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Does the United States of America Still Exist?
Townhall.com ^ | October 29, 2008 | Douglas MacKinnon

Posted on 10/29/2008 6:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

For the dwindling number of people in this country who actually believe in traditional values, it’s time to ask yourselves a question. That being, does the United States of America even exist anymore?

Our Founding Fathers envisioned a great deal when they crafted the documents that set forth the laws and boundaries that would help to govern our fledgling nation, but a mainstream media that would be almost one hundred percent controlled by the left was clearly something beyond their imagination. Should Barack Obama win this election, the socialist and draconian measures pushed by him, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Harry Reid, will surely threaten the integrity and intent of our founding documents.

One of the first steps the socialist-four will take will be to censor and ultimately silence Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and all of conservative radio. By reinstituting the un-American “Fairness doctrine,” they will seek -- much like the former Soviet Union, Hugo Chavez and the Obama supporting regime of Iran -- to use any means to crush dissent and the voice of citizens who disagree with and fear their far-left policies.

Thomas Jefferson was well aware of a biased press and yellow journalism when he said, “The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Two hundred and twenty-one years after he wrote those words, any reasoned and honest person would have to surmise that Jefferson would not only be horrified by the “fairness” doctrine, but chilled to the bone by a left-leaning media that willfully ignores the “opinion of the people.”

Does the United States of America even exist anymore? If it did, could a humble citizen like “Joe the Plumber” be so savaged by an Obama worshiping media simply because he dared to ask their candidate an honest and timely question about his plan to redistribute the wealth?

How much different is “Joe the Plumber” from the fictional character Jefferson Smith in Frank Capra’s classic movie, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?” In that 1939 film, citizen Smith comes to Washington and dares to ask an honest and timely question about an obviously corrupt business practice that involves a powerful congressional figure and his wealthy private sector enabler and puppet master.

Because of that transgression against the powerful congressional figure and his venal benefactor, Mr. Smith is immediately attacked, his background distorted, and his character assassinated. In the movie, the “Taylor Machine” uses all of its resources to smear Smith, have its own in-the-tank “journalists” manufacture and print lies about him, and have its bribed state officials look into Smith’s personal life and then prod their cronies to send out 5,000 telegrams denouncing an innocent man who presumed to ask a pertinent question.

Sound familiar? “Joe the Plumber” has been subjected to much of that and more. Wouldn’t such an attack only happen in a police state and not in the United States of America? Wouldn’t it?

If the United States of America truly existed anymore, wouldn’t one of the tens of conservative billionaires in this nation -- or a group of the hundreds of conservative multimillionaires -- buy one of these far-left media outlets and try to instill some balance in its management and editorial content? Time and again I’ve posed this question and time and again I’ve been told it’s a bad business investment.

Really? Well, to that I say if you fire all of the far-left management, editors and reporters, you would not only restore the dignity of the outlet, but cut well over ninety percent of the employees. With that massive monetary savings, you could then hire a much smaller percentage of ethical journalists and rebuild your readers and advertising base.

Should that not make sense to these wealthy conservatives, then I would ask them how their financial bottom-line is functioning under this liberal media pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac economic meltdown? Beyond that, how well will that bottom-line prosper under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid mainstream media supported redistribution of wealth? At what point do these wealthy conservatives step forward?

At the end of the 18th century, historian Thomas Carlyle quoted Edmund Burke as saying, "there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporter' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact ... Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in lawmaking, in all acts of authority."

If the United States of America existed anymore, could this “Fourth Estate” control almost the top one-hundred newspapers in our nation, the major networks, most of the cable networks -- including the Weather Channel, CNBC, and ESPN -- and the entertainment industry? If the nation of our Founding Fathers existed, could this “Fourth Estate” handpick and install an untested, inexperienced candidate who wishes to redistribute our wealth and worse?

There is no greater threat to our liberty and this Republic than a biased media that despises traditional values and only speaks and lies with one voice. Again, Thomas Jefferson may have said it best when he wrote, “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

If the United States of America still existed, could these lies of the left and the destruction they cause, happen with such regularity?


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1 posted on 10/29/2008 6:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I believe it still exists in the hearts and minds of about 85% of the citizens. It’s the libs in Congress and the media who want us to believe it doesn’t.


2 posted on 10/29/2008 6:47:58 AM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: Kaslin
Does the United States of America still exist?

Only until next Tuesday if the people elect Barack Obama.

3 posted on 10/29/2008 6:48:17 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: Kaslin

This is a very serious election. It really has been the last few elections. Demonrats and the stereotype that surrounds them are the enemy within. These are not good people who want a peaceful, fair election. It is surreal to watch the press, entertainment, schools be nothing more than propaganda for Demonrats and their assorted nutbags. This is deliberate and malicious. It’s criminal and I could see this coming to conflict because they will move right away to deny all dissent and honest ‘elections’. Look what they’re doing in Ohio!! These people need their own dose of anger and we had better be prepared what may be coming up in January with the inaugural and the radicals in charge. We will officially be dead if Obama gets the presidency. What a sad ending indeed.


4 posted on 10/29/2008 6:49:33 AM PDT by bushfamfan (Palin is America's Thatcher, Obama is America's Chamberlain with beliefs of Lenin)
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To: Kaslin
Since the 1960’s the public schools and the media have been relentless in indoctrinating the public in leftist doctrine. How can anyone expect that Americans will support “traditional” American values when these values are constantly trashed by the left leaning establishment? Same in England. Most don't understand history because they never get to study history. Its all part of the Leftist revolution that was launched in the 1930’s and accelerated in the 1960’s Ayers, Alinsky, et al have been working on this revolution for years. The public is now finally dumb enough to believe the story. This will be the last election where there are enough traditional Americans to vote for traditional values. The Greatest Generation is dying off and the only folks left are those indoctrinated by the Left. Media, teachers unions, an education system DOMINATED by the left... Nobody but parochial schools are telling the truth anymore. We need to get serious or fact the inevitable that we have p*ssed our birthright away for drugs, sex and rock and roll!
5 posted on 10/29/2008 6:49:53 AM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: Kaslin

I’m proud to be an American!!!!!


