If The Truth Will Set You Free, What Will the MSM Do?
I was going to write a satire of the mainstream news media this week but the Washington Post beat me to it. Proving that they are spiraling toward irrelevance and bankruptcy the old fashioned way — by earning it! — the Post ran a hit piece on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that managed to be both irrelevant and suspect, if not altogether untrue. The Post reported that Romney, as a teenager, bullied a classmate. The newspaper also implied Romney’s motive was homophobia. Romney admits he was a prankster as a kid, which he regrets, but says that homophobia had nothing to do with it. The family of the alleged bullying victim John Lauber says WaPo‘s ”portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda.”
The politically meaningless and factually dubious story was timed for release in the immediate wake of Barack Obama’s “evolution” on gay marriage. In an incredibly gutsy call, Obama was forced to abandon his make-believe opposition to the controversial issue when his blithering vice president’s open support for guy-on-guy action humiliated the president to the point where he stopped lying about being against gay marriage and lied instead about feeling it was a matter that should be left to the states.
Obama’s new position caused chills to run up and down the body of CBS News-leftist Robin Roberts, who did the interview. It also moved Newsweek to run a cover featuring Obama with a rainbow halo. This seems like a lot of excitement for a president who is now echoing the views of Vice President Dick Cheney… but, of course, the MSM doesn’t really think Obama wants the states (or churches) to be able to reject gay marriage. They only support him in his Cheneyesque stance because they — and everyone else — know it’s a lie. As with the abandonment of our missile defenses at the whims of our enemies, Obama will no doubt have “more flexibility” about telling the truth after he wins re-election.
Well and forcefully stated, sir.
The other Andrew left us in good hands.
The rainbow halo is more fitting than Newsweek realizes. According to Jewish tradition, rainbows are not feel-good symbols that should make us all warm and fuzzy inside. They are a sign that people have corrupted the world to the point that the world deserves to be obliterated, and is spared only because of G-d’s covenant with Noah. The Jewish prayer book includes a blessing to be recited upon seeing a rainbow, praising G-d for remembering His covenant and keeping His word (to not destroy the world).
What happens if Obama is reflected?
I meant re elected, what happens if Obama is re elected?
So, Romney’s a “flip-flopper” but Obama “evolves” when it comes to changing minds. Gotta love the language…
Romney can’t evolve in decades but Obama can in 5 minutes. Whites are still responsible for slavery but not the Democratic Party – they’ve evolved. Obama wasn’t affected by 20 years in a KKK church but watching Fox News turns people into zombies.
The Dem Party is far advanced along the road to Orwell’s “1984.” The reason is that they have a world view that’s unshakeable, already set in stone. That allows for no consistency in thought, or any real thought at all. Dems simply lasso reality to suit whatever they want to.
The Dems have gone down the same road American foreign policy went down with Viet Nam – they have become the thing they profess to hate.
“If they weren’t good, they wouldn’t lie about them, because then they would just be corrupt, dishonest, morally desiccated purveyors of disinformation who aren’t making an honest living but instead go to work each morning intending to mislead an audience they despise. And that’s not possible. Because they’re good.”
Y’know, you’re always good, but this is pure gold!
Your wit fills the void that was left when “Uncle Jay Explains the News” went dark.
my neighbor’s little boy was playing catch in the backyard – I don’t own a baseball, so when a baseball was found in the bedroom, with a broken window, I knew it wasn’t me. So, did little Barack(pseudonym) admit he broke the window? He didn’t know how it got broken. Then he admitted that it was his friend (let’s say Joe to keep it anon) actually broke it. No lies here, nothing to see, move on.
Are you allowed to tell this much truth in one place? And by mentioning Beck you should see a spike in trolls.
Thanks for your writing.
This melodious slander against our Dear Leader is totally unacceptable. In addition to being the world’s greatest golfer, and having to overcome on a daily basis all the media’s withering barrage of tough questioning into his every move made in the past, present or in the future, our brilliant Dear Leader now has a halo over his head. I know he does because I saw it on the cover of Newsweek magazine and Newsweek magazine would never lie. Additionally our Dear Leader was education at the very finest universities where he excelled in reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with and then all the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision with additional courses in Karl Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte, with history washing for extra credit. Always trust Dear Leader Emperor Barack Hussein Louie Hugo Benito Isuzu Obama in everything he says and does even if the connection between what he says and does is not apparent to your lowly mind. He wouldn’t be doing what he is doing to whom he is doing it if he didn’t know where he was at when he was doing it or he wouldn’t be where he was at if he didn’t know what he was doing and to whom he was doing it to.
remember this is the elite fully credentialed MSM, graduates of Columbia School of Journalism and such. Big education is going all in with big media to keep their man in power.
Washington has broken the bank. Debt and deficits are out of control. The Senate hasn’t passed a budget in over 1100 days. You’ve heard this story before, but this week we’re turning the page. Sen. Mike Lee unveiled a fiscal plan that tackles runaway spending, exploding entitlements, and the ridiculously complicated federal tax code. Modeled on The Heritage Foundation’s “Saving the American Dream,” the Lee Budget is the bold conservative reform that America needs.
http://heritageaction.com/2012/05/lee-budget-bold-reform-americans-need/?utm_source=heritageaction&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aa-lee-budget
Lee Budget: Bold Reform Americans Need May 14, 2012 by Dan Holler
http://heritageaction.com/2012/05/lee-budget-bold-reform-americans-need/?utm_source=heritageaction&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aa-lee-budget
When will wapro come out of the closet and admit that they have been making up their news content whenever it suited their purposes for decades?
