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| OK, I have to get this out. Please comment on it, shoot at it, print it and wrap in around the TP roll, but I do believe this to hold true. I must first thank Fred for the bandwidth to speak my piece. He is a modern day Paul Revere. Fred's battle cry is not, "One if by land, two if by sea". It is, "Fight all enemies foreign and domestic". As I sat watching Countdown on MSNBC, then O'Riley on FOX my mind focused to the true issues before us. First was what happened to the news? When I grew up watching TV the news was great. Lots of hard stories about life, politics, the war, Russia, etc... Then at the end there would be a five minute commentary. Usually the executive producer or someone of that caliber, not a reporter, would make comment on something the station felt important. This was good and welcome. It was like the newspapers my father used to read, lots of news with a section for commentary and opinion. I'm not lamenting the good old days here, this is just how it was. Our media kept the news on one page and opinion on another. Now when you watch the "news" there isn't any news just long opinion sections. It is ALL biased, agenda driven, and meant to sway ideals. For example: If a tree gets blown over during a storm and hits someone, MSNBC will scream the right deforested the area reducing protection for the tree, thus causing the event and Bush knew it would happen. Then FOX would claim the left would not let the right remove the tree even though they knew it was a hazard. The news of the child left an orphan would be used only as fodder by each side to bash each other, and not as the main story line. CNN of course would have that vile woman prejudging God as the murderer. This would be comical if not so sad. After Olbermann I watched O'Riley. He spoke of the culture war, hmmm. He called the left progressives, or something. I got angry and emotional about the topic, yes it was health care, and I had to stop and think about just exactly why I was angry. Health care in the US is in trouble, it is not working like it should, and we need to get it back on track. I don't think anyone will argue that it is fine the way it is. Peeling back the arguments to the root really opens up to the truth. At the end of the day it is not about health care, GM, bailouts, or any of these distractions. We are in the midst of a fight to control America, this is an interesting coup d'état. Let me explain at my level. There are three branches to our government that runs/controls this nation. That is the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The media has always seen itself as protected, a watch dog, and free. After Viet-Nam and Nixon's Watergate the leadership of the networks realized the true power of their media when forces are combined, and seemed to make the conscious decision to stop reporting the news and to start molding public opinion. The media has de facto placed itself as the fourth element of power in our nation. Historically we can see how this happened. Viet-Nam and the Watergate event showed how powerful the media can be if they release the information correctly. The media stayed one step ahead of Nixon during Watergate. They timed the releases of information to take down the president, not to get to the truth, and they crucified him. Reagan was the great communicator. He knew how to use the media and in the end when the networks turned on him, he had a terrible time managing it. Now to the Clintons. They were the tipping point and really gave control to the networks. The Clintons would check public opinion before each decision. They would check the polls and then release White House policy based on those polls. In effect, they were giving the decision making process, or better said power over the process to the polling organizations and the networks that controlled them. For this the press loved the Clintons. NBC, CBS, ABC ran policy for our country for years. The news showed starving babies in Somalia and we sent in the Marines. The military tried to stop the warlords that caused the starving and the press objected when there was fighting. We lost another military operation; I wish the press played to win. Bush came along and put the press on notice. I believe Bush saw it clearly when he told the press that he ran the country not them. That started the war over control of our nation's minds. The press went after him. Every decision was torn apart, every action criticized. FOX and the talk radio fired up in response. For the networks this was a boon. Left vs. right and market share to the victor. Even the campaigns to get advertisers to stop advertising on Beck or Olbermann is shallow and transparent at best, making the public complicit in stealing advertising customers is more the reality. If MSNBC gets Tide to stop advertising on FOX, just what do we think Tide will do? They certainly won't stop advertising; they will change networks and go to ones that they won't get complaints about. Over to you MSNBC with Tide and the revenue. We, the left and right are pawns here and fools. This leads us to Obama. He is probably the weakest president we have ever had.
