If ‘they’ can define ( & therefore feel justified in demonizing) Cliven Bundy....as racist (or fill in the blank)......’they’ can marginalize him.
If they can do this to him unheeded, ‘they’ can do it to any one of us.
And with the help of so-called conservative pundits and politicians. Their fast flight away from Bundy gives me pause and I wonder why they championed him at all, if they so readily flinch at the Left's character assassination instead of pointing out the hypocrisy and malice of the Left..
Stalwart, "foxhole" companions are thinning.
It is time to stand up and say no more. Call them a child molester to their face.
If they can do this to him unheeded, ‘they’ can do it to any one of us.
Correct. Wire services have homogenized journalism. Where once newspapers were all about the opinions of their printers, since the full flowering of the AP in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century they have been all about what is in the interests journalism. And since journalists don’t do anything except report what went wrong, or what might have gone better, when others have tried to do things, the interest of journalists lies squarely in the promotion of criticism at the expense of performance.Consequently journalists not only criticize those who try to earn credit for actually getting things done, they promote politicians who likewise criticize and second guess the people who try to work to a bottom line. In doing so, journalists - unified by their cooperation via the AP (or any other wire service) - fix, Alinsky style, anyone who is so unfortunate as to become a natural target.Conventional wisdom is that it is almost always a fool’s errand to try to sue “the MSM” for libel - but IMHO that need not be the case. The problem has always been in the attempt to fix individual responsibility to a few journalists when in fact the entire membership of the AP, and the AP itself, participates in a systematic obfuscation of responsibility. IMHO the answer lies in suing the AP and its entire membership for triple damages under RICO, showing that the whole bunch of them systematically libel anyone whose claims to authority based on direct personal experience or based on accomplishment make them a target of so-called “liberal” conventional wisdom.
People like the SBVT, Bundy, George Zimmerman, the Duke Lacrosse Team, George Bush, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and so on back to Senator Joe McCarthy - and beyond.