Posted on 06/03/2008 4:52:18 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
Has George W Bush decided to run for a 3rd term?? Perhaps that's why RAT congresscritters are trying to pass legislation that "makes clear that Congress won't tolerate behind-the-scenes efforts by the Bush administration to manipulate public opinion."
Up next in the Senate. This what we get with an elected RAT congress. Thank God for people like Hunter.
And little Scottie McClellan must be fidgeting in his chair with excitement from a second paragraph name-drop.
Sure. As long as the Senate and House democrat party reps and media are included.
I share your level of loathe. Although I sometimes have even more contempt for the wishy-squishy moderates who swing whichever way the wind blows on important issues.
The left actually believe in their principles, wrong-headed as they are.
Sick.
Also termed "disinformation". Often highly effective, just ask Hillary Clinton.
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The left and the media hold the US military to a unique standard.....
Perfection is required.....mere excellence will not be tolerated!
Think about it, pedophile teachers are accepted as an anomoly to that profession. Corrupt lawyers,incompetent physicians, reporters who fabricate entire stories, unethical amoral politicians are passed over with a quick “sorry about that”. It is understood that a few rotten apples surface in all other professions....but that should never happen in the military.
This article adds a new wrinkle to the bias....the pols and pundits will never properly acknowledge good done by the troops and they want no one else to do it either.
Is is against the constitution to give aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. This includes seditious statements by the shadow government in a time of war.
John Kerry is a traitor for his Vietnam war activities (post service).
John Murtha has fueled the terrorist “insurgency” by giving credence to a partisan witchhunt that isn’t ending up with much merit.
I had to glance up at the source to see if this was an article from "The Onion".
The greatest force multiplier that America's enemies have is the Democrat Party. After that comes the liberal news media which marches in lock step with the Democrat Party.
That implies that the Left desires and would be happy with a perfect military. They would not be.
The Left demands an impossible standard of our military not be cause they seek perfection but, rather, because what they really seek is an American DEFEAT.
Precisely. This country will never again be able to fight a war properly and with an effectiveness that would actually limit overall casualties and shorten combat effort because of the determined anti-war, anti-military, anti-defense positions of the donks and their puppet press.
Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Barbara Walters et al have a lot of blood (past, present and future) on their hands. So do the donks.
I had to glance up at the source to see if this was an article from "The Onion".Congressional Democrats want to ban Pentagon propaganda on the Iraq war, ....
The greatest force multiplier that America's enemies have is the Democrat Party. After that comes the liberal news media which marches in lock step with the Democrat Party.
My theory is that the causation runs the other way. The Democratic Party exists in the "liberal" form that it does because it conforms itself to the natural ideological implications of the news industry. The news industry is "liberal" because liberalism is simply cheap talk, and self-promotion at the expense of those who take responsibility for getting things done. Which is the default position for the news industry to take. And the news industry is unified, and freed from competition, by the Associated Press monopoly. Within the AP, all journalists are "objective" because without that conceit no newspaper has any justification for relying on the reports of other papers' reporters.Newspapers in the founding era, and well into the Nineteenth Century, were truly independent of each other and made no affectation of being anything other than representative of their editors' POV. The advent of the telegraph and the Associated Press put the newspapers into a different line of business than elucidating their editors' and publishers' POV - suddenly the newspapers actually had national and international news which the public did not have access to independently of the AP newspapers. And the idea that the public's access to the latest news is vital to the public interest traces directly from the business interest of the Associated Press newspapers.
With its emphasis on the superficial, negative, and unrepresentative, the Associated Press distracts the public from the enduring and important. That is the propaganda wind down which the "liberal" politician sails.
"I hope it inspires the Pentagon to tell the truth," Hodes said of the bill.
Not everyone on Capitol Hill agrees the military overstepped its bounds. Rep. Duncan Hunter, a tireless advocate of Bush's policies in Iraq, says the military was fairly trying to promote what it saw as the facts on the ground.
The military is under constant scrutiny from Big Journalism, and gets accused of a "rosy scenario" at the drop of a hat. So the military cannot afford to open itself to that charge - and in reality, claims that it is putting out propaganda cannot be substantiated because the military is being watched, and knows it.
BTTT
Liberals wish Congress to control the military, not the Executive branch. It would ruin the military and our national defense. The press is more than happy to help.
Thanks for the ping!
Thank you for the ping too!
The Democratic Party exists in the "liberal" form that it does because it conforms itself to the natural ideological implications of the news industry.Well said! Democrat pols excel at pretending to embrace the mass media oligarchy's proffered zeitgeist.
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