The Manic-Depressive MSM
At the start of last year, in the wake of Scott Brown’s surprising victory in Massachusetts, I wrote:
[Howard] Fineman, and the rest of the newly hyperpartisan and opinion-dominated Newsweek (not to mention the advisors that President Obama keeps even closer at hand) are just bitter that the right has any megaphone at all.
And if their recent victories continue, someone on the far left is bound to dredge up Al Gore’s loony Frankfurt School-style “conservative media bias” trope from 2002.
In the fall of 2008 and early 2009, the left dared to dream big. Back then, we saw the Daily News’ hagiographic endorsement of Obama (their publisher and erstwhile Obama speechwriter has since seen the light). This was quickly followed by Rahm Emanuel’s ham-handed “Never let a serious crisis go to waste” quote. In early January of 2009, even before Obama took office, John Judis of the New Republic wrote, “A decade ago, I might have been embarrassed to admit that I was raised on Marx and Marxism, but I am convinced that the left is coming back.” James Carville promised their reign would last for 40 years. And Newsweek had us believe that resistance really was futile, to coin a phrase.
Two years later, and all is lost.
The Daily News (hot on the heels of fellow crosstown rivals Paul Krugman and Frank Rich) is dusting off Al Gore’s nearly decade-old conservative media bias mantra, and the New Republic is picturing the new GOP Congress as the Return of the Son of the Monster that Devoured DC.
Forget the sclerotic old paranoid style of Richard Hofstadter from nearly 50 years ago — judging by the past two years, it’s long been superseded amongst his fellow leftists by the manic-depressive style of punditry.
To quote the Bruce Willis character in that weird movie wherein he goes back to mentor his younger self:
“It’s time to call the waaaaaaaaambulance!”
LOL. The main-stream media have their heads so far up the Left’s proverbial arses that I doubt they’d even call for the “WAAAAAAAAAAAMbulance!” because that would be admitting they have a problem (you know, the first step of the 12 step program type of deal). These cretins will have none of that and will continue to spin, counter, parry and deny.
“Conservatives dominate the news.” Yeah, that must be it. It couldn’t be that, despite almost every newspaper and TV news is massively left-leaning, people just didn’t like the dog food.
Folks finally awoke and decided to get educated, because the economy stank and they felt threatened by the autocrats. Fox News ratings soared. Conservative blog sites got more success. America had a Libertarian Awakening.
“America had a Libertarian Awakening.” I wouldn’t call it “libertarian” as much as “conservative”.
No, I think it really is libertarian. After all, the dominating themes of the last two years have been small government, deficit reduction, and a repeal of Obamacare. Most pet conservative causes (mostly of the social variety) have been nowhere to be seen. So, yes, a libertarian resurgence. Not that this is bad for conservatives, because it isn’t. But calling it explicitly conservative misses the point, I think.
The media is changing in radical ways. Gramsci after WWI advocated a Cultural Communism that would capture cultural institutions (political parties, media, academia, courts, churches) as a means to achieve Marxist domination. The American leftists came on board in the 1960s, but the cultural foundation has eroded beneath their feet. The print media and even the alpahbet TV news have continued to try to ride a dead horse, even as cable TV and the internet have come to dominate information. ABC, CBS, NBC, and the NYT simply do not understand that they can no longer make a profit trying to sell Marxist propaganda when the truth is freely (well, cheaply) available on Fox and the internet. Consequently, the MSMM is losing money and audience. Good riddance.
And you will never, ever, get the far left to simply admit that the type of socialism embraced by Obama just doesn’t work. Why, it has to be those evil conservatives, right? Even though the Democrats had huge majorities in both houses of Congress PLUS a socialist president in the White House, it was those “nasty” Republicans that stopped all of that progressive legislation, right? And, of course, there wasn’t anything wrong with that over 2,000-page monstrosity called “Obamacare,” right? Let’s just insult anyone who had any questions about it. Because, we should be grateful that our progressive parents in Congress gave us the “gift” of socialized medicine, right? And then the left wonders why we hate them so much.
