Posted on 12/15/2003 1:59:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
Canada’s leading newspaper, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, reports that NewsMax.com may be addictive to some Americans, who, once turned on to the conservative-leaning site, can’t shake it.
Earlier this month, one of the Globe’s writers, Doug Saunders, surveyed the growing interest in alternative news.
Saunders describes Eric, a "successful engineer" who lives in Canada and has found "permanent residence on Planet Left." Eric believes in the gospel according to Michael Moore and thinks the 9/11 attacks were secretly propagated by the CIA.
Countering Eric, Saunders discovers a citizen of "Planet Right" – a young female lawyer in Los Angeles named Krista, who is in her early '30s.
Krista startles Saunders by admitting she won’t even look at the Los Angeles Times.
"... I don’t follow the liberal media anymore," she tells the Globe.
Instead, Krista, like millions of Americans, watches Fox News Channel. The Canadian paper describes Fox as anchored by "angry conservative hosts."
The paper reveals one of Krista’s secrets: Krista "said she was ‘addicted’ to the conservative news site NewsMax. ..."
Of course, we here at NewsMax are glad that a major media outlet finally reported on our growing influence on millions of Americans – though we note that it took a Canadian paper to print the truth.
Still, we are deeply troubled that we may be classified as an "addiction."
As such, will we be regulated by the FDA as an addictive substance?
Will we be the target of trial lawyers, who will claim that our Reaganite views are undermining Hollywood’s political correctness and causing undue civil strife in the U.S.?
What’s next? A demand that we put a surgeon general-style pop-up disclaimer on our Web site: "The surgeon general warns that NewsMax may be addictive and injurious to liberal sentiments. Keep away from children and brainwashed Americans"?
In fact, we at NewsMax believe that many Americans (too many) have become brainwashed by liberal attitudes from the likes of the New York Times-Hollywood axis.
This addiction can be cured only by NewsMax’s 12-Step Program for recovering liberals and others disaffected with the liberal establishment.
For those of you who can’t attend our weekly NewsMax-sponsored Liberals Anonymous meetings, here are the 12 Steps:
1. We admit that we are powerless to control, manipulate and influence the minds of fellow Americans. Our own lives are so unmanageable that we liberals should be the last to tell others how to think and act.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We are now unafraid to say that this Power is called God – even if the 9th Circuit does not believe He exists and does not want schoolchildren to utter His exalted name.
3. We made a decision, as free individuals, to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him, and no longer rely on NPR, the New York Times editorial page or other liberal venues to tell us what to think.
4. We have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. We finally admit that there is such a thing as morals and that it is good to believe in them, though we admit all humans are weak, capable of evil and fallible in living up to the highest standards.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our liberal propaganda and the harm it causes free men and women.
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of liberalism, which include a denial of God and individual freedom, and hatred of people and groups such as George Bush and the NRA.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings and to accept that capitalism is not evil but helps the world prosper.
8. We made a list of all persons, classes and groups we had harmed, and we became willing to make amends to them all. We particularly admit the harm we have caused the so-called "underclass" and "minorities," whom we have enslaved in a web of government social programs have led only to greater poverty and hopelessness.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other liberals and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Saunders describes Eric, a "successful engineer" who lives in Canada and has found "permanent residence on Planet Left." Eric believes in the gospel according to Michael Moore and thinks the 9/11 attacks were secretly propagated by the CIA.
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Countering Eric, Saunders discovers a citizen of "Planet Right" – a young female lawyer in Los Angeles named Krista, who is in her early '30s.Krista startles Saunders by admitting she won’t even look at the Los Angeles Times.
Now recall that the LA Times has been caught fabricating stories, lying in reports, and faking digital photos that they have run.
This proved deception is comparable to looney claims that the CIA attacked the United States on 9.11?
If the CIA is so guilty then why the flap for Robert Novak "outing" a CIA employee? Wouldn't that be a "good" whistleblower?
The left lies. Leftist editors control the media. Nuff said.
It is certainly more 'addictive' than newsmax.
My son used to be on 'some political website' for hours at a time. Every now and then he'd come out of his room and tell me something interesting from the site. I used to caution that he didn't have a life and should get off of the *#($ Internet.
Then I started looking at the posts myself. I started lurking a little every day. Then I finally got the nerve to sign up and post my first response. Since then I have been like a junkie, making promises to myself that I can stop when I want to. "I won't go on FR until I've done my reading." "I won't go on FR until I've made dinner." "I won't go on FR until I've actually done some work." The typical empty promises of the junkie.
FR has become a big part of my life. I've found a lot of kindred spirits here (and some pretty bizarre people as well). My son and I frequently freep at the same time from our individual computers, calling back and forth to each other about some interesting post we've found.
I'm pretty sure I'm addicted. Thank goodness it's legal.
I'm thinking ADA!!!
Please don't delude yourself. While NewsMax is now considered on the fringe of the mainstream we are still the kooks way out on the far right.
Just as we occassionaly visit DU to see what the liberal kooks are doing, we are visited by mainstream conservatives to monitor what their kooks are doing.
Hypocracy from a newspaper! So what about the fact that thousands of people buy the same newspaper day after day. Are they not addicted? And those newspapers are full of nonsense, lies, and useless trivia and garbage. That's an addiction, tossing your money away on a bad habit.
I use toilet paper and toothpaste every day, yet I wouldn't say I'm addicted to them. they are a necessity. No money wasted there.
Just like Newsmax and FreeRepublic - a necessity, for finding the truth. No money wasted there, either.
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