Amen! Two can play at this game.
I like it!
Yes, vet their kids too. You only win a war by being meaner and nastier then the other side.
Let’s begin with the “Gossip Girls at Politic”
http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2011/11/05/the-gossip-girls-at-politico/
Now here is something I can fully get behind. I think I just found a new hobby!!!!!
In the past, it was not possible to do this. Now, with blogs, alternative media, etc., it’s definitely possible. Let’s start from a very simple one: political donations. Every article they wrote should be accompanied with the list of their donations on the comments section.
Best post this month!!
B U M P
We can do it. In the old days that’s what FReepers did every day.
Who should we investigate? It’s easy. We start a thread and post what we dig up along with a citation.
I’m all for starting to select a candidate and then see what we can do
I suspect though that the current generation of Freepers are lazy and gutless and will not get involved except possibly to pray about it.
Dan (Kennith) Rather first.
Where and how do we start? I don’t know how to start a blog. But howabout something along the lines of “Whatching you, watching me? Or American Patriots and them.
Better yet, have Briebart set something up for volunteer stringers.
Well you need secret teams to vet these journalists. and you sure can’t be discussing the details on the open internet.
CRY HAVOC and Release the hounds of War
Someone needs to call Hannity since he is “Vetting Obama” this time around and ask him to also “Vet the Journalists”.
I agree!
This IS how FR became famous starting with Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinski, Lucianne Goldberg, Matt Drudge, and Linda Tripp.
we could call it ‘justice for joe’
a play on the trayvon circus they are trying to whip up and how they attacked joe the plumber
The press has to be cleaned up-—as do our schools—both are indoctrination systems and they are both controlled by Marxists to promote disinformation—to destroy logic and morality.
This is from the Harvard Commencement Speech in 1978 by Solzhenitsyn. This is an important speech—you should read the whole thing—because he compares the “free” United States (in 78) to Stalin’s government. They are similar-—particularly because WE do not have a “free” press either although we were conditioned to think we did.
“The press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press to include all media). But what sort of use does it make of this freedom?
Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter of the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposite with renewed self-assurance.
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers’ memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one’s nation’s defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: “everyone is entitled to know everything.” But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. It stops at sensational formulas.
Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time and with what prerogatives?
There is yet another surprise for someone coming from the East where the press is rigorously unified: one gradually discovers a common trend of preferences within the Western press as a whole. It is a fashion; there are generally accepted patterns of judgment and there may be common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification. Enormous freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership because newspapers mostly give enough stress and emphasis to those opinions which do not too openly contradict their own and the general trend.”
Abby D. Phillip
@abbydphillip
Washington, DC
POLITICO reporter covering money in politics, recovering White House reporter, native Marylander. RTs aren’t endorsements, of course. aphillip@politico.com
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