Nope, this is a fight for the very soul of this nation, as well as its future. If we are not to go bankrupt in the near future, we need to embrace this fight and throw all of these progressive bums out of office. 2012 is coming soon to a voting booth near you. Make the most of it and send a message to the far left that their time in Washington is not only over, but no longer wanted, regardless of how much they may insult or belittle you. After all, it’s the voters who will have the last laugh, just like we did in 2010. Deal with it, liberals.
I’ve been reading the New York Daily News for years, and their columnists have never met a problem they can’t somehow place the blame on George W. Bush, the Republican party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, the evil NYPD, and all white people in general.
Why do I read the paper? thier movie and TV coverage is good. So is the comics section.
I used to give the Newark Star Ledger my subscription money for the same reason: their features. But now I get it all on-line, for free. I refuse to give those socialists my capitalist money.
Conservatives just have that ability to communicate with the facts, that speak for themselves, without all the name calling and slurs that make up much of the lefts vocabulary. Look at any article written about Sara Palin for proof. It’s unbelievable.
I think that is because Manic Progressives lack introspection and the ability consider how they might sound to someone else. They find non-liberal points of view utterly incomprehensible. They can’t imagine that their rhetoric or their policies don’t delight everyone else. The Health Control mandate is a good example, they can’t imagine that anyone would wonder whether the mandate is unconstitutional or not. The fact that a “supposedly” learned judge would find against them exceeds their comprehension skills. That the “incontestable” wonderfulness of their plans doesn’t trump everything else is unthinkable. Thus they instantly rail against the “Activist Judge”and according to Karl Denninger “The White House officials said….the ruling does not rest on “anything like a conventional Constitutional analysis.”
Utterly astounding. Here is the link to Dinninger’s article.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=178879
Kinda early days for triumphalism, Driscoll.
Look at the Country Clubbers’ lineup.
See any pitchers? That haven’t been smeared out of the running?
Buncha stooges.
“Country Clubbers”? You’ve got to get a handle on your dogma. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, John Kerry and the rest of the majority of the richest politicians are on YOUR side of the tennis court, not mine. Although, your “smeared out of the running” comment is unfortunately quite factual.
That Joshua Greenman is a real comedian! They get to create totally bogus narratives and spread them with impunity as well as making any word they choose mean something different than intended and we own the language?
Liberals are, after all, the absolute masters of the Big Lie. I read that Greenman article and, like most other Lib “arguments” that are actual attempts at argument and not just emotive, guilt-tripping nonsense, his are oblique and inferrential.
The entire claim of Greenmans article is that the conservatives “control the debate” through their control of the language used in the debate. Two simple things give lie to his claims: First, if those labels used by conservatives (Death Panels, Obamacare, etc) did not resonate with those hearing them, they would have no power. Those labels resonate with the public and have tremendous power precisely because they conveigh the truth of the situation. Second, the total number of conservative news outlets compared to the number of Lib news outlets equates to less than a pimple on a gnats rear end. It sounds rather silly to claim that ONE news outlet (Fox) and talk radio have the power to control the message through the control of the language unless what they say resonates very deeply with the public at large. Then consider that without the few conservative outlets available the conservative message that resonates so deeply would be completely manicured away by the Libs.
The vast majority of the press in America is Liberal and endlessly promotes a Liberal point of view. Fox news is the ONE single example of what I would term a right-leaning news outlet. Fox has such a large audience precisely because it is not part of the Leftist media machine. Talk radio is also decidedly conservative and, once again, it is such a powerful force because it is not part of the Liberal media hegemony. It is also important to note that listening to talk radio or Fox news usually requires an active choice on the part of the listener. The vast Liberal media machine which includes the “free” broadcast outlets ABCNBCCBSPBSNPR is ubiquitous and inescapable. It is difficult not to absorb the Leftist message through societal osmosis since we are submerged in the Liberal water by the Liberal water carriers.
Well said/written. I wholeheartedly agree.
Sometimes I wish FOX was a little more ‘conservative’ with their actual news reporting though.
I certainly agree about that.There are times when watching Fox that I would love to reach through the screen and elbow OReilly and the ilk ,and say,well did you just hear what Juan said?,well tell the people the truth etc etc.Juan and the other progressives really get away with a lot.And that little Puerto Rican,Gee He is soooo racist and loves Mexican amnesty,I would love to talk to him alone.
