Van Jones, c'est moi.
Posted on 09/08/2009 5:13:03 PM PDT by lancer256
With the resignation of green czar Van Jones despite their efforts to protect him, the mainstream media have finally been reduced to sputtering incoherence, as they've observed the un-deification of their anointed messiah and experienced firsthand their own diminishing relevance.
The MSM are engaging in a colossal temper tantrum over their lost news monopoly -- a monopoly they forfeited through their bias, arrogance and self-imposed insulation. (Consider Rathergate and their shameless effort to "Swift boat" the Swift boaters, to name a few.)
This is an especially hard pill for them to swallow considering that during the past year, they've been stewing in the intoxicating delusion that they were again supreme, as they appeared to be getting away with their conspiratorial enthroning of King Barack Obama. And they're not handling rejection well.
On "Meet the Press'" round-table discussion, retired "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman were protesting the grass roots' and alternative media's unmasking of Van Jones as a radical leftist.
Brokaw said: "A lot of people will repeat back to me and take it as face value something that they read on the Internet. And my line to them is you have to vet information. ... It is across-the-board ... and it's something that we all have to address, and it requires society and political and cultural leaders to stand up and say, 'This is crazy.' We just can't function that way."
(Excerpt) Read more at davidlimbaugh.com ...
The Sunday shows love trotting old Tom Brokejaw out whenever they need someone with the appearance of sanity to blurt out their latest wacked-out propaganda.
MSM is over. They hagve ZERO credibility.
Amen.
“A lot of people will repeat back to me and take it as face value something that they read on the Internet. And my line to them is you have to vet information. ... It is across-the-board ... and it’s something that we all have to address, and it requires society and political and cultural leaders to stand up and say, ‘This is crazy.’ We just can’t function that way.”
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WE ARE RELEVANT!!!! DON’T LISTEN TO THAT NASTY INTERNET!!! ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT MORE THAN US?????
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Wasn’t it Brokaw who blabbered, “We don’t know much about Obama?” Gee, I wonder why not.
But Tom Friedman one-upped Brokaw in the hysteria and righteous indignation departments. Friedman said, "The Internet is an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information -- left, right, center, up, down -- and requires that kind of filtering by anyone."
Ah, yes, the horrors of the free-flowing marketplace of ideas. Just think how much better life used to be before the Internet and conservative talk radio -- still the liberal elite's main boogeyman -- spoiled the MSM's monolithically liberal chokehold on information dissemination.
To these elites, it's less dangerous to society for omniscient liberals of their caliber to be the custodians of the news than for unlimited news sources to compete and be regulated only by the common sense and collective wisdom of the people -- just as we'd be better off if a government bureaucracy controlled our health care decisions, the automobile industry, education, our mortgages and pretty much anything else it can inhale.
I’ll bet the msm IS having a temper tantrum. They hate being caught by the average Joe(or Glenn) with their pants down. They have once again shown to the average citizen that they are not to be trusted with being called a watchdog for America(maybe a pitbull for obama &CO).
Great post!
Boo Hoo Boo Hoo, the “vetting” of information is in the hands of the unwashed masses!
Limbaugh gets it dead on!
Sorry Tom, but people like you just aren’t smart or honest enough to decide for the rest of us what needs vetting and what doesn’t.
Congress critters that repeat Democrat talking points at town halls get booed, interupted, yelled at, and basically Told off by Citizens who know the Lies are Lies.
The same thing happens when ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN repeat the lies.....except the Media does not hear the noise....gradually the Media is hearing the Clicks of TVs being turned off or switched to Fox, gradually the Media is learning they have lost their Audience.
The Audience is at the Tea Parties, the Audience is at the Town Halls, The Audience is on the Web watching You Tube Videos, The Audience is listening to TALK RADIO....
But the Audience “ isn’t watching no Stinkin Alphabet network Propaganda ! “
The Old media is not Dying....Patrots are Killing it off.
Van Jones, c'est moi.
I think David sums it up quite well.
DL exactly nails it. And the American public is starting to wake up. It is only the SRM that continues to bury their heads in the sand.
What are their ratings now? Are they still the "mainstream media"?
The last time I ever watched these people was in 1999 when i heard Susan Estrich say the immortal words “Every American woman should get on her knees for Bill Clinton”.
I shut the tv off and never watched them again! I only hear what they say on places like this.
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It’s not Obama who didn’t vet Jones, but the MSM who have never vetted Obama. Had they vetted Obama, they would have realized that he is Van Jones and that he didn’t need to vet Van Jones because he already knew him and considered him a soul mate.
If Rush ever hangs it up (perish the thought) His brother would make a great replacement.
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