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Posted on 04/17/2003 1:29:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Liberal Lies
John LeBoutillier
NewsMax.com
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Watching Tim Robbins prattle on this week about how "free speech" is being stifled by an overwhelming "rightist" media can only make us all laugh. Liberals have always been self-delusional, but their latest gambit - led by Bill Clinton, by the way - is to charge that because the Fox News Channel is so successful it has somehow 'infected' all the other networks and news outlets to the point where all information in the United States is tilted to the right.
This is totally wrong.
And it is an attempt by the Left to explain their total abject failure in the November elections - not to mention how badly they misjudged the War in Iraq.
But, for the sake of fairness, let us briefly examine all sources of information in the United States to see if indeed there is a right-wing tilt:
1) Our daily newspapers: is there a 'conservative bias' in the nation's papers? No! Sure, the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is pro-Republican; so too is the Moon-owned and thus-discredited-by-some Washington Times. And the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is very pro-growth and pro-supply side conservative; but the news pages of the WSJ are often surprisingly liberal.
The rest of the newspapers around the country are certainly not pro-GOP; in fact, they lean left.
USA Today? Since its inception it has more often than not been liberal. The New York Times? The Washington Post? Totally liberal.
2) Our weekly magazines: Time is very liberal; after all, it is part of the Ted Turner Time Warner-AOL mega disaster. Newsweek is owned by the left-leaning Washington Post. US News & World Report is owned and run by leftist Clinton apologist Mortimer Zuckerman.
3) Talk Radio: Yes, most talk radio hosts are conservative. Why? Because that's all the market will bear. Station managers and program directors care only about ratings and ad sales. They'd put anybody on if he or she gets them good ratings. And the plain fact is that liberals just don't cut it on talk radio. So, yes, talk radio is heavily leaning toward the conservative point of view.
4) Television: Other than Fox News Channel, where is there even a legitimate conservative presence? CBS, NBC and ABC are totally dominated by the left. NBC's Tim Russert was a longtime Democratic political operative working for Mario Cuomo and Pat Moynihan. ABC's George Stephanopoulos was a PR flack for the Clintons.
And yet they are handed key Sunday morning political shows. What Republican politician has ever gotten a similar opportunity?
On cable, CNN remains the Clinton News Network; its behavior during this Iraqi campaign has been abominable. It is so corrupted by the Left and the Ted Turner legacy that it may never recover.
MSNBC - other than the Peter Arnett fiasco - has been more 'fair and balanced' than any other station. It is often a pleasure to watch because it has no ax to grind.
5) Schools: the biggest source of information for millions of people - our youth - is the classroom, their schoolbooks and their teachers. And, sadly, on this score the Left wins overwhelmingly. From high school through college and graduate schools, PC Liberalism has totally taken over.
This is a base for the Left to conduct an ongoing brainwashing campaign of America's young. And it is a deliberate strategy by the New Left to take over education - from top to bottom - in an attempt to 'change the thinking of the American people.'
6) Conclusion: Tim Robbins may be a decent actor, but he is dead wrong about the inhibition to free speech in the USA. If anything, the Left has stomped over the truth for decades - and manipulated, shaped and overtaken the delivery of news to fit their often-stilted picture of how the world should be.
Conservatives, however, should abstain from anything that looks like we want to inhibit free speech.
Why?
Because to let a fool like Tim Robbins prattle on is the single best argument for our side!
Now is the time to take back our schools from the commie left. If we wait it will be too late.
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Sound familiar?
I'm sorry gang, but this senile old conservative is jealous. :o(
OMG! You mean that scraps of truth might occasionally get reported on other networks?????? Why, that would be horrible!!!! Unthinkable even!!!!!
It shows the lengths the left will go to, if homeschooling becomes threatening to the liberal, revisionist strangelhold.
If we don't throw the lying liberal factions off our campuses, no amount of homeschooling will save us.
That is the real battlefield isn't it? It is certainly my biggest concern, along with uncontrolled immigration, for the future of our country and of our children.
Remember this guy??
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