Very well put! The use of the “Big Lie” is a common progressive tactic and the current Big Lie that they are peddling is that somehow (against all reason and evidence) conservatives control the media. How do they put this canard across? Well through the very media that THEY control! It’s sort of a bromide to make this observation but – How very Orwellian! It should remind us that the devil’s greatest trick was convincing mankind that he didn’t exist.
Liberal media has created and controlled political terminology for decades. Examples:
“Politically Correct”
“Reactionary”
“Reaganomics”
“[insert-word-here}-gate”
“Fat cat bankers”
Anything to do with race
“Progressive”
“Fairness”
“Climate of hate”
“War monger”
Any pre-Beck reference to Fascism, Hitler or Nazism
….you name it
As a side observation, there is a reference to Obama’s “brilliant mind.” I’m not saying he doesn’t have one, but where’s the evidence? Clearly he’s a bright guy, but “brilliant?” What evidence is there of the particularly penetrating intellect that could be called “brilliant?”
Most successful politicians, especially on the national level, are adept at getting people to see in them what people want to see. Obama is as skilled at this as anyone in our history. This is not a criticism of him, by the way. We do pretty much get what we want in our politicians–not what we say we want but what we want.
Obama – “But his confidence is supported by both a high intelligence and a clear-eyed pragmatism….”
“High intelligence”? Questionable. Obama won the presidency because of his oratory skills, refined while lecturing students at Chicago U. Many idiot Americans were taken in by his vague promises of “hope and change”, after the 6-year left wing media blitz against Bush’s Iraqi war policies. And then the financial meltdown sealed Obama’s win after the Democrats blamed the Republicans and the Bush administration for “lack of regulations”, . I haven’t seen any indications of high intelligence on Obama’s part neither before nor after he became president. Neither were there any indications of great legislative powers during his short time in Congress.
I would add that the LeftMedia Mania created an atmosphere in which People were so busy ‘Making History’ that they forgot to investigate (and were given NO informations about) who they were ‘Making History’ with.
Richard Epstein Discusses Barack Obama
Richard Epstein is a Professor of Law and was a colleague of Barack Obama at the U of Chicago Law School.
Why can’t Wikileaks print the Embassy messages from the other countries after they had Obama to visit.I would love to see them.
It’s because the mask fell off. Obama campaigned as a moderate Democrat. He then governs as a leftwinger, complete with the Alinkyite politics of personal destruction for his opposition.
Agreed. He sold the Democrats a bill of goods. And, as it turns out, he sold the hard left a bill of goods, too. They all thought he was going to undo the horrible, evil things Bush did and “turn the country around.” As it is, he hasn’t undone anything Bush did and the country is still pretty much in the same mess it’s been in for years, Bush or no Bush. The health care bill was his only left-flavored accomplishment, and it’s turning out to be a fiasco. I think the Dems, the left, and Obama all got mugged by reality. They’re not taking it very well, as this article points out.
19% underemployment has nothing to do with the lefts problems.
On the day it was published, I sent this email to Mr. Greenman, whose name I think also tells us his politics:
Nice job of evading the undeniable fact that the overwhelming — note the use of “overwhelming” — majority of journalists think and vote left. If you think and vote left, that is going to give what you guys call “reporting” a certain, how shall we say it — I know! — slant. Call it conscious or unconscious, call it anything you like. It’s clear and people recognize it with the same ease they spot the white streak down the back of the skunk.
Wait… he really thinks leftists don’t use Reaganomics as an insult? And that his fellow leftists should have labeled a law co-authored by Teddy Kennedy as Bushducation? I mean, just the fact that he admits a left wing federal education bill is being blamed on a “conservative” president should tell you everything you need to know about which side dominates the media message.
One has to be truly delusional to make it in the world of leftist political commentary.
Yeah, he’s certainly brilliant. Let me count the ways. Medical corpsemen, having to use telepromters to give a speech or maybe tell you his name. The empty suit probably thinks Henry Ford invented the automobile, the Marine Corp is Marine Corpse, etc, etc, etc. Should I go on with his brilliance?
