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October 05, 2008
The Media and the Kumbaya Candidate
First, watch...
then, read:
"Why does the mainstream media concentrate exclusively on the failings of the right while completely ignoring the failings of the left?" "Why does the mainstream media worship at the temple of Barack Obama while brutally savaging Sarah Palin?"
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Conservatives have to realize one simple truth: the Big Media is not the enemy's ally who can be won over; it is the enemy itself. The U.S. Big Media is every bit the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party's left wing as Dr. Goebbels' organization was the propaganda arm of the Nazi regime.
Attempts to shame the Big Media into objectivity will go nowhere, it will not be moved by gentle rebukes and reminders of the precepts supposedly taught at journalism schools. The Big Media's vitriolic campaign to vilify and destroy Sarah Palin, unprecedented in its sheer viciousness, is not primarily driven by the elite's perception of her as an alien life form (although there is that, too), but by the plain fact that she endangers the prospects of their idol, Obama, and hence has to be removed by any means necessary. It's that simple...
I gave up TV many years ago. I used to get the Miami Herald delivered every day, do the crossword puzzle, and use the rest to line the bird cage, but I gave that up too. One of the local rags, the Miami New Times, not only fits the bottom of the cage better, it's free. Yesterday, when I was at Dolphin Stadium watching my Canes battle the hated Noles (Miami lost by 2 points), some bozo tried to sell me a Herald subscription, offering a free Canes blanket as incentive. I told him, sorry, not interested in a biased liberal rag. He looked at me like I was nuts.
Every day, bloggers and news forums claim that the Main Street Media is dying, they call it "The Dinosaur Media," and they may be right. The skewered reporting has never been more obvious and every day, another couple-few average Joes drop their subscription. Circulation is down, way dow. Every day another couple-few of their employees hit the unemployment lines, and there have been days when they hit those lines in the hundreds.
CNN reports that one of McCain's aides worked for a time at Fannie Mae, but says nothing about Obama aide and advisor Franklin Raines resigning in shame from his position as CEO of Frannie, says nothinhg about the $90 million he stole or the books he cooked to get that $90 million. You won't read about the battles that raged for years in Congress, where the democrats blocked each and every attempt by the republicans to rein in Fannie and Freddie. You won't read about the lawsuit Obama filed to force banks to make risky loans to unqualified people.
In August, none of them reported that the Obama campaign was caught misidentifying an $800,000 payment it had made to an ACORN subsidiary for "election services." They don't say much about ACORN at all, and if they mention it, they never mention that the "left-wing "community organizing" group has seen its employees frequently convicted of voter registration fraud" and that "this year its employees are under active investigation in several states." If they mentioned any of that, they might have to mention that "Barack Obama used to be a lawyer and top trainer for the group."
You won't read much about Obama's former boss, William Ayers, the home grown terrorist who employed him as a "community organizer" and who launched Obama's political career. You won't read about the millions and millions of dollars in donations Obama received from folks with names like NXBTP, who are employed by companies named "we love you."
What you will read about is the prediction that if racist America doesn't vote for the black man, there will be riots in the street.
A few years ago, we used to joke about the nonsense you found on the internet, saying "it must be true, I read it on the internet." Today, the big joke is, "it must be true, I read it in the newspaper."
Nonetheless, fools abound. Last week, a lawyer I work with told me that if McCain was elected, he would get all of those wonderful tax breaks that the rich were gonna get, but he was willing to give those up for the benefit of the country and he was going to vote for Obama because "Obama was going to straighten out this country." A week or so before, he was commenting on Palin, and said "if that little girl could just put a complete sentence together..."
Is America really that dumb? The Obama campaign and the media is counting on it.
As I have said many times, I despise McCain for the barking moonbat looney liberal that he is. The only areas we agree on are the war, guns and babies.
McCain has missed every opportunity to get the information out that the media supresses and as a result, he has done so poorly lately that there has been talk that he might be throwing the election. The very idea is asinine to me.
