Posted on 04/16/2009 9:24:50 AM PDT by Bob J
The Tea Parties are over, the clean up is finished and all that's left are the lamentations over the despicable media coverage priot to and during, and, to agonizingly watch as the event and conservatives are slowly roasted over the spit while the MSM skewers it for the next couple of weeks. Because, it ain't done until Olberman says it is.
Which reminds me of a story. A turtle was about to cross a creek when a scorpion asks if he can hitch a ride on the turtles shell. At first the turtle says no as the scorpion might sting him. The scorpion says he wouldn't do that since the turtle is helping him so the turtle agrees. Halfway across the scorpion stings the turtle and as they both sink into the creek the turtle asks "why?". The scorpion responds "because it's my nature".
The only thing more ironic than praying for a fair shake from the MSM are the expressions of shock and dismay when they stick the shiv in our back.
Conservatism suffers under a delusion. Many of us believe that Obama, Cinton, Pelosi, the DNC etc. are our enemies. They aren't, they are our opponents and adversaries. Our real enemy is the leftist dominated fascist media that operates the propaganda machine which targets each and every conservative cause and makes our opponents dreams come true.
IMO, without that significant hedgemony that gives them the ability to lie, cheat, obfuscate, deny, cover up and consequently shape the opinions of too many ignorant voters, there never would have been any Clintons, a liberal dominated congress or an Obama presidency. That significant hedgemony gives them the ability to successfuly manipulate opinion on every single issue important to conservatives...abortion, 2nd amendment, taxes, spending, size of government, foreign policy, etc. It gives them the ability to successfully lie, attack, denigrate and trivialize any champion of our causes including their policies, endeavors and successes. It gives our opponents the ability to consistently win.
Let me get to my point. The Tea Parties were great, hopefully they got a message across and helped build esprit d'corps. But that endeavor and any subsequent follow up are doomed to eventual failure as long as the left holds their significant advantage in the media. We may see the occasional victory in battle but no conservative movement can survive, much less win, a long term war with the constant pounding and beating we take from the lefts media leviathan.
This is a war and our enemy is the media. Until conservatives realize that and start planning, acting and executing as if everything we hold dear to be in mortal jeopardy, we will continue to push that boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down on us every time.
What is the answer? Take all that time, money, energy, talent, commitment and resolve we put into pushing issues and candidates into a war eliminating leftist domination of the media.
Once that is accomplished, we won't have to roll boulders up hills...the hill will become a level playing field where conservative values win 4 times out of 5.
“How about we just force the media to report the news honestly and accurately?”
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You rightly answer your own question when you say, “The MSM has become cancerous and it is beyond treatment.” If you bake a cake with motor oil, no amount of flavoring or reworking that cake after the fact is going to get rid of the motor oil taste,
We - for the time being - lack the apparatus to “force the media” to do anything. However, we all have the means and the wherewithall to educate those around us and we would be remiss if we didn’t take the opportunity.
Besides, I get comments/questions from some on my distribution list and love the opporutnity to explain. It seems people are now ready to repsond to “discussions” rather than have a different outfit (other than LSM) shoving message at them.
The problem is that our government is not listening to us...because they don't have to. We have a 1-party system and they can roll through anything they want. The existing mechanisms that our founding documents put in place are no longer working for us. The way they do that whatever they want (hey, why not a high-speed rail project all across the USA?!!!), is with our money. Hence, the only way we can have an impact is by starving them of their food source.
So, what does that look like? In the short term - like this:
1. We need to show our strength by a 1-3-day silent protest. All that means is that we don't go to work that day and we don't spend anything that adds to their coffers. It means getting off the government grid completely for those 1-3 days. We will probably have to do this more than once.
2. Since we can't get anything through our legislators, we need to start ignoring them: from all parties. Besides, they aren't listening. Don't call them, don't write to them, don't fax them, don't go to their townhall meetings, etc.
3. We need to start ignoring all the MSM. Don't send them letters to their editor; don't buy them; don't go to their websites, take their polls, respond to their blogs, etc.
4. We need to literally starve the legislators. The best way to do this is to enlist truckers nationwide - particularly those who make ANY deliveries to D.C. and the state capitols.
I could go on....
We need to boycott the advertisers imo. Starting with MSNBC since they seem to have the least amount of veiwers and GE is already hurting, they may be the easiest to roll over. Demand they fire madcow, olberdork, etc. or run them out of business completely. Then we move on to CNN. Hit em one at a time. Such a campaign though takes a lot of organizing to spread the word and I don’t know that we have the structure(media) to pull it off.
“how would you rate it on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being honest and 1 being dishonest?”
I couldn’t rate it. I only watched one local news, that was it.
How about yourself?
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