“The media is the enemy. The Liberal Democrats who control the news are our enemy. These are the ones we should be trying to wipe out financially, with lawsuits, and by direct confrontation.
We should use all legal means at our disposal to pry the transmitters out of the hands of Liberals.”
So WHY are wealthy, or groups of not-so-wealthy, conservatives, not working together to create at least one alternate news source. Obviously, FOX is not it. Everyone complains that the left controls the media and that is the problem, but no one else takes on the challenge to create an opposition medium. Am I totally crazy in thinking this is totally crazy? Are conservatives just not willing to risk their resources? Just too bored or otherwise busy? How can political opposition survive when it cedes the battlefield to the enemy?
This has puzzled me for decades. I think I finally discovered the answer when McConnell and his group did everything they could to take out McDaniel in Mississippi, and then proceeded to roll over for Obama on everything he wanted.
They are really not two different parties. They are simply different faces of the "Power Corridor" party.
Obviously, FOX is not it. Everyone complains that the left controls the media and that is the problem, but no one else takes on the challenge to create an opposition medium.
There are people who are trying. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has been working to create "Pajamas Media." Glenn Beck was trying to make something out of "the Blaze". One American News Network seems to be an effort to create a conservative network.
The truth is it takes Billions of dollars to get started in creating something that can compete with the big networks, and of course the existing networks do everything they can to deny them credibility and respect.
Am I totally crazy in thinking this is totally crazy?
No. I've been wondering the same thing for years.
Are conservatives just not willing to risk their resources?
I think in a match up, Liberals tend to have far more money than do we. Many of them just inherit it, and many of us had to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps. I have long believed that it is money and prosperity that is the root cause of Liberalism, and so it is no surprise to me to see great wealth influencing people to be Liberal.
Conservatives, on the other hand, often have to deal with necessity, and this is why we have a more realistic view of the world. Some of us get rich, but I really believe the bulk of the money is in the hands of the other guys.
Just too bored or otherwise busy?
I think that most of us simply don't grasp the nature of the problem. We think about this problem in an abstract sort of way. We think of it like the weather. It's just the way it is, and we can't really do anything about it.
This is, of course, wrong, but I don't think most people realize that we could actually do something about it, and that we really need to try to do something about it.
How can political opposition survive when it cedes the battlefield to the enemy?
We aren't. We are getting slaughtered. Clinton was elected because of the biased Media. Obama was elected because of biased media. Bork was "Borked" because of biased media. "Queer this" and "queer that" became accepted because of a biased media.
We are literally getting destroyed because our message and our ideas are never permitted to reach the American Public. Meanwhile every hair-brain Liberal piece of nonsense from "Gay Marriage" to "Global Warming" is making inroads in the public mind. It's propaganda out there 24-7!
The media "Air Superiority" issue is the number one thing which all of our movement ought to be focusing on solving. Yet we don't even acknowledge it as the serious problem it is.
You would think it would be obvious to everyone on our side, but it really isn't.