Posted on 05/20/2005 7:26:21 AM PDT by Dog
GIVING NEWSWEEK COVER [John Podhoretz] The New York Times continues the bizarre act of carrying Newsweek's water in the wake of the false Koran-desecration story (which I write about this morning here). The paper's lead story is a lurid account of the vicious treatment of two Afghan prisoners by U.S. soldiers -- events that occurred in December 2002 and for which seven servicemen have been properly punished. Let me repeat that: December 2002. That's two and a half years ago. Every detail published by the Times comes from a report done by the U.S. military, which did the investigating and the punishing. The publication of this piece this week is an effort not to get at the truth, not to praise the military establishment for rooting out the evil being done, but to make the point that the United States is engaged in despicable conduct as it fights the war on terror. In the name of covering the behinds of media colleagues, all is fair in hate and war. Posted at 09:32 AM
O'R is WRONG...everyone in the military knows who are friends are..and they are not in the MSM and on Capitol Hill...we've known this for years and years...
I believe it's getting to the point that anyone who reads and believes the Times wants to believe it and is already fully entrenched...and a story this bad will get roundly trashed in the new media, which is becoming powerful enough to be heard by even "moderates." Powerful enough that even the MSM will have to accede there is the tiniest bit of controversy and dissenting views to the Times' once in a while.
The NYT never ceases to anger me, but I know they keep digging their graves.
"There appears to be very close coordination (RICO-like) between the MSM and the antiwar left, given recent re-hashes, spin and outright lying on the part of the former and the anti-recruiting activism of the latter."
Close coordination my fanny. They are all the same activist group. Some just happen to have MSM credentials.
I know that connecting the dots is not direct but desperation has set on ther part of the LSM and while the military is engaged in the war on terror. the LSM has engaged in a different war to subvert the executive branch from exercising it's constitutional power since the outcome could forever change the fabric of the nation.
Fifth columnists.
The Establishment which wishes to be thought of as "objective journalism" coheres in the idea that nothing matters but PR, and PR is under the control of journalism - that journalism can sell anything so long as journalism sticks together. To be a member in good standing of the Establishment you not only must refrain from attacking the credibility of another Establishment propaganda organ, you must actively attack the credibility of anyone who questions the objectivity of any other member of the Establishment. The Establishment is not merely an non-agression pact but a mutual defense organization.IOW, it behaves as a political party is expected to behave - because, de facto, it is the head of the Democratic Party. The "objective journalism" Establishment does not itself have a mastermind at the top, and it is a "pact" only in the sense of a tacit agreement. But the Establishment is the wind beneath the wings of the Democratic Party, which has no other principle than to go where that wind takes it. Howard Dean is the Chairman of the DNC - but that is not a leadership position any more than Democratic Presidential Candidate is a leadership position. Would Kerry, Gore, or Clinton have been nominated for president by the Democratic Party if they were leaders? All they were was political operatives. The very last thing the Democratic Party wants is a leader.
Not surprising when our pop culture has adopted the same frame of mind and serves this up to young people. Sean Penn & Oliver Stone have both said its time for more American mothers to cry for their lost sons.
O'Reilly should read the transcript of the interview Hugh Hewitt conducted with WH correspondent Terry Moran where Moran said:
"There is, Hugh, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media. One that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong."
O'Reilly...hmm, that's the guy who said he'd never done anything to his female employee, and would fight her to the death--then shut up all of a sudden when she produced his cheating ass tomcatting on her telephone? That horny little jughead is still on the air?
I completely agree. While the Slimes continues to raise my blood pressure, it's no longer the powerhouse it was in shaping public opinion. Same can be said of the rest of the liberal media, as Dan Blather's downfall has demonstrated.
O'Righteous see something evil about his media pals, the folks he loves to suck up to so? Yeah, that'll happen. And as long as you're dreaming, can I have a pony?
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Yes, me too and it's dead on.
More:
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/05/expediency-vs-accuracy-and-truth.html
I loathe the lying, dishonest, libelous, activist, American-hating MSM. They are a den of vipers.
Please.
I wasn't dreaming. Just linking the interview for Freepers.
My good humor is in short supply these days, so forgive me for not laughing, but I am not naive when it comes to the likes of blowhard O'Reilly and used the comment about what he was blathering about to link up the Moran comments.
I don't know if Newsweek and NYT are publicly traded companies, but if they are, and if you are a stockholder, this might be a good time to sell before the eminent nose dive in their circulation hits the bottom line.
The Fn FINEST article I've read all morning.
Thanks for posting it!
If you wrote that, it's brilliant. If you got it elsewhere, can you share the source?
Newsweek is part of the Washington Post Co (WPO) and the Times is NYT. Both are controlled by family and friends, and don't care about small shareholders. Buffet and Mrs. Bill Gates sit on the WPO board of directors.
The MSM may be fond of giving each other cover, but out here, we know better and aren't buying their slander against our country.
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