It’s coming to a head.
History is at a turning point and the outcome isn’t clear.
The media is desperate. The marxists are desperate. Radical Muslims are siezing the opportunity to further their own brand of barbarism.
Beyond belief, millions of Americans are choosing to repudiate the brief 230 year window in history during which the wealth of the world increased 10 times more than in the preceding 10,000 year of civilization.
The drums you hear are your future feudal lords attempting to drown out every voice but their own. They have already rewritten history. The have already rewritten the dictionary. They have already bought their army of followers. They have already constructed a fantasy world of deceipt and evil wrapped in frankincense and myrrh. Every breath they take is dedicated to finally and totally controlling every breath that YOU take.
All they need now is for you to give in to them.
Well-said, Proreason.
I wonder if Soros, Obama et al have thought to themselves, “Damn! Maybe we pronounced America brain dead a little too soon. The patient just sat up, yanked out the IV, and the fogginess is clearing from the eyes.”
Maybe they should have waited a few more years and now they’ve shot their wad a little too soon?
#16 Proreason
All you need is Bullet points on your comment. It is so true. America has lost the ability to think for themselves and make right choices. Please read Gheert Wilders statement on 2/08/11. He is being prosecuted by his own corrupt government for free speech.
“The lights are going out all over Europe.”
Open your front door and listen, you can hear this coming. It will be in a town, city or state near you. Also hhas anyone noticed how MSM treated the Egyptian made for TV “Crisis”.
Political power ebbs and flows like the tide. During the French Revolution the ebb and flow was feverish. One month the left was in power, the next month the right was in power, only to quickly switch back to the left. One month you would laugh as the guillotines “shaved” your opponents. The next month you were on the guillotine. Finally, the conservative dictator, Napoleon, came upon the scene to establish order. Order first, then liberty.
Part of the genius of the American Republic is that the feverish back and forth of popular politic’s pulse is captured in the House of Representative’s election every two years. Thankfully, this fever is moderated by the Senate, one third of which is up for election every two years. The Senate, faced with the House’s fever can, and often does, say, “Let’s just wait awhile. Perhaps the fever will pass.”
When I was a youth, I worked in a service station in the Midwest. A regular customer, a transplanted liberal Boston Brahmin and fellow Harvard alumnus many years older than I, opined to me one day during the Watergate era, “During my life, I have seen the political pendulum swing back and forth three times, now. I am sure it will continue to do the same in the years to come.”
Apart from a misguided and youthful casting of my vote for George McGovern, I have been and continue to be a conservative. As I approach my senior years, I am glad to see the nation’s fever subside. I am glad the nation has come to its senses. I only hope the conservative return to power endures long enough to overcome the liberal and Marxist nostrums prescribed by Doctor Obama.
Order begets liberty, liberty begets chaos and so the cycle continues.
Liberals are the spoiled children of affluence who squander their inheritance.
dOPEBAMA is far more dangerous than McGovern(who at least was a WW2 bomber pilot) Cardumb(a former naval officer) or Clinton(a chameleon more than anything). Dopebama is strictly a dangerous ideolgue, who doesnt have the wit or experience to be a leader. Not to mention hes in cahoots with individuals like Soros and his crowd.
It is bad enough that there are fools out there who don’t believe the propaganda has been forty years in the making for leftists, in which we use their words and phrases incessantly…but, to have one of the Journolist propagandists try to suggest that the opposite is true, is beyond the pale.
Obamacare is his only example of note? Don’t make me laugh.
Trying hard to recreate, what has yet to be created…what a fool believes.
Mr Driscoll, thank you from one of many of the Silent Majority. GOD Bless you and all.
A whack-job named Altermann wrote a book a couple of years ago to this effect [that the GOP operates the media from a man behind the curtain manipulative genius. Despite your lyin' eyes, ears and other senses to the contrary, the Dems' total domination of the MSM [or lamestream media, as the always alert Sarah Palin dubbed it] doesn’t dominate the minds of THINKING Americans. And despite 80 years of Pavlovian training, the dog doesn’t always salivate at the DNC dinner bell entitlements and giveaways.
