[Jeff Head]

This is happening all over the nation.

I have my oldest daughter (one of our five children), ho is a mother of one and expecting number two, who is also taking some part time classes here at BSU (Boise State University - but perhaps more appropriately named BS -U when you hear what they are teaching) while her husband goes full time there completing a Computer Science degree.

Anyhow, she is finishing some general ed requirements towards a marketing degree and is enrolled in a "social problems" class. She is being taught exactly the same garbage dexcribed in this article ... that abject marxists/leftists are somehow God's gift to mankind, that Fidel Castro is the savior and hero of cuba and welcomed by the vast majority of cubans and only the "capitalist" rich exploiters have fled that country. (Luis, pipe in here)

She is working on an assignment now where the given and the basis of the discussion starts from the perspective that "the liberal media" is a myth and the assignment is to prove that the liberal bias does not exist. They have been given a pamphlet/book and a web site (www.fair.com) to use to prove this thesis, indicating that somehow, because rich people own the media, that they are necessarily pure capitolists and therefore can have no "liberal" bias. My indication is that the bias is "Unamerican" because they embrace the socialist, marxist ideals leading this nation and its economy away from the principles and true free markety principles the nation was founded upon.

This is true whether they seek to bring the American populace economically down by foisting abjectly socialist/marxist programs upon us through useful idots of all sorts (rabid environmentalists, PETA, socialists, marxists, etc), or if they seek to do so by establishing a bastardized world market economy that destroys the self-reliant, independent, soveriegn nature of America's free market ... exporting and exploiting that system for their own global interests. Both efforts are part and parcel of the same program ... to bring down this great Republic IMHO and try and confuse Americans in the process.

Being my daughter, and being raised as she has been, she is determining to prove just the opposite and willing to risk her grade in the process while she proclaims the truth. I am proud of her, but digusted at the wholly blatant efforts (which I have known of for many years because it also extends down into primary and secondary education where we have fought it) to undermine and castagate the principles that made this nation what it is.

I am going to flag my daughter (and many others) to this thread (who is herself a new FReeper) and hope she gets some good dialogue with patriotic/conservative/liberty loving Americans (besides her dad) who know the truth and will give her advise and direction in her efforts. ... Kate, there is likely to be all sorts of good advise coming your way, perhaps sprinkled with some things you may not agree with. That's fine, filter and sift through it all in the thought process to defend and stand up for what you KNOW it right.

SJackson, thanks for posting this ... it is an issue and problem we all need to be aware of. The attempt continues in great force to destroy any vestage of faith, American ideals and foundational principles in our youth ... but those raised properly will ultimately rise above it as the teachings of their youth perculate to the fore as a result of real life experiences which so many of these supposed "great thinkers" and tyrant wannabe's or collaborators are totally devoid of.

JEFF

[Mr_Magoo]

Jeff,

Just have Kate give her "professor" an autographed copy of your book. The resulting spike in blood pressure will cause a stroke . . .

No more problem "professor".

:-)

[Mudboy Slim]

"RAT Professors Poison Minds of Yutes!!"

"Humans are neither the strongest nor the fastest species, but we are the smartest. Therefore, it makes sense to educate ourselves. Without education, we would probably still have a life span of nine years and would spend our evenings sacrificing each other to the sun god. That’s why education is good. It does, however, have its bad points. For one, a college education costs about as much as a three story Victorian home. What is worse, higher education today usually requires students to sacrifice their brains— not all of their brains, just the part that allows them to use logic. So, today’s college grads have to pay back loans every month until retirement and they also have to forfeit the most important part of their brains— that’s a pretty high price for a college degree."

The RadicalRaightWingWhacko PARENTS who pay their children's tuition can END PROFESSOR TENURE, by aggressively lobbying the UniversityEFFETEELITE who allow this anti-American, PRO-Communism Brainwashing to occur!!

It's up to US to stop allowing our children to be handicapped by IgnorantDOLTLib'ralProfessors' skewed interpretations of reality!!

FReegards...MUD

[RAT Patrol]

Being my daughter, and being raised as she has been, she is determining to prove just the opposite and willing to risk her grade in the process while she proclaims the truth. I am proud of her, but digusted at the wholly blatant efforts (which I have known of for many years because it also extends down into primary and secondary education where we have fought it) to undermine and castagate the principles that made this nation what it is. Go Kate!!!

Thanks for the ping JH. I'm going to have to come back and be more thorough later.

