Posted on 11/30/2003 1:19:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In the case of Benito Mussolini, the very first thing he did was to become Italy's most widely-read journalist. Then organize a band of thugs, then announce that he was taking over the government by force. Which is approximately what Saddam Hussain would do, if the U.S. pulled its troops out of Iraq. And al Jazera would be right there, cheering him on and intimidating the opposition to tyrrany.Journalism is politics, not education. Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can be a journalist under the First Amendment, there are no barriers to entry except the propaganda from those who would exclude American conservatives from being considered such.
And the truth is that if the writ of the First Amendment ran in Iraq, we wouldn't have a hundred thousand troops there in the first place. Iraq is under martial law, and for those of you in Rio Linda that means that our soldiers do not read people their Miranda rights.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
To give HT the credibility she deserves.
Notice how you slide between "free" and "fair" in you analysis? That's because you are trying to make a square circle.You can adduce no reason to believe that a free press is "fair." A free press is able to express the opinion of the printers thereof--irrespective of the opinion or desire of the officers of the government.
A censored press is controlled to suit the government, and therefore is conservative of the perks of its officers.
A free, commercial press is conservative of the perks of the owners and employees thereof, and thus tends to political anticonservatism.Whether free or not, a press is political.
And whether free or not, the press is never more political than when it is claiming to be fair.Broadcasting depends on government licenses, and therefore is not a free press.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Ya know, I used to think the same thing. Or worse even. A geriatric leftist bitch disappointed because a lifetime had been wasted trumpeting socialist/elitist causes.
Then I realized it's even worse than that.
Check some of her early writing. Try to remember some of the early questions she asked the Presidents as she was "honored" with the first question at news conferences.
I think you'll find her writing and questions were incisive, sometimes witty, clearly thought out, and always asked in a way the viewer or reader could tell she was clearly "asking" for information instead of trying to twist a "pre-ordained" knife like she does now.
So what happened to Mizzzzzzzzzzz Thomas? Did senility start eating away at her brainpan like the Bela virus? LOL. Perhaps.
But I think not.
I think she ever so slowly became so completely indoctrinated by the relentless liberal mantra of both her cohorts and the media outlets that every problem, in her mind and per the liberal religion she'd willingly adopted, was caused by an inferior species who needed to be led to the Promised Land by the elites like her.
Whew. I know that's a mouthful. The Cliff Notes version of what I said above is . . . Jackasses like Helen Thomas, Petah Jennings, Dan Rather, and Babs Streisand TRULY believe they were anointed by THEIR God to lead us poor, ignorant conservatives to their version of the Promised Land.
Now think about that for a sec. That's a bit different than them just being on the wrong side of an issue like we usually think they are now. It's a different mindset. And it'll take different tactics to defeat them.
Religion is being redefined thanks to liberals. Marriage is being redefined thanks to liberals. Patriotism is being redefined thanks to liberals. Ditto for every other part of society.
And they're getting away with it because we don't understand our enemy.
I'm a big, big GW fan . . . but he's brought a term and philosophy to the political table that's allowing the Conservative Cause to be easily trumped by the "do anything" liberals. "Compassionate Conservatism." We're compassionate when we confront the liberals . . . so we always compromise. We don't realize that the newly formed boundaries we just agreed to are merely the "new starting points" for the next round of compromising. Eventually the Progressives/Liberals are in charge of defining all things important . . . just like they are now.
We have a majority in the Senate yet we can't get our judicial nominees appointed. The majority of Americans would classify themselves as conservatives yet, with confident impunity, judicial activists declare sodomy to be legal and same-sex marriage to be the newest entitlement of the soul-less liberal class.
This madness is occurring all around us . . . AND WE'RE IN THE MAJORITY!!!!!
Why? Because we don't understand our enemies. We don't understand that the Helen Thomas' of the world will do anything and everything to impose their vision of the Promised Land on us.
Compassionate Conservatism? Should we deal with Saddam Hussein compassionately? Or Osama bin Laden? Should we have dealt with Adolf Hitler compassionately?
The radical liberals are every bit as dangerous as anyone you can think of. They just nip at our bodies and belief systems a little at a time instead of trying to gnaw off a whole arm at one time . . . but we're dying slowly but surely anyway.
That's why Helen Thomas is so dangerous. And we must wake up. We're at war with BOTH foreign and domestic terrorists. We're winning on foreign soil but the terrorists are kicking our asses domestically.
In Helen Thomas' circle of delusional One-World socialist pansies it's manditory.
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