The reason that the liberal/proglodyte gurus always proclaim their superior intelligence is because it is manifestly hidden to the commonsensical observer. All that book-larnin’ gives snobs like Maher and nasty twits like Olbermann the right to insult the ‘intelligence’ of conservatives, who value principle above bobbing and weaving like artful dodgers, the only play in the Dem’s threadbare mindset.
The archivists in the Dem agitprop cadre-reeducation department are rolling out a new mantra/template for their latest round of disinformation. Used before by other totalitarian agendas, the meme of control of the ‘marketplace of ideas’ by hidden conservative hands is then followed by some sort of “Fairness Doctine” to oppose any political moves by conservatives. Cutting off all methods of political debate by sterilizing contentious issues under a germ-free zone full of “civility” works only when the Dems’ can make every tragedy into a “teaching moment” for liberal principles, which cannot be challenged fairly in the libtard mindset because they are, uh, so oxymoronic—since principles are outside the existential guilt-free lib perspective.
The only lib/proglodyte principle that exists on the arid left is one an SDS pal of Bill Ayers, staying at my Ann Arbor apartment during an SDS confab, told me after smoking a couple of [my] joints.
“Dave, always remember, no fault on the left.” His name was Mark Rudd, and he still exists in a New Mexico commune somewhere.
any economic system that rewards you on the basis of how needy you can make yourself is bound to be a failure. “share according to your needs” the most evil idea in the history of mankind.
“The MSM/liberals fail to recognize the audience is to the right of center”…? Isn’t the “audience” everybody? How can the center of everybody be to the right of center? Is that some ideal/Platonic center that is understood only by the liberal elite and exists outside this mortal coil? Wow, these people are really, really deep. I surrender.
Exactly…the country is no more “right of center” than the average IQ is greater than 100.
If you sit to the far left, you’re going to think that the rest of the population is rightist. Let’s call the 50 yard-line what it is.
Joshua Greenman thinks Bushducation would have been pretty catchy? That could explain why “Republicans wrote the political dictionary:”. Bushducation doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
How do the libs always get to set the agenda via positive-sounding euphemisms such as: “DREAM act’, “net neutrality”, “Fairness doctrine”?
I had occasion to interact last year with both sides in a union contract dispute at a major company. I tried and tried to glean one useable, rational comment from the out-of-town union rep. He would launch into a monologue laced with “greedy capitalists” abusing “poor hardworking families” (who make four times what I do). He never answered a question with data or facts. Seriously, I could talk to him for half an hour and it was like someone had flipped a switch to bombast autopilot. I got more down to earth Information from the Local union officers (whom the international union soon silenced). The top company management patiently answered all my questions face to face and took all my phone calls.
I urge all conservatives to stick to facts and data. Such an approach will win the day.
People are tired of manufactured drama.
Increasingly, it seems to me that conservatives or someone needs to address the diverse elephant in the room: what are we going to do about the millions of unemployable, uneducated, unwanted blacks and browns stuffed into housing projects and living on the streets across the country.
These descendents of slaves have actively chosen a life style that rejects education and embraces having lots of babies, living on welfare, and trying for easy wealth through dope-dealing and robbing each other. With the occasional forway into Beverly Hills to shoot a lady agent on her way home from a glittering Hollywood event.
Obama and his liberal/Marxist coterie have always had a bottom line of lifting this cohort of Americans out of their self-imposed morass by funneling taxpayer wealth into their education, into affirmative programs like Pigford, into preferential voting tactics that involve ACORN and the new Black Panthers, and into a healthcare program specifically aimed at allowing them the tippy-top notch healthcare employed Americans enjoy for free.
Just because we are presently successfully beating back these socialist programs across the board does not mean that this bottom-line problem is going to go away. I suppose benign neglect might possibly lead to them all killing each other off in a Darwinian survival of the fittest way, but that seems really messy as well as taking forEVER, as evolution always seems to do. Not to mention the occasional Beverly Hills lady agent might have had some qualms about being shot and killed by an ex-convict on a bicycle at a relatively early age for absolutely no good reason.
As long as the media, NAACP, ACLU, PBS and the White House can keep up their message of “It’s for the children” and “Diversity is good”, we will be perennially throwing buckets of money at a problem that has afflicted America since 40 acres and a mule, and just doesn’t – ever — seem to change or get better.
