Not a lick of difference between them. Propagandists all.
Posted on 12/22/2010 12:50:55 PM PST by Kaslin
There is some very dangerous -- as in red-hot incendiary -- hatred going on, and it's being advanced by the national news media directly.
The panel of judges for the Media Research Center's Best Notable Quotables of 2010 found that theme time and time again while selecting the year's worst reporting and punditry.
PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley won "The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble." On May 25, he was interviewing author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a bold critic of radical Muslims -- at the risk of a fatwa against her own life since 2004. Ali said jihadists "got into their minds that to kill other people is a great thing to do and that they would be rewarded in the hereafter."
Smiley shot back: "But Christians do that every single day in this country."
Jaws dropped. Ali couldn't believe her ears: "Do they blow people up every day?"
Read very carefully Smiley's response: "Yes. Oh, Christians, every day, people walk into post offices, they walk into schools. That's what Columbine is -- I could do this all day long."
Smiley wasn't done. Next, he smeared the tea party movement, repeating falsehoods as fact: "Here are folk in the tea party, for example, every day who are being recently arrested for making threats against elected officials, for calling people 'nigger' as they walk into Capitol Hill, for spitting on people."
What, oh, what is the U.S. Congress doing underwriting this radical leftist dishonesty with taxpayer money?
Liberals like Smiley cravenly plead that Islam is no more violent than any other faith. Then they blame Christians for violently persecuting Muslims. When controversy erupted this fall over a mega-mosque proposal at ground zero, Christian conservatives were put in the cross hairs. The dreadful ABC host Christiane Amanpour won "The Ground Zeroes Award for Impugning Americans as Islamophobic."
In an Oct. 3 "This Week" special on Islam, Amanpour opened fire on Gary Bauer in that snooty British accent of hers: "As you know, a series of politicians have used the Islamic center, have used sort of Islamophobia and scare tactics in their campaigns. ... My question is: Do you take any -- after some of the loaded things that have been said, and we can play you any number of tapes, Mr. Bauer -- do you take any responsibility at all for, for instance, what happened in Murfreesboro (Tenn., where a mosque site was vandalized)?"
Bauer, like Ali, was stunned. "Are you serious? Absolutely not. I have never encouraged violence. I condemn violence."
But Amanpour would have none of it. "You don't think the rhetoric lays the groundwork for others?"
When conservatives warn America of the potential threat of Islamic radicalism, they're "rhetorically laying the groundwork" for violence. When Islamic radicals actually plot -- and undertake -- violence, America is to be blamed for its failure to be open-minded enough. Such is the worldview of our increasingly radicalized "news" media.
If conservatives are going to be called terrorists, the megaphone-in-chief for that clarion call must be the rabid Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. He won the "Obama's Orderlies Award for Prepping America for ObamaCare" with a Jan. 5 screed about our allegedly murderous private health care system: "What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies and those who support them are doing just that. ... Because they die individually of disease and not disaster, (radio host) Neal Boortz and those who ape him in office and out approve their deaths, all 45,000 of them -- a year -- in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?"
Boortz wasn't alone as some kind of talk-radio terrorist in Olbermann's cockeyed view. Olbermann also took the "Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh" for his rant on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. He wouldn't blame the actual (executed) bomber, Timothy McVeigh. He was still painting with liberal smears from the Clinton years: "What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Reno's hands-on management of Waco? ... Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaugh's hate radio. ... Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now, and you have had it for 15 years."
You can dismiss these as the ludicrous utterances of Smiley, Amanpour and Olbermann. But what does it say that they are headliners for PBS, ABC and NBC? It is those networks, not just their reporters, that are advancing a very dangerous form of hatred on the airwaves.
These people look right into the camera and LIE!
They lie and lie and lie...lie all the time. They make up their own facts...distort, twist, and lie.
They are liberals, and that is what they do. They think we are stupid
They are liberals, and that is what they do. They think we are stupid
They are trying to incite a backlash. Sooner or later it will happen.
It says that only about 85 people heard them ...
Human nature is ugly. Jesus knew that and rejected it and instructed his followers to follow a similar path. He knew that humans were not perfect and would falter but he offered them forgiveness and redemption and only asked that they continue trying to walk his path. Muhamad also recognized the ugly reality of human nature; however, he instructed his followers to embrace the ugliness, the “beast” if you will. You can not kill for Jesus. Such is not the case for Muhamad. Do Christians kill anyways? Yes, we are only human after all. Do we believe we will be rewarded for killing? No. Do we believe that we may be forgiven for killing? Yes. What does the Muslim radical believe when he blows up a group of innocent people in Allah’s name? What have his clerics taught him? That 72 virgins await him in his heavenly reward.
These people are not reporters. They are not accurately reporting what happened. They are propagandists. This is what propagandists do.
When they continue to lie and the electoral process no longer works, and the country's overwhelming problems remain unresolved, it will get very ugly.
When they continue to lie and the electoral process no longer works, and the country's overwhelming problems remain unresolved, it will get very ugly.
To put it in a word, it's "Orwellian" or "Stalinist". Orwell was warning of Stalinism.
Stalinists will lie to you about anything and tell you something different tomorrow while denying what they said yesterday.
Yes, he lies like a Stalinist. They don't even have to believe the lies the tell. They just seek to witchhunt the "other" side(s).
And taxpayers fund his salary.
What is currently touted as right-wing are merely centrists.. on a good day..
ON a bad day they are leftist-lite.. or worse.
Not a lick of difference between them. Propagandists all.
Why is the hateful person allowed to spew anti-Christian venom on the taxpayer’s dollar with no legitimate consequence?
So how is that "impugning" Americans. Islamophobia is a rational response in the world today except that it is not really "phobia" because phobia connotes irrational fear. People who are not at least nervous about Moslems are the ones exhibiting irrationality.
I can hardly wait for the 400 lb. SIEU and ATF fascists to “come and get us.”
They do okay kidnapping a 60 lb. boy and returning him to Castro. They’ll find out that taking on a man will cause different results. Hey, fat boys in the federal fascist bureaucracy, don’t forget your defibrillators and body bags. You’ll need one or the other to return back to Fort DC.
The correct term is “magical thinking.” They HAVE to believe this, that there are evil Christians behind every rock waiting to kill and rape and plunder.
Leftists can’t believe what they believe without this particular brand of magical thinking.
Those who listen to the mainstream media are primarily concerned with what the right wing is doing to defenseless halibut, what they are doing to defenseless caribou, whether right wingers are tweeting false rumors about Obama’s death panels killing people, whether they are undermining the objectivity of voting in a dance contest that is primarily based on popularity, and whether right wingers are Facebooking about Obama’s stimulus being a massive waste of our tax dollars - whatever Sarah and her family are doing is the main “terrorist” threat in the eyes of MSNBC. As for the alleged/misinterpreted/justified attempted actions of a few thousand isolated individuals, who may belong to an unnamed faith presumed to be Amish, we are too tolerant to worry about that, aren’t we?
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