Posted on 10/11/2002 7:21:39 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
-Yet-
You're still young; but, as bright & spirited as any I've known.
Your day's coming, kid.
When it happens articles like this one, will be a a part of what you are, think, *and* write.
That's why I interrupted your busy day to ping you over here.
"Funny isn't it..when I write plain and honest truths, the dumbwits who can't fill in a job application form to get themselves off welfare, all of a sudden find themselves writing tomes in objection."
Well whadda ya know, yet another similarity to we Yanks!
Here stateside??
We like tio say, "The people in the free seats boo the loudest."
See my point?
"when they do that though, I KNOW, I'm fighting the right fight!"
Yup.
You sound as if you've got it, alright.
" Interesting too...the Irish Times (ye know the Up Chuck publication of the chattering classes, which is slowly going down the financial tubes) has just appointed a new editor. A woman. And a conservative (well in many respects).
In America they can say anything they GDed please, Miss AM.
But those of us who fancy ourselves worldy wise watch what they do.
~eh?
"The tide is a-turning"
We shall see about that now, shan't we?
You really need to get to know the poster known as, "Mudboy Slim," much better.
...another optomist & kindred spirit, I'd say. ;^)
...& that's really saying something these days, y'know. ;^)
I see Old Wally fooled you, too. He was (and is) just as big a liberal scum-bag as Dan Blather---he was just a bit more subtle about it. The "jovial grandfather" image fooled a lot of folks.
The RATS are in disarray...eradicate the rodents !!
Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!
GWB Is The Man !!
Snuff Saddam, NOW !!
Death To all Tyrant's !!
The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
Yup...sounds like Peter Jennings to me!
Today's news media leaders find themselves in a similar situation to the Soviet leaders. They retain much of their power, position and influence but nobody actually believes in them or their ideology any more, just as the Russian public in the 1970s and 80s considered the Soviet leadership a bad joke and saw the obvious truth that Communism was a shoddy lie.
"News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress, the rest is just advertising" - Lord Northcliffe, British Press Baron http://www.bilderberg.org/
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind". Prof Naom Chomsky.
"The New York Times is for us what Pravda was for the Soviets....America is a country full of conspiracy, and yet when you mention the word on television the interviewer giggles, so that people will think only nuts who believe in abduction by aliens believe in conspiracies. But don't they know they are being had? They are being lied to every day."--Gore Vidal (Observer magazine 12 Aug 2001)
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
By: John Swinton Former Chief of Staff for the New York Times was one of America's best loved newspapermen. Called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession" Date: 1953
And my favorite :
The television business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I hope so! That's music to my ears. Thanks for the ping.
FGS
I've noticed that too. It's amazing just how well-written the "average (liberal) person's" letters are... Of course, they're usually cribbed or pre-written from a single or a few sources.
Yes indeedy. A very good piece.
Appears to me the Bolsheviks are taking a different tack with America's great experiment. State, ownership of production is out(way too messy); state ownership of information is in(much easier to manufacture). Assimilate production and information into a working partnership, and we and our representatives in gubmint can just go along for the ride. Our Constitution will have to undergo some modifications along the way, but that shouldn't be a problem for this bunch; after all it is a living document---they said so.
Question is, can we stop this attack on our society and culture? And, an attack it is, little different than flying airliners into buildings. But, it will be much more costly at the end of the day. The heart and soul of our nation is being eaten away by maggots and the media enablers aren't blowing the trumpets in warning. We know where they stand. Whoya gonna call???
BTW, I suggest adding a third party to our otherwise two party system if this thing really takes off; CORPORATS.........Well???
Don't get me wrong; I'm a fan of corporate America, but if the maggots eat the guts out of this country, somebody/something has to fill the hole ; )
FGS
Yes indeedy. A very good piece.
Appears to me the Bolsheviks are taking a different tack with America's great experiment. State, ownership of production is out(way too messy); state ownership of information is in(much easier to manufacture). Assimilate production and information into a working partnership, and we and our representatives in gubmint can just go along for the ride. Our Constitution will have to undergo some modifications along the way, but that shouldn't be a problem for this bunch; after all it is a living document---they said so.
Question is, can we stop this attack on our society and culture? And, an attack it is, little different than flying airliners into buildings. But, it will be much more costly at the end of the day. The heart and soul of our nation is being eaten away by maggots and the media enablers aren't blowing the trumpets in warning. We know where they stand. Whoya gonna call???
BTW, I suggest adding a third party to our otherwise two party system if this thing really takes off; CORPORATS.........Well???
Don't get me wrong; I'm a fan of corporate America, but if the maggots eat the guts out of this country, somebody/something has to fill the hole ; )
FGS
Who?
Moi?
"I'm a fan of corporate America, but if the maggots eat the guts out of this country, somebody/something has to fill the hole."
Something will "fill the hole," too.
That's been the Saving Grace of our beloved Republic for 250 years.
The *something* always comes from places unseen, unthought of, too.
That's why all comers have failed.
...it's what's behind our *real* strength & longevity.
FGS
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