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 Joness Truther past and then actively suppressed it when it broke online, is that they cant be trusted to chase stories that are inconvenient to The One especially if doing so would burnish Glenn Becks 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 wont 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 couldnt script a more Orwellian ending. Friedman actually goes so far as to call this a cautionary tale about how everyones a potential target in the age of mass media. Hey, Tom? Hes a Truther in charge of $60 billion in taxpayer money. Were 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.
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You’re right. The fact that an administration official had to resign without a peep from the midstream media is historic.
According to your chart, in about 28 more years it drops to zero!
These people are absolutely criminal. They are abusing the power of the press to push outright propaganda for 0bama and the Demonrats. And it is so easy to refute, but I find it astounding they try to push this story as a smear and all that BS and obviously they are hoping the public doesn’t dig too far and find out on their own. It will and has gotten out enough where it is posing a danger to all of them and it’s about time. But an all-out war needs to be declared against these criminals. Conservatives and Republicans need to be more in their face and call them on it and not let them dictate. There is no legitimacy with these fascists. They are one in the same and have no credibility and think they are going to silence dissent in the only forum that actually has any credibility.
The pews are empty, Elvis has left the building
I'm not sure, but I think its some guys who you take shirts and pants to. They get the wrinkles out, and fold them real nice. Anyways, when you go to them, you feel like you've been taken to the cleaners.
I use the the Internet as a major tool in my ministry. It is very useful as nearly every has a computer these days. My group is scattered all around my state and the state next to mine. It is a wonderful blessing, and if it helped to get rid of a racist scumbag commie socialist demoncrat, we are doubly blessed.
BBTTT.
Tom’s eyes are beadier than a pit bull’s.
Looks like that banjo kid in Deliverance.
Funny how we can’t trust it anymore. Gee, we trusted the internet and bloggers when TV’s Carrie Bradshaw was a blogger in ‘Sex in the City’ and blogging was all the rage, set up the new movie about Julia Childs’ life, we trusted it for our Hollywood gossip, we trusted it when the Daily Kos and DU helped ‘keep the faith’ during the Bush years, and during the Kerry/Edwards campaign when it got the word out, but now, now, it’s suddenly untrustworthy? Yeah, okay. *more painful eyerolling*
Amen
As Fred Barnes said on Fox News Sunday if you watch MSM , Van Jones resigning will be a shock.
Very embarrasing - Jones and his anti-American rants turn out to be the biggest story of the week and the MSM, by trying to keep it buried, look like out of touch fools - which come tho think of it, they actually are.....
Thing is that it just does not matter what the media says or does these days. They either leave out pertinent facts, spin the facts, or ignore the facts... You have to really hunt for the truth on the internet. Their “fact checkers” are way too busy trying to debunk the internet rather than do actual fact checking...heh.
I was screaming at my TV by that point, and turned it off. I was fuming.
I never watch that idiotic show, but I spent the morning flipping channels to see if any of the MSM would cover the story. Fox hit it hard and straight. The others buried it deep in the hour. On Meet the Pravda, the two points were, “you can’t say anything controversial and “the internet is full of lies”. They made sure to completely fill the time so Giuliani couldn’t raise any true points such as Van Jones self-identifying as a radical communist.
I only watched to see how the enemy would spin it, and they didn’t let me down. Anybody who doesn’t see the EXTREME media bias since they buried the tea parties outright, is wilfully blind.
Mapes: "Im perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if theres proof that I havent seen."
Ross: "But isnt it the other way around? Dont you have to prove theyre authentic?"
Mapes: "Well, I think thats what critics of the story would say. I know more now than I did then and I think, I think they have not been proved to be false, yet."
Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic though? Isnt that really what journalists do?"
Mapes: "No, I dont think thats the standard."
ABCs Good Morning America, November 9, 2006.
Heh - you and me both! I was yelling at the TV this morning after expecting some truthful information to actually be admitted by the leftist idiots this morning. Wow...to my surprise, stupid questions, stupid answers, and letting the guests get away with typical political statements without actually answering any questions. Follow up questions were non-existent or ignored.
Well, after cursing them out, I have vowed never to watch these stupid Sunday morning shows again! Talk about a waste of my time - all it got me was heartburn and a sore throat from yelling at my TV... Let them drown in the primitive ratings - ie., their bottom feeding ratings are well deserved!
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