I have received several e-mails and other communications that indicate that an alarming amount of people formulate their opinions about Conservatives and what we are about by how we are portrayed by extreme liberal outlets such as MSNBC, the Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the fraudulent posturer Michael Moore.
A perfect example of this is the constant harping on the Birther topic, which attackers of the Conservative movement seem to think is sacred to our doctrine when in fact we all know that this is a total non-issue for mainstream Conservatives. The attacks that I have seen on people like Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal are completely baseless, and the constant attacks on Conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh generally involve taking short sound bites completely out of context.
Another great example is the vociferous excoriation of Bill O'Reilly, who probably has more journalistic integrity than anyone out there. I have said this before - I have seen e-mails to Bill that blasted him for being too far to the left and too far to the right on the SAME STORY. I think that if some of the O'Reilly haters actually read his books and watched his show they might find out that they have a lot more in common with him than they ever would have thought.
When the State controls the media they can force-feed the population whatever they wish to propagate. The sycophantic liberal media in this country sucks up to to those who give them access and support their worldviews. Those who reject Fox News and conservative talk radio out of hand need to re-evalaute their stance; most mainstream media outlets these days are parroting liberal talking points. The Wall Street Journal is a bastion of journalistic integrity that is ignored by the legions who get their worldview from the New York Times and/or Washington Post, among others.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I have heard it said that if you only listen to those that agree with you, you don't grow in your knowledge on the issues. I agree with that analysis to an extent, but now we have a government-media complex that attempts to control the talking points and marginalizes a conservative viewpoint through their attack machine.
ReplyDeleteI will occasionally listen to the sarcasim of MSNBC, but they truly have no journalistic integrity. I can't seem to stomach Rachel Maddow and Keith Oberrmann. They act is if they are the superior intellectuals who have no use for the masses and are drinking the kool-aid of the progressive agenda which seeks to divide the society into Lords & Serfs.
I see that academia swallows their message, hook, line and sinker. If you follow the money though you can truly see its all about the money. Government control helps divide the spoils where they wish.
They are for a limiting of freedom, especially for those that disagree with their message. Progressives are really the antithesis of classical liberalism and closer to facism than the far right they label as facists.