Posted on 09/17/2009 4:24:33 AM PDT by kingattax
Forty years ago, a term was coined to describe the voices of ordinary, patriotic, religious Americans who sought to live their lives in peace: the "Silent Majority." In November 1969, almost four decades ago, Vice President Agnew made the first direct assault on the leftist media in his Des Moines speech, which noted that almost everything that Americans knew of politics and current events was filtered through the newsrooms of the three television networks. An excerpt from that famous speech describes the leftist prison of those who govern our news:
"We can deduce that these men read the same newspapers. They draw their political and social views from the same sources. Worse, they talk constantly to one another, thereby providing artificial reinforcement to their shared viewpoints. Do they allow their biases to influence the selection and presentation of the news?"
What has changed in the last forty years? Does the vast corporate and institutional wealth, which alone props up the left, still skew the news, the entertainment, the information presented as fact by those who govern the television networks, Hollywood, academia, nonprofit organizations like ACORN, the American Bar Association, AARP, and labor unions? Of course! Agnew later offered some concrete suggestions on how these elitists could make themselves more aware of how ordinary Americans felt. But, of course, the left has never seen its role as understanding and reflecting America but rather transforming the "mistake" of America into the left's image of a socialist utopia.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Not much I guess. Agnew's still a crook and former politician.
MSM - the nattering nabobs of negativity. You gotta love Spiro Agnew, the governor of Maryland who got tossed out of the governor’s mansion and had to live on the state yacht.
Let’s not forget the quality of the messenger doesn’t necessarily represent the quality of message! Often it does, but it’s not a sure thing.
The message really likely came from George Will.
Got tossed out of the governor’s mansion and had to live on the state yacht? How did that come about?
He ticked off Mrs. Agnew. Forget the issue but she tossed his butt out.
That’s right, a “former” politician -— the very best kind.
Tick...tick...tick
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