See? What Did They Tell You?

Rick's ^ | 10/22/06 | Rick Horowitz

[Kudsman]

The media confess!

See? What Did They Tell You? By Rick Horowitz

When right-wingers dream...

"Thank you, Burt. Thank you, Christine. And a warm welcome to all of you -- our shareholders and advertisers, without whom we wouldn't be gathered here this morning, our reporters and editors, and, of course, all you valued readers. It's a great crowd, and we're so glad you're here!

"These little get-togethers of ours grow more elaborate every year, don't they? But we understand, when you come right down to it, that it's about lots more than fruit cups and cinnamon rolls. Here at the Daily Treasoner, we take our responsibilities very seriously.

"And what are those responsibilities? In a phrase, to do everything we can to make our country weaker.

"Now, I know some of you are surprised to hear me say it as plainly as that. You've had your suspicions all along, some of you. And others? Well, it's been more than simply suspicions. I can tell from your letters and your phone calls -- you've been pretty much convinced from the get-go that weakening our country is what this newspaper is all about.

"Well, I'm here to tell you that you're right, so why beat around the bush any longer? We might as well come right out and say it. Our primary goal -- the thing that motivates us 24/7 here at the Daily Treasoner -- is to tear this country down.

"Some people want to build it up? Not us. We want to tear it down.

"That's been our dream -- and I'm sure I speak for every member of our staff -- from the moment we first went into this profession: to do everything in our power to undermine our nation, undercut our leaders, and make us ripe for the picking by any enemy or evil madman, anywhere in the world, who's looking to do us harm.

"That's our mission, and we're proud of it.

"I'm sure some of you, when you chose careers, you went into the family business, whatever it happened to be, because you decided that family loyalty and tradition were the most important things to you. That's fine. And some of the rest of you? Well, maybe you picked careers you knew would make you the big bucks -- doctors, lawyers, whatever.

"Not us, though. We chose journalism, and we chose it precisely for the opportunity it gave us to ruin the country we all grew up in.

"That's why we got into the business, and that's why we've stayed at it year after year. It's why we cover the stories we cover, and it's why we write and edit our stories the way we write and edit them -- to only show the negative. And that's true whether it's the war in Iraq, or something the president says, or something right here at the city council -- we want to get people upset for no good reason, so they can keep our elected officials from doing their jobs.

"It's treason, but somebody's got to do it.

"So anyway, right about now, you're probably wondering: Does the Daily Treasoner come up with all these terrible stories, not to mention all these totally unpatriotic opinion columns, all by itself? I wish we could say that we do, but tearing down America is too big a job for any one newspaper. That's why we have a conference call every morning -- all the editors of all the newspapers coast to coast -- so we can decide the best way to hurt the country that day.

"And, of course, when it's something really special, we also get secret instructions from our controllers overseas: Bashir, Ahmad, Vladimir, Tsing-Lo. These are people -- and I've named just a few of them -- who are every bit as dedicated to America's downfall as we are, and they tell us step by step exactly what we're supposed to do to make it happen. That's a real time-saver!

"And speaking of time, I see mine is almost up. I know I've just touched on a few of the highlights here, but I hope I've given you at least a flavor of what we do and, even more important, why we do it. Destroying this country is what gets journalists up every morning, and what puts us to bed every night with smiles on our faces.

"Let's take a short break, and when we come back, we'll show you how we burn the flag."

Posted 10/22/06. Get the lowdown right here at "Rick's" -- and spread the word while there's still time!

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Rick Horowitz is a syndicated columnist, TV commentator, writing coach and public speaker.

[Kudsman]

This syndicated column appeared in the Syracuse Post Standard newspaper last week. Naturally they didn't provide a link, but I knew the author that penned it would link it on his own website sooner or later.

Awwwwwww. Poor Rick. Feeling out of sorts because someone says the Drive By Media is biased. He feels the need to satirize the fact that a large segment of the American populace are of the opinion that many in the DBM are anti-American, err....maybe that should be pro-Internationalists, you know how the Lib's like to use PC terms to make their views more anti-septic to the uninitiated. Anyway here we go again with the don't judge our actions, our intentions are really what matters. Why, Libs aren't out to ruin America, they are trying to make it better, create a social Utopia, don't you know! That's why:

1.) God is bad and any reference to Him must be ridiculed and obliterated from public view.

2.)God fearing folks must be labeled extremist rubes, while secular socialists are heralded as mankind's new saviours.

