The Albatross Media

I’m reading the Council nominations today. Usually, I read the Council on Wednesday and then the non-Council offerings the next day. This week I turned it around, just for variety.

The MSMAnd now I’m disgusted. Every new example of the MSM propaganda posing as news seems to become more and more egregious. This week, Done With Mirrors has titled his post “The Media We Deserve.”

Callimachus always presents coherent and tightly ordered arguments. But this one…well, let me present the quote from a link on his post — he doesn’t actually quote it since he is moving on in building his argument—but I clicked the link out of curiosity. This is from the News Sedition Section of Yahoo, under the subsection US News, and a further drill down to “Bush Administration.” Bear in mind that this is not an editorial, it’s supposed to be a news report. However, it is anything but repotting. It’s sabotage disguised as reportage:

Bush ties campaign to national security

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — President Bush tried to drown out political anxieties about war and sex Wednesday by sounding alarm bells on national security and urging people to “vote Republican for the safety” of the country.

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This week has put the Republicans’ bid to keep control of Congress in further jeopardy and brought even more bad news for the president. Republicans on Capitol Hill have been damaged by one member’s online sexual advances against teenage boys, while military commanders in Iraq are grappling with a rash of troop casualties and allegations of police corruption.

New polls show Americans are increasingly unhappy with Bush’s leadership and the war in Iraq. And even after months of campaigning on immigration reform, he had to sign a bill Wednesday with only a fraction of the changes he wanted.

Still, Bush persisted with the strategy that has brought Republican victory in the last two elections — campaigning on national security with some tax talk thrown in. With Republicans down, he tried to bring Democrats down even farther.

The “news report” goes on for many more paragraphs, including descriptions of the scenery. The troops to whom he was speaking are excised from this picture; they are never even mentioned. More faux reportage from faux journalists.

I loathe the MSM. Callimachus says it’s the “media we deserve.” I don’t agree. It’s the media we are stuck with, a media we inherited and cannot get rid of because it so heavily controlled by the elites in this country: the academic community, the “journalist” community, the celebrity bubble, and the Democrats’ party have more dirty tricks up their sleeve than Nixon and his plumbers ever dreamed of doing. It’s not about brains, it’s about who controls the gate on the flow of information. Gaining control of that gate is going to be a long, uphill slog.

This entry of Callimachus may well win the Council vote. If it does, you’ll see it on Gates somewhere down the line in the Council winners’ post . Meanwhile, go read it now, just to see where he’s going with this:

Now, what was entirely missing from this story — astonishing, since it was another headline on the same day — was the newly released barrage of “enemy propaganda” by Ayman al-Zawahri of al-Qaida. And sure enough, it sounds exactly like Bush’s domestic critics…

The “barrage of ‘enemy propaganda’“ starts right here in this country. Who needs al-Qaida to bash us when our perfect storm of seditious elites is willing to level our country in the name of their own treasonous ideals? How does one even begin to break through the shell of such blind narcissism?

5 thoughts on “The Albatross Media

  1. I am now of the firm belief that sometime in the late fifties, possibly even earlier, someone like George Soros, and later George himself, have dedicated their money to the taking over of our media. They figured, I guess, that if they couldn’t beat us in Korea or Viet Nam, they’d beat us with our own media. It’s probably not so direct as all that, but mostly co-opting those on the left to be further left, to lead them into communism/socialism, and to then support all those who agreed with their agenda, openly or not. We have a civil war going on right here. Foley was outed by a blog that was set up for that purpose, reference TheAbsurdReport which seems to be all over this, and other attacks, such as the macaca affair and others, are designed to do nothing more than destroy Republicans while giving Democrats every pass in the book. This has worked hand in hand with the Muslims, who’s rage and terror they left have tried to use to their advantage. Not, again, directly, as in supporting them, but by letting the Republicans fight the fight they know has to be fought, relying on them to win, while taking the opportunity to stab them in the back every chance they get. This is why I long ago made my prediction that America would not exist in fifty years, now down to forty four, as we are six years into things. This was mainly predicated by the 2000 election and the blatant abuse of their (the media) power I could finally see. Not that it hadn’t been there before, but I just shut my eyes to it like most others who don’t see it. It isn’t seditious elites, it’s just sedition, plain and simple, from rich and poor, but paid for by the rich, and then co-opting the poor who will fall for any old line when they are not offered any alternative, or are convinced of the untruthfulness of anyone who disagrees with them. There are actually people who believe that too much choice and freedom is a bad thing, and there are those who support gay rights (another redefinition of terms fight, Orwellian in nature, because they realize they have to fight us on the front first, the war of words), and women’s rights, etc., are simply supporting the Dems just as they always have, while being used for those who are in control’s own purposes. I see the Clintons there, but I also see them as not being at the top, but simply one of the handpicked faces, and one that may be changed soon.

  2. The post in Yahoo news is attributed to Associated Press and probably taken off their newswire service.

    Contact them and challenge their reporting.
    Contact Yahoo News and complain.

    It’s not that hard to do!

  3. It’s definitely rotten of Bush to try to turn attention from the misdeed of one Congressman to something as unimportant as national security. What could he be thinking?

    I know what the Donks are thinking. They are thinking they cannot win if security is the issue.

  4. The prostitution of “journalists” goes back even further than the ’50’s. Remember Walter Duranty in the New York Times raving about the wonderful miracles Stalin had wrought? He knew about the genocide and starvation in Ukraine and looked the other way just so he could have access.

    This is more than one person. It was/is a zeitgeist thing, and you could probably trace the roots of the cancer all the way back to the bloody French “revolution.” That’s when Europe *really started eating her young. And the elites here have merely by-passed that part by not having very many…young, I mean.

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