It’s not the media, per se, we have to worry about - it’s the vast, numberless hordes of America’s Liberal imbeciles the media find it so very easy to manipulate.
Really? When did the term "yellow journalism" enter the vocabulary?
That was certainly true in 2012. GOP candidates seemed to line up and jump over one another to shoot selves in head. They seem much better on it now, took some planning.
Romney wasnt much better with his 47%, he assumed only his $$$ donors were listening,.
Actually a very good article. And spot on as it relates to the truth. Few want truth, they want sweet little lies that don’t challenge their carefully nurtured ideas of the world.
But… it didn’t quite come off. It turned out, to start with, that Zimmerman wasn’t Jewish after all. He was not only Hispanic, not only Indio, but in fact had black ancestry. This added more than a touch of uncertainty to the narrative, breaking up the momentum and allowing elements such as Trayvon’s criminal record, the actions of “school police chief” Michael Hurley, and eyewitness testimony to rise to the surface. Obama swung at it anyway. (“If I had a son…[ he’d look like this drugged-out vicious punk.”]) But it just didn’t take.
You're right - long... and amazing insights. J.R. Dunn's one of the top thinkers on our side. If you run a ping list for his stuff - please add me.
Romney should have excoriated her right then and there for taking sides in the debate.
And then, the GOP should have universally ignored her and her network, and pointedly said: until she is fired (not "resigns to pursue other interests"), we aren't talking to CNN.
And they should put the rest of the media on notice: you take sides, you had better be ready to hear only one side of the story, because the only way you will hear ours is on your competitor's network/newspaper.
A good start would be to not go on ANY MSM shows and to refuse allowing ANY MSM liberal “ moderators” to host debates. Just refuse to participate.
Very good article.
At a minimum, these upstart conservative candidates need to go to some type of media bootcamp run by a person like Dana Loesch.
The whole “war on women” meme was telegraphed in Jan 2008 by journ-0-list Stephanopolus in one of the early R debates. Limbaugh even picked up on it, but apparently forgot when it came to Flukey Sandy.
The GOP leadership is clearly center-left, and, culturally, it is openly Progressive.
It is essential that traditional Conservative candidates understand that there will be no “institutional” GOP defense for Conservatives who come under attack by the MSM.
If you are a Conservative, you are completely on your own when that happens.
I'm not sure our problem can be solved.
If Conservatives break away from the GOP, we do not have enough voter support to win the White House, the Senate, or the House.
If we stay in the GOP, we will be forced to abandon our principles and to passively observe the slow motion destruction of America.
Since the Reagan Amnesty in 1986, Democrats have imported 20 million Socialist voters.
Few of them can be converted, and many of them abhor Conservatives and the Republican Party.
I really don't know how we can fix that problem.
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When conservatives finally take the”Kick me” signs off their backs, they’ll find the going much easier....
One thing I think is incredibly powerful in influencing change is DRUDGE because he’s got so many CONSERVATIVE eyeballs who click on a story and then they make logical & hard-hitting comments on stories at hundreds of websites a day.
The SHEEPLE read the article and then they see some Drudge-directed posts in the comments section of the article exposing untruths and the Sheeple are able to see the truth.
In this way, Drudge has immense ability to get the conservative message out. I’ve been seeing so many right-on posts on various news stories that I feel certainly must have gotten directed there from Drudge.
Keep up the good work Drudge!!
Ditto for Freerepublic, but there are not nearly as many eyeballs here as on Drudge.
TLDNR but the word Dunn is looking for is “propaganda.”