It seems to me that the concept of “accountability” needs to be redefined, and we need to be rethinking adages like “you are your brother’s keeper”.
Co-Sign.
Fortunately, the minuscule black population isn’t anywhere near as much of a problem as the burgeoning “illegal immigrant” situation which will turn into a nightmare if someone doesn’t turn on the hoses, batten down the hatches and build a better electric fence.
Also, statistically, there are a lot more lazy whites who suck off of the government teat too [and probably all voted for 0bie-doobie-wan-kan-freebie].
“Obama and his liberal/Marxist coterie have always had a bottom line of lifting this cohort of Americans out of their self-imposed morass”
The opposite is the truth.
The results of the Florida recount came in sometime in December of 2000. At that point Al Gore then blew the opportunity of a lifetime which a true patriot and a man with real honor would have taken. He could have said “I am disappointed in the result but I want to remind my own supporters and all Americans that we are a nation of laws and Mr. Bush is president by rule of law. He is now the President of the United States. Any policy differences with Mr. Bush should be played out in the normal course of the political process.”
Instead Gore went to court and the result was “Gore v. Bush” decided by a 5-4 vote. Mr. Gore refused to be either gracious or conciliatory but instead sulked in his tent, publicly groused about the result and decided to establish himself as the grand poo-bah of environmental policy. The MSM used this as the rationale for open hostility to the Bush presidency and also to elevate Mr. Gore into some sort of seer or oracle on global warming. This in turn, he gleefully used as a stick to beat Mr. Bush over the head for the next seven years.
9/11 presented the MSM and the “progressive” left with their worst nightmare. An attack directly on the U.S. by an identifiable enemy which might have the efffect of rallying the entire nation to Mr. Bush’s side. With much reluctance they went along for awhile but began a sort of passive/aggressive campaign against the war siezing on every mistake and error (and there were a lot of them) to castigate the Bush administration. (Remember when casualties in Afghanistan or Iraq were front-page news?) After the 2004 election the MSM was in full war-cry against Bush and all things conservative. It ws then that the Left really began to adopt the lofty and supercillious tone of moral and intellectual superiorty that they so effortlessly deploy today. Every fresh administration setback was received with undisguised glee and the media (and the left) virtually joined the side of Iraqui and Afghani “insurgents.”
When Mr. Obama came along the media fell for him not as a politician but (pardon the metaphor) more as a lover. (Imagine how Hillary Clinton felt when this happened.) It was the same all-out worship that a far more limited media gave to John F. Kennedy back in the day. Obama was “smart”, he was “cool” and he was “an intellectual.” Like any good lover who wants something from the other party, Obama played them like a gold-digging chorus girl playing an aging suitor.
After spending six or seven years building up an incredible head of contemptuous steam for Mr. Bush, the left (and the media) now had a love-object on which to lavish all of their passion. Bush was the devil and Obama an angel (or “sort of a god” if you were Chris Matthews) and the fisal crisis of 2008 sealed the deal
And the media remains the pining lover; disappointed by their beloved’s performance but preferring him to every other mortal. Like any fervid suitor they oscillate between anger and affection, sorrow and joy, disappointment and ecstacy.
So this is where we are at now. Rather like Emil Jannings “The Blue Angel” the media is fully committed to their passion and cannot break it’s thrall. Already the 2012 editorials are being written declaring Mr. Obama to be “the Comeback Kid” and we are being reminded what a wonderful job he is doing “under terrible circumstances.” I am sure they will describe him as “a great conciliator” as well.
(Sorry to write at length but I wanted to organize all of this in some way.)
for the record the florida recount was eventually concluded with a full accounting.
…and gore lost that count as well so in the end they didn’t have the opportunity to keep counting until they could defraud the public.
MSM will not talk about it since they would like people to think gore was cheated.
Nicely written. And obviously correct, though my “always voted Republican, but this time…” friends, heads still firmly and happily planted in the sand (or somewhere), would never acknowledge it’s truth.
” … (Compare this to, say, “No Child Left Behind,” which has never for a second been called Bushducation – though that would have been pretty catchy.)”
