Posted on 09/06/2009 4:03:30 PM PDT by rvoitier
You have to see it to believe it. The singular lesson of the past week, after big media failed to uncover Jones’s Truther past and then actively suppressed it when it broke online, is that they can’t be trusted to chase stories that are inconvenient to The One — especially if doing so would burnish Glenn Beck’s credibility. And yet here they are, through two of their priestlier representatives, warning the public that only a fool would play in the “open sewer” that is the Internet, where lies and smears and video clips that the networks won’t show of Obama administration officials calling Republicans “assholes” flow insidiously onward. Plenty of viewers will believe them, too: Remember, for many, their first taste of the Van Jones story came this morning, and no sooner did they hear about it than a trusted figure like Tom Brokaw appeared to dismiss it as a smear campaign. You couldn’t script a more Orwellian ending. Friedman actually goes so far as to call this a cautionary tale about how everyone’s a potential target in the age of mass media. Hey, Tom? He’s a Truther in charge of $60 billion in taxpayer money. We’re not talking about some alderman here who got caught saying something off-color at the Dairy Queen. Quoth Jonah Goldberg: “What a tragedy that fewer people will support cop-killers and anti-American conspiracy groups because of poor Van Jones chilling effect on the culture.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
“Meet the Press” that used to be a television show didn’t it? /s
Liberal priests are in a panic at the lack of faith in the pews.
“Jones’s position, for example, did not require Senate confirmation. So he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to…”
0bama owns this.
Van Jones & Obama's "Centrism" (Jonah Goldberg)… The Corner ^ | 6 September 2009 | Jonah Goldberg“……………Update: Oh and the conversation between Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman about the lessons of Van Jones was a complete scandal. One of Friedman's key take-aways from this whole affair is that too many people will self-censor themselves so they can get government jobs. What a tragedy that fewer people will support cop-killers and anti-American conspiracy groups because of poor Van Jones chilling effect on the culture.Oh, and listening to Friedman and Brokaw disparage the internet as a useless news medium, makes them sound like cranky old monks lamenting that flash-in-the-pan printing press.”
Getting news from television, how 20th century.
Live by the Sword ... and all that rot
The really “big lesson” is why didn’t the bobbleheads in the state run MSM come to the defense of Jones if he was being “smeared” and “lied” about on the internet? This didn’t happen overnight. Obama’s eunuchs could have saved Jones’ ass had they the courage to do it. However, the MSM realized that he was a loser and a liar just like them and they could not come up with a defense to save him.
LOL! It really has been sucking badly, and progressively more badly. Brokaw does manage to cure my worst bouts of insomnia, however. I've caught the first 3 to 7 minutes of the show several times lately.
Seriously, I have been TIVOing it out of morbid fascination.
on Drugs And this is Brokaw... 
on drugs
Naw, that's Tom... 
every day!
In other news, Van Jones today said... 
"It is a lie what those white, Right Wing, Racist Republican a-holes said I said!"
Don't ya just luv old Van? Reminds me... 
of a Reverend I once knew.
Now they're bitter, washed-up has-beens whose best days are behind them. Used to be that everyone in the country had to see Brokaw every night at 6:30 EST. Now, most wouldn't know him from a hole in the wall, and those who do know him couldn't give a flying cr*p what he thinks about anything.
Put some ice on it Tom.
These media dinosaurs can warn people about the Internet all they want, but there’s no one watching them do it.
I would have never even known they did had I not read it on the Internet.
Meet the Press, it’s producers, directors, and participants, are ludicrous. They listen uncritically to a paid mouthpiece and publicist for the Administration, David Axelrod. Yet, they cannot point to a single lie or distortion in anything that was reported about Jones on the internet. Jones should have lost his jobs because of the facts - what he said and what he did. The news media should have reported these facts, if indeed they were interested in journalism. They are only interested in exchanging silly sentimentality with Democratic politicians. Enough of this nonsense.
Someone in my household when television surfing watches a few seconds of MSNBC and I declare that they are doing it to drive me insane! I cannot tolerate even a few seconds of those lunatics!
And if you do vet them and conclude that they can’t pass the Senate — as almost certainly happened with Jones — then just make them a czar and the problem is solved. It’s not like Tom Brokaw or Tom Friedman is going to hassle you. Exit quotation from Glenn Beck: “The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness.”
Ohhh, that's gonna leave a mark...
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I don't know the exact date it happened, but it's been replaced by Meet the Useless Press.
This would be even worse if it was a percentage of the population... Since the population has almost doubled since 1980
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