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Is it Just Me or is the News Unusually Orwellian Lately? (personal rant)
Personal Rant | 6/29 | Woebama

Posted on 06/29/2009 1:19:33 PM PDT by Woebama

Today we have news that a gay white academic at Duke offered his 5 year old black adopted "son" for sex on the internet without major media attention. We have news that the Obama administration worked to keep a Marxist in Latin America in office. We have a story that William Ayers ghostwrote "Dreams" by Obama. We have a story that Catholic adoption agencies in Britian will cease their functions due to restrictions on their agency because of pro-gay legislation. We have stories that the dollar is dropping because China continues to press for a world reserve currency other than the dollar. Yesterday we had "Cap and Trade" pass the House while most news stories focused on the Michael Jackson death. We have the ongoing story that Acorn, under indictment for election fraud is being funded by the U.S. government and is helping in the census.


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Am I alone in thinking that these bizarre stories are not typical? That our helplessness and apathy have reached some sort of threshold and we are crossing over into an unresponsive and uncaring tyranny where our opinions and votes don't matter?
1 posted on 06/29/2009 1:19:34 PM PDT by Woebama
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To: Woebama
I'm with you. My mood has been really, really the pits lately. The unseasonably cold and rainy June here in New England is contributing, but overall I think the country I was born in has suddenly ceased to exist.
2 posted on 06/29/2009 1:23:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
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To: Woebama
We used to have two presidents (GHWB and Clinton) who we were all absolutely certain were involved in illegal drug smuggling out of a small airport in Mena, AR.

We had a president whe we were certain was guilty of murdering Vince Foster, and probably others.

And yet they both finished out their full terms.

So no, this is the same old same old.

3 posted on 06/29/2009 1:24:24 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The thing is that there was no sudden change in demographics. It’s like a tipping point was reached where ordinary working Americans with ordinary American values suddenly are seen as not mattering.


4 posted on 06/29/2009 1:25:21 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

So no, this is the same old same old.
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But it’s so open now. It’s as if “they” don’t even need to pretend anymore.


5 posted on 06/29/2009 1:26:57 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: Woebama

I feel helpless. Honestly, what can you do when the supposed media watch dog is the lap dog for this administration? When our side is effectively silenced by the non coverage of the things we oppose, we look apathetic. The left did a great job over the last 40 to 50 years of getting people they needed in place for this to happen.


6 posted on 06/29/2009 1:27:31 PM PDT by toeknee32
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To: Woebama
It's not just you, but don't view the stories that Old Media focuses on as particularly indicative of anything but their partisanship.
7 posted on 06/29/2009 1:29:36 PM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: toeknee32

The left did a great job over the last 40 to 50 years of getting people they needed in place for this to happen.
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The new media, internet, is preaching to the choir, we talk only to fellow conservatives, while the mass mainstream media preaches to the congregation that isn’t involved enough to find out the truth behind a lot of the stories. It’s frustrating.


8 posted on 06/29/2009 1:29:53 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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It is EXACTLY like that lately..

Up id down, black is white...

Today Sotomayer got OVERTURNED Byt the supreme court and they tried to say “see? that shows she’s fit to join them”

How long before the MSM cannot even keep a straight face at these answers anymore...

One even asked about the birth certificate! Too bad he accepted the lies for answers


9 posted on 06/29/2009 1:32:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Durus

It’s not just you, but don’t view the stories that Old Media focuses on as particularly indicative of anything but their partisanship.
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The “old” old media used to maintain a pretense of objectivity that forced them to cover with some balance, and there was competition in the market with another paper, or another station, that forced them to cover interesting news. Now it’s a monopoly of sorts, with the MSM all ignoring the same stories, touting the same stories, and getting caught in outright frauds and coverups.


10 posted on 06/29/2009 1:33:07 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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When are they going to start having the massive orgies in the White House?

Who will get tickets?

11 posted on 06/29/2009 1:33:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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Today we have news that a gay white academic at Duke offered his 5 year old black adopted "son" for sex on the internet without major media attention.

Gay men - even gay men who rape 5 year old children and offer them for sale - are a protected class of the MSM.

If a Christian minister had done the same we would be hearing about it for the next year or two. If a Republican official had done it, we'd hear about it until the next election and they every election after that for 20 years.

If a dem had raped a five year old every night then offered the child to be raped for money - it would be "old news" the next day. A one day story.

But a GAY couple? Oh My God WE CAN'T say ANYTHING BAD ABOUT A GAY COUPLE...

Eff the New York Times, EFF the WAshington Post, Eff the effing media and ABC and CNN. Eff all the lying one sided biased bigots who protect men who rape and sell children.

12 posted on 06/29/2009 1:34:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (Iran's leaders have the same values as ACORN & Alinsky- no wonder they assumed Obama wouldn't object)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Woebama
Well, it might be the lousy weather, but more likely it is the subtle shift in strategy among Liberals in recent weeks. They have stopped arguing that conservatives are stupid or crazy, and have begun to argue that we are dangerous.
13 posted on 06/29/2009 1:36:01 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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You forgot the illegal removal of an IG because he had caught one of Hussein’s buddies stealing. Orwell, no. Der Fuhrer, yes. And the American people are going to have to put an end to it.


14 posted on 06/29/2009 1:38:59 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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Honestly, what can you do when the supposed media watch dog is the lap dog for this administration?

Quit buying their newspapers. Quit watching their network news shows. Quit going to movies. If you feed the monster - you're part of the problem.

15 posted on 06/29/2009 1:39:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (Iran's leaders have the same values as ACORN & Alinsky- no wonder they assumed Obama wouldn't object)
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We keep funding the left, even when the Republicans are in charge of the dollars. I wonder how much government money the child rapist received over the years at Duke? 6 years of that the Republicans were in control of the purse strings.


16 posted on 06/29/2009 1:39:13 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

You forgot the illegal removal of an IG because he had caught one of Hussein’s buddies stealing. Orwell, no. Der Fuhrer, yes. And the American people are going to have to put an end to it.
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The question I have is how? We conservatives saw all this coming and have been shouting about it . . . and have been marginalized by the left in media to the point where our country elected Obama and gave him free rein for the past 100 days or so to do all this.


17 posted on 06/29/2009 1:41:21 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

They’ve got their shills here trying to gin up the weak to get them to be violent. Problem is that Republicans aren’t violent. You have doubts? Go to your local jail or prison and ask about the party affiliation. Look at the riots that have happened in this country in the last 50 years - all dems.


18 posted on 06/29/2009 1:43:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (Iran's leaders have the same values as ACORN & Alinsky- no wonder they assumed Obama wouldn't object)
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To: Woebama

I believe we are living in the “Age of Deception” as described by John Hagee.


19 posted on 06/29/2009 1:45:24 PM PDT by Califreak (Dissident under duress)
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To: Woebama

It’s been this way for at least 40-50 years. (Remember Walter Cronkite convincing the American public that the Tet Offensive was a big loss for America?). It’s just that you are more aware of it because of alternative media and the internet.


20 posted on 06/29/2009 1:45:34 PM PDT by neocon1984
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