3.) Babies are not really babies until a Doctor or some other outside influence slaps their a$$, resulting in their first breath. As such they enjoy no right to Life, Liberty or the pursuit of Liberal excess. Only convicted rapists and murderers are deserving of yet another chance to destroy innocent lives.

4.)Big Government Republican style is oppressive while Liberal Tyranny is nuturing, uplifting and a recourse for "social justice."

5.)The American Military person is the equivalent of Nazis, not very bright and unable to defeat any self declared enemy. Alas, it is the throat cutters that are gleefully reported as having provided social programs for the poor, thereby adding to their mystique of invincibility.

6.)Anal fisting is a joy that should be taught to all children in an effort to help America assimilate to the gay lifestyle. But hetero marriage is an antiquted notion that has done nothing but contirbute to the sorry state of the American woman's social status.

I could on and on but suffice it to say that I understand that to a Liberal mind, Lib ideas and actions are never treasonous nor injurious to a capitalist society. Well Rick, you convinced me. Think I'll get right on the horn to the NY Times and become a lifetime subscriber. Hope you feel a little better about yourself now. /s

[digger48]

Only convicted rapists and murderers are deserving of yet another chance to destroy innocent lives.

LOGANSPORT, Ind. -- A convicted murderer on parole told investigators that he killed a 16-year-old co-worker Tuesday night after "a feeling came over him" when she stopped to help him on the side of a road, a sheriff's detective testfied at a probable cause hearing Thursday.

Danny R. Rouse, 51, who was released from a Kansas prison in March, admitted to strangling and stabbing Stephanie Faye Wagner on a roadside near her hometown of Royal Center, Ind., after the two had left their jobs at a restaurant in Winamac, Cass County sheriff's Detective Tom Wallace testified.

(snip)

Rouse was convicted in 1980 of murder and aggravated battery in the 1979 slaying of a 5-year-old boy and the stabbing of the child's mother in Wichita, Kansas. The mother survived and testified against him.

Rouse was paroled in March after spending 26 years in a Kansas prison. Upon his release, Rouse requested that he be allowed to move to Indiana. His parole supervision was then transferred to a South Bend parole office, 6News reported.

[Enchante]

"We chose journalism, and we chose it precisely for the opportunity it gave us to ruin the country we all grew up in."

YUP, that pretty well sums it up!! No, it does not require any secretive "controllers" oe even any conscious intent -- it only requires a lot of weasely, whiny, ignorant, naive, myopic lib-left douchebags who care more about their own mental masturbation than they do about their country.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"That's why we got into the business, and that's why we've stayed at it year after year. It's why we cover the stories we cover, and it's why we write and edit our stories the way we write and edit them -- to only show the negative."

You have to admire his honesty.

[Kudsman]

You have to admire his honesty.

LOL! Is that you Rick?

Just Kidding!

[Kudsman]

But.....bbbut, his mother was an alcoholic and his father used to collect newspapers for recycling because they were so poor. It's not his fault!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Here at the Daily Treasoner, we take our responsibilities very seriously.

"And what are those responsibilities? In a phrase, to do everything we can to make our country weaker.

Here at the Daily Treasoner, we take our priviledges very seriously. "And what are those priviledges? In a phrase, to do everything we can to promote ourselves and our own interests.

We could have gotten jobs or even started businesses to do concrete things such as policing or growing or distributing food, or making cars or exploring for oil or producing gasoline. But we like shooting fish in a barrel rather than exposing ourselves to the possibility of criticism by taking on actual responsibilities. So instead of undertaking to do something - anything - that someone needs done, we chose to criticize, condemn, complain, and second guess everyone who is stupid enough to do things and therefore to make mistakes.

Everyone else makes mistakes, but we never do - because we do exactly nothing. And if we say something today and find out that we were wrong, hey - whadda ya want, perfection or something? We're only human, and besides - who do you think you are, trying to criticize us when we are the ones who buy ink by the carload. So we just change the subject and that's the end of the story. Our mistake never happened. And don't try complaining to our competitors about our slant; our competitors may buy ink by the carload too, but so do we - and they aren't interested in fighting a flame war with us over a stupid nobody like you.

You think we are in the pockets of the liberal politicans, but that isn't true at all. We can make or break anybody, so we don't have to be in anyone's pocket. Now the liberal politicians, they are in someone's pocket. Ours. They know that we criticize everyone who actually does things, and so they do the same thing. They just act as our auxiliaries, scouting out people to second guess. Anybody who isn't for us is against us, and they had better watch out.

[Kudsman]

In a phrase, to do everything we can to promote ourselves and our own interests.

