Lando 
Posted on 05/26/2004 8:18:48 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Lando
This Country is so divided right now, lord knows what November will bring.
The only thing I can say is VOTE.
Short Answer: Yes.
IMHO: NO, but they're trying awfully hard.
"Media and the Left?"
Re-Dundant............
I told my daughter that the liberals were trying this
Vietnam "message" crap months ago. She said I was nuts. But I plan to e-mail her this article. Thanks for posting it.
However, many people like myself have regretted how the Vietnam soldiers were treated because of politics and the media. I vowed never to let it happen again and I'm sure others of my age regret it also. I was never anti-war but I was not pro-America and patriotic as I should have been.
John Kerry will NEVER become President because of his affiliation of the Vietnam Vets Against the War. When 100,000 march in Washington DC on September 12, the world will be sent a message...support our troops.
Indeed, the relentless flaying, flailing, and foaming of Leftist Press against the President, against the War on Terror, and IN FAVOR of SWORN ENEMIES of the United States, is having the effect they so desire.
The leaping, jumping, flaming morons are apparently oblivious to the fact that they will be among the first to be lined up in front of a belt-fed machine gun with a yawning mass grave behind them, when their multi-culti proctected Muslim buddies institute Sharia Law.
They add a new dimension to the expression, "Useful Idiots".
"John Kerry will NEVER become President because of his affiliation of the Vietnam Vets Against the War. When 100,000 march in Washington DC on September 12, the world will be sent a message...support our troops."
And that scares me. If it is not Kerry, then who? The Leftwing Vietnam era pols are giving it one last crack before they give up their seats to a growing conservative base. They know that they must hand a Whitehouse to a liberal in order to keep the party alive.
The 2004 election is the Lefts Alamo.
"John Kerry will NEVER become President because of his affiliation of the Vietnam Vets Against the War. When 100,000 march in Washington DC on September 12, the world will be sent a message...support our troops."
And that scares me. If it is not Kerry, then who? The Leftwing Vietnam era pols are giving it one last crack before they give up their seats to a growing conservative base. They know that they must hand a Whitehouse to a liberal in order to keep the party alive.
The 2004 election is the Lefts Alamo.
"There is no doubt we are witnessing an awesome display of propaganda power from the left."
If there's one thing the Bush administration can really be blamed for, it's not predicting and being prepared for the bile from the media.
Our first real civil war?
Hopefully by September 12, Kerry will have accepted his party's nomination. But that might be when he accepts it before he rejects it.
November 2, Kerry will lose.
Maybe!
Florida law says Felons must be removed from the voting registers. That be 48,000 people today. The Dems are now fighting for those votes to be cast and counted down in Florida TODAY.
"If there's one thing the Bush administration can really be blamed for, it's not predicting and being prepared for the bile from the media."
First off, how do you know they didn't predict it? Considering that Bush showed off a copy of Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" to the media as they photographed him well over a year ago, I think he made his point quite well there.
Secondly, assuming it is predicted, how exactly do you propose someone can be "prepared" for it?
IMO, he knew it was coming, and he -was- prepared. That's why he didn't try to ride the Salman Pak story, to the chagrin of so many conservatives who believe that it was evidence of Iraqi participation in 9/11 or at least cooperation with Al Qaeda (as I do). Bush could've rested his case on that, or several other things, but the fact is, they were not CONCLUSIVE evidence. The Left, through their infernal propaganda tactics, has raised the bar of "evidence" to the point of insanity. "Preponderance of evidence" is no longer sufficient. Even multiple data points is no longer sufficient. The only acceptable evidence is the "smoking gun" now - where a SINGLE data point, a SINGLE piece of evidence, must be, by itself, so overwhelming that it proves the case all by itself.
Suffice it to say, any criminal who was ever convicted on a single data point, no matter how damning, would have a hell of a grounds for appeal. There's a reason "preponderance of the evidence" matters in a court of law. But it doesn't matter to the media. How exactly was Bush supposed to "prepare" for that?
It's impossible. The media propaganda war is so monolithic that it is itself impervious, because it acts as a filter through which anything Bush could say (including about -them-) gets diluted, deconstructed, misrepresented.
There's only one thing that Bush -can- do... hope the people see through it, and thanks to the growth of the conservative media these last few years, there is at last enough information available for people to see through it. But the media will never just -give- it to anyone- it has to be hunted for.
The only way to combat the media monopoly is to hunt down the evidence that the media is lying, and -insist-, on a personal level, to the ignorants who just sup what the media tells them that they must look at it. Grassroots is the only effective solution. Government cannot be the answer. Censoring the media propaganda would be counter-productive.
No, it's not up to Bush to counter the media monolith. The guy's got his plate full anyway. It's up to us.
Qwinn
The optimism in many comments above is refreshing, but in my dark moments, I see a frightening scenario unfolding. Kerry wins, Al Qaida jumps for joy and pumps nerve gas into America's subways. And to add despair to tragedy, I see the media drowning the public in editorials that blame Bush, Republicans in Congress and the GOP in general for every disastorous failure of a Kerry presidency, and the American people silently nodding in agreement. Please let me be wrong.
You mean a hot civil war, because we're already in a cold civil war.
Only for the weakminded.
I am in my 50s, and I have never seen America this polarized. Something is bound to snap.
"Please let me be wrong."
Sadly, and sickeningly, you are not wrong.
The only thing that is gonna snap is the waistbands on the fat arse lazy complaining Democrats.
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