Bushducation? Yeah that is so, uh, “catchy” you just know a liberal had to’ve come up with it.
Dr F
Good point. It’s unwieldy but they would have used Bushmisuneducation if they had thought of it and NCLB didn’t have the imprimatur of Saint Teddy.
How about Chimpybushnaziyoucation? Catchy?
No Child Left Behind – “cuz everybody’s held back in these guvmint-run schools.” There was no serious Dem party attack on this Bush program because it was the consummate statist bandaid on a broken and irredeemable but un-removable government program. Dems like that, unless there is an actual possibility of their union sponsors being hurt.
Anyone who claims that the media is dominated the right should be given strong anti-psychotic medication.
This kind of abrasive rhetoric against Conservatism, the Tea Partiers, the so called Right Wingers, etc. by a cadre of journalists and pundits schooled in the predominantly liberal campuses of America will continue for as long as they don’t reflect inwardly and develop substantive arguments in defense of their political views. Given their currently predominant political views the best they can do is hurl ad hominem attacks at every prominent Conservative, Conservative media and Conservative political organization that they perceive as threats to the implementation of their precious agenda which they show no signs of modifying no matter the cost, convinced as they are that their views are inherently superior in every way because of an “impeccable” intellectual foundation; they have the texts written by the most influential academic scholars and their impressive degrees to prove it. Of course these approaches to governing are so nuanced and of such an esoteric nature that Conservatives and the average American Neanderthal can never be made to understand their brilliance, clarity and applicability to the real world. That they are so unconventional, never tried or tried and failed before only provides impetus to try them or try them again and this time “get it right.” Nationalism, pragmatism and American exceptionalism are such outdated concepts. Globalism, environmentalism and the redistribution of wealth are so much loftier aspirations.
Gee, when I started reading this post, I thought someone was talking about God. Then I noticed the NY Daily News and the date and I realized it was only liberals discussing the dumb, incompetent, America hating garbage fouling up the WH and doing his best to cause lasting harm.
Naturally then, liberals would think such a man brilliant.
It takes a particular type of blindness coupled with raging ego and much hostility to believe that someone you agree with politically is automatically intelligent. Even so, does it have to be ObamaTrash?
Heh. The NY Daily News is correct; conservatives do have a sway over the language, or at least they do far out of proportion to their representation in the media.
Perhaps they might wonder why that is? After all, the media the writer mentions never uses those terms. Can FOX News, talk radio, and other niche market outlets really control the national vocabulary to that extent? Of course not. The reason phrases like “Obamacare,” “illegal immigrant,” “muslim terrorist,” “patriotic/real American,” “moral values” find such purchase despite the fact that no one in the MSM uses them is that the public uses them.
Joshua Greenman seems to have forgotten the last two months when the Lamestream Media promoted the insane idea that conservatives caused a massacre by a left wing kook as well the last year when the same media pushed the obscene term for a homosexual sex act to describe the conservatives.
Good thing nothing Reagan advocated ever picked up a catchy pejorative name, like Star Wars.
Their estimation is that the rest of the world works like Journolist.
“Republicans wrote the political dictionary…Our political vocabulary comes from the mouths of crafty conservatives”
Yeah right. Let’s forget all the political terminology that has been invented or twisted by our “progressive” friends.
I think Obamacare is a misnomer. It’s really Harry Reid-care. Remember it was the Senate’s bill which was passed by the House after Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts meant they knew they couldn’t get another bill through the Senate.
So, the 40-year reich didn’t last as long as the third. Maybe there’s hope for the U.S. yet.
Bill,
Let’s leave that kind of language to Janeane Garofalo.
Actually, I had the same Reich-like thought. Does that mean if you reference a certain historical fact, then you’re a Garofolo? Or has Godwin’s Law managed to ban *all* references to Germany and WW2?
The Daily News’ Greenman needs a history lesson. Reaganomics was a slur, born of voodoo economics from the the 1980 primaries, until it proved a success. Obamacare was a badge of honor for accomplishing what liberals wanted since FDR, until it proved a political millstone.