Kind of a hard wired human trait. Born of selfishness. Not a wholly unnecessary one either IMO. A bit of it used on an instinctive level goes along way in ensuring survival. Not tempered it becomes megalomania. I guess the question is fast becoming has Big Media become so enamored with itself that it fails to see that it's consumers no longer wish to "purchase" bias? Especially RED bias, no matter how much ink of any other color they dilute it with.

[RichInOC]

As I said on another thread recently, the problem is not that there's an overt leftist conspiracy in the media. The problem is that these guys do what they do without having to talk about it or even do all that much troublesome thinking about it before they do it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

promote ourselves and our own interests.

Kind of a hard wired human trait.

My point exactly - if you assume that journalists are not the paragons of virtue which they present themselves as but rather are selfish and cowardly, you can understand their behavior far better than if you try to start with an ideological assumption that "they say that because they are liberals." No, they say that because they are self-centered and cowardly, and the result is what gets called "liberal."

Because they are cowardly, they have no interest in fighting a fair fight with someone else who "buys ink by the carload." Far better to cooperate - "I'll call you objective if you call me objective" - than to take up the challenge of actually trying to be objective. Do that, and first thing you know you will find yourself in the uncomfortable position of having to point out that the emperor isn't even wearing BVDs.

Cowardice and self-centeredness explains why journalists criticize not only the "capitalists" who provide our food, clothing, shelter, and fuel but also the police and military without which the socialist's beloved government could not exist as an effective institution. The defining characteristic of the target of the journalist is that they are competitors with journalists for the respect of the public but

1. targets are vulnerable to journalistic attack because they do not buy ink by the carload, and
2. targets don't defer to journalists when journalists (inevitably) project their fantasies onto the reality in which the target functions under a bottom line discipline.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[auboy]

Arrogance of Mediacrats Bump!!!

[Milhous]

In the absence of a shared societal subtext required by a joke Horowitz actually confesses his own sins.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Leadership, the philosophical tone that is set, comes from the top in all organizations. The underlings, in accordance with their own desire for self-preservation/advancement, generally fall in line with that tone.

In print journalism that would be the publisher, then the various editors, and then the actual "journalists", those who have the most to gain by pleasing the hierarchy.

The publisher should be motivated by profit, or at least be cognizant of it as a necessary byproduct, and in the beginning I am sure all were. As success gets passed from generation to generation, each existing on the financial success provided for them by their predecessors, the profit motive often gets lost, especially in today's environment of a move to the left that has been steadily building over the last 80+ years.

From there we get into the psychology of those who support lefist causes despite its history of suppression and failure and the phenomenal success of the system they are trying to replace, a constitutional republic practicing free enterprise.

It is easy to understand the selfish desires of the hardcore left whose ambition is power at any cost but they are the minority. Harder to understand are the useful idiots, a term that describes those who actually believe the lies of the hardcore and are the majority, the cannon fodder of the hardcore. That includes all who call themselves liberals, whether in or out of politics, and it certainly includes all Democrats (other than the few Zell Millers).

Also, rest assured that the hardcore left in other countries, and some like George Soros in this country, willingly provide the money to replace the profit needed to survive by some organizations.

Ted Turner is a good example of a useful idiot who inherited a fortune and, though he increased it, uses it to further his own downfall. The Sulzbergers are another example and there are many others.

Fortunately, the same thing, human nature, that makes free enterprise superior to other economic systems, is also what eventually brings down those other systems which try to suppress and replace it. That is what we are talking about here, human nature, and it is always the underlying constant.

As a result, the internet and talk radio are replacing the old media who have become so afflicted with the above.

However, we must be in constant combat with the left and their lies and tricks (election fraud). It is truly a battle between good and evil, lies and truth, freedom and slavery. That is true whether we are talking about the Democrats, the Communists, or the Muslim terrorists.

Your focus, cic, on the broadcast media is appropriate but that is is only one of their tools, although the most powerful tool available at the moment for influencing the masses.

In addition, they are turning our public education system into madrassas which produce non-thinking and ill informed adults who are predesposed to hate America and embrace socialism, the intermediary step toward tyranny. Trial lawyers and leftist politicians combine to cripple our industries, all for their own selfish reasons. The unions are a Communist structure by nature and exist for the benefit of the union leaders and to further cripple our industrial base and increase the costs of government. They and the trial lawyers a re also a rich source of funds for the leftist politicians.