[LS]

There is so much evidence---hard-core, scientific evidence---that the media is overwhelmingly biased to the left that it is preposterous to begin with the "premise" that the media is not. Lichter, Rothman, and Lichter have done two studies showing the media elites voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Dem candidates since 1992; Peter Brown, an editor for the Orlando Sentinel, conducted a LARGE study in which he found the media was overwhelmingly single, unmarried, non-church-attenders, and much more likely to have an "elite" lifestyle; and we have several "content analysis" studies of LEXIS/NEXIS that shows that terms like "hard left," "left-winger," "ultra-left" or "ultra-liberal" NEVER appear in major news stories, but terms like "hard right," "ultra conservative," and so on appear CONSTANTLY.

MERELY the distorted headlines show the bias. Instead of, "Iraq guilty of violating UN Resolutions," it is, "Bush challenged to show Iraq guilty . . ." I could go on and on.

The problems with the media are INSTITUTIONAL and METHODOLOGICAL---the commitment to a relativistic notion that there is no truth, and can BE no truth which means that "every issue has two sides." In other words, "A" says the earth is round," well there MUST be "another side," even if it is demonstrably proven that the "earth is round." Moreover, the notion that just because the Dems say it, we must print it is manifestly biased. Notice that they do not print everything the National Right to Life committee puts out, or the Libertarian Party, or even the Green Party. I am working on a book on this, about half finished. Feel free to contact me for further info.

[harpseal]

Jeff this sort of liberal brainwashing is rampant throughout American Colleges and Universities. The brainwasjed are the cannon fodder of the leftist elite but they think they are the elite. It needs to change but I do not see change happening. The liberals attract the alienated because they say they represent free thought but there is no freedom on the left only liscentiousness and conformity to their ideaology.

[Alamo-Girl]

Kudos to you and your daughter! Hang in there!

My daughter is a born again Christian, conservative, young earth creationist and carries a concealed weapon. She works in biotechnology with agnostics/atheists, liberals, evolutionists who support gun control. LOL! We laugh that she is in the "belly of the beast" - but figure it's God's will.

[betty boop]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828480/posts


Jeff, have Kate check out this link, then maybe do an additional Google search on Antonio Gramsci. It was he who laid out the cultural Marxist game plan whose express purpose is to destroy Western civilization. His programme is utterly cynical and life-denying; but it has been embraced by the American Leftist elite. Famously on the Gramscian agenda, promotion of: the "women's movement," abortion on demand, sexual liberation, gay rights, same-sex marriage, the "peace movement," the graduated income tax/death tax, virulent anti-capitalism, hatred of nationalism, contempt for the family, contempt for personal responsibility, etc., etc. Now if there is no Leftist bias in the media, then how come the major media in all formats patently supports each and every of the above items on Gramsci's "wish list?"

Gramsci sought to destroy the values and institutions of Western culture; the same values and institutions what have made America an historically great sociopolitical order. To the extent that editorial boards and academics are obviously "closing ranks" around the Gramscian itemized agenda, how can it be said that there is no "Left-wing" bias?

[swarthyguy]

Reading Herbert Marcuse in college mad me depressed for a year. The failed ideologies of the Left have an inordinate amount of attraction to the professors who came of age in an era of unprecedented criticism of everything American.

More power to the apple of your eye. Best wishes to her and i'm sure she has a thick skin to put up with the invective that'll be hurled against her.

Shields UP!

[the irate magistrate]

Thanks for the heads up Jeff.

I'll stay around this thread.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

They have been given a pamphlet/book and a web site (www.fair.com) to use to prove this thesis, indicating that somehow, because rich people own the media, that they are necessarily pure capitalists and therefore can have no "liberal" bias.

They use this logic to imply that since the media is owned by the right-wing the people who work for it are also right-wingers. You can respond to this by using the following question.

So every person flipping burgers at McDonalds is a registered Republican then?

[RLK]

She is working on an assignment now where the given and the basis of the discussion starts from the perspective that "the liberal media" is a myth and the assignment is to prove that the liberal bias does not exist.

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Leftists typically do not know any other view exists or lack the capacity to understand it. Consequently they report themselves as being news rather than being a bias.

[f.Christian]

Posted by f.Christian to Jeff Chandler

jc...

They have no business encouraging homosexuality, or forcing its acceptance upon students or faculty. The schools should teach the kids to behave like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect. Instead, they choose to indoctrinate them in leftist ideology. The entire school should be a safe zone for everyone. The whole idea of special protection for any one group is unAmerican.

4 posted on 01/26/2003 3:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ; -)

fC...

They have no business encouraging homosexuality (( evolutuion // atheism )) **, or forcing its acceptance upon students or faculty. The schools should teach the kids to behave (( think )) ** like civilized people, that every individual should be treated with respect. Instead, they choose to indoctrinate them in (( hard core )) ** leftist ideology (PC // BIAS )) ** . The entire school should be a safe zone (( NO brainwashing )) ** for everyone. The whole idea (( tyranny )) ** of special protection (( MONOPOLY )) ** for any one group (( privelegdes )) ** is . . . unAmerican - - - (( forced RELIGION establishment // vetting // witch hunts // purges // elites )) ** .

