Posted on 10/20/2009 2:55:29 AM PDT by markomalley
The Media: Now we know why the Democrats who run Washington declared war on Fox News. The feisty network is spoiling their policy of controlling Americans' diet of information.
When Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., who earlier this year was set to be the Obama administration's secretary of commerce, warned on CNN on Sunday the U.S. was on track toward "banana republic" status, he was talking about "throwing debt on top of debt" to the tune of a trillion dollars or more a year.
But another facet of banana republics is their rulers' control of the press. As in the make-believe African "Republic of Ishmaelia" of Evelyn Waugh's novel, "Scoop," the government exploits journalists' laziness, cowardice and susceptibility to bribery and flattery. In the end, what's called "reporting" ranges from state-sanctioned disinformation to the correspondents' own entirely made-up tales.
Democrats' attempts to taint Fox News as an illegitimate journalistic entity are being spearheaded by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.
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Presumably, Dunn and Mao don't have much in common — except making silencing their critics a priority.
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"We don't consider FOX NEWS to be a real News Organization and you(meaning ABC and all the other Alphabet Networks) should not treat them as such."
he was not giving advise. He was threatening them. George is jut to cowardly to admit it. So are the rest of the Drive By MSM sycophants.
Anita Dunn and Mao have much in common and we should expect Obama to try a thousand flowers gambit (except it was a hundred flowers).
Here’s part of the Wikipedia entry”
The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement, refers to a brief interlude in the People’s Republic of China from 1956 to 1957 during which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouraged a variety of views and solutions to national policy issues, launched under the slogan: “Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”
The first part of the phrase is often mistranslated and remembered in the west as “let a thousand flowers bloom” and used to refer to alleged deliberate attempts to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime, before wiping them out.[1] This view is supported by author Jung Chang, who states that the campaign was a political trap, and that Mao persecuted those who had views different from the party. This view has also been challenged, notably because Premier Zhou Enlai played a large role in the campaign. The ideological crackdown following the campaign’s failure re-imposed Maoist orthodoxy in public expression.”
So, Obama has tried the nice, open handed part. Next up is the kill.
It looks like comparing the ‘bama to Hitler has been inaccurate (at least Hitler got the Olympics). The ‘bama is much more like Mao, you know, the author of the famous ‘political power comes out of the barrels of guns’ quote.
“banana republic”
Great, we are a “O’Banana Republic”
I said we are a “Banana Republic” last year when he was elected.
First there are waaaaaay too many STPUID people, Lazy people, Illegal people, and now the media are just TOTAL Lap Dogs.
"...when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
It's been said that one never truly appreciates something until they have lost it. For the majority of Americans it is difficult to imagine what the loss of freedom and liberty is like. Many can't imagine living in a country where you can be arrested for you say or write. Like many of you, growing up in America I had always taken my liberty and freedom for granted. That all changed when I moved overseas and discovered firsthand that it is our love of freedom and liberty that has made our country an exceptional nation, it is today what we fight for.
Our forefathers before and our brave soldiers today are fighting and sacrificing their lives for freedom and liberty, not for diversity, respect, tolerance, "politcal correctness" or for that matter "Hope" and "Change".
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