Posted on 09/06/2004 5:00:06 AM PDT by Timeout
Even before Zell Miller jumped Chris Matthews last week, I noticed something had changed. During the entire week, when an interviewer colored a question with anti-GOP shiboleths, the person being interviewed shot it down...aggressively.
I believe Karl Rove and gang perceives a wounded enemy after the damage the MediaCrats did to themselves over the Swifty story. The blogoshpere whipped their a$$ in that case.
I think the turning point was the Michelle Malkin interview on Hardball. It was such a grand display of the left's rhetorical trick of twisting what a conservative says and mistating their position over and over and over. Michelle was caught flat-footed by it...she should have directly challenged Chris's misquote. I think the Bushies said "never again". Note that Zell Miller, in his tirade against Matthews, referred back to the Malkin case.
It appears to me that, after the Malkin ambush, Rove and company decided it was time to smash the media's biased concept of conservatives. I believe the talking points must have gone out...don't take it anymore. Slap 'em when they preface a question with some insult to conservatives. When David Gergen tried the old trick of tying Zell to southern racists, Laura Ingraham jumped on him like a junkyard dog and forced him to retreat.
It happened time and again last week...conservatives refusing to move on until the host retracted some implication that the GOP is mean, heartless, racist, etc. This is new to me. Did anyone else notice it?
Denny Hastert reminds me of Mike Ditka.
It's funny, though: even now when people agree with my points, they usually preface their statements with "I don't usually agree with LS, but . . ." so as to insulate themselves from their colleagues' comments.
Not only that. The left believes that reality can be manufactured and jammed down peoples throats using money. This is what they believe happens with advertising. They believe that advertising tricks people into buying things they do not need or really even want by "slick marketing and packaging" (if you recall they used this phrase when describing Reagan's 1984 campaign).
They really believe this. They believe that advertising manufactures demand out of thin air. They never heard, or don't believe, the old saying "if your product is no good, all the advertising in the world won't get people to buy it."
(steely)
That is one part of what we are witnessing now in this campaign. Persons of principle (conservatives) are not sitting still for liberal deceptions. They are shouting back, shoving facts up for scrutiny rather than politely trying to let them speak for themselves.
Part two is that the truth indeed does trump $60 million hate campaigns. But something else plays an important part in this, and that is New Media. Talk radio, cable news, and the blogospheric Internet are letting the truth shine as never before. The facts are more readily available to many more people. Many more people are offering support to those in the arena with ruthless libs who have spewed lies for so long they no longer know what the truth is (a particularly pathological example of this is John Kerry himself).
And then there is Karl Rove. If one took Evil Incarnate James Carville and stripped EIJC of evil, added scruples and consistency, one would approach the intelligent resolution of Karl Rove.
It is an exciting time.
It's time to do EVERYTHING humanly possible to break the back of the corrupt, socialist, "mainstream" media. These Marxist Socialist front groups have got to be stopped.
Here is what I propose:
1. Get lists of their advertisers and complain about the media Bush hate, manipulation, and deceit campaign.
2. Distribute the contact information for various advertiseers so that all FREEPERS can begin to complain.
3. Use the language of the lefty loonies against them. Note that the media is using hate, manipulation, and deceit against the president and their advertisements are supporting it.
4. Start sending complaints to the Boards of Directors at the parent holding companies. (you can find them here http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar )
5. Start finding other boards that many of the media directors sit on and beging a campaign to THOSE companies of that board member's support of the hate, manipulation, and deception against he president.
If we get on the stick with this, and are persistent, the "old media" can finally be crushed within the months leading up to the campaign. If anyone thinks for 2 seconds that this media is not going to pull out all the stops to ratchet up the anti-Bush hate and deception campaign coming up to this election, you've got another thing coming.
Bill
Hey, who the hell did Franken get into it with? Remember the picture of him standing, pointing his little finger at supposedly some radio producer? What show was the producer from? Any other details?
I believe the following quote will perfectly describes the left.
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke
Bump. Excellent post!
I missed Laura Ingraham, but I saw Zell go after Chrissy. If your hypothesis is true, all I can say is, it's about frickin' time!
The conservatives have always come across as a bit too timid to me. Always better to play offense, rather than defense.
When you read the transcript of the interview it's easy to see why Zell was mad. Matthews asked questions with implied answers and never gave Miller a chance at rebuttal.
Isn't that a breach of interview etiquette?
Why is Matthews/MSNBC proud of this?
"Maybe it's a shotgun tactic to improve ratings."
A shotgun tactic aimed at their own foot?
A perfect examle was Karl Rove's interview where he said he thought Kerry's anti-war activities were fair game in the campaign. MediaCrats had to reach for the smelling salts on that one. They thought their politically correct demands for demureness would preclude any such declarations from conservatives...especially a high level Bush official! Republicans are supposed to shy away from controversy!
Rove sliced and diced any confidence they still had in their ability to control the message. It was beautiful to see.
There will be no shortage of opportunities in the upcoming days.
The leftists in the MSM need to be put on notice.
Their time is over.
This election is their last battlefield.
I am so glad that I am not a liberal.
They had better get tough. Kerry is bringing in every dirt thrower he can to save his failing campaign.
Nice description. I've had some experience with faculty meetings myself. The assumption is always that we all agree so it is safe to make such remarks. Nice to know your are out there on the front lines.
The swipe GWB took at the New York Times was long overdue. Until the Republicans hit the media, full force, it will be the same old bias. I had great hopes for FOX. We need more anchors like Brit Hume. It's time we began making our voices heard. Continuous emails until Fox can NOT ignore us any longer. We must keep Zell's speech alive.
I was sicken to see JC Watts, and many Republicans tip toe over the media bias issue. I ask you, what do we have to lose? What are we afraid of?
They looked like whipped puppies... they certainly were not a happy bunch.
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