That needs to be qualified:
Mt 5:39: "But I say to you, not to resist evil: but if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. "
Ver. 39. Not to resist evil;[6] i.e. not to resist or revenge thyself of him that hath done evil to thee. --- Turn him the other cheek. Let him have also thy cloak. These are to be understood as admonitions to Christians, to forgive every one, and to bear patiently all manner of private injuries. But we must not from hence conclude it unlawful for any one to have recourse to the laws, when a man is injured, and cannot have justice by any other means. (Witham) --- What is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge; but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ, nor St. Paul, turn the other cheek. (St. John xviii. and Acts xxiii.) (Challoner) --- Hence also the Anabaptists infer, that it is not lawful to go to law even for our just rights; and Luther, that Christians ought not to resist the Turks. (Bristow)
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We have a two party system and a one party media
I told my nephew, an editor for a local TV station, when he mocked what he thought I was saying, that there is a conspiracy among the media to help the Democrats. I told him that there is no conspiracy to help the Democrats, they ARE the Democrats.
Brietbart is correct. The media is the left, those funny people in congress are merely puppets to their media masters. Imagine that, the manufacturer of bread and circuses controlling the agenda of their consumers?
This is the primary reason why the American political class can be so far to left of the electorate and yet be reelected year after year, decade after decade.
In my 30+ years of observing the political tea leaves, it never fails the "Conservative" label ALWAYS handily defeats the "Liberal" label in polls. It also never fails that the "Democrat" label beats the "Republican" label when polled. Why this seeming paradox?
We have the media and hollywood to blame for this.
one thing we have going to us is that the Liberal Media can no longer financially sustain itself, and has entered a process of slow but certain demise (if some bold Conservative could get control of, say, CBS, fire the entire News Division, and put a guy like Breitbart in charge of rebuilding a new one, that would be a good start)
The Cold War was also a media war.
CBS, NPR, BBC, etc. have had the high ground for decades and did their best to defeat Reagan.
Difference is...now it's time to TAKE that ground instead of holding the defensive posture.
This is what I have felt for over 20 years, it is a shameful fiasco.
And the cherry on top of the sundae is how the media slams any infraction of conservatives no matter how minimal, repeatedly and at high and wide volume—while bootlicking and influencing thought of the masses in favor of the left—with as Brietbart says, partial coverage or NO coverage of the sins of the liberals.
Todays “journalists” are sellout jerks. They are valueless, toady fools smitten by the most dysfuntional in our society—left wing hypocrits, the celeb debaunched and delusional radical progressives.
And these idiots actually strut a “superior” demeanor-—they are a JOKE.
Logic will prevail again one day, life always finds a way—the laws of cause and effect does not change because of contrived media fashion— and these dim glossies will flounder and be exposed.
Breitbart's an important member of the team - thank God he's on our side...
Good point. If the Liberal media could be effectively neutralized, closed down, etc. The Dem party would be truly a minority party.
The media sure has it in for their grandkids and great grandkids etc. Our generation will die off and the next one or two,,then their decendants will really get it shoved up their ying-yang...all because Gramps, who was a useful idiot wanted it so much????? (Orwell,, are you there?)
I’ll ask this again, but why wouldn’t someone like Breitbart, instead of battling the existing media, create a national alternative:
The Free Republic channel sounds promising....
bookmark.
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Nah, Breitbart is correct. Turn-the-ceek is not for the MSM Left. As it was not for the communists during the Cold War and is not for the Islamist Caliphate seeking Jihadists. The MSM Left must be utterly defeated.
I don't understand why so many conservatives don't get this instinctively.
We've put up with the left far too long, as if we were indulgent parents of spoiled brats.
We're too near the abyss to make nice with the forces that work for our destruction.
Can’t be said enuff. We know the media isn’t journalism, but the truth is they are a political party & should be treated as such. The media don’t carry water for libs, the libs carry water for the media!
This goes back at least 100 years.
The media gave us kennedy, dethroned lbj, took down nixon, derailed ford, gave us jimmuh, fought against reagan, defended clinton, hated bush, tried their best to force the gore on us, made ridiculus people like kerry,dukakis, mondale seem plausible, loved shrillary but hated sarah, and annointed hussein.
Attack & correct the media & maybe we have a chance. That’s job #1.
When I was young, i used to feel sorry for those behind the iron curtain, getting their news from pravda. Ha! Pravda was better than rather & walter crommyite!
No wonder they call him a genius.