A proper Fisking

Nuke's news and views ^ | 7/25/07 | staff

[grandpa jones]

About 10 years ago, my business required a great deal more windshield time than it does now: time spent listening to a lot of talk radio. I recall a question that Rush Limbaugh posed to his audience, “Why did the Republicans lose the ‘96 Presidential election?” Several callers attempted to answer the question, but no one had “the” answer. If El Rushbo answered his question on-air, then it was after I had gotten out of the car, so I never learned his response.

If I could have had an opportunity to give a response, my answer would have been this:

“The Republicans lost the ‘96 Presidential election because the Rush Limbaugh TV show went off the air around the beginning of the campaign season in 1995.”

Rush’s TV show was a fact-checker’s delight. It exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the idiot party in a way that only the visual media can. In the pre-internet days of the Clinton Administration, Rush single-handedly kept the the light of truth shining brightly into those roach-laden corners and crevices.

I was thinking about those days after reading the NY Sun’s total smack-down of the recent fund raising letter penned by Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer. The Sun is the voice of reason in a sea of liberal insanity. The editorial is a fisking of the highest order, and deserves as much exposure as we can give it.

Here is a link. I’m sure that you will want to read it all.

[gondramB]

I miss the Rush TV show. The radio show goes on and on and repeats too much. One hour a day of tight TV production was very cool though.

I remember the letter he read on his show complaining about his oppression of animal-Americans.

it took him a while to figure out they meant his bear skin rung. He said proudly that this particular animal-American had been personally oppressed for him by Mr. Ted Nugent.

[grandpa jones]

I’ll never forget Rush’s video of the slickmeister after Ron Brown’s funeral. He’s walking along, yukking it up, and then notices the TV cameras, and immediately goes into the grief routine. shameless hypocrite

[irv]

Rush made a comment on air today about the weird way that Liberals just accept their own talking points, no matter how obviously ridiculous they are.

In other words, the letter will work, despite being riddled with easily refuted lies.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[The letter promises, “We will use the media to get the truth out.”]

The establishment news media is the de facto public relations wing of the DNC. In 2004 the agreement was for the democrats to nominate an electable ticket and the news media would run with it as long as the candidate did not do anything too stupid. Then John Kerry rendered his Saturday Night Live salute, said “reporting for duty” to the cameras, and reignited the contempt of all the Vietnam veterans he slandered. The campaign went down hill from there.

[srmorton]

This is the one thing that makes me the most upset and the most discouraged - the irresponsibility of the MSM. If they bothered to check out the facts and report them, the Dem propaganda would not have a chance to succeed. Some of the Dems actually believe what they are saying. Others know the truth and are lying. The media has the responsibility to let the public know the facts and let them make their own judgments rather than repeating the Dem talking points verbatim.

[Lexinom]

There is a larger vision at state in the MSM: Darwinistic in its outlook, it sees the jettisoning of traditional American values and religion and the erasure of geographical borders as part and parcel of "progress." This is all based on a fallacious view of human nature. The vision is not dissimilar from that of those oft-bandied about names - you know, Marx, Stalin, Mao, et al.

Trouble is, they assume - smugly, imo - the correctness of their view, and fail to see the religion in it. This is why false bifurcations between "religion" and non-religion abound. In truth, they hold their views every bit as much on faith

Oh sure, they can construct, over many generations, elaborate systems and theories that seem to offer some degree of consistency and plausibility within themselves. They frequently elevate the tenets of such ideas to the level of the very religious dogma and superstition they (sometimes rightfully) condemned. They fail to account for false premises at the outset of the idea that nullify the it in its entirety.

I believe it was Van Til who said that "any ideology that assumes it can leave God out of its considerations... becomes its own opposite." The Scriptures speak more tersely: "The fool hath said his heart, 'There is no God'" (Ps. 53:1).

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The media has no responsibility to do anything other than to perpetuate themselves. The old news media has only one real mission: Convince people to read the ads and watch the commercials. To them news is just content to attract eyeballs.

Get your news elsewhere, and don't let your eyes wander where they want them to, and let their stockholders know you are doing that.

[sergeantdave]

Let’s get me into trouble:

The reason Republicans and conservatism lost in 1996 is because of the 19th amendment, which brought into the politcal process the brainwashed, brainless liberal female, who will gladly take away your freedom and liberty for her security.

[grandpa jones]

Oh, you’re gonna get bonked for that. Heh

[srmorton]

I DO get my news elsewhere, but there are vast numbers of Americans who do not and don’t even realize that they are being lied to. I still believe that the media has a responsibility to report the facts without commentary, but they abdicated that responsibility many years ago to, as you said, perpetuate themselves.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Democrats have always outnumbered Republicans in the newsrooms but at one time most of them had a sense of ethics. Today, however, newsrooms are staffed by political activists. They began taking over journalism schools and news organizations after Watergate. They believe their mission is to affect public opinion and implement a “progressive” agenda of change. They ignore facts and focus on talking points. Like most radicals, they believe they are on a noble mission and the ends justify any means.

[srmorton]

Well said!