". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
The Main Stream Media, needs to circle their wagons and declare a TRUCE..and make peace with the duly elected person the United States Electorate chose to fill this office. Until then, we will go another year of grumbling and complaining. CNN needs to be the first to take a knee, and bow and recognize they are warmongers at heart, and would do ANYTHING or say ANYTHING to remove Trump, the one the people chose for the office.
When we will have that?
Golden oldie: February 16, 1994
ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts and a producer were reprimanded for faking an outdoor shot at Capitol Hill. On Jan. 26 World News Tonight anchorman Peter Jennings in New York switched to Roberts in Washington for a discussion of President Clinton's State of the Union address delivered the previous night (snip)
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-02-16/news/9402160348_1_cokie-roberts-in-washington-capitol
Thomas Jefferson's views on the importance of a free press are well known. Nevertheless, Jefferson was well aware of the dark under belly of a segment of the press which might set itself up, as he called it, "to serve the ministers" of a "despotic government.""Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
Note that in the last of the following quotations on the subject, Jefferson noted, "But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood," he declared, "I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth."
"[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 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
For the damage they’ve enabled and been an active part in providing cover for, the vast majority of the mainstream media should be lined up in front of a wall and shot.
The biggest thread to America has been an irresponsible and America-hating press. It’s now being exposed.
They're losing and the smarter ones among them know it. When 140-character notes from the President become an existential threat, they've already lost it. When a Joy Reid finds out that her idiotic blather has no more weight than a blogger in pajamas, she screeches, but that's all it is.
All completely true. Really good stuff. Thanks for posting it.
The press have a Constitutional Amendment to protect them doing their job which is to report honestly.
Not like the majority of the fly-over media are now doing - making stuff up and outright lying.
I haven’t watched a Network News Channel since the day the Police and the Media pulled that Scam on Latrell Sprewell about running a chop shop.
I Lived Right Next Door and was there before,during, and after the charade. And then I watched EVERY LAST Reporter go on TV and LIE through their teeth and help perpetrate a FRAUD upon the American People.
The media bit off more than they could chew when they started going after Trump. He's a tiger with different stripes. He bites back.
They have been shooting themselves in the d*ck ever since Trump came on the scene.
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