Posted on 11/11/2006 7:09:49 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
Great post!
The good people of Tennessee knew Harold was playing "The Jesus Card" in his church ads. They didn't like it.
And all that MSM hand-wringing about the playboy ad being racist, was spinning crap.
The socialist/Marxist/liberal media is the most destructive, relentless, and ruthless enemy of this Republic.
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
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"How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good. (LOL) - Letter to Henry Mills Alden, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 11, 1906, pg. 3.
* Our national journalists play the lead role in selecting the news, issues and points of view that will be repeated almost daily. They also determine what relevant news and views are de-emphasized or suppressed. In other words, your news is managed, interpreted and slanted. --- unknown FReeper
Thanks YaYa.
Thank goodness the good people of TN saw through lil' Harold!! I am so thankful and relieved he lost!
btt
Is he saying that he didn't wave his arms around? I didn't see it live.
I didn't see it live, either. He said that even though he's on radio, he uses his hands when he talks (and I got the impression maybe he does that more now that he has lost his hearing than he did prior to that happening.) I got the impression that his hand motions were only a brief descriptive gesture, and he was not mocking MJF, but the tape was looped over and over so that it went on for like 15 seconds.
bttt
So how do we get this report out on the internet and is it there already?If it is we put the word out.
The Barrett Report has never been released. The stipulation is that unless a congress person requests to see it - then it will not be released.
There are over 400 redacted (covered up) pages in this report - and I want to know what more they are covering up.
Also .. if a congress person requests the document - it will come to them UN-REDACTED and it would not be illegal to release it in that form. It's just that nobody has the spine to request the document.
The media bullies are going to slam Republicans no matter what we say or do, so we may as well be on the offensive -- and be offensive -- if need be. We need to strike back at these bullies at every opportunity and show them for the liars and shills they are. They don't know how to react when they're aggressively challenged with facts. Like all bullies everywhere, they'll start backing down when you stand up to them.
I think you're right. Lynne was great on Wolfie's show! The Pubbies have not done a good job of being on the offense at all - - they definitely need to do a much better job of this.
I believe that Weldon was the one that was on this and trying hard to get it released. Since he lost his seat (starting in Jan) he ought to ask for it now and release it.
A "reality bites" BUMP!!
The Pelosi News Networks
If we rigidly applied truth-in-advertising laws to the national media in their coverage of the 2006 campaign, we would have first declared that the stuff between the commercials wasn't "news" as much as a boatload of free infomercial advertising for the Democrats. The news reports should have led with the sentence, "I'm Nancy Pelosi, and I approved this newscast."
Republicans made a lot of mistakes and caused themselves a pile of problems. Their house is a mess -- it's time to tear down and start over. But I will say this unequivocally: In 25 years of looking at the national media, I have never seen a more one-sided, distorted, vicious presentation of news -- and non-news -- by the national media. They ought to be collectively ashamed. They have made a mockery out of the term "objective journalism" and a laughingstock of themselves at the idea that they should be considered objective journalists.
They distorted the record time and again with a blame-everything-on-Republican-misrule formula. When gas prices approached historic highs over the summer, the media couldn't stop talking about the inept Republicans and failed Bush administration policies. Then, gas prices plummeted. Celebratory coverage? Nah. Any credit to the Republican Party or this administration? None whatsoever. Instead, they -- yes, you CNN; and you, NBC, and you, CBS -- shamelessly advanced Lyndon LaRouche-style conspiracy theories about how Republicans somehow were manipulating gas prices downward in order to get themselves elected. I'd laugh -- except it worked. If I believed a fraction of what I heard from the national news media, I'd vote against Republicans, too.
This was not an election campaign like 1994, when the networks spent weeks exploring how "bombastic and ruthless" Newt Gingrich would burn Washington down with the Contract With America should the GOP capture the House. As horrified as I am by the left-wing agenda of Pelosi, Conyers, Rangel and co., I certainly wouldn't want the press to treat them the way they mistreated Republicans a dozen years ago.
I would have been happy, and America would have been the grateful beneficiary, had the anchors given us an educational exploration of the issues of the day, and the parties' and candidates' stances, instead of the silly dramatics. Did the Democrats have a program beyond their daily carpet-bombing of President Bush? What would happen to -- name the issue -- were they elected?
Not on your life. This was a campaign that presented Republicans as the tired, failed, corrupted party that had to go, while viewing Democrats through a rose-colored lens as an intoxicating bouquet of historic firsts for diversity: the first female speaker of the House, the first Muslim American in the House, the first black senator in the South since Reconstruction.
The last one, the prospect of Sen. Harold Ford Jr., didn't happen, but that was miraculous, considering the national press viciously insisting that cheeky Republican ads with a brief joke about his trip to a Playboy party were exploiting every last vestige of racism in America when, in fact, they were cleverly and powerfully exposing Ford's church-poseur hypocrisy.
You think their coverage of Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi was fair and balanced? Then consider this jaw-dropping fact: Since Pelosi was elected as the House Democratic leader in November of 2002, all the way through to late October of 2006, the networks have not once described her as a "liberal." You read that correctly. Not once. That's not news coverage. That's a four-year masquerade party. In 1994, Gingrich was the "national poster boy for resentment and rage." In 2006, Pelosi was "a mother and a grandmother" who was "known for her trademark smile."
The dominant issue of the fall campaign on network television wasn't the issues, unless you consider Mark Foley's creepy Internet messages an "issue" -- in which case, boy howdy, did the news media agree with you. Nearly 200 network stories on Foley -- and, by extension, the allegedly page-abusing Republican House -- dominated the coverage in the last weeks of the campaign. "Off Message," screamed a Newsweek cover with a large picture of Foley. But that was some kind of joke: The news media were very much "on message" with that scandal.
What about William Jefferson, the Democrat caught by the feds stuffing some 90 grand in payola in the freezer at his Washington home? It was a one-day story, quickly forgotten. He's in a runoff for re-election, by the way, and nobody cares.
Then there was the gay prostitute in Colorado who accused evangelical pastor Ted Haggard of paying him for sex and methamphetamines. Sure, it was a story that deserved coverage. But the prostitute also was explicit in admitting he was letting this scoop out as an October Surprise to defeat a defense-of-marriage amendment in Colorado. Any interest in that angle? Of course not.
The 2006 campaigns are over. It will go down as the year it was almost impossible to discern where the negative political commercials against Republicans ended and the news coverage began.
Post #92 is a great idea. Why don't we start emailing Weldon and see if he's interested.
If there are very many repubs involved (and I don't believe there are - according to Tony), then I say let the chips fall where they may and let's really clean house.
Post #92 is a great idea. Why don't we start emailing Weldon and see if he's interested.
If there are very many repubs involved (and I don't believe there are - according to Tony), then I say let the chips fall where they may and let's really clean house.
I think it's certainly worth a try.
I will send an e-mail this afternoon.
"FreeRepublic TV or something."
Yes!
I have been posting about the need for a truly conservative network and even used the same "Free Republic Channel" name.
I sure would like to see something get started in this area. I have plenty of programming ideas, but the main obstacle is probably the requirement for a heavy cash hitter (, many of whom veer to the left, once their fortune is secure), unless in some way, a grass roots funding program could be organized.
Someone should start a thread on this topic.
I noticed that too. It's amazing how well run this election was. Of course, the Democrats winning most races had nothing to do with it. (end sarcasm)
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