Posted on 10/20/2008 10:29:44 AM PDT by quesney
Tommy Johnson:
Well I wasn't usin' it.
In my Fantasy Number 2998, President McCain sets up a new Washington Press Corps free of MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, NY Times etc.
McCain would hold weekly press conferences on the Internet with live blogging Drudge, InstaPundit, Michele Malkin, and the rest of the Pajamas Media. Oh, throw in Fox.
Great column, of course, we all knew this already.
I love Card’s essays. There are some honorable Democrats still around, and he is one of the few left. Why he’s not a Republican is beyond me.
“Wasn’t the true reason that the Watergate breakin occurred was that John Dean wanted to remove comprimising information about his wife’s activities as the Heidi Fleiss of Washington?”
That’s the speculation. Certainly, the break-in didn’t have much of an upside for Nixon. As I heard someone once say, if he was looking for dirt to help him in the election, it would have been like the Yankees spying on some little league team with whom they were about to play an exhibition.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.
Orson Scott Card's complaint about Big Journalism's participation in the Democratic Party's lies reminds me of an idealistic seeker of truth in the Soviet Union. The Soviets had a system for handling people who had complaints about the difference between Communist rhetoric and Communist reality.Any complaint was always "somebody else's" responsibility - so if you took a complaint to a bureaucrat, they would make you wait in interminable lines to get to see you, and then they would finally refer you somewhere else, more inconvenient than it had been even to get to see you. Most people eventually just gave up in frustration.
But if you were really determined, of course, there was always the gulag . . .
"Liberalism" and"progressivism" are simply positive labels which Big Journalism awards to politicians who participate in the con that criticism, condemnation, and complaint - cheap second guessing which is how journalists actually "earn" their daily bread - are more in the public interest than being "the man in the arena" and actually trying to get useful things done. When as and if Mr. Card finally realizes that journalism actually exists to be a propaganda arm of the party which exists to be coopted by it, there is always the option of becoming a neoconservative - a liberal who's been mugged by reality and can no longer exist within the system which raised him. At which point he will be a Republican - if an opposition party is still allowed in America by then . .
This ought to be sent to every journalist in America.
BTTT
But if you were really determined, of course, there was always the gulag . . .ROTFL A place for everything and everything in its proper place.
pflr
But if they win with Obama corrupt power triumphs over truth. Isn’t that what the election is about?
Conservative Mormon is not a political party :D . The poster asserted he was a Democrat. Its not news when a Republican, even a brilliant guy like OSC, criticizes Democrats.
I’ve visited his website from time to time and he always has something interesting, and adult, to say. He doesn’t update it frequently enough for me to visit it more often. I am just happy to have it in my favorites list.
marked. Wow.
BTTT!
Those EZ loans fed the economy and fed the boom. People were refinancing every year and taking cash out along the way.
That money bought cars, clothes, and a more comfortable lifestyle.
THAT’S why nobody did anything about it. There was no incentive.
Well, now that the prices are coming back down to where people can qualify the old fashioned way 33/38 ratios...or 35/40 FHA.
Business is really booming in bank-owned properties right now. People are buying and lenders are lending. Don’t believe all this crap out there.
*MEGA PING*
bttt
Read-this-earlier-just-heard-Rush-Limbaugh-read-this-on-his-show-today-read-it-again
Bump
I’m sending copies of this article to the networks and others with a sticky note that says “this pretty much sums up I no longer trust your network/newspaper/magazine as a credible news source.”
Wow. He is a very good writer. Clear and succinct. It will of course go for naught but it is nice to know that Diogones can find ONE honest democrat in the MSM.
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