Posted on 08/02/2011 11:34:08 AM PDT by freespirited
Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias. It’s real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren’t even fooling themselves. But some things just have to be pointed out. This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show. I don’t particularly love or even like the program, but I find it useful to see what the producers think is the big news of the day. And sometimes Chuck Todd is on, and I like him. If I sound defensive about watching the show it’s only because I am.
Anyway, the first ten minutes was about Gabby Giffords’ return to the House yesterday. I’m not sure it merited the full ten minutes or trumped the hard news that later followed, but it’s a great story and everyone is rooting for the lady, so I’m fine with it.
But think about this for a second. The Giffords shooting sent the media elite in this country into a bout of St. Vitus’s dance that would have warranted an army of exorcists in previous ages. Sarah Palin’s Facebook map was an evil totem that forced some guy to go on a shooting spree. The New York Times, the Washington Post, all three broadcast networks — particularly NBC whose senior foreign-affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, devotes, by my rough reckoning, ten times as much air time to whining about Sarah Palin as she does about anything having to do with foreign affairs — flooded the zone with “Have you no shame” finger wagging. A memo went forth demanding that everyone at MSNBC get their dresses over their heads about the evil “tone” from the right. Media Matters went into overdrive working the interns 24/7 to “prove” that Republicans deliberately foment violence with their evil targets on their evil congressional maps.
Everyone “knew” the shooter was a tea partier. Except he wasn’t. He wasn’t even a conservative. He was a sick, demented, nutball. And it still didn’t matter! More bleating and caterwauling about the “tone” followed. More chin stroking and tut-tutting from Meet the Press roundtables and “very special segments” on the Today Show. More pizzas were ordered for the Media Matters galley slaves.
Finally, president Obama, our national-healer, gives a speech. It was a good speech. Indeed it was one of the first speeches in a long while that got anything like bipartisan support. Civility. New tone. No more martial metaphors. These were the takeaways.
So flashforward to this week. Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as we know it on this planet,” says Nancy Pelosi. They are betraying the Founders, too. Chris Matthews all but signs up for the “Make an Ass of Yourself” contest at the State Fair. Joe Nocera writes today that “the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests.” Lord knows what Krugman and Olbermann have said.
Then last night, on the very day Gabby Giffords heroically returns to cast her first vote since that tragic attack seven months ago, the vice president of the United States calls the Republican party a bunch of terrorists.
No one cares. I hate the “if this were Bush” game so we’re in luck. Instead imagine if this was Dick Cheney calling the Progressive Caucus (or whatever they’re called) a “bunch of terrorists” on the day Giffords returned to the Congress. Would the mainstream media notice or care? Would Meet the Press debate whether this raises “troubling questions” about the White House’s sensitivity? Would Andrea Mitchell find some way to blame Sarah Palin for Dick Cheney’s viciousness? Would Keith Olbermann explode like a mouse subjected to the Ramone’s music in Rock and Roll High School? Something inside me hidden away shouts, “Hell yes they would!”
The Today Show even had Debbie Wasserman Schultz on this morning for five minutes talking about Giffords. No one thought to ask her what she thought of Biden’s comments? It’s not like she’s the Democratic party’s national spokesperson or anything. Oh, wait. She is!
Instead, after the full ten minutes on Giffords, we get an update about the debt-limit situation (which is supposedly an Armageddon-level issue) and Kelly O’Donnell basically carries water for Biden on the issue by completely muddying whether he said anything of the sort at all. (His office says, no, no the vice president didn’t call them terrorists, he just politely agreed with all the Democratic congressmen in the room that they “acted like terrorists.” Ah, this is a distinction a team of a million Jesuits working around the clock would have a hard time slicing.)
And yet you know the next time there’s the slightest, remotely exploitable tragedy or hint of violence, the same reporters, editors, producers, and politicians are going to insist that blood was spilled because of the right wing’s rhetoric.
Well, go to Hell. All of you.
Yeah. The same party that went to war against their own country upon the election of the first Republican and then when they lost enacted Jim Crow laws, who then ran all Republicans out of the South, and consigned a whole race of people for 100 years to dhimmi status, who then blamed all racial tensions on Republicans, who subsequently sided with bolshevik mass murderers of every stripe, and who now find solidarity with terrorists, so much so that we can no longer use the word
“terrorist”, lest we offend, now call us terrorists, all the while lecturing us about civility. Which really means shutup while I beat the crap out of you.
