Well said. Plus, the left is Alinskying the American people every day. Only 20% of Americans identify themselves as liberals while twice as many identify themselves as conservatives.
Problem is, liberals dominate many of places of influence including most importantly, the media, even at the local levels, being a big part of that. Part of Alinsky is looking like you are a bigger force than you really are. The medias and their minions do a very good job of this. The answer is to stop patronizing their advertisers and let the avertisers understand why. In the long run, the statism the left represents today is damaging to those businesses as more and more big government hurts free enterprise. Many medias do not have their advertisers best interest at heart but they are willing to take their money. We also need to get the whole media establishment out of the control of just a few boardrooms. The medias can be defeated in this country if more and more people realize they are nothing but propaganda outlets for the left and hurt them where it really counts.
I realized the local medias are the enemies of our freedoms and liberties the day they treated the death of the evil George Tiller as a martyr and a saint to their cause. I haven’t patronized their advertisers since.
CGato
When you mentioned local media and Tiller in the same sentence, I realized we might actually be in the same media market....or at least close (I’m in Topeka).
The thing with local media, that I have discovered, is that most are phenomenally dumb. And I really mean that. I watch them report on fairly complex local issues, and its just painful. And I’m batting a thousand with this - every time I have personal knowledge of a news story, I find errors in the reporting. It could be a name, a title, a place of employment....anything. These are small details, but they demonstrate just how fundamentally stupid these local reporters are. They can’t keep anything straight.
Now the part of local news that I dislike the most is national agenda reporting. The local newscaster will report that some people have some grievance (can’t pay for healthcare for example), and say “Jane Doe has the story” - and then we see a 2 minute canned segment that is not local at all. Its obviously been put together by CBS headquarters and pushed to the local stations...who never tell the viewer that it isn’t a local story. Instead, they are acting like Jane Doe is a local reporter, who put the story together in their own newsroom that afternoon. Its absurd.
Anyway, being Topeka, I have a prediction for tonight’s news - They will have a reporter at the rainbow house, microphone in hand. Some gay activist will praise today’s ruling, the feed will cut back to the newsroom, and the anchor (with a big grin on his face) will close it out with a quip from Obama about this giving people more freedom.