising they can pull in. For them, if the American public gains some insight or information on the war, that is well and good, but the main concern that they have beyond their political agenda is making money.

They don’t care, but if you care as I do, then you must get active and fight these Anti-Americans. Oh yeah, it’s time we stopped molly coddling these “detainees,” lets put them to work for us. They want us to close down GITMO prison, where do we send them? Remember they don’t want us to have any women around them, because it violates their space. Hey, I know, how about Fire Island, or perhaps San Francisco? At least there, their hand holding and “deeply affectionate” behavior won’t be so out of place.

Torture at GITMO or Abu Ghraib? Give me a break. We in the West have little or no expertise in torture, at best we are dilettantes in that game; it takes an Arab, Oriental, or Native American to truly bring the art of torture to fruition. At worst, these prisoners are suffering from moderate discomfort, not mistreatment or torture, and for the Press or the Democrat Party members to suggest otherwise is treason, and need to be identified as such.

Beware the Fifth Column!

[Darkwolf377]

I wish someone would compare the number of Time and Newsweek cover stories since 9-11, and see how many are critical of the US as compared to those critical with Iraq/Saddam/UBL.

I have a suspicion as to which number is higher.

[popdonnelly]

Duffy doesn't believe the press should take sides? But it's perfectly all right for the press to take a position against the American military. I'll take a side - against Duffy and his magazine.

[TASMANIANRED]

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[rollo tomasi]

"Those mean Americans with their superpower military need to be chopped down because they hurt those wittle itty bity mischarictarized freedom fighters"---American mainstream press.

[sheik yerbouty]

Drop Duffy off in some jihadistan..

[Spok]

"Duffy doesn't believe the press should take sides?"

He obviously just fell off the turnip wagon. And doesn't read his own magazine.

[alarm rider]

How long can this go on unchecked? And who in the Heck is going to check it?

[Red Badger]

Title is one of my old taglines........

[adorno]

Why aren't there any republican leaders with good name recognition who are willing to tell it like it is?

Blogs, forums and Fox News will not be enough to expose the treasonous actions of the democratic party.

[WmDonovan]

"How long can this go on unchecked? And who in the Heck is going to check it?"

Just a thought: GE owns NBC and NBC is a willing 5th columnist. NBC expects us not to like them (we're all watching Fox anyway, right?), and panders to the liberals and hoodwinks the feeble minded. GE on the other hand is about one thing: $$$$$$$. Put pressure on all GE products and services and tell them that you refuse to aid a company which owns a 5th columnist. Jack Welch would have stuffed his pet dog face first down a garbage disposal if it would have raised the stock of GE by one penny. If GE gets a hint that NBC is hurting their other divisions they'll do something about it; hopefully by firing a boat load of people at NBC.

[sageb1]

The leftists are the weakest link and thus have become the tool of our enemies.

[Pirate21]

Why aren't there any republican leaders with good name recognition who are willing to tell it like it is? There are good people (and some of them are Democrats), but they can't get the air time or ink. The problem is with major media outlets that filter reports. (It's an oxymoron to call them the "mainstream media," because they are anything but mainstream.) Unfortunately, networks such as CBS, ABC, and NBC will be slow to die off, because people like their entertainment shows. Encouragingly, the readership of the NY and LA Times is supposedly declining. FOXNews and blogs/forums are starting to help. The efficacy of the latter is evidenced by attempts to regulate or shut them down.

[TASMANIANRED]

Chew on this a while:

DUFFY: As horrible as it would be to do what he did -- was prepared to do -- he's a weirdly innocent guy. He don't... He asked, for example, his captors whether the planets revolve around the sun. He wants to know about dinosaurs and how they died and what they were. He clearly has no knowledge of where Cuba is. He thinks it might be in Florida. He isn't exactly sure where Florida is, either. He has very -- almost no understanding of the United States, or the US government or the Constitution or the Bible or Christianity. He's - he's childlike, uh, in his -- ignorant (half-giggles) in an oddly 18th Century way. So, you know, that emerges (sigh) that -- that -- that that the hijackers -- 19 of whom have died and we'll never really get to know -- were children. Children who have been, you know, uh, convinced that this was a good way to spend their time, and not very, uhhh -- and he comes off that way.

Clipped it from Rush's show.

This is an interview given by Duffy.


Frankly I think there is one hell of a difference between being ignorant and being innocent.

[TASMANIANRED]

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[TASMANIANRED]

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[Spok]

A moron with a gun is no less a moron, nor any less dangerous. Is he like John Kerry who thinks we can win this war with therapy?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Fourth Estate and Their Party are Now the Terrorist’s Fifth Column

That's the way to put it; the Democratic Party exists for the purpose of sailing down the propaganda wind which is inherent in journalism. In the Nixon era the Democratic Party stopped being the party of JFK and Harry Truman and Scoop Jackson - and became the party of Walter Cronkite.

True to form, the leftists of the time accused the opposition of exactly what they were doing. Back then they railed against "the establishment" - from their redoubt in the actual establishment, Big Journalism.

[Neoliberalnot]

Excellent article. I commend you for posting this.