Excuse me if I’m not impressed with the Democrat party.
And on MSNBC, after the hosts there dissing American Exceptionalism for months, Matthews has a commercial for Hardball where he is standing on a hill overlooking the white house and tingle-legging about Obama, ending with American Exceptionalism. Then pointing to where Obama is, the White House.Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as we know it on this planet,” says Nancy Pelosi. They are betraying the Founders, too. Chris Matthews all but signs up for the “Make an Ass of Yourself” contest at the State Fair. Joe Nocera writes today that “the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests.” Lord knows what Krugman and Olbermann have said.
Then last night, on the very day Gabby Giffords heroically returns to cast her first vote since that tragic attack seven months ago, the vice president of the United States calls the Republican party a bunch of terrorists.
did he say it was time to panic?
Yes, it is. Particularly so given the nature of our opponents - and their plans for us. And here's why:
“The state system which exists in our country is terrible not because it is undemocratic, authoritarian, based only on physical constraint - a man can live in such conditions without harm to his spiritual essence.”“Our present system is unique in world history, because above and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent.
When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render unto him what is God's - that is a sacrifice we dare not make!”
The most important part of our freedom, inner freedom, is always subject to our will. If we surrender it to corruption, we do not deserve to be called human.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, from the essay "As Breathing and Consciousness Return" - October, 1973
That's what's at stake. Here. Now. Today.
Be prepared for war.
Yes, well given some of Ann’s @ssinine comments lately, sounds like Jonah may have been justified.
Perhaps Jonah, who popularized the term “Liberal Fascists”, is coming to understand that the “liberal” part of that formulation is but a mask that is being increasingly discarded.
Jonah has been wagging his email fingers at me for this exact take for a decade now.
When NR had a chance to make a difference...it chickened out.
Too late now...it was too late when Obamacare passed.
From the title I thought this was an opus. Oh well.
Bravo! Very quotable. Guaranteed to make lib Dems heads explode.
We can all readily agree with Jonah Goldberg on this one. The only good news is that the MSM have completely abandoned even the slightest pretense of objectivity making their blatant bias harder to ignore by those who still want to pretend the national news outlets are anything more than a PR arm of the Democrat party’s liberal wing. In short, the MSM are fast losing credibility. Unfortunately, not fast enough,. They still have some power to persuade the gullible and naive - and they do. Exhibit A: President Barack Hussein Obama.
This country is finished, and it is abundantly clear that only a few in The Government (capitals intentional, because it obviously isn’t “our government” any longer) want to do anything about it.
I am actually beginning to welcome the reset button that collapse will bring. There is so much deep-seated corruption, so much lying, so much gutlessness and stupidity and backstabbing and chickenheartedness at so many levels of society and government that only a cleansing fireball of destruction will turn things around. The sentiment espoused by Col. Frank Slade that “Somebody needs to take A FLAMETHROWER TO THIS PLACE!” has never held more truth than it does right now.
I’m done fighting City Hall. I’ll put my time in on republican primaries to try and cleanse some of the dog$h!t from our own party, but I wil never donate to nor cast a vote for any Socialism Lite candidate ever again. The GOP can FOAD.
Instead, the people who hang them from lightposts will likely be those whose acts of violence are increasing and ignored by the selfsame journolists who try to blame us.
“Call me anything you damn well please- I will never shut up as you daily seek to steal my GOD GIVE RIGHTS TO LIFE AND LIBERTY!
NEVER!!
I am only one voice— but you ain’t taking THAT from me!”
AMEN sister!!!
I remember when some lame news anchor was interviewing Ann and commented about her having been "fired", she berated him for not understanding the difference between an employee and a syndicated columnist. As a syndicated columnist whose column was dropped, she did not draw a paycheck from Jonah.
I have missed Rush this am ....can you be more specific?
I don’t understand why he tortures himself watching the MSM. If you do you just get angry. There are intelligent Lib sources out there you can read if you want a smart, non-propaganda Lib point of view. Or you can watch the MSM to analyze how they report news like Media Research Center does. If you do that, you know you will be encountering bias so it doesn’t upset you. No conservative should watch any MSM with any expectation that what they present is fair. Expect that it is all 100% agenda driven.
Here’s one of mine that you’ll like:
“People need to wake up and smell the killing fields that inhabit the imaginations of the current occupants of the White House.”
I like that! From this day forward HAIRBALL IT IS!.......................
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