Never mind that it is a goal of this law to have the government decide who gets what care. Dem voters will sometimes admit they desire this in private conversation. Obama said as much with the red pill blue pill anecdote. It could have as easily been the red pill no pill anecdote for the government determined efficacy logic used. Even if they don’t say statists would naturally want such control and expect to get it at some point. Dems just prefer not to mention it.
The larger issue is really whether the Republican party should be on the side of unlimited government expenditures for high quality care but with price controls essentially under the current system of Medicare and Medicaid by tagging Obamacare with the death panels stuff. These were the essential arguments made. Republican party for and defending existing medicare and medicaid programs? Not too good if you ask me. These two programs will empty the Treasury. How about working for the abolition of medicare and medicaid with a completely different idea for any forced funding by some of care for others who cannot (one standard) or did not even attempt to (a different standard entirely) attend to their own life situations including planning for the eventual gradual destruction of their bodies. Noone here gets out alive. It is not compassion to pretend that life does not carry essential burdens and difficulties. It is the opposite to tell people they need not face and plan for and fund themselves these things. And, where the idea is sold on envy – well I for one would say that is the worst feature of Democrat party politics – because that is the worst human trait of a voter in our broken republic.
The MSM is desperate. The public is largely wise to them. Who reads newspapers or watches broadcast news? The internet allows us to bypass the gate keepers. We know their attempt to create Newspeak. Extreme is a synonym for what every day Americans think. Progressive is a synonym for totalitarian control. We get it. They have had their last hurrah with their false Messiah.
No Mr. Driscoll, you are deliciously wrong, it has been superseded by a most unusual thing, called the truth.
What is dead is punditry. Though in all fairness, the pundits do not know this. They all keep flapping their gum’s along the same old tired lines. Life has left them in the dark. There is a paradigm afoot, you of all folks should recognize it Mr. Driscoll. You see it don’t you? Your a very astute fellow. See the message does not belong to either party any longer, that is where you are wrong. Though it is flattering to believe you can influence millions, it is self deceiving too. No matter, it is useful chatter, no information should “go to waste”.
You got to perceive something here Mr. Driscoll, something you know in your heart to be true, there is that detail again, The Truth. The traditional press in all its forms has outlived its welcome, as has the culture of moral corruption in government, but more important it has outlived its relevance. In a very relevant sense like the Liberty movement and the III %, real news has gone underground and is in large part part of the ground swell uprising of reclamation of this here Constitutional Republic. Below the radar you might say, but very overt if all you do is take the time to look. The “message” is not controlled by any faction or doctrine or what ever has been the relevant “power” of the time. There is a new pundit in town. It is called we the people, it is called search for the Truth. And nobody, not nothing is gonna stand in its way. It is both nebulous and fundamental, it is affirmation of the roots and beginning of this Republic. It is the core and soul of that greatness and shining light Mr. Reagan spoke so eloquently of. That message is the new awakening broadcast via a digital grapevine, The New Media.
Truth be told Sarah Palin has raised the Flag Reagan’s predecessors dropped in fright and cowardliness. She alone has wrenched the standard from its imprisonment in desecrated Sovereign soil of this battle field of the tyranny of rule of men verses Rule of Law and Liberty, she has washed decades of trampled principles of Liberty from its shaft and glorious pennant, and standing on that hill, that shining city silhouetting her, waving our standard of Liberty she has become a beacon of what is right and proper, of truth and merit.
You all of the fading press, you too Mr. Driscoll, are missing the greatest story in American history in 234 years. It is serious history in the making, and your missing it for the paltry meaningless exaltation of a naked lying potentate and his foolery.You Sir are being played for a useful dupe. Shame shame on you Mr. Driscoll.
The real story is stuff legends are made of, stuff that changes history. Stuff that is the crux of what makes America that shining city on the hill.
The real story is passing you by.
Actually, I agree with much of what you’ve written, and discussed it here numerous times. So why the strange Olbermann-esque tone in your comment?
Mt Top Patriot is an obvious spoofing liberal [who incidentally needs to a) take his meds and b) brush up on his spelling skills....'your' does not equal 'you're']
The Return of the Son of the Monster that Devoured DC, eh?
Sounds like they’d better start smearin’ that Jello.