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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the object of fawning media coverage despite the scandal of producing a child from an extramarital affair, argued before the conference for “the right to be heard” and insisted that the major media were not telling the real story of pain and suffering in George Bush’s America.

What jumped out at me was Jesse Jackson arguing for "the right to be heard". Where exactly is that outlined in the Constitution? AirHead America had a right to build its broadcast network and spout whatever they pleased. Trouble is, nobody listened. I guess their "right to be heard" comes with a corresponding power to force people to listen. What's most frightening is that they may well get their way.

We don't have a "right to be heard," and we don't have a "right to the truth." What we have is a right to our own opinions, and the right to speak and spend our own money publishing our opinions. But nobody has to listen.
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith

Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin

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Okay, like Maverick in Top Gun, I'm going to engage.

As I've noted in other threads, my belief is the MSM is nothing more than a network of marketing firms with the DNC as their largest client. This marketing collective is comprised of ad copy writers and spokespersons posing as credentialed journalists. Pulitzers serve to establish credibility in the minds of average American's where none is due.

On the left, everyone with self-perceived influence expects their marketing pitch to be heard via the MSM because it is understood the MSM is employed by the DNC to get its message out. Any story that credits the right in anyway is perceived as conservative bias.

To perpetuate this fraud, the MSM must walk a thin line and not be too obvious about their true business; Marketing of a political client. Those on the right see the problem clearly, but no critical mass for significant change exists so the MSM continues to push the limits unfettered.

Now look at the situation again; Jesse paid for air time by delivering the black vote to the DNC. In turn the DNC should open its marketing channels and resources up to the good reverend. This is what he meant by right to be heard. I was a slip for which I'm sure someone at the DNC talked to him about.

BOMBSHELL 1:
There is no association between Objective Journalism/News and the MSM. Objective Jounalism/Reporting is the antithesis of Marketing and therefor the antithesis of the MSM.

BOMBSHELL 2:
There is NO BIAS in the MSM, except for conservative BIAS. Again, the MSM markets for the DNC. Any ad copy that puts the conservative in a neutral or better than neutral light is not acceptible to the DNC or those it represents and is therefor perceived on the left as conservative BIAS and noted as such by liberal celebrities and others. In there minds, based on this model they have a point.

My suggestion is to start outing the MSM as the marketing firms they are. The masterful illusion of BIAS created by the left to mask their true nature is simply false and is causing a great deal of tail chasing on the right.

BOMBSHELL 3:
Newsbusters, Media Research Center, Rush Limbaugh are NOT HELPING the situation with their continued use of the word "bias" and "media". Both of which imply some expectation of objectivity, which only serves to perpetute the fraud and confuse the conservative movement.

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