6 posted on 10/29/2008 6:50:29 AM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: YellowRoseofTx

I hope you are right and I hope they show up in droves to vote for McCain.


7 posted on 10/29/2008 6:51:14 AM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: Kaslin
Allowing espionage agents(socialists) to teach out children for at least 40 years could have something to do with the problem.. WHO allowed those agents at the kids?... The republican party did.. Americas federal schools have been graduating brain washed socialists for a long time..

Chickens are roosting and foxes are in hen houses all over this country this year..

8 posted on 10/29/2008 6:53:45 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: April Lexington
I hope you are right and I hope they show up in droves to vote for McCain.

Wouldn't that be great.....but not gonna happen. Too many are blinded by the Zero glitz to see reality through the fog.

9 posted on 10/29/2008 6:54:41 AM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: Kaslin

The United STATES of America died with Abraham Lincoln. The national government that arose from its ashes is now breathing its last, replaced step-by-step with a “democratic socialist” state. Soon the last vestiges of the Constitution will be “precedented” out of existence by an activist Supreme Court. Read “Who Killed the Constitution” by Thomas Woods and Kevin Gutzman for “chapter and verse”.


10 posted on 10/29/2008 6:56:30 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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To: Kaslin

The majority of Americans are center-right. It is the MSM and the radical left Dems that do not want us to belive so.


11 posted on 10/29/2008 6:56:58 AM PDT by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Kaslin

Great post and many good comments. I have asked this as well..and I believe much of the decline is due to liberal teachings in schools and colleges that has formed a generation of liberal youth. I also believe the churches, once known to be the moral compass now speak to soft issues and not the culture. This has had another impact. I also believe the fact many Americans are just not informed, watch sitcoms vs. news and don’t take action has resulted in just ‘we’ the remnant that really know the truth and care. On a brighter note, I believe God and prayer can restore us but if we commit to fighting on our knees as well as with our voices and votes.


12 posted on 10/29/2008 6:57:47 AM PDT by Faithfull
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To: April Lexington

Should McCain win, it can’t stop there. There needs to be a drastic repudiation of all the forces that have been leading us down this disastrous path. It starts with the media. They need to be called out, bankrupted, and reshaped so that people are no longer propagandized on a daily basis.


13 posted on 10/29/2008 6:58:40 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (P.O.O.P. Prevent Overtaxation Of Plumbers-or we'll all be knee deep in it!)
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To: Kaslin

Is not the race getting closer?


14 posted on 10/29/2008 7:00:12 AM PDT by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: YellowRoseofTx
I believe it (America) still exists in the hearts and minds of about 85% of the citizens.

Well then, those 85% had better get in gear and do some serious a@@ kicking, we're in trouble what with the mentality that I see displayed across the country. I for one, don't intend on turning my country over to these pigs without a fight.

Today's present 85% "Americans" must be about the wussiest on record, our Founding Fathers would be very proud--NOT.

15 posted on 10/29/2008 7:00:14 AM PDT by brushcop (We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
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To: YellowRoseofTx
I wish I could agree with you, but I'm afraid we have become a nation of AINOs.

Not far from where I live in Newton, Massachusetts, is the beautiful and historic Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

One of the best spots there is a hill that provides a spectacular view of the city of Boston, once known as the cradle of liberty.

At that spot are two very tall grave monuments dedicated to an evidently very well-known and accomplished individual who is buried there. The monuments sport lengthy chiseled epitaphs citing the man's accomplishments. Unfortunately, time has pretty much eroded the text, which some 150 years after their carving is now virtually unreadable.

To me, those monuments are a tragic metaphor for our nation. Conceived and established as a monument to human liberty, the underlying ideals and documents of its creation are now only distant memories, no longer readable or understandable by the vast majority of living Americans.

16 posted on 10/29/2008 7:03:28 AM PDT by Maceman (If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
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To: Kaslin

Does the United States of America Still Exist?

Only as the USSA.


17 posted on 10/29/2008 7:05:29 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Every day, one step closer to the sinkhole of Socialism)
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To: April Lexington

Neatly put. Not to mention housewives with way too much time and money on their hands had nothing better to do than run around and enforce what Oprah tells them is right.


18 posted on 10/29/2008 7:05:48 AM PDT by Niuhuru (Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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To: Kaslin

not the way it was when most of us grew up in her.


19 posted on 10/29/2008 7:08:16 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: YellowRoseofTx
Elections indeed have consequences.

If 85% of Americans believe in the U.S., why do we have the congress and media that we have?

I think that Alexander Tytler had it right... A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Sadly, this point may have been reached. We have hordes of multi-generational welfare reciepents living amongst us. We have hordes of non-productive people who are envious of the "rich". Our schools teach socialism and all kinds of other perversions.

If God smiles on us one more time, and McCain prevails, the task before us is to make the Republican party a real conservative party....otherwise we maybe should hire one of the welfare experts to show us the "ropes".

I don't know about you all, but I don't even know where to go to get something as simple as food stamps, let alone where to go to get free housing, a free car, a free t.v. and free clothing.

20 posted on 10/29/2008 7:12:10 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (I am not ....him!)
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