[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

In 2008, the Mediacracy elevated an Illinois State Senator who had briefly showed up in the Federal Senate to the highest office in the land. They did it even though he had no skills for the job and no serious plan for fixing any of the country's problems. They did it to show that they could. They did it because they wanted to tell a compelling story and inflict radical change on a country that would have never voted for it, if it had not been lied and guilted into making the single worst decision in its entire history.

And so we have Obama. A petulent neophyte given the ultimate reigns of leadership and authority. In his wake we have become a bitter, broken nation. Let his reign of terror beceom the very end of progressive politics in our land.

Let all liberalism be smashed upon the ash heap of history and let it never more rise to fill the minds of the weak and stupid with its candied vision nightmares.

Merry Christmas, my FRiends. May the true Spirit of Christ's birth rekindle in your hearts and minds a certain knowledge of and profound commitment to the omnipresence of the Living God in our nation.

[skeeter]

Excellent piece. Thanks

[mrsmith]

He misses ‘why’ they control the news. ‘Power’ is just another word for m-o-n-e-y.
They do it to increase consumer spending. Their livelihood comes from their %10 advertising cut of consumer spending.
And only from that.
Artificially increasing consumer spending is only done by confiscating investment spending, the spending that creates wealth. The media has massaged the news to support the government’s redistribution of wealth from investment- which they make no immediate profit from to spending.
They can’t help themselves it’s to their wallets’ interest!
After years of success at this their profits are now dependent on government taking money from investors and giving it to spenders.
You know- what Democrats (socialists) do.

A philosopher called the media a “predatory oligarchy’.

[Cyber Liberty]

America can be a Democracy or a Mediacracy. It cannot and will not be both. And the only way to preserve democracy is to challenge the Mediacrats and force them out of the public space that they have usurped and back into the private sphere of their financial interests where they belong.

Daniel is one my all-time favorites, but he needs to get away from this notion the US is a "democracy." We are not, and if we ever become one we will become Hell on Earth. I cringe every time I read someone who should know better than that.

[marktwain]

It is both heartening and humbling to see a great writer put together the arguments, and even some of the verbage and terminology that I have been pushing for the last 20 years.

Greenfield is a brilliant writer. This is a brilliant essay. I am pleased to say, that in my own way, I have been saying almost exactly the same thing. I like to think that I was one of, if not the first, to use the term “mediacracy”.

Daniel Greenfield does it so much better than I ever could.

[Tainan]

....wow.

One of his best.

And he has written a lot of very very good pieces.

[M Kehoe]

In 2008, the Mediacracy elevated an Illinois State Senator who had briefly showed up in the Federal Senate to the highest office in the land. They did it even though he had no skills for the job and no serious plan for fixing any of the country's problems. They did it to show that they could. They did it because they wanted to tell a compelling story and inflict radical change on a country that would have never voted for it, if it had not been lied and guilted into making the single worst decision in its entire history.

I would think that this paragraph alone makes the case that the media is a fifth column, not a "fourth estate." Their boy is now in charge, and playing Santa Claus. Constitution? We don't need no stinkin' constitution.

The destruction of the country continues...

5.56mm

[Albion Wilde]

This brilliant essay and the thread discussion may be of interest to your Media Deathwatch pinglist, if you are still doing it.