American Media, Blaming the ‘Right’: From Duranty and the KGB to Reuters
A Reuters article last month titled “German protesters stop neo-Nazi march in Dresden” takes a hyper-partisan stab at what would otherwise have been a dull story. The article is short, 474 words, and describes a neo-Nazi funeral march in the German city to remember Nazi deaths by the Allied air raid in WWII. This event was thwarted by anti-Nazi protesters.
In this brief article about clear-cut good and evil, the political “right-wing” is awkwardly invoked six times, including under the caption. Such a ham-handed approach to finger-pointing can hardly go unnoticed. It is a sloppy attempt to paint the right-wing as sharing the ideology of one of the most evil men in history, Adolf Hitler.
As many people are beginning to understand, Nazism has nothing to do with modern conservatism or the clichéd “extreme right-wing” canard favored by the political left. In fact, all totalitarian regimes are on the extreme political left; nothing but anarchy exists on the extreme political right.
The modern left has its roots in the political phenomenon of the 1930s when progressivism, communism, fascism, socialism, and Nazism coalesced under the common flag of centralized governments and an ideology of collectivism. This worldwide movement went largely unchallenged ideologically until the reassertion of classical liberalism through the American conservative movement in the 1950s. The in-vogue politics of the 1930s spanned merely from the “right-wing” nationalistic fascism of Mussolini and Hitler to a “left-wing” muddle of socialism, Marxism, and communism.
To equate the George Washington-loving, Constitution-quoting, flag-carrying, tea partying conservatives of today with the Nazis or fascism is an exercise in fear mongering and a simple wordplay on the misconceptions of the historical context of “right-wing.” (For a simplistic explanation of this assertion, see this brief video.)
The “objectivity” of the modern press is often breached by such outbursts, as seen in the article referenced above. The political right-wing is excoriated through straw men and outright lies to be subliminal reminders of the purported righteousness of the ideological left. Nothing less can be expected of those with no defense based on their own history, as we’ll soon see.
Let’s turn the tables on the press and mass media in general to examine their history. We’ll look at the strategies and political leanings of most outlets of “journalism” to see who has been influenced the most by anti-freedom, dishonest, statist, and totalitarian tactics.
The political favoritism and outright lies of left-wing press
In the 1985 documentary Soviet Subversion of the Free-World Press, ex-KGB propagandist and defector Yuri Bezmenov explains in detail how the American media was led by the nose into distributing Soviet propaganda because of their communist sympathies and willingness to “look the other way”:
Griffin (interviewer): We’ve read a lot about the concentration camps and slave labor camps under the Stalin regime. Now the general impression in America is those things are part of the past. Are they still going on today? (1985)
Bezmenov: Yes. There’s no qualitative change in the Soviet concentration camp system. There are changes in numbers of prisoners. … I would say that those intellectuals who try to convince the American public that [the] concentration camp system is a thing of the past are either conscientiously misleading public opinion or they are not very intellectual people. They’re selectively blind. They lack intellectual honesty when they say that.
Bezmenov goes on to explain and prove his credentials in KGB operations and recounts several stories of interactions with Western leftists, naming them specifically as “progressives.” He was assigned an agent position with Novasti Press Agency, a front group for KGB propaganda:
Bezmenov: Another area of activity when I was working for the Novasti was to accompany groups of so-called “progressive intellectuals,” writers, journalists, publishers, teachers, professors of colleges. You can see me here for various propaganda operations.
In 1967 the KGB attached me to this [video time: 35:18] “Look Magazine.” … A group of 12 people arrived to USSR from United States to cover the 50th Anniversary of October Socialist Revolution in my country. From the first page to the last page it was a package of lies, propaganda cliché. Which were presented to American readers as opinions and deductions of American journalists. Nothing could be farther from truth. [These] were not opinions, they were not opinions at all, they were the clichés which the Soviet propaganda wants [the] American public to think that they think. … The basic message is that Russia today is a nice, functioning, efficient system supported by [the] majority of [the] population. That’s the biggest lie, and of course American intellectuals and journalists from Look Magazine liberated on that untruth in various different ways. They intellectualized that lie. They found all kinds of justifications for telling lies to [the] American public.
