Blast from the Past: Spiro Agnew speech in 1969 against media bias

SMU archives ^ | November 13, 2008 | Spiro Agnew

[fleagle]

Vice President Spiro Agnew "On the National Media" Speech Delivered at Des Moines, Iowa November 13, 1969

Tonight I want to discuss the importance of the television-news medium to the American people. No nation depends more on the intelligent judgment of its citizens. No medium has a more profound influence over public opinion. Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power. So, nowhere should there be more conscientious responsibility exercised than by the news media. The question is: Are we demanding enough of our television news presentations? And, are the men of this medium demanding enough of themselves?

[fleagle]

Sorry if this has been posted many times before here, but I thought it might be a good time to reprint this truly amazing speech by Vice President Spiro Agnew. Thanks.

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Nattering nabobs of negativity ping.

[Fiji Hill]

In an address at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library the other day, Rick Perlstein, a liberal historian and author of Nixonland:The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner, 2008), called John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate "Agnew-like" and said that she, like Nixon and Agnew, seeks to exploit "middle class rages."

[roses of sharon]

Funny, since the UnAmerican Democrat Party have been running for 40 years, on how Republicans are destroying the middle class.

Heck, their media says it every day.

[webrover]

The rabid reaction, by the left, to Ted Agnew, took some time. The hate machine was in full operation in less than an hour after McCain announced his selection of Gov. Palin. It was faster than the Duke of Earl going to number one on the charts, the day after it was played on “Bandstand” as one of the weekly rate the records thing on Thursday.

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[BenLurkin]

Remember it well.

Clinton reminded me of Agnew — as afar as the crooked land deal while Governor part.

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