If the Democrats regain power, you can rest assured they will come after the internet and talk radio under some guise of fairness. Their true purpose will be to regain control of the flow of information in order to silence dissent. It will be just a milder form of Saddam's cutting off tongues but it will have the same effect.

The Campaign Finance (so called) Reform was another step in that direction. Feingold pushed it because he is a leftist. McCain did it because he is selfish and is trying to triangulate himself into the presidency with the free help of the media. The final effect of the CFR is to empower the media as the power broker you describe.

[ForGod'sSake]

Wow! Mind-numbed you're not. Just an excellent rant that coincidentally connects many of the dots. Our faux press were socialist cheerleaders for most of the 20th century, becoming more emboldened during the second half once their "creds" were established. THAT has to be a story in and of itself -- how that happened. That is, how the liberal/leftist/socialist media came to dominance? Care to take a stab at it???

Excellent observations as usual cIc; thanks for the ping.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Your focus, cic, on the broadcast media is appropriate but that is is only one of their tools, although the most powerful tool available at the moment for influencing the masses.

Certainly the big newspapers are doing their worst, along with the other institutions you mention. But IMHO broadcast journalism is a unique case, in that

1. broadcast journalism is unquestionably the most powerful propaganda arm of the left, and
2. broadcast journalism, as the Clintonistas pointed out in the context of the ABC documentary on the lead in to 9-11, does not have First Amendment protection because broadcasting in general exists only because of censorship of those who do not have FCC licenses.

In principle, given a strict constructionist SCOTUS, it would only take a civil suit against the FCC and its licensees to drastically reduce the pernicious influence of broadcast journalism. Certainly there are ample examples which demonstrate that broadcast journalism is tendentious. The key is to convince SCoTUS that the example of the biased print journalism is irrelevant because print journalism, being unlicensed and indubiably protected by the First Amendment, sets no precedent at all for what broadcast journalism may or may not do.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

Take a look - it's a thread I started shortly after 911, and have continued to update since then.

[Landru]

"So anyway, right about now, you're probably wondering: Does the Daily Treasoner come up with all these terrible stories, not to mention all these totally unpatriotic opinion columns, all by itself? I wish we could say that we do, but tearing down America is too big a job for any one newspaper."

Precisely.
But *that's* where The Associated Press -- a.ka The Associated Quislings -- *really* shines, their specialty.
~eh?

"And speaking of time, I see mine is almost up."

How right you are, Horowitz.

...how very right.

[ForGod'sSake]

But *that's* where The Associated Press -- a.ka The Associated Quislings -- *really* shines, their specialty. ~eh?

These guys???

Say it ain't so ;^)

On a related note, the diseased cash cow benefactors that fund the crAPweasels are experiencing some, er, cash flow problems. How long will they be able to maintain the crAPweasels in the fashion in which they have become accustomed??? The (more or less)free market is working its magic, eh?

[Landru]

"These guys???"

HA!!
Yup, same ones. ;^)

"On a related note, the diseased cash cow benefactors that fund the crAPweasels are experiencing some, er, cash flow problems."

Really.
I've not been paying much attention, assumed it'll take time for the brain-bugs running AQ to destroy *it* so moved on to other, more personal matters.
Whatever deterioration the AQ's experienced apparently happened under my radar [read: schnozzola], and much faster than I'd anticipated.
Pray-tell, what've I missed?

"How long will they be able to maintain the crAPweasels in the fashion in which they have become accustomed???"

Long as the money holds out; which, unbeknownst to me is the issue. {Welcome to the future, Landru. :o) }

"The (more or less)free market is working its magic, eh?"

Maybe.
Our free market -- I've *learned* -- is a double edged sword.
As our language can be & has been used against our culture, so a free market can & has been used against our free market form of capitalism.
Crazy world.

As for The Associated Quislings go, *it* is a lot like a leech.
Can assume any shape, squeeze through even the smallest holes & as such is looking right now at *adapting* to whoever, or whatever it spies as it flees the *old* host to a new host.

What's the "new" host is anyones guess, only one thing's for sure.

...they won't be going away.

[ForGod'sSake]

Pray-tell, what've I missed?

Well, if a picture's worth a thousand words; highlighting stock prices of three of their benefactors, nyt, Chicago Trib, and the compost:

The stock prices generally mirror the bottom lines of these seditious rags. IOW, the fishwraps are seeing their margins decreasing almost daily. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of Bolsheviks!

Ahem:

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright.
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout,
but there is no joy in Pressville - the mighty MSM has struck out.

Thankyew, thankyew ver much... ;^)