Posted on 10/10/2004 10:51:49 AM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
THE INTERNET AND POLITICAL JIHAD
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10-07-04
There is a new terrorist organization in the United States according to Tom Brokaw. The goal of this terrorist group is to undercut the mainstream media, most recently by "demonizing Dan Rather and CBS". Members of this group do not use their real names. They hide behind their websites. This terrorist group communicates strictly through the Internet with criticism that "goes well beyond any factual information" according to Brokaw. This new terrorist organization has declared "a kind of political jihad".
The name of this insidious group of Internet demonizers is the Pajamahadeen. The name cropped up after a talking head on TV described them as people that "sit around in their pajamas typing unverifiable information on the Internet". You may know them by the name "bloggers".
Bloggers are Internet writers that post their own articles on their own websites. Others can respond to the articles with their own comments. It's like a super-sized message board. Bloggers caught the attention of the media during the political conventions this summer. Many bloggers received press credentials for the conventions. They posted their individual observations from the convention scene straight to their websites.
This is not a new phenomenon. With the skyrocketing popularity of the Internet, message boards and chat rooms have changed the way we discuss the news. It is possible to have a political debate with someone across the country (or even the world) just by logging on to the Internet. The blogs can be quite a learning experience. People can post articles, which allows others to read them without doing massive research on their own. Books are now available profiling the impact of the Internet on politics such as Warmongers and Traitors' Thoughts on the War with Iraq.
Bloggers broke the story about the forged CBS documents used to defame President Bush's National Guard service. The story was forwarded around various other "blog sites" until it reached a news outlet that ran with the story. Bloggers also debunked the myths that the Kerry camp spread about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The media is crying foul about the impact of the Pajamahadeen. They criticize the bloggers for posting "unverifiable" information. The media decries the lack of "fact checking" involved with blogging. The elite media's argument is laughable since forgeries have been presented as facts on national news shows. Most bloggers post verifiable links to their information.
The elite media has no one to blame but themselves for the emergence of the Pajamahadeen. The media used to conduct meticulous research and verified the information they were given. There was a time when the news organization would check with the legal department to ensure the veracity of the information. Today, the media is focused on getting the story out first. Research is minimal. Relying on word of mouth is the norm. News reports are being replaced with partisan hack reporting. News articles are now subjective with the reporters' own bias quite obvious in the piece.
We used to have only the big 3 network news as our source of current events. Now we have 24 hour cable news channels, talk radio and of course the Internet. The monopoly on news has been replaced with choices. We can choose to change the channel, change the radio station, change our newspaper subscription or change our favorite blog sites. Too bad that Tom Brokaw sees the evolving smorgasbord of choices for news as "political jihad". We, the members of the Pajamahadeen, see it as freedom of speech.
AMEN!!
I just found this at a thread posted by crushelits.... now this is a HOOT! lying losers:
http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20040806010750487
Swiftboat Vets Against Bush" is a FReeper Enterprise
Friday, August 06 2004 @ 01:07 AM GMT
Contributed by: Monkeyfister ***More on "Swiftboat Vets Against Kerry", a Free Republic Director's Scheme***
From the www.bartcop.com forum comes more information on the webmaster for "SVAK"-- Mr. Scott Swett, aka "Independent Times" at Free Republic dot com; and also a director (on the board) of Free Republic Network-- the Parent Org. of Free Republic. In fact, some of the info from SVAK is on the FRN server...
The poster, "Backlash2" has posted the most recent IRS 990-ez tax statement from FRN listing Scott Swett as a director, and multiple cross-references I.D.-ing him with both orgs.
So this whole thing is just another FREEPER enterprise.
The link to the Bartcop Forum entry:
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=2&topic_id=307791&mesg_id=307791&page=
Worth looking at. There's been some hot discussion, and lots of scrutiny...
Enjoy!
BTTT
Looks like another fund raising opportunity for Free Republic with our good lawyers.
Three cheers!!! Is this not fantastic???!!!!
I heard Broke-jaw raving on about how the internet is upsetting the output of the MSM.....PERFECT!!!! Poor ole liberal Brokaw, just crying in his beer. Why, the very idea of someone other than the MSM exposing the news and discovering what they are all about.....squealing like a piggie.......