.. .. .. **...my additions !

[Al B.]

Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. This is a timely subject for my wife and me, as our oldest son is 17. We've tried to raise him to be inoculated from the garbage he's gonna be subjected to in college, but as parents we'll always worry about it.

[k.trujillo]

Thanks for posting your thread for me dad, I'd like to hear from alot of other people too. The replies given are great though. It's not just my Social Problems teacher either. I'm taking 12 credits and my English professor AND History Professor both talk about Noam Chompsky and his "wonderful" ideas, how George Bush is leading this country into complete chaos and how "rich" conservatives control EVERYTHING in our media. They also state that most people in the United States think very liberally, etc. They encourage different views but obviously think everyone should believe as they do.

It seems like they take an anti-american stance on almost everything we do as a nation........of course if you ever come back with a different view, they want strong proven facts.....that's what I'm looking for.....where can I go to research that the media in fact IS liberally biased? Any help would be appreciated.............THANKS DAD!!!!!!

[the irate magistrate]

The Bernie and guys from the dump will be sending you an e-mail testament of their wisdom, in hope of helping your daughter out.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for the ping, Jeff - and for raising such a courageous and independent daughter.

[Dubya]

bump

[basil]

This young lady is fortunate, indeed, to have you as her father and role model. Tell her to stay the course, and she will win in the end--regardless of what grade she is given on this exercise. If I were she, I would also point out that the whole assignment is skewed toward the conclusion at which they are hoping the students will arrive.

[meadsjn]

Jeff, congratulations and best wishes to your daughter in her quest to finish that degree.

I have sympathy for anyone who can show up on America's campuses these days to pursue their goals. It took me ten years part-time to get a BS through the eighties, partly due to my not being quite as bright as I imagined, and partly due to my inability to swim with the current. Then, as now, I wasn't overly impressed with where that current was directed. I'm restarting an MBA program after quitting 10 years ago, but this time it'll be from a distance, hopefully with less PC interference.

It will take miracles and massive effort to reform our educational systems, from K-12 to post-grad, and it most likely won't happen from below. Getting conservatives in, and on top of, the existing manure wagon is a daunting task, but that will be the only way education will be reformed. Those who don't adapt to the preferred profile will pay extra in time, money, and effort. In the war of ideas, the education areas are the muddy flats and the enemy holds the high ground.

That's my rant for now.
Stay well.

[Eustace]

I think many of us see the lies in our society.

I don't pretend to know enough , to do any more than say "Go back to the basics". I don't know anything about Noam Chomsky other than two books of his that I read. If he is a liar that's one thing , but if he's not , we are guilty of many crimes.

As far as our education system which is controlled by our federal government through incorporation ( just like many of our Churches ) I think it was Lenin who said " Give me four years to teach the children , and I will have planted a seed that can't be uprooted."

I'm currently trying to get through a book by Richard Cummings called "The Pied Piper , Allard Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream". I never realized how important it is for a government to control free thought and the CIA's involvement in colleges and world politics.

To me it's simple , What would Jesus do? I'm sorry if this is old and doesn't have much meaning to people anymore. But the more I learn the more important that simple question becomes.

God gave us a set of Laws to live by. Not only us , but our leaders also should be held to these Laws.

We cannot be a strong society or a Christian nation , when we are ruled by corrupt politicians.

We live in a nation where the government uses groups like the ACLU to undermine our Constitution.

We live in a nation where the government hides behind enviromental groups to steal American's property Rights.

We live in a nation where once again the elites are willing to send our children off to war so they can have more power and profits.

We live in a nation where our Churches have been incorporated to Caesar , becoming the State churches that our ancestors risked prison and death to escape.

Through incorporation our Churches in order to receive "Tax Exempt" status , are limited in what they can say about our society and our representitives.

To me that means they no longer speak for Christ , but Caesar. I quit going to church when the pastor said " Be sure to pay all of your taxes " and " Only the government has the right to carry the sword." I only accept one Lord. And I will oppose all of His enemies.

Read the "Ten Planks of Communism" and then take a serious look at our country. Which Stalin said would be taken down by a War of Concessions.

It's about a lot more than education , it's about our future and the future of our children.

When do we actually stand up like the American Patriots , that we like to imitate ( as long as it involves no sacrifices )?

What is happening in America is a planned degression not a natural progression.

We need to put our faith back in God and STAND up with Him , instead of accepting corrupt politicians excuses for our lack of Life and Freedom.

PEACE IS WORTH THE PRICE AND THE ONLY ONE OFFERING PEACE IS JESUS CHRIST.

Peace Jeff