This all goes back to Olbermann and MSNBC. He said last night that everyone who opposed Obama unconsciously did it out of some latent racial hate. He was spitting angry and his hypocrisy raged. I do think he was close, meaning that the visceral response to Obama is a rather pavlovian one, but not from bigotry, rather from America's ingrained ability to see a fraud and to sense when our liberties are at risk. We did not get to 200 plus years old drinking the kool-aid. The old adage, "I'm not sure what is going on here, but I'm sure it's not good" is at work here; both the left and right see it, on both sides. Americans are good at identifying a fraud, or puppet, and when they are told to shut up and take it from the government, well, historically, all hell breaks loose. I believe if we are not careful all hell will. We as a people, as a nation, are at a crossroad in time. We are fighting the wrong enemy; we are fighting the wrong battles. We are fighting for our 1st Amendment rights and for proper representation, but our enemy is not Congress, the Senate, or even the office of the President. Our enemy is the networks. They have confused the issues in a very well run Psy-op campaign to get inept leaders that are easily influenced by the networks in power and control their every move. These politicians, on both sides, run to the media coverage, to dinners, to interviews, but hide and put up pictures at town hall meetings because they are too cowardly to face the people that elected them. They know they are frauds, they know they have no business in politics and leadership, and they are deathly afraid the masses will call them out on it. We have a choice to make about the networks: we can either continue to bicker like kids over age old issues while the networks ransack our kingdom or we can unite and go after our real enemy. The Left is not my enemy, they are balance. I am not their enemy, I am balance. The networks have divided this country and turned us against ourselves. We must first take down the networks and get back to news being covered, not editorialized. Then systematically get a Congress and Senate that answers to the people and not the networks and network polls.
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| Posted by:49 Pan |
| #9 Take note, all. This is where 49 Pan's political career started. Life is going to get interesting in his part of the world pretty darn quick. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-10 23:21 |
| #8 It's a Heisenburg problem Pan. The area under a curve can better be defined by smaller and smaller slices of the curve. Remember that? But if you are measuring a living social curve, each touch shifts it. More news, more channels, more touches introduces more deviation. Carefully orchastrated touches on a common theme, 'sampling' the social curve, will steer it(pun intended, thank you). |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-09-10 23:13 |
| #7 OK Armyguy, time to stop bitching and build a plan. Point taken, more to follow, NSDQ. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-09-10 21:29 |
| #6 Healthcare is fine. You don't have coverage and need and Emergency room and you will get care in an Emergency room. Doesn't matter if you are legal or not. This has helped to bankrupt the States but that's another issue, and reforming Healthcare won't solve that. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-09-10 21:07 |
| #5 And the fun part, 'moose, is it's true. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-10 20:38 |
| #4 I know a quick way for the Republicans to get the networks back on the straight and narrow, if not pro-Republican side. Loudly suggest that the major media corporations are an oligopoly that needs to be dealt with in an antitrust campaign. Even a few Republican leaders saying so, and GE and Disney CEOs would personally shove oily rags in the mouths of their radical journalists. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-09-10 20:09 |
| #3 Hear, hear, 49! I never watch network news, and dropped the paper over a year ago when I decided the only thing that wasn't a lie in the paper was the comics and some of the classifieds. And I tell anyone who asks what I've done and why. Damned if I'll pay with either time or money to be lied to. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-10 19:29 |
| #2 Health care in the US is in trouble, it is not working like it should, and we need to get it back on track. I don't think anyone will argue that it is fine the way it is. Hmm..so when was it better? 1950? 1970? 1990? What's not available today to more people than it was back then? [Here's a hint - emergency rooms in most hospitals. Gone. Why? Maybe because the federal government mandated that no ER could turn anyone away, but failed to underwrite the cost of that little morality play. So where do the 'poor' go now? Why to the same ERs that provided services before. Namely government facilities sheltered in the economic cocoon of deficit expenses, like endangered species habitats.] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-09-10 18:54 |
| #1 Well 49....I guess my first question is how and is there a plan. I agree totally but there has to be a plan. I know I stopped watching MSM and wouldn't waste my money on "news papers" long ago because of the bias. Please...put together a plan, put it out there, and we'll go. |
| Posted by: armyguy 2009-09-10 15:46 |