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Posted on 10/10/2006 1:09:25 AM PDT by nancyvideo
With a war going on in Iraq and with Iran next door moving steadily toward a nuclear bomb that could change the course of world history in the hands of international terrorists, the question for this year's elections is not whether you or your candidate is a Democrat or a Republican but whether you are serious or frivolous.
That question also needs to be asked about the media. In these grim and foreboding times, our media have this year spent incredible amounts of time on a hunting accident involving Vice President Cheney, a bogus claim that the administration revealed Valerie Plame's identity as a C.I.A. "agent" -- actually a desk job in Virginia -- and is now going ballistic over a Congressman who sent raunchy e-mails to Congressional pages.
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Sowellful ............. ping
Thanks for the ping.
Thomas Sowell is truly without peer.
“ If knowledge of our government's deeds and words is indispensable to a free people, does it not follow that the quality of our government will be directly proportionate to the quality of journalism?” — Freeper gogeo
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The socialist/Marxist/liberal media is the most destructive, relentless, and ruthless enemy of this Republic.
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
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"How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good. - Letter to Henry Mills Alden, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 11, 1906, pg. 3.
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"Those who discuss the current war in terms of frivolous talking points make a big deal out of the fact we have been in this war longer than in World War II. But, if we are serious, we would know that it is not the duration of a war that is crucial. It is how many lives it costs. More than twice as many Marines were killed taking one island in the Pacific during World War II than all the Americans killed in the four years of the Iraq war. More Americans were killed in one day during the Civil War. If we are going to discuss war, the least we can do is be serious."
Pffft. Phillip Rivers ROCKS!
Good points. Democracy could very well be the death of itself
I love Thomas Sowell. He always nails it.
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Democracies seldom live into their very much expected fine golden years. They die of excess quite quickly. This one is on life support.
The seeds of the death of this democracy/Representative Republic came from across the ocean after the turn of the 20th century ....... the "lovely" Russian Marxists who still rule our media, State Department, etc.
The good times are over.
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The socialist/Marxist/liberal media is the most destructive, relentless, and ruthless enemy of this Republic.
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If there were about a dozen more Free Republics in this country, we may just have a chance to wise up the idiot citizens to what is happening. But alas, we do not.
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It's patently obvious that Dems are only concerned with power. There was a time, long gone, when Dems actually cared about national security. Now they only care about getting back in control and running (and ruining) people's lives.
the "lovely" Russian Marxists who still rule our media, State Department, etc.
Last year I had occasion to ask General Mckinnerny if my impression that the State Dept was still populated by communist sympathizers was valid. He said it was. Hiss' ghost reigns
Yes............... it needs to be exposed ....... but bummer, the same sleazoid Marxists basically control the old media.
Not anymore.....
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Rome is burning while the Treason Media lies.
Another great article by Dr. Sowell, thanks for the post and ping.
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