Rush Is Right About Liberal ArroganceThis is my suggestion to Rush Limbaugh on critiqueing the arrogance of liberalism:
vanity ^ | 9/15/06 | conservatism_IS_compassion
Your 9/14/06 rant about liberal "arrogance" was of course dead on . . BUT.So long as we and our spokesmen only rail about how journalists are "willing accomplices" to liberal politicians, we are missing the point. Journalism - its arrogance and its demand to be taken seriously as the important thing in politics - is the driving force behind liberalism. It is the liberal politicians who are the "willing accomplices" to the DriveBy Media.Why can they be SO VERY arrogant? How can they get away with it? The DriveBy Media is "their willing accomplices," of course..But WHY?
Remember, Friedman pointed out a year or so ago that the media don't follow liberals but rather, LIBERALS FOLLOW THE MEDIA. Specifically, "objective" journalism - the DriveBy Media..
The DriveBy Media constitute an entity because although they are many organs - CBS, ABS, NBS, NYTimes BS, etc - it doesn't matter which one we see because they all say the same thing - as you have often said. BUT WHY?
ONE PARTICULAR BIAS THEY ALL SHARE. The DrivBy Media LUST after attention and respect. If they are listened to all over the country they can be more important than anything else.(in thier own minds at least). That's a self-fulfilling prophesy; if they are important they will be listened to, and if they are listened to they will be important.
THE PRESUMPTION THEY ALL SHARE IS THAT THEY ALL ARE IMPORTANT. But if THEY are to be important as mere talkers, the people in flyover country who make the country work - oil companies, Walmart, MacDonalds, Coca Cola, AND even POLICE AND THE MILITARY - are THE COMPETITION for importance (and for that matter YOU are, too).
The DriveBy Media is united in hostility and contempt for Flyowver Country because UNITED THEY STAND in competition with the people who actually DO things. It is the DriveBy Media and not liberal politicians who have motive and opportunity to trash everyone ELSE but the DriveBy Media and their sy! cophants.
DriveBy Media award their sycophants good PR, includi ng labels like "progressive" and "moderate" and (until they ran the word into the ground) "liberal." DriveBy Media assign only THEMSELVES the label "objective" - but then, any "liberal" can get a job in journalism and suddenly become "objective." A conservative, OTOH, can never do that.
That explains socialism - it is only second guessing of the people who DO things. And that is why Bill Clinton was such a quintessential liberal politician. He is wonderful at deflecting blame and second guessing others. But as president - as chief executive - he was a disaster BECAUSE HE COULDN'T TAKE RISK. Liberalism is all about stabbing those who take risk in the back, and all he knew how to do was to protect his own back. And leading - actually DOING instead of talking - exposes your back.
Thank you for pointing out the "already been posted" link/thread. It certainly is a good read - including reply #24, by someone impersonating ForGod'sSake. Couldn't have been you, of course, since you "somehow missed that" thread. :)