Yes,the media will try all of this, but this time, it won’t work. People HAVE been suffering for the past four years. Only the lowest, of the low information voters have not been hearing bad news in the financial papers and financial cable shows. Everyone knows how high food and gas prices have been. They have seen the Obamas livin’ large while everyone else struggles. This is why they will throw these Marxist bums out.
And the combination of Romney turning things around, with the media sniping at his heels at every turn, will make most people tune out the MSM for good. This isn’t something we should be wringing our hands over. This is something we should look forward to, especially with the likes of Chris Christie and Allen West, who will jump at the chance to ask MSM hacks “where the hell were all your doom and gloom stories when Obama was in charge?”.
Good work! Ping for Nov 7.
I despise the media even more than I despise the chosen one, but that’s only because they’ve been putting it to us for almost a half a century. As active enablers of this incompetent clown, they are at least as culpable for the decline of this country as is the donkey party.
I will only be satisfied that justice has been done when I see every last one of them - anchorclowns, so-called reporters, lame pundits, editors, and the rest - consigned to a job for which they are actually qualified: something like cleaning toilets.
You haven’t missed anything and I have been saying for a long time that our biggest enemy is the liberal lying media.
Keep up the good work!
Would this rise to the standard of the FReeper Editorials?
Gallup said that distrust of the media hit an all-time high this year, "with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly."
The old media believes that they ran Nixon out of office. They think playboy magazine elected Jimmy I HAVE LUSTED IN MY HEART Carter. They also take credit for running the first President Bush out of office. They think they’re the kingmakers. I remember their call that, “You should never argue with people who buy their ink in barrels.” Well, it’s fewer and fewer barrels. They don’t try to be bipartisan, and then wonder why they’re going down the tubes. They’re standing on the sinking Titanic that they’ve run into an iceberg calmly telling everyone that they thought a cool dip in the ocean would be refreshing. Swim, boys, swim!
A more aggressive move to attack the Electoral College, shore up public unions and maintain control over the means of power - EPA, school systems, etc.
I agree we’ll be in deep doo doo, but a lot can be fixed rather swiftly.
If Romney does what he says, and allows Keystone to move forward, while fast-tracking drilling on federal lands and our coasts, then oil futures will head downward ahead of the supply increases.
Business will see an awful lot of uncertainty removed, and some expansion will move ahead that was in wait and see mode. Romney sees the damage Dodd-Frank has done, and some can be minimized even before it is rescinded by Congress. The elimination of Obamacare will be huge, psychologically and practically, for businesses small and large, not to mention the health-care industry.
Inflation will be the problem, but that can be dealt with somewhat by halting QE3.
The media will magnify all the weak spots, but there will be some triumphs our side will have to tout, and rather quickly, IMHO.
Expect this Thanksgiving to bring sob stories of new homeless "just since Romney was elected, so imagine what it will be like in four years!"
Almost makes me want to see Obama deal with it for another four years, of course the media will cover for him, so there would be no “complete destruction of the progressive democrap party”...
I cannot wait to vote for Romney, despite him being a RINO, rather have him than Obama ANY day, week, month, year decade, century etc....
Good column. You report truths, some of which are obvious to us but unknown to the average Joe out there. And he desperately needs to know them for the good of the nation.
I have found in many decades of fighting the Leftist bias, that those who exhibit it, simply cannot defend it, when they are properly attacked. With the media, the problem is not so easily addressed, because they have the ability to suppress criticism in their own venues--they simply refuse to print or broadcast what they do not like.
But it is important that Conservatives fully grasp how one-sided the argument--if it is ever allowed--will really be. The American heritage, that we try to defend, unlike every Leftist theory ever propounded, was never formulated by quacks, fantasizing about how they wanted the world to be. It was based, very clearly, on actual experience. (See America: Grounded On Experience & Reason.)
This is why, when we allowed the Founding Fathers' system to actually work as intended, we out-produced, out-achieved, every other people on earth. We must perfect our techniques for fighting back against those who are destroying our children's future. There really is no rational justification for the policies that are causing our problems.
William Flax
Great piece. Freerepublic still the best. The first 2 paragraphs are perfect. I thought the exact same things and haven't seen them articulated anywhere. You probably said it better than I could have. This needs to be repeated all over the Internet:
The media has been in a slumber for the last 4 years; not that the world has been quiet. We have lived in a world replete with economic collapse, international conflict, and social unrest, a time of tribulations and consequence, the likes of which we have not seen in over 70 years. But a media which gleans only what it desires to further a socialist agenda has found no purchase on these stories. They had achieved their goal of placing a true socialist in the Presidency, and no bad news, no bad outcomes would be spoken of during his realm.
This Obama couldn't tell a hole in the ground from its ass as was evident in the debate. the media created a false Obama and a false Romney as it creates a false reality. The media got Obama elected by demonizing Bush and Palin. the media got a socialist creep who never had a real job elected president of the U.S. . Only 4 years after in this debate did we finally see the real Obama. Hope the media won't get this Obama monster elected again. The media is responsible for all the problems we have including the ever expanding government which is the problem
Government is the problem. Why do idiot liberals trust government so much? To democrats/liberals government is their God. Socialism is a religion to these marxist/democrat peices of crap, including to that piece of crap Obama. Private ownership distributes power among millions of private firms and 100’s of millions of individuals. democrats think it's better to concentrate power on one government , one individual( obama or chavez for example) . As if one individual could simultaneously run millions of businesses better than all these business men put together at the same time. One liberal Obama couldn't run a lemonade stand much less one real business, much less a million businesses at the same time. This Obama couldn't tell a hole in the ground from its ass as was evident in the debate. liberalism is pure lunacy . how's that government working in government schools, government project housing? Can't even teach kids basics in 12 years.
very well done!
8. The world is on fire. Russia and China are playing for keeps and are eating our lunch. The Arab Spring bloomed into a thuggish Islamic caliphate. The world has the lowest respect for us in history and our enemies do not fear us.
9. We are at war and Americans are dying. The flag draped coffins have been increasing, despite the lack of nightly tallies. Peace Movement protests will magically reappear as a ubiquitous daily phenomenon. Deep concern will be deeply analyzed. Personal stories of disillusioned soldiers will be the norm.
It might be a vanity - but a very insightful one... Save it - if Romeny wins it'll be even more fun to read... the MSM is totally predictable.
I think you have pretty much nailed it. Age old problem...republicans (to greater or lesser degrees) have to clean up the mess left by the rats.