Posted on 03/08/2004 1:32:54 PM PST by jmstein7
DEMAND an investigation into the Dem-Planted, Phoney 9/11 "outrage" story! (but be nice!)
As Doug from Upland said:
We are going to find that the RATS contacted family members who are anti-war, anti-Bush and who lost relatives on 9-11. We will find they were given the phone numbers of newsrooms. We will find they were given talking points. . .
We will not let this stand. John Effin Kerry is attempting to use 9-11 for his political benefit. John Effin Kerry, no effin way.
We need to keep the pressure on the NYT and demand that they investigate the Democrat slugs who tried to exploit 9/11 in this disgusting manner for political gain.
Please call the New York Times here: (212) 556-7652
Demand that they investigate this. As Doug said:
Although some who called got out of hand, we got the NY TIMES to take notice of the story. They were deluged with phone calls. I understand Neal Boortz was on the story as well as other hosts.
Keep the pressure ON them. (212) 556-7652
Don't listen to the nay sayers. This kind of pressure on media companies is the only thing that works. I know. I was once on an editorial board. They hated having to take negative calls. It might only only budge them a little at first, but it pays off if you don't relent. That's how liberals have gotten so far.
Actually, liberals have gotten as far as they have by controlling the high ground of the university and, over time, the media.
I know a lot of you came on here and upbraided me for my post. I understand that. You like to believe you have influence with the media. You don't. In a few weeks, this will be forgotten.
How many Americans remember the "Rats" story from 2000? We do. We're committed people. Most people don't, however. Most folks hear about "scandals" like this in passing. So, when they're told that September 11th "families" object to Bush campaign commercials, they believe that Bush has done something bad. Why? Well, if all one is hearing is anecdotal stories about how the heartless Bush people have opened a wound in the hearts of innocent, grieving September 11th widows, then it is going to hurt Bush.
Which was precisely the idea. It didn't drive Bush's commercials off the air, simply because Bush and Rove understood that this was a game of "who's got the biggest pair" with the Kerry people.
But no one will care about the Tides outfit, or Teresa HK's connexion with Tides and the "Families for Peace". That's all process. That doesn't make a compelling storyline. Nobody cares in the larger community about who stabbed who in the rhetorical back. A bunch of Republicans claiming that the Press was Unfair doesn't make a damn bit of difference to the reading public. Those are Dog Bites Man stories, and the propagandists who write and edit our news know it.
Grieving families make a compelling tale. Outraged Republicans? Nobody cares.
I already have empirical proof that my assertion is correct. Let us look at the latest question, conveniently asked of respondents by those sterling characters at GALLUPCNNUSATODAY. The money quote, from the last four paragraphs of the Kerry poll story:
Poll respondents were also asked whether they thought it was appropriate for the Bush-Cheney campaign to use images from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in its campaign ads.Fifty-four percent said it was inappropriate and 42 percent said it was appropriate.
Among voters who had actually seen the ads, 48 percent thought the images were appropriate, compared to 51 percent who said they were inappropriate, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
The polling in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup sample began last Friday, the day after the Bush campaign launched its first ad salvo of the campaign, and continued over the weekend.
You see, we know that it was appropriate. We understand that September 11th and its aftermath was the central event of the Bush presidency. The Kerry people are afraid of Bush's ability to recall that event, however, so they wanted to damage Bush and his campaign in the eyes of the American people. To a certain extent, they succeeded.
You folks believe that you can appeal to the sense of responsibility and fair play of the media in this endeavor. This is a fool's errand. The media would be interested in fair play if they were only interested in reporting the news! They are not. They are interested in propagating a simple storyline that leaves the impression with the American people that John Kerry is a reasonable man of high character while George Bush is a craven bumbler who makes negative attacks and shamelessly wraps himself in the flags that lay on the caskets of firefighters.
You know: Bush Lied, They Died....
When you understand that most modern American reporters are mere propagandists, most of whom operate as propagandists without really knowing that they do (recalling the difference with Goebbels again...), you will understand just how far we have to go. Think of reporters as members of the Democratic Party's base vote. That's all you really need to understand.
By the way, if you don't believe me, you'd best be ready for the next press meme. Out of nowhere, seemingly, came this Kerry speech, enunciated yesterday when Honest John was on a campaign swing through the South:
I will say to you right now that Kerry has given the signal what the next meme will be. I can also guarantee that certain editors and reporters are probably coordinating with the Kerry people and the DNC the timing of the next "scandal du jour", which will have the theme: "Bush is trying to Hide Something, otherwise he would Testify in Public". A simple separation of powers issue will be transformed into a scandal. Within a week, I will bet that the New York Times editorial page will be in high dudgeon over this.
The entire negative campaign of the Democratic Party revolves around the phrase drummed into the American people's conciousness last year: "Bush Lied, They Died!" A simple lie, but an effective one. Told over and over again until it is grafted onto the national self-concious like a poorly done facelift. Don't tell me that Democrats haven't read Goebbels.
Meanwhile, Doug, God bless him, and others are trying to convince the media that they need to be fair about something that happened in the last news cycle. Kerry has moved on, and so has a pliant media.
Get a clue before it's too late: you are not dealing with the "press". You are dealing with the Ministry of Truth.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Is retrace@nytimes.com still soliticing emails where readers suspect there may be some shortcomings is the Slimes propaganda?
I've not yet seen an instance where complacency and defeatism ever helped a cause.That's not my argument. My proposition is that we must find a way to bypass the media filter and take our message directly to the people. My argument rests on the assumption that the media will always spin or lie their way into reporting in favor of the liberal Democrat. They like John Kerry because they believe John Kerry to be Just Like Them. And do you know what? He is just like them.
The press is a propaganda ministry, pure and simple. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you will discover other ways to get the conservative message across.
Have there been any major investigations of Kerry's peddling of the AWOL meme, yet? Other than in the conservative opinion press, no. Have there been any major investigations of the Kerry campaign's use of 9-11 families to stoke anger against the Bush campiagn. Don't hold your breath.
The press does not investigate itself. Nor will it expose its own collusion with the DNC. Period. End of story. Outraged pieces by conservative writers in the Washington Times don't count.
On to the next news cycle: "Bush Lied; They Died"
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Kerry, who is personally endorsed by Hait's Aristide, Iran's Mullahs, Kim Jong Il, (& Kim Il Jong), Mugabe, Marxit thug Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, & France's Jacques Chirac, is a weapon of mass economic destruction.
He'll destroy the troops in Iraq, the War on Terrorism,
& the U.S. stock market with all his negative talk and whiny-leftist-liberal sour-puss troop-bashing, Bush-bashing, America-bashing talk & self-aggrandizing, ultra-negative sourpuss whiny elitist personality.
Also sometimes the ingredient list can help. Compare two name brands of a product, find the differences, then check the store brand for which one it is, sometimes it works.
Not critically. Not for deceptive reporting. MRC analyses do not form public opinion.
I agree with your conclusions, that the media is an effective agitprop operation, and that it is unrealistic to expect it to expose itself as such.
With respect to this election cycle, Bush will wage a winning campaign. At the moment, Kerry is the target, but I have my doubts that Kerry has the wherewithall to carry his baggage that far. But in December 2004, we will still have the same media, beating its drum with the same object -- to condition the population to accept radical social revisions.
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