Posted on 04/06/2018 6:13:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan
This devastating time capsule can't help but stain the Kennedy legacy.
There’s a good chance the upcoming biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney won’t be fair or balanced.
The film’s writer/director, Adam McKay, is an ardent leftist who injects his politics into his work. McKay even flirted with a “comedy” about a dementia-addled President Ronald Reagan.
Har har.
The minds behind “Chappaquiddick” ditch the partisan approach like an inconvenient campaign promise. Their tale sticks to what we already know about the car accident that killed both Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Ted Kennedy’s presidential dreams.
That’s more than enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodintoto.com ...
No hit piece is worthy of serious consideration. Including Mueller's.
...failed the public...then and now.
Our side has no choice... we have to 'stick to the truth' and even then liberals will object to any democrat being portrayed as less than 'godly'...
Chappaquiddick didn't end Ted's Presidential Dreams!! He still ran to be the Democratic nominee in 1980!!!!
Teddy Boy wasn’t driving her home, he was driving her to the beach for a little moonlit action.
Precisely why I assert that Democrats are sophists and conservatives are philosophers.Talk show hosts have to take on all comers, or the audience will notice the “dogs that don’t bark.” And they have to accord dissenting views some respect. Well, guess what! A “liberal” cannot pull that off, and look good. Only an articulate, knowledgable conservative can.
- sophist
- 1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
- philosopher
- O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."
"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]
And that is why we see “conservative” talk show hosts responding to “liberal” journalists. The “liberals” do best when they monopolize the microphone. Which works in journalism.
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I am waiting for “Bill’s girls”, or even “BO’s boys”.
That explains why ‘Air America’ failed and why FOX (wanting to be ‘fair and balanced’) doesn’t have any liberal talk show hosts... Good catch there conservatism_IS_compassion...
Just so. Journalists claim to be objective; that is as arrogant as claiming to be wise, which places journalists in the category of sophists.The big scandal of the moment in journalism is that Sinclair has been called out for calling out "the MSM” on its bias. But that is precisely what should be happening. There should be ideological competition in journalism, and there was ideological competition in journalism prior to the mid-Nineteenth Century advent of the Associated Press (which was the second “killer app” of the telegraph demonstrated by Morse in 1844 - the first being command-and-control of the railroads).
The AP long predates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890), and was aggressively monopolistic from early on. It lost a suit in 1945 on anti-trust grounds and, with the advent of the Internet, is no longer “too big to fail” and should be sued into oblivion.
But the problem is not that the AP crowds out other wire services but that any wire service tends to homogenize journalism. And,
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsAny wire service, but especially the AP, is a continuous virtual meeting of the journalism outlets associated with it. And the resulting “conspiracy against the public” is precisely the (tacit until violated) prohibition of any suggestion by any journalist that any other journalist is not objective. That is, the conspiracy against the public is ideological conformity within journalism.The conspiracy against the public is ideological conformity to cynicism towards society. It is well known, not least by journalists, that commercially successful journalism follows the dictum, “If it bleeds, it leads.” That is, journalism is about bad news, and anyone considering the proposition that “journalists are objective” should consider that. If you know that journalism is negative but you accept the claim that journalism is objective, you in effect accept the proposition that “negativity is objectivity.” But that proposition is the essence of cynicism.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.. . . and if “society” and “government” be in a very real sense opposites, it follows to that extent that cynicism towards society is naiveté towards government. I put it to you that “the combination of cynicism towards society and naiveté towards government” is found in every journalist - and practically speaking, in every Democrat or Socialist of whatever stripe.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Thanks Rummyfan. Well put, GOPJ.
I live in California so I can tell you liberals don’t love him like you think they do. Not at all. Rare moment of agreement between me and coworkers on what fate should have awaited this murderer.
I believe you Nationale - but you're talking from personal experience. You can't link to newspaper or MSM sites that agree with your truthful 'take' on reality because the MSM is part of the 'group-think' that deson't reflect reality. The 'fate' of the murderer in question was to become the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts for over 40 years - from 1962 until he died nine years ago... During that time Ted Kennedy was hosted and loved by the New York Times and Washington Post - those two papers ever so quick to kiss his butt whenever possible.
It’s the classic contradiction between the official version and what the rank and file actually thinks. As a side note, chief among Senator Kennedy’s crimes is that he owes me a dime: Early 70’s, I’m preparing to take off for a backpacking trip to Europe from (appropriately) Kennedy airport. Senator Kennedy is at a bank of pay phones — remember those? — making a call. Thirty people are watching him. He finishes a call, feels in his pockets for a dime, can’t find one, is looking around, a bit lost. I (being young and not computing that Mary Jo Kopechne’s blood was still warm on his hands) reach into my pocket and approach. Thirty people scatter, thinking the third assassination is about to happen. I produce a dime and say “Senator Kennedy, do you need a dime?” “Thank you very much,” he says, and takes the dime, and makes his call.
Early 70’s, I’m preparing to take off for a backpacking trip to Europe from (appropriately) Kennedy airport. Senator Kennedy is at a bank of pay phones — remember those? — making a call. Thirty people are watching him. He finishes a call, feels in his pockets for a dime, can’t find one, is looking around, a bit lost. I (being young and not computing that Mary Jo Kopechne’s blood was still warm on his hands) reach into my pocket and approach. Thirty people scatter, thinking the third assassination is about to happen. I produce a dime and say “Senator Kennedy, do you need a dime?” “Thank you very much,” he says, and takes the dime, and makes his call.
LOL - - That's one great story Nationale... thanks for sharing.
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