Clinton Attacks "Right Wing Media"

Associated Press ^

[OrioleFan]

"extreme right-wing elements in the media"

Might be interesting to have Freepers rate their local media and compile a list of left-leaning vs right-leaning. I'll start with the Dayton Daily News (aka Dayton Daily Democrat) in Dayton, Ohio. It is definitely a leftist publication. However, I would rate the Greene County paper as middle to right leaning.

[GulliverSwift]

I think that's a good idea. Of course you know the policy about vanities ;-)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"`I've read all the people who say the Democratic party is dead, but I respectfully disagree' — I said that on May 6, 1991. I believed it then, and I believe it today," Clinton said.

LOL! Right. 'New Democrats' are guys who promise tax cuts and raise taxes, guys who fudge the books on the economy, guys who sell White House pardons, pardon terrorists for votes, fire FBI directors illegally, raid FBI files, blackmail leaders of the opposition, give top nuke weapon tech to China so Bernard Shwartz of Loral will reward them with record contributions, and even steal White House furniture.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

According to a compilation of recent opinion surveys of "journalists,"
86% don't attend a place of worship,
90% support the "choice" of killing of unborn children,
75% support homosexuality,
53% approve of adultery,
80% support so-called "affirmative action" programs,
56% believe the U.S. exploits "third world" countries,
80% have never voted for a Republican president –
yet only 54% identify themselves as left-of-center.
Go figure!
[reported in the 18 May 2001 Federalist www.tysknews.com

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Nominated for Quote of the Year is the statement made by Texas
  Representative Dick Armey, who when asked: If you had been in
   President Clinton's place, would you have resigned?

   He responded:
   "If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance
  to resign.   I would be laying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs.
  Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this *%@*& thing?' 
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[let freedom sing]

The audience of about 200 people at New York University chuckled after Clinton quoted his own 1991 remark about the struggling party:

"We have to be firm and clear and strong and positive and prepared to defend our positions and those who are brave enough to stick their necks out," he said.

[GulliverSwift]

...a specious, fraudulent, deceitful version

Woa, Calm down.

nobody needs you to embellish upon the facts......or simply, flay out misrepresent them.

I didn't misrepresent anything. All of us here know how Clinton feels about the conservative media, and that's what I got from reading what he said. The Washington Post quoted another statement from the same speech where Xlinton does it again:

The Republicans "have an increasingly right-wing and bellicose conservative press," he said. "And we have an increasingly docile establishment press."

I'm surprised the Post would run this statement given the fact that he was talking about them, members of the establishment.

I thought it was news for Bill Clinton to bring up conservative media, just like Al Gore and Tom Daschle did.

[dalebert]

What else can they do. Attacking right wing media is all that will get them in the news. Maybe they are afraid the left wing media is going right wing to save themselves.

[hinckley buzzard]

Clinton just thinks he has all the answers. So consumed with himself and his successful seizure of power, he hasn't yet realized that he has put his party into a ten-year downward spiral.

There was no "Third Way," of course, no ready supply of "fresh ideas" from him, just the Same ol' same ol'.

What the dems and he don't get is that they could only use his strategy, such as it is, if they were as deranged a bunch of psychopaths as he is.

Normal people can't bring themselves to do what Clinton did without becoming ill, nor even the run of the mill infantile narcissists who make up the gallery of leftwing crackpots known as the D-Rat Party.

So his "advice" to them is worthless.
If they try to put it into practice they get---Algore 2000.

[Lancey Howard]

bttt

[Lancey Howard]

Clinton's remarks came during a speech Tuesday to the Democratic Leadership Council, a national network that Clinton helped found in the 1980s to steer the party toward a more centrist image.

Pay close attention to the careful use of the word "image" in the above sentence from the story.

About 12 years ago, here in my district, we had a congressman by the name of Peter Kostmayer. One day he comes back from a big meeting down south of the new DLC (Democrat Leadership Council), chaired by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. Kostmayer is apparently pretty excited, and he talks to a reporter from the Bucks County Courier Times about the meeting. Well, doesn't Kostmayer decide to "confide" in this reporter and he proceeds to reveal the new Democrat strategy for winning: Democrats must appear to move to the right, embrace middle class family values, and "distance" themselves from the fringe liberal special interest groups, while letting these groups know, covertly, that they are still on the same side and that Democrats will be working on their behalf. "They just have to stay quiet until we get elected," whispered Kostmayer.

It boiled down to a "wink and nod" complicity (and duplicity), the key being to make these radical liberal groups understand that they should lay low and just let Democrats get elected, all the while knowing that they would get taken care of if they played ball. It was unbelievable candor coming from Kostmayer, and of course it ended up in a very embarrassing Courier Times story. Naturally, many folks around here were outraged when they read the story and Kostmayer ended up losing his next re-election bid to Jim Greenwood.

When you look back at the way Clinton got elected, you can see this strategy being implemented to perfection. Remember his promise of a "middle class tax cut"? People hadn't heard anything like that from a Democrat politician in decades! A TAX CUT?!!

And remember how Clinton "dissed" Sister Soljah? Incredible! A Democrat spanking a black person!

Here, obviously, was a "new kinda Democrat", not the same goofy liberal type the Democrats usually threw up there.

Naturally, the "middle class tax cut" turned into the biggest tax increase in history, and Clinton was eventually dubbed "the first black President", as he appointed the whackiest liberals in the land to his administration (Donna Shalala, Roberta Achtenberg, Jocelyn Elders, etc., etc.) and embraced every goofball leftist cause under the sun.

The point is, Clinton and the Democrats will never change their stripes. They are, and will always be, socialist scumbags who need class envy, racial victimhood and distrust, frightened seniors, and legions of parasites in order to try to win office. The only thing they can do - - and absolutely will do - - is try to find smoother, better liars to run for office. Clinton is their model.

In the meantime, the Democrats will continue to do whatever they can to create as many parasites (their "base" constituents) as possible by attacking traditional America and its families.

Regards,
LH

[CasearianDaoist]

This does not suprise me in the least. Many of the younger people that I meet here in NYC really do not realize just how far left they really are - they have really not been exposed to another point of view in any venue that requires critcal thinking. What is really amazing is the total lack of knowledge and awareness of their own intellectual history, the nearly complete ignorance of the historical antecedents that underpin their "beliefs." They may vaguely know who Marx was - thay have not really read him, but can thow the terms around - but have never even heard of Engels, or Trotsky or Ardorno. I have to explain the internal intellectual landscape of the hard left to them before I can even begin critique their own political "ideas!"

All of this is a positive thing, though: it shows that it is mostly fashion and conformism. When the tide starts to turn they will jump on the bandwagon. They will be just as silly but they will be the left's problem and not ours.