Posted on 08/24/2004 9:35:41 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
I'm ready to explode - literally to explode!! The press, once called the Fourth Estate has now become a 5th column. Everything Kerry says is not only G-ds Gospel truth, but pure as the wind swept snow. Whereas, anything said by anyone who happens to disagree, is a lie, not only a lie, but a provable lie as long as you use Kerrys notes, Kerrys photos, Kerrys movies, Kerrys witnesses, and Kerrys supporters explanations to refute them. There is not one example of objectivity to be seen in any mass market media outlet. Its like Joseph Goebbels was somehow cloned in secret and is running the so-called mainstream media.
The press was supposed to protect us from the government by shining a spotlight of truth on their shenanigans. Whos going to protect us from the press???
This entire Swift Boat episode reminds me of the stongarm tactics and press coverup in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Theres Congressman Jefferson Smith (John ONeil) eloquently speaking to the empty House chamber believing that, in time, the American people will come around to his side when the truth gets out. While all the time the Taylor machine (John Hurley) is making sure the press reports what Senator Paine (John Kerry) wants them to print and runs roughshod over the newsboys (veterans) who are trying to get the truth out.
Im a student of history and a fan of old movies. Some have compared John Kerry to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, but I believe that theres an even better example.
In the 1965 Otto Preminger movie In Harms Way starring John Wayne as Admiral Rock Torrey, Patrick ONeal played the opportunistic Congressman Neal Owynn who hoped to take his war record (as the PR rep for a grandstanding general who couldnt fight his way out of a paper bag) to the White House. John Kerry has combined Neal Owynn with Lt. (j.g.) Jeremiah Torrey, the son of Admiral Torrey, who, as a very young boy, was left behind with his mothers rich northeast liberal family after his father divorced his mother to escape the condescension of the in-laws. When Rock and Jere meet again, Lt. Torrey is a skipper on a PT boat. Admiral Torrey is impressed with Lt. Torreys volunteering for such a dangerous assignment, but Lt. Torrey responds to the effect that this assignment is only a resume enhancement to help him get on to the grandstanding generals staff. He even mentions that he is against Roosevelts War.
When I found out that the only reason John Kerry volunteered for Swift Boat duty was because he thought it would only consist of harbor patrol, I immediately pictured that movie scene from In Harms Way.
Theres a thousand and one things the press could be doing to help the American people make an informed and intelligent choice when they vote for President in November. Instead, theyre doing a million and one things to make sure that President is John Kerry.
Everyone in the press is now bemoaning the influence and nastiness of the 527 groups excuse me, the REPUBLICAN 527 groups (you see, 527 groups that support Kerry and tear down Bush are OK because they are telling the truth while those REPUBLICAN 527 groups are lying). Im now back to where I started when I began writing this down. Democrats truthful, REPUBLICANS liars, and the media is reporting it just that simply and just that blatant. It is so transparent and so obvious that Im afraid for the future of this country.
Im witnessing 1932 Germany, and I see all of the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the press with their arms outstretched toward John Kerry yelling Bush lied, men died. Soon well be seeing spray painted political slurs on the Republican National Committee storefronts in small towns all over America. Are we headed for a conservative Krystalnact?? Just look at how some Hollywood celebrities are running from the label REPUBLICAN like its some kind of dirty word. Were at the brink of book burning for G-ds sake!!
America is asleep and the press is singing soft lullabies and rocking the cradle, while, at the same time, opening the window and motioning for Brian David Mitchell and David Westerfield to come on in.
WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!
Your analogy is even closer than you think. Kerry today said that when he came back from VN he became an aide on an admiral's staff in New York.
Remember the one vote needed to extend unemployment benefits? Well kerry missed that vote. Headline: kerry wants unemployed to starve to death.
How about voting against funding the war? Headline: kerry doesn't support troops (some things never change).
Anyway back to you... keep cool, it's only August and kerry doesn't have any powder left.
Pretty much right where you are right now, except that you wouldn't know as much. :(
....except for one he uses on his "prittty face".
Worth a reply. They still have the same undeserved sway.
It behooves us to replicate thier style.
No it won't. It never will. Most of the voters are working on sound bites, unfortunately. The reality is that you provide your own or die.
You buy major media outlets, or die. You Initiate major newspapers, or you lose elections. You put a lot of money and thought into it, or your cause loses. You teach the children yourself, or you lose them to the socialist, vulgar culture.
If anyone thinks that any major network will air anything other than admissions of guilt from the Bush campaign then I'd like to sell them oceanfront property in North Dakota. The only way conservatives will get any message out is to massively buy up advertising time and space to tell the American people the truth - it has to be a blitz - not one or two little commercials now an then. Even though the Swift Vets have caused a stir - the truth is still being driven into the ground and trampled. We need a new commercial a day from now to election day. We've got the Kerry campaign on the ropes and we're giving them time to catch their breath.
All true. But don't you think the sound bites will start attacking kerry's senate record. And God bless the vets. I hope they keep it going till election day. I just think President Bush's campaign will focus on where he wants to take the country and kerry's dismal senate record.
I'm sorry, but Old Media is nowhere near irrelevent - just as Old Europe isn't... oh well, okay Old Europe is but not the MSM.
You would not believe how many lemmings there are out there (many of them are my friends) who only get their brief news downloads from the three-letter networks, or from their neighborhood daily, which 9 times out of ten is about as liberal as Berkeley.
They bring up something snide about Bush or the War on Terror or Ashcroft... and then I counter with some dissenting facts. Most of the time, if they don't try to change the subject to avoid taxing their cranial cavity, they just blow it off, saying that my point is intereresting but they saw something different on tv or in the paper.
The new media is an awesome tool, but every tool needs someone to utilize it or it's useless.
I have a fear that, even though we are fired up on the inside, we are still basically lazy 21st century Americans who don't want to get out of the recliner or put down the chablis and DO SOMETHING positive. That means we could all wake up November 3rd wondering why the weasels won.
Send this to your local newspaper for a guest column!
My local newspaper wouldn't think it worthy of even toilet paper.
We're winning. It's cool. Let's not make the mistake of exploding with rage. Look how cool O'Neill is during his public appearances. Being hyper-angry might be Michael Savage's meal ticket, but it isn't going to win us any elections.
Yeah, but if Kerry and Krew gets elected, don't think for a minute that every keystroke you make won't be monitored, recorded and used against you at some point. It's coming. It's just a matter of 'how soon'. The internet will be the Kerry Kommies' way of finding dissidents and the 'evidence' against them.
Also, say goodbye to Christianity if the Kommies get in. Kerry is a Catholic in name only. Much like his medals, that's a fake.
Um, it was ENSIGN Torrey, NOT Lt... Just for the record..
When I get to the place the lies drive me crazy I pray.
You're right, and the dufus general was really an admiral. Is my entire article invalid now?? (it's late, 2:32am EDT, I'm not harping on you, just demonstrating the idiocy of the MSM).
suPRESS. I LOVE IT!
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