Posted on 08/06/2019 12:33:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: By now you probably have heard about the New York Times headline conspiracy/controversy. If you haven’t, let me bring you up to speed on this. The New York Times, both website and print edition of the paper… I guess… No. This may be web versions.
I’ve got screenshots here. I don’t read the printed version of the New York Times, so I’m not sure. Let’s just stick with web version here for this, because it’s for certain. They released a story on Trump’s speech yesterday in which the president condemned white supremacy, he condemned white nationalism, condemned racism in all of its forms. It was generally a very well-received speech — except by the left, who claimed (summarized), “It was so good that Trump couldn’t have meant it!
“It was so good, Trump couldn’t possibly have really meant it, and he certainly didn’t write it. Somebody else obviously wrote it.” So the New York Times issues this headline in their first reporting of the story: “Trump Urges Unity Versus Racism.” The left blew up. Twitter blew up. The internet blew up. The Democrat presidential candidates blew up. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blew up. They all blew up. Twitter blew up, and they were aiming their fire at the New York Times. (impression) “How dare the New York Times credit Trump for anything in a headline!”
The story excoriates Trump. The story has everything the left would want in it, but the headline, “Trump Urges Unity Versus Racism,” the left is saying, “Clearly the Times screwed up,” and they needed to correct this. All of the left-wing media watchdog sites and the Democrat presidential candidates (and any number of left-wing, pajama-clad, out-of-work Millennials in the homes of their parents) just obliterated the Times website, excoriated them, ripped them to shreds.
The New York Times caved faster than anybody on the right you have ever seen cave under an assault, and they reissued a new headline. “Assailing Hate But Not Guns” was the replacement headline. So the original headline was “Trump Urges Unity Versus Racism.” Now, that’s exactly what Trump did! If the New York Times was a newspaper that simply reported “all the news that’s fit to print, “there is nobody could assail that, because that’s exactly what Trump did. The New York Times made a mistake as far as the left is concerned.
“That headline humanizes Trump. We cannot have that! We, the people on the left, cannot have Donald Trump seen as human with a human heart and human feelings and human compassion. That flies against every effort the left is making to demonize Trump. So we can’t have that.” So the New York Times wilted. As I say, they wilted faster than you’ve ever seen any conservative or Republican wilt to public onslaught. The backlash was fierce. Liberals were announcing they were canceling their subscriptions!
Now, the way that happens is that the liberal will get on the New York Times website and send a vicious comment: “Cancel my subscription. Screw you!” To which the response is, as William F. Buckley once said to complaining subscribers of National Review, “Cancel your own damn subscription!” We’re not gonna do it for you. You do it! That should have been the Times’ response. “Cancel your own damn subscription!” But no. The Times begged forgiveness, asked for time, and reissued a new headline:
“Trump Urges Unity Versus Racism,” and then “Assailing Hate But Not Guns” is the replacement headline. “Assailing Hate But Not Guns.” Nate Silver tweeted, “Not sure ‘Trump Urges Unity Versus Racism’ is how I would have framed the story.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by and often relies upon the cowardice of mainstream institutions.” Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that Nancy Pelosi’s a racist.
She’s a prominent, respected leader in the Democrat Party is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anyway, none of us had any doubt. But for anybody on the fence, let there be no doubt: There is no such thing as media. There is no such thing as actual journalism being practiced by what we call the mainstream media. It is all left-wing activism. And I think this is further evidence of my notion that the media is leading this charge, because the leaders fell short here. The New York Times dropped the ball, and the rank-and-file simply couldn’t put up with it.
Whores. And worse.
Exactly.
If anybody has any doubt that these revisionist “Democrat Socialists” are defacto Fascists, such doubt should have evaporated by now. Pravda had to toe the party line, and the U.S. equivalent must also.
[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
Here’s the really, really, really bad part....leftie twitter and nyt comments are HAMMERING the Slimes for being too EASY on Trump for the first headline.
Some activist said they cancelled their subscription because it was the last straw of the Slimes again being too EASY on Trump and not fighting him enough and the changed headline is too little too late!!!!
Why is “white nationalism” such a terrible thing? Most of the countries of the world have homogeneous populations, so why shouldn’t America have one as well? If you look at us back in the ‘60’s that was what we had. It was wonderful. Sixty years later we have mud and even worse. I don’t get the pandering to the left with such concepts as “It’s a HUMANITARIAN crisis at the border”, and then this thing, “We are against white nationalism.” What the hell is wrong with whites having a white country? Just what?
Perhaps they will suffer the same fate as CNN someday. You can’t feed people garbage forever and expect them to like it.
Can’t let the little snowflakes have anything that would contradict their version of reality. That might make em go postal or something.
Really? For one, we are not a "white" country. There is nothing wrong with being a nationalist, and there is nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage, white or otherwise. But a "white nationalist" or "white country"? No.
Oh, and this only applies to whites.
Seditious acts go unrewarded,, spineless scoundrels reign over editorial boards, OAC blames whites for nation’s ailments..
ship stern dips below waves, rats to follow.. silver lining
Agree 100% that this is how the left twists words to frame Trump and his supporters as racists.
The post I replied to is something else altogether.
Shanghai whores who know the customer is always left.
Oh?
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
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....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
Which was underscored big time when Joseph Smith and his followers...
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