Freepers have scored big!!!!
The real terrorists supporters for the past 7 decades have been the MSM with its love affair for communists, islamofascists and dictators around the world.
ABCNNBC BS has been Rathering to Americans for decades. Brokaw is one of the main Rathers, and he is another worthless Rathering POS. His days of fame, lying and re writing history are over, and he knows it.
Soon Brokaw, Jennings and Rather will join Chronkite as retired/jobless and babbling old liberals who hate conservatives, our military and a strong America.
woohoo great post!
We have like 190 freaking channels, and most of it is nothing but homosexual comedy's, perverts, deviates, leftist, political hacks, socialist screw worms, moronic talking heads and other assorted anti-American freaks. If it wasn't for the history channel, I'd take the tube out for target practice. A choice between my computer/internet and television, is just a no brainer.
LOL...busting CBS for publishing those forgeries and not verifying their "facts" is what earned us the name "Pajamahadeen" in the first place. The mainstream media is trying to preempt themselves now.
Thanks!
If GW hammers moi Kerri this election, I doubt if there will be any so called evening news on ABC, NBC or c BS.
The corporations which own these NonNews outlets will retire Rather, Brokaw and Jennings and have some reality show or quiz show on in the evening. Advertisers will stop supporting them in the future like with Blather's evening NonNews at this time.
Can I have your autograph?
"We have like 190 freaking channels, and most of it is nothing but homosexual comedy's, perverts, deviates, leftist, political hacks, socialist screw worms, moronic talking heads and other assorted anti-American freaks. If it wasn't for the history channel, I'd take the tube out for target practice. A choice between my computer/internet and television, is just a no brainer."
Well put -- my sentiments exactly. And the big networks wonder why they are losing revenues...
The MSM can't stand the fact that we have thousands of researchers to catch them in their lies.
"demonizing Dan Rather and CBS".... by daring to tell the TRUTH!
Damn. I been visiting Free Republic since 1998 and didn't know we have "Directors".
Can I get his name? His Halliburton check came to my house by mistake.
I just forwarded the following email to tommy boy
Instead of AMERICANS demanding that they be given the TRUTH and the FACTS, you prefer to see danny boy HIDING behind the guise of "REPORTING" the news with documents he KNEW were FORGED in an attempt to CONTROL the outcome of the Presidential election. A FIVE YEAR VENDETA to GET BUSH was ALL that program was about. YOU KNOW IT, WE KNOW IT, and danny boy KNEW IT. Then cbs follows up with the draft story. KNOWING the IMPRESSION the story was leaving was FALSE. KNOWING the MEMOS, yes, there's that word again, were BOGUS and circulated by demoncrats, KNOWING the legislation about the draft was INIATATED by demoncrats and yet he LIED by OMISSION and let the audience believe it was the BUSH Administration. Then a cbs employee even had the gall to state that TRUTH was IRRELEVANT.
You members of the "elitist media" still haven't gotten it yet. The AMERICAN people are FED UP with your LIES, your DISTORTED facts, your BLATANT BIASED reporting. We want the TRUTH, the good and the bad from BOTH SIDES. We want the media to be TOTALLY transparant to the news. IF you have an opinion, then have a program and call it OPINION. DO NOT use the coverage of the word NEWS to spout your DISTORTED and WARPED OPINIONS.
YES, people WILL USE the INTERNET like NEVER before. We will CONTINUALLY check your news reports and BROADCAST the LIES, SMEARS, DISTORTIONS, etc that you make and call it news. Get use to it. It's here to stay and it will be EXPANDING. The days of MIND CONTROL via the "elitist media" is coming to an end. THANK GOD.
From now on, you had BETTER be RIGHT and you had better CEASE with the DISTORTIONS and LIES. We will ALWAYS be here, RIGHT BEHIND EVERY WORD. Looking, researching, reviewing and we are going to do one of two things.
1. You will become HONEST, or
2 You will become IRRELEVANT
And most of us graduated from Jr. High!
Gee we must have super natural powers and time traveling abilities if we managed to go back in time and change the VN war so that we could report it here now. Sure, Kerry was a hero and we made up all the bad stuff but we had to go back in time to do it.
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