The media are “enemy” within

www.brookesnews.com ^ | Monday 5 December 2005 | Dick McDonald

[luv2ndamend]

The ongoing American tragedy is the ability of Democrat-controlled media to hide truth from the American people and blow insignificant and immaterial events into concerns so grave as to plummet the poll numbers of an exceptional presidency below 40 percent. This is a significant tragedy few in America are aware of. If the "truth will set you free", Democrats have incarcerated the American public in propaganda so devastating that rather than win a war, they are slowly becoming surrender advocates.

A famous and a recent Democrat candidate for the vice presidency of the United States, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, wrote an article essentially telling the American people that Democrats have been lying about the progress of the American troops in Iraq and imploring them not to believe the media's omissions of that progress and not to abandon the "27 million Iraqi for 10,000 terrorists". Other than the Wall Street Journal editorial, not one major media outlet, newspaper or TV, has reported this important news event; a criminal omission.

The Weekly Standard reported that the entire Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson CIA leak case was orchestrated by Democrat CIA bureaucrats. A scandal so serious, it strikes at the very core of our democracy. The report states that many CIA leaks are designed specifically to undermine the confidence of the American people in the Bush Administration and because the CIA and most agencies in Washington are so overwhelmingly infested with Democrat Party partisans the public is deceived into believing the bureaucratic leaks, lies and propaganda disseminated by their Democrat-controlled media.

The right-wing blogs are the only resort America has for truth and an American perspective. Even Fox and their lead commentator, Bill O'Reilly, didn't comment or interview more than one Swift Boat Veteran and then dissed all 264 of them. He presently is pressing the Administration for withdrawal plans from Iraq when such disclosure would aid the enemy. The effectiveness of Sean Hannity is often blunted by the inane Democrat talking points of Alan Colmes. The direction of that company is being subverted by the majority of its staff which are Democrats.

So we continue to drive blind in America. The smokescreen is so thick and pervasive it boggles the mind. How can a country, so steeped in freedom, be captured by the lies, deceits and omissions of such a ruthless and criminal element? A party so corrupt they sacrifice truth in exchange for their return to power.

A party who would leave Iraq prematurely and risk America's safety for political gain; a truly sad condition in which America finds itself today. And it doesn't matter what Joe Lieberman says, you won't hear about it. You will hear more trash from the CIA leaked to their allies in the media to fill the airwaves and columns with mindless and unimportant minutiae.

[TheCrusader]

"If you are capable of discerning bias in something you read then you can intellectually challenge the conclusion and rationale'."

Not everyone has the same capabilities to discern lies in the media. Some people believe what they read out of a general trust for the media, others out of youthful inexperience or ignorance, still others out of self-inflicted political blindness.

In any case, the media are engaging in warfare against truth, against Bush and the Iraq War, and they do so with constant lies and distortions. Sometimes they even invent stories to support their dark agenda, (Newsweek got caught red-handed last Summer). They engage daily in a concerted effort to give an undeserved credence to the treasonous, visionless, power hungry DemocRATS.

[Txsleuth]

Yes ma'am you are correct I do appreciate the article...and that line in particular..thanks for pinging me..

[prairiebreeze]

The Bush administration and the DOD should start publically naming names of the press who lie. Individual reporters, media outlets both. Counter the lie with facts and publically state which pressitude wrote or stated a falsehood.

[supercat]

What a totally foolish and nonsensical statement- If you are capable of discerning bias in something you read then you can intellectually challenge the conclusion and rationale'.

The media doesn't have to pursuade people who read multiple news sources and have an ability to discern truth. All it has to do is pursuade the many voters who follow them exclusively, oblivious to anything else.

How many voters last November thought the "CBS documents" might have some validity? Probably quite a few.

[mtntop3]

You are quite wrong. And it should not be necessary to list the thousands of reasons why.

You might start with the U. S. military receiving the respect and support it so justly deserves instead of being regarded formerly by the Clintons and other Democrats as a servant class...moving from there perhaps to our now being able to sleep at night because we know that the Democrats/liberals do not have their slimy hands on the mechanisms that ultimately shape the fate of ourselves and our families...and so on.

You might go on to our having now a President that answers to the Lord God instead of daily focus groups...Count your blessings, friend.

[eeriegeno]

A party so corrupt they sacrifice truth in exchange for their return to power.

And they dare to control this country? Not in my view!!!!!

[middie]

What a bunch of nonsensical crapola...It's easier to invent villians and boggiemen than engage in critical analysis and intellectual inquiry. So your concern is for those who are naive and fail to have the intellectual capabilities that you enjoy. And thus, the answer to those less endowed than yourself is to disbelieve everything in the media except, of course, the Washington Times or the right wing blogs. That's real intellectual honesty.

[middie]

And your point is...? Oh, the word is ''persuade.''

[TheCrusader]

"So your concern is for those who are naive and fail to have the intellectual capabilities that you enjoy."

Not at all. My concern is that an extremely powerful propaganda machine, the mass media, are about the business of an openly biased agenda, and that they will lie, distort and invent stories to foster that agenda. This is very dangerous because people will react to what they see on TV 'news' and to what read in the printed media. People vote based on the information they glean from the mass media.

'Reporting' is supposed to be just that, 'reporting' the news--- objectively reporting on events to the people so we can be informed. Instead they are literally creating 'news' with omissions, distortions and outright lies. When the news media becomes nothing but a propaganda machine for a particular political party and particular political agendas like abortion, homosexual 'rights', feminism, etc, it is an indefensible practice, and does not serve the good of our country.

[af_vet_rr]

when Republicans are in power all they can manage is a holding action. Treading water so to speak. We never really achieve anything except slowing the Dems down a little, and often not even that much.

Am I wrong?

I think that you are right, in that Republicans don't advance a Conservative agenda when in office as much as they should - when you look at what's promised versus what is achieved...and before anybody says "well nobody believes what people say on the campaign trail", I would dare say that maybe we should hold people accountable to what they say on the campaign trail - if they can't get the job done, sorry, we'll support a candidate who will.

Unfortunately, once they are in office, for many politicians, winning the next election becomes more important than anything else, and many voters get into that mindset, and so they would rather support an incumbent Republican, rather than risk bringing in a new one.

[middie]

Baloney!

[khnyny]

You're correct.

"Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs." Alexander Hamilton

The "media" forms and shapes public opinion.