[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

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Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
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                NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
                Pajamasmedia:   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

[Alkhin]

I have heard rumors throughout the last decade that there have been considerable inroads made by those of the Islamic nature into the fields of finance, journalism, and publishing. We get burps of that every now and then: so and so has ownership of banks, Those Saudi guys are striking down publications of American writing in other countries etc, etc, etc...

Call me paranoid/conspiracy-theorist, but it seems to me that the intensity with which we have seen the Mainstream Media melt down into a propaganda machine has been fostered by those of an Islamic nature in ways we arent readily seeing right now. How many of these newspapers are owned/financed by foreign investors? How many of those are of an Islamic nature? How much intimidation/chilling is being done by 'free press' agents within their own ranks because they are beholden to something outside to the American ken? Im just an ignorant person with just my own little nano-corner of the country that I try to maintain the best way I can, but these are things that I want to ask sometimes. And no one is asking them.

[i_dont_chat]

. . . the real story was . . . by Barack Obama himself. “Spreading the wealth around” gains currency when collated to past interviews in which Obama talked at length about, and in regret at, judicial impracticalities in accomplishing his own desire to redistribute income.

“Tragedy” is frequent in the Obama vocabulary, but largely confined to two contexts: the tragic history of the United States (e.g., deemed analogous to that of Nazi Germany during World War II), and the tragic unwillingness or inability to use judicial means to correct economic inequality in non-democratic fashion.

[Responsibility2nd]

I count some 12 times (at least) this article has been posted - but no complaints - It is well worth the read:

Would the last honest reporter please turn on the lights?

If you have not read this — do so now.

Even if you HAVE read it — read it again.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=HONEST

[spodefly]

The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted to offer candid and nonpartisan coverage of presidential candidates.

Which, when combined with the prosecutorial power of an Obama administration and the zeal of the Obot Brownshirts to silence dissent, means that we are the most propagandized and controlled population since 1930's Germany or 1950's USSR.

[happygrl]

VDH's observation that this is the end of Public Campaign financing is spot-on.

We are going to hate the elections ahead; there will be a tsunami of advertising.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

VDH is on his game yet again I see. Brilliant.