Posted on 09/17/2015 4:50:57 AM PDT by Nextrush
As El Rushbo put it yesterday 'all guns' were 'trained on Trump' last night from the media onslaught to the candidates blasting him on the stage.
It was reminiscent of Clint Eastwood in "The Gauntlet" driving the bus through a torrent of bullets and emerging bloodied but still the hero and the winner.
The media in its virtual entirety had an agenda driven by its talking points before and after the debate, talking points coming obviously from one source, the Republican Establishment.
The spin was all about Carly Fiorina and how good she was going into the debate and how good she was in the debate, Carly could do no wrong.
And it wasn't just 'the liberal media' doing the talking points, it was the media we always thought were 'conservative' and on our side.
Rush Limbaugh always used to tell us about the Democrats and their talking points.
Turns out we now know the Republicans play the same game.
Back in 1930's Germany the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would have the Berlin newspaper editors and reporters from all the newspapers around Germany into the "Propaganda Ministry" to tell them what to report in their newspapers, creating a consistent and distorted message for millions of Germans.
Well here we are in 21st Century America and the Republican Party plays the same game.
In 1945, reporters goaded General George S. Patton into making a statement that created a firestorm and disciplinary action from General Eisenhower. Patton said that the Nazis were the same as "Democrats and Republicans". I guess Patton, who has been praised by Donald Trump, was onto something.
Alesksandr Solzhenitsyn warned Americans when he spoke to us about the dangers facing the West in the 1970's that while we thought we had a free media with many outlets the truth was there wasn't much difference between the way the Western media operated and the way media in the Soviet Union he came from operated. All the different media outlets said the same thing.
It looks like America needs some new media that doesn't replicate the distortions of the mainstream media for liberals and Democrats and the RINOstream media for the Republicans.
In the case of Donald Trump, its in the interests of all the various media outlets and the major political parties they serve to spread the Republican Establishment talking points about the 'great Carly Fiorina' to take Trump down.
At other times though, the RINOstream media from Fox News to talk show hosts to websites, posters on FR etc. etc. feed patriots a steady diet of deceit, exploiting our resentments and anger, making us think if we vote Republican we are making a better choice that involves a change in direction.
This is all dished up from the Republican Party Establishment and dumped on us to lap it up like dogs.
The same show plays out for voters on the Left in the MSM leading them to Democrats as the better choice.
But in the end both parties lead us down a pathway punctuated by more and more government spending and an ever increasing tax burden and debt burden on future generations.
The banking and business elites have bought both parties-the Uniparty and get what they want from cheap labor flow into the country, Obamacare to cut the employer side of healthcare costs, Common Core to train children for a world economic system without borders being enabled by special trade deals and the list goes on.
Needless to say, I'm not a "Fox Sucker" anymore. We need to find new media and new voices other than the ones deceiving us.
Which is exactly why we have FreeRepublic!
There is something quite odd when a guy who was a Mondale hack is given a top seat at FOX as a conservative commentator.
And I love being here...who needs the media echo chamber!
I would take it one step further: the Media is Leftist. It is in their interest for the GOP candidate to get gutted even before the convention.
All of these maneuvers are to get Yeb! as the nominee, so he can take a dive against the annointed Leftist successor to The Obama, The Messiah, The Won.
Fio-RINO is the new Jeb Bush and she won’t attract 1000’s of people to her campaign events either.
The debate questions were awful, CNN was awful.
Polls and debates can be rigged. Look at the crowds people draw and you can see who’s really the most liked.
I got sick of watching bush smirk, how did the debate turn out last night?
The other thing was that cnn broadcast in such high def that those of us with FairPoint in rural areas, could not get it. It keep buffering.
So between fairpoint, in rural Maine, and cnn, the debate might not of even been on the internet in places other than big cities.
Carly will suck more poll numbers from Jeb and Carson than Trump. He only had to survive.
Pray America is waking
Krauthammer represents the neocon-limited war agenda pursued after 9/11.
Patton and MacArthur in an earlier era would have rolled over the entire region from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and gotten to the source of the terrorism if this had happened in 1941.
We got another Korea and Vietnam after 9/11 instead of the all out World War 2. We got a new Cold War on terrorism. Just like the Cold War deals with good Communists like China, Yugoslavia and Romania, we got War on Terror deals with ‘good terrorists’ to fight Assad in Syria leading to the Islamic State.
Trump won the debate with “Carly, you’re beautiful.”
Trump forgot the “sarc” tag when he said that.
It annoying me that Bush was given a prime spot at center stage.
I liked Fiorino’s response about Trump’s comment to her face. She responded as a woman, and not a presidential candidate. You could see the smug look on her face. LOL
FauxSnooze lost me years ago.
Discernment is a wonderful thing.
Hopefully next time around Jeb will be in the afternoon debate sharing the stage with Lindsey and Pataki.
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