Of course McCain wants to be president. I'm sure he thinks his strategy for this campaign is brilliant, and that it will succeed. Remember during the primaries when he was out of money and hung in there? I'm sure he thinks the drop in the polls and in support is just a blip like that.
Those who are shocked what he's doing, or not doing, seem to have forgotten that McCain's political philosophy has always been what it is, his maverick reputation comes solely from being a republican who works with liberals and democrats to help them achieve their political goals. And that's because their goals are his goals. McCain has always been more of a democrat than a republican, more of a liberal than a conservative. Politically, he is aligned with no one and friends with everyone. He is the ultimate kumbaya candidate.
I am not surprised at his unwillingness to point the finger at his liberal friends and make a stand against them on the other side of the aisle, I'm pissed off, but not surprised. McCain has said many times that he would rather lose this election then compromise himself to win, here is the evidence that he means it. McCain won't draw a line and stand on one side of it, not when it means that his friends are on the other side. He has always been this way.
But this will backfire, it is backfiring. Why? Because most people stand on one side of the aisle or the other, most people have drawn the line. He is allowing his friends to paint the republicans as guilty, and his tunnel vision does not allow him to see that the perception is that he is republican, and therefore, he is guilty as well.
I don't want to vote for McCain, even with Palin on the ticket, I don't want to vote for him, and if weren't for the war, I wouldn't, in fact, if it weren't for the war, I wouldn't vote in this election at all. I trust him to fight our enemies abroad, but I don't expect him to fight our enemies at home, after all, our enemies at home are his friends. Outside of fighting the war, I don't trust him to do the right thing for this country.
I felt the same way when I slumped into the polls and voted a party line ticket in 2006, I forced myself to go. I think about all the people who felt as I did, the ones who stayed home rather than do what I did, and I think there is a very real possibility that they will do the same thing this November.
Maybe the bigot vote will win this election for him. But I am not confident of that and what do we get if it does? A mealy mouthed pretend republican in the White House who basically wants all of the same things as the looney liberals we tried to keep out. Oh joy!
Wanna bet that when push comes to shove, he caves on drilling for oil? Remember, he was against it before he was for it, and he was against tax cuts before he was for them too, If he wins the White House, well, call me crazy, but let's just say I don't trust his campaign promises.
Along with his liberal buddies in the Senate, he's also for the 50 cent per gallon carbon tax on gas, and for giving amnesty to the criminal horde, along with social security, free food and housing and free healthcare. And, along with his liberal buddies in the Senate, he wants to close gitmo and put those scumbags into our prison system, giving hardened, experienced terrorists a captive audience of angry black men to recruit to jihad.
If Obama wins, he will destroy this country from the inside out, with his liberal policies, and if McCain wins, he will destroy this country from the inside out, with his liberal policies. America is screwed. No matter who wins in November, we are screwed.
So. What the heck. In the meantime, how about we give a resounding chorus of kumbaya!
Posted by LindaSoG at October 5, 2008 10:37 AM
Comments
Sigh!!! you are right you know. You have clearly defined the 3 differences between him and Obama. John also took funds from Fannie mae and can't say anything that will bring his sorry ass under scrutiny. We saw how he'd veto any scheme last week. All we can hope for is he'll pick and choose the bills he'll sign but like Lieberman he'll fall in and vote their party line.
Posted by: Jack at October 5, 2008 12:29 PM
"If Obama wins, he will destroy this country from the inside out, with his liberal policies, and if McCain wins, he will destroy this country from the inside out, with his liberal policies. America is screwed. No matter who wins in November, we are screwed."
Truer words were never spoken...
Posted by: ProphetJoe at October 6, 2008 09:45 PM
Btw, excellent video!
Posted by: ProphetJoe at October 6, 2008 09:48 PM
The video was good...........but ruined The Lion King for me forever............ (grins)
Posted by: dammitwoman at October 7, 2008 12:19 PM