The Romney fairy tale effectively does just that.
They might as well have set the story in an evil forest and made Romney the big bad wolf.
Admitting the truth would set them free because they wouldn’t have to pretend to be reporting the news anymore. It would save them alot of money and contortions.
First it was the dog, then it was polygamy, then it was being a bully, now it’s Bain Capital and steelworkers, and each one blows up in the face of the producer. This is the gang that can’t shoot straight. The Administration and the LSM are become laughable.
If The Truth Will Set You Free, What Will the MSM Do?
Bind us in chains forever. If they can.
Great article! It just amazes me how many people think it’s fine to lie if they think in the end something they want will come from the lies.
Several humorous cartoons on Obama and lying at http://drawfortruth.com/category/truthfulness/
The “Rooty-Tooty Fresh and Truthy” news is now available at the Denny’s of Journolism, the WaPoo, where it smells like the south 40 and reads like the late 60′s.
Unlike the Daily Duranty which actually wallows in its own Maoist/Leninist cesspool, the WaPoo still clings (bitterly) to the pretending toward objectivity and camouflage thinly veiling their propagandist rag output.
Newsweek, also known as Journalism’s Dollar Store believes we are all Socialists now. For coming out of the red diaper closet that was pretty brave. Larry O’Donnell agrees but Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews still jowl scowl at being red diaper outed.
Finally, all these red diaper propagandist outlets have “ombudsmen”. A guy who engage in make believe advocacy on behalf of a make believe audience that engages in make believe inquiries about make believe integrity, truth and objectivity in the make believe JournOlistic endeavors of make believe AMERICAN news outlets.
Andrew has hit the high note here, E above middle C quality. As he always does.
About the halo. People who read history know that the halo was originally put on Roman Emperors. Those who assail Christianity, like Terry Jones in his book “Barbarians,” a good short history of those groups that the Romans classified as that, points out the following: “Footnote 21, Chapter XII: The Christianization of the Empire: From the time of Antoninus Pius, c. AD 100, emperors had halos on their coin portraits.”
For atheists and agnostics, the portraits of Obama with a halo represent attributions of emperorship, not angelhood.
so that’s a halo? thank goodness. when i first saw it, i thought it was one of those ring the big head and win a doll games you see at the circus.
Ouch. Klavan doesn’t merely drip with sarcasm. It flows from him, yea, verily, liketh unto a torrent. Fantastic stuff, man.
Robin Roberts is an ABC News leftist, not a CBS News leftist.
But on the spectrum of left wing, activist journalists, she rates as being not particularly noteworthy. Ever since she left the anchor’s chair at ESPN for ABC News, warm-and-fuzzy human interest stories have been her bread and butter (albeit warm & fuzzy cotton candy stories that drip with default, instinctive liberal sensibilities), not Woodward and Bernstein-inspired activist journalism.
And it’s almost certain that her “leftism” wasn’t the reason that Obama’s
about faceovernight evolution on gay marriage gave her “chills.” Perhaps Mr. Klavan was thinking of another “L Word” . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that.What a perfect illustration of the progressive left and their water carriers in the MSM. Well done.
The only logical response to their hypocrisy is ridicule.
“In an incredibly gutsy call, Obama was forced to abandon his make-believe opposition to the controversial issue when his blithering vice president’s open support for guy-on-guy action humiliated the president to the point where he stopped lying about being against gay marriage and lied instead about feeling it was a matter that should be left to the states.”
Knowing the way the internet works, that “guy-on-guy action” line will drive more traffic to this post than anything else in the piece. What’s more, the page views will keep coming to the site for years.
It seems pretty clear to me that, gay or not, Lauber SHOULD have been bullied— for having a family with Republican inclinations.
I prefer the following on the subject: “The truth does not set people free, it merely makes them angry.” Charles McCarry.
I fortunately was immunized by my experience at Hopkins during the late Sixties. I would remind you that Mayor Bloomie had just graduated when I started.
The Nassau County crowd bought all this piffle, without anything like practical experience. My freshman roommate’s parents wanted him to find another room mate because I am a Western WASP. I suppose they thought I had brought my Klan robes.
Racism is not racism if you are of the right group.
All good, and killer satire of reality (or is that reality of satire?). But do you really believe Bamma was hornswoggled into admitting his newfound enlightenment by a Biden soundbite? Even tho the WaPo story was weeks or more in the making?
The politically meaningless and factually dubious story…
Stories like this have been a mainstay of our public discourse since the media signed on as the communications arm of the globo-socialist party. This happened fairly quickly after the hippies graduated and moved into control.
Look at any episode of The View, theDaily Show, the Colbert Report, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN or any daily paper from the NYT, the WaPo, the Globe, the Tribune and on and on ad nauseum… and we get this sorta crap nonstop.
It may be ridiculous and stomach turning, even ridiculous and amusing, but it’s working.
The main stream media, the corrupt bunch of liars they are, should in my humble opinion be water boarded.
Every day.
Is it just me, or does that picture make it look like the halo is pulling Barack’s head to a point just below the event horizon?