Open Season on The Left

Atlanta Journal Constitution | 2/10/02 | Phil Kloer

[cookcounty]

Ha-ha. Maybe pretty soon it will get so "bad", that we'll start seeing daily use of "forbidden" adjectives in the press like "arch-liberal...," "Democrat left-winger...," "radical Democrat...," and "hard-left..."!!

[harpseal]

Uh okay. Maybe it would be a little better if they just like, you know, woke up?

Clearly it wouldbe better for leftist slime to wake and become thinking human beings but it is not my choice to make. The article alleged an open season. There had been posted some of the signs of the a real open season I just thought to mention some of the other signs of an open season. We are not there yet I do not look forward to such a situation but I think some leftists are really pushing to have a civil war in this nation.

Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[gcruse]

 The TV networks, he believes, don't really favor one party or politician over another, as some
conservative critics have charged. "Real media bias comes not so much from what party they attack," he writes. "Liberal bias comes as the result of how they see the world," especially through politically correct lenses.

I think what Goldberg should have said was that
real media bias is reflected in the party they attack,
and, that party consistently being the conservative party,
indicates the presence of  liberal bias.
In other words, they certainly DO favor one party
or politican over another.

Buchanan makes even some fellow conservatives uncomfortable, and his attacks on immigrants here, especially Mexicans,
probably won't win him any Rose Garden invitations in the near future.

Pat Buchanan is a closet Goebbels.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The truth is that the world's brief flirt with socialism is almost over and the left can't stand it. Their lies are only fooling the most deliberately stupid. They must resort to ballot box stuffing and bribery because the people are no longer behind them (as if they ever were).

[He Rides A White Horse]

We are not there yet I do not look forward to such a situation but I think some leftists are really pushing to have a civil war in this nation.

That would be a gross error on their part.

[sayfer bullets]

Pouwwww wittlwe wibewal cowumnists...

Words mean so much to them. O'Reilly (et al) take their precious ammunition and blast there asses on paper. The only thing worse?

They're MAKING MONEY!! [ GASSSSSP ]

[IronJack]

I've been noticing a growing trend of hesitant apologism from former bastions of liberalism. It's as though the Looney Left is hedging its bets. Its ringmasters surely recall Jimmy Carter and Michael Dukakis, and aren't going to be caught by surprise in a conservative rally.

Little do they know that we have our own infrastructure, and that if we take the field, no amount of obsequy will preserve their future.

[goodnesswins]

The LEFT is clearly NOT liking us being RIGHT!!!! But, let's continue to help them get used to it. Time to buy some more books.....

[Southack]

This article is a round-about way of someone on the Left finally admitting that Conservatives are "better read" than are the Lefties.

Sure, our views dominate the top ten in books about which we choose to purchase, but the real surprise is that we are so pummeling the Left that they are forced to admit it...

[Jim Robinson]

Let's not get carried away.

[kiryandil]

The TV networks, he believes, don't really favor one party or politician over another, as some conservative critics have charged. "Real media bias comes not so much from what party they attack," he writes. "Liberal bias comes as the result of how they see the world," especially through politically correct lenses.

The centerpiece of his argument is network coverage of the homeless and AIDS in the 1980s and '90s. In both cases, he contends, coverage focused on victims who appeared closer to the mainstream of viewers, which gave a skewed picture of the majority of people who were homeless or HIV-positive. TV news did this in part because it was listening too intently to advocacy groups, Goldberg writes. There is more, some of it padding, but much of it worth heeding.

"Republic.com exposes the drawbacks of egocentric Internet use, while showing us how to approach the Internet as responsible citizens, not just concerned consumers. Democracy, Sunstein maintains, depends on shared experiences and requires citizens to be exposed to topics and ideas that they would not have chosen in advance. Newspapers and broadcasters helped create a shared culture, but as their role diminishes and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities in danger of dissolving. In their place will arise only louder and ever more extreme echoes of our own voices, our own opinions." - from a review of Republic.com (Sunstein, U of Chicago)

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A recent book by Cass Sunstein [University of Chicago] Republic.com was a hitpiece on websites like Free Republic. While crafting an excellent theory, Sunstein was wide of the mark, and Bernard Goldberg's book proves this.

What we actually have in this country is a Daily Liberal Me ("the Daily Me' is a term used by Sunstein to describe indulgence in information all of a kind, all from one type of source), imposed by the countless graduates of the liberal journal factories.

SO: 'Goldberg exposes the drawbacks of egocentric mainstream media use, while showing us how to approach the mainstream media as responsible citizens, not just concerned consumers.'

[kiryandil]

Check my last post. I think our pal Sunstein has given us a term for the ages:

The Daily Liberal Me

[The Drowning Witch]

Balance? Journal and Constitution? Not a flame, but are you sharing your medication?

Oh, you should have seen them before 9/11....then again, you probably have....

[Texas Eagle]

Thanks for the assist. I forgot about the SUV thing.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Sure, our views dominate the top ten in books about which we choose to purchase, but the real surprise is that we are so pummeling the Left that they are forced to admit it..

I haven't checked lately, but I know that on the fiction side, where there is less openly left/right ideology visible, The Lord of the Rings with its unquestionable allegiance to traditional virtues, has returned to the best seller list. All of this beats having Norman Mailer and books worshipping the Kennedy's dominating the best seller lists, that's for sure.

[The Drowning Witch]

Jim, let me just say, that I, in no way, advocate the gunning downing of anyone.....

[kiryandil]

Glad I restrained myself earlier when I was reading about Alexandra Pelosi "joking" about hating conservatives to one of her liberal buds.

[harpseal]

It certainly is necessary for you to be certain that there is no violence advocated in posts and I think one could fairly state that the posts describing what an ,I>OPEN SEASON would be are not advocating that. Instead they are showing just how terrible such a polarization of society would actually be. This is admittedly a fine line and one we must all be careful of crossing but the fact remains that there are many on the left who would be more than happy to have police used to enforce their view of an engineered society with themselves at the controls. The fact is someof these people are in politics and it is beneficial to point out just what going to those extremes really means. If you disagree with me I shall of course abide by your decision but it does do some good to point out what the actual stakes may become over the next few years.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[BluesDuke]

"Open Season on the Left," eh? Gee - I wonder if they've been FREEPing at the AJC. After all, not a few days back, Jim Robinson himself said that bashing around here is verboten with one exception: No bag limit on liberals.