[Savage Beast]

Yes, you are right, and Adam Smith's remarks are valid. However, I insist that words from the past--and the present--that have the ring of truth, we respect and honor. I suppose disgust may be too strong a word, though maybe not, but words that are obviously designed to manipulate and distort truth, we consider less than honorable. Thucydides, even today, fills us with honor, respect, and a sense of truth and beauty. Julius Caesar's writings were obviously designed for effect, and, even today, scholars are trying to figure out how much is truth and how much propaganda. I expect that future generations will recognize the propaganda of the "Mainstream Newsmedia" for what it is.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I expect that future generations will recognize the propaganda of the "Mainstream Newsmedia" for what it is.

From your lips to God's ears. But when I read Ann Coulter's Treason and realized how my youthful instincts in 1952 have been born out in the light of historical information such as the Venona Transcripts, and when I realize that "McCarthyism" is a liberal smear of patriotism which still works today, half a century later . . .

It forces one to wonder just when "future generations" will figure out that Edward R. Murrow was a tendentious leftist just like Walter Cronkite was and Dan Rather still is. Surely they will have to do that before they can figure out how tendentious today's journalism is?