CarolineGlick.com & debka.com are good eye opening sources of de-brainwash or ignorance is blis: abcbsnbcbbcapfoxy…(bow to the oil G-d); whichever you prefer… (read their 2-8 year old material and see who told you the truth)
What’s come over THIS self-pitiful sweet puppy, Dr. Bones?
Why should it (or its Party, or its AEIdeology) care what anybody says about Chancellor Hitler, who did, after all, die before either you or I was born? And in another country, too.
Healthy days.
Those on the Left; progressives, Marxists, socialists, begin with obfuscation and then, flat out lies. It’s what they do. And when the light of truth is shown on them, they blame others by trying to damage or destroy their credibility; it’s the process all over again, because the Left’s MO is deceit.
“Progressive” like “Gay” and “Discrimination” are examples of words that have been politicized, and therefore in the end have less cachet than they did before they were politicized.
Guess who did the politicizing.
A good thing there is an internet. It serves as the antidote to the poison in the MSM. Thus, I don’t think Duranty could ever have gotten away with his lies, were there an internet back then. (And BTW – the NY Fishwrap, aka Times, still won’t give back his Pulitzer.) I think, too, (or is it hope) that the MSM will go the way of the dinosaurs. They do seem to be getting there fairly quickly as they bleed money due to lost ad revenues.
Still the technology of the propagandist is pretty impressive.
Not only is the liberal leader of a labor union party, Herr Hitler, considered “Right-wing” but after a hundred years of fighting to free the slaves and achieve equal rights the Republicans are considered “Racist.” With their dying breath the Progressives will probably claim the tea partiers to be dirty freeloading hippies. Any bets?
Liberal is just a synonym for Stalinist. If you doubt it, just look at the liberal lickspittling of Fidel Castro by the media,hollywood, and “intellectual” elites.
The United States is going through a classic internal communist type takeover right now. Obama’s whole background, his family, his friends and his mentors point to one very obvious thing, he is a Marxist and detests Capitalism. His history is/was buried like the 10 million starved to death in the Ukraine in the 1920′s and 30′s by the communists, hidden by the same newspapers but led by Walter Duranty’s New York Times. Remember this, as detestable as Hitler might be, Josep Stalin has murdered 10 times as many, communists have murdered more than 200 million of their own citizens.
A superb article.
Dont forget-even in the 1930s the media LOVED Mussolini, Hitler ,and Stalin. Remember where the words “potemkin village” came from? Those were DURANTYS OWN WORDS describing Soviet communism like it was some sort of Disneyland while ignoring the mass murders going on under the eyes of Yagoda and Beriya. Same with Joe McCarthy. McCarthy was CORRECT about communists in our own midst(see today-Obama and his whole admin r commies. NBC and MSNBC its a job requirement you be a useful idiot. Look at what happens to non-conformists like Stuart Varney, John Stoessel,Glenn Beck,Bernard Goldberg,Lou Dobbs and John Gibson-all basically pushed out because they werent ideologically driven. LAW ACADEMIA MEDIA AND POLTICS-taken over by COMMUNISTS in the 1950s/1960s. Even now-MOVE ON.ORG is running most all news orgs not named Fox. Well Move on commies, I have some news for you. Better check and see who your commie pals kill first. Its the useful idiots like you, dolts.
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Communism is actually a conservative invention.
NBC and MSNBC its a job requirement you be a useful idiot. Look at what happens to non-conformists like Stuart Varney, John Stoessel,Glenn Beck,Bernard Goldberg,Lou Dobbs and John Gibson-all basically pushed out because they werent ideologically driven. LAW ACADEMIA MEDIA AND POLTICS-taken over by COMMUNISTS in the 1950s/1960s. Even now-MOVE ON.ORG is running most all news orgs not named Fox. Well Move on commies, I have some news for you. Better check and see who your commie pals kill first. Its the useful idiots like you, dolts.