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2006-06-22 Fifth Column

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-22 03:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You constantly try to make Iraq another Vietnam. Why? Because YOU guys won the Vietnam War. America lost, but YOU won. So what if over 3 million innocents were slaughtered because we were forced out of South East Asia by the media, huh?

Kinda sums it all up, doesn't it?

In addition to achieving the goal of losing the war for the evil capitalist West, this agenda driven "journalism" also created a climate of awards and money for those like Cronkite who declared the war lost after Tet, which was, by any objective standards, an epic military victory. In the absence of things like talk radio, the internet, and FOX, ther was simply no way for people to get the real story. So Cronkite and the rest with their agenda were believed, and they went on to greater wealth, a round of gladhanding by fellow media whores and academia, and continued hegemony over the information industry.

A new generation of "news" people were raised with a journalism "education" which spoke of this "golden age" in hushed, reverential tones, and were told to go forth and do the same thing because great rewards awaited them if they did.

It's all come crashing down on them now, though, due to the 'net and talk radio and FOX. The MSM tries harder and harder, but in an environment of noncontiguous information streams, it weakens their position over time instead of strengthening it.

This is why the Dems can never be returned to majorities in the House and Senate in their current guise. The very first thing they'll do, even before impeaching W, is to regulate the internet and radio stations to inhibit/prevent places like Rantburg and people like Rush and Hugh Hewitt. They know that if given all the facts people will be less likely than not to choose their way. So they will attempt to limit the information stream to tilt things their way.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-06-22 06:12|| 2006-06-22 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 when are we going to fight the journalists? They are fighting against us and winning.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-22 07:07|| 2006-06-22 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Very good Rant!

Its only by the existance of the web and sites like Rantburg, LGF, Dhimmi/Jihad watch, and Hot air what the truth shines through.

Sorry media - but you no longer have a monopoly lock on information anymore. Just ask Dan Rather. Your wet dreams of another Vietnam is just a dream anymore.

(The only disagreement is that the terrorists never 'corrupted an entire religion' - Islam has *always* promoted terrorism, murder, rape, and slavery to expand.)

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-22 08:56|| 2006-06-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 2b, I'm with ya.
The elephant in the room is that GWBush, the same guy we had to tell not to nominate Harriet Miers, the same guy we had to tell not to allow DPW to run the ports, the same guy who wants to appease V. Fox at the border, could and should make an example out of the corrupt media. He could hold their balls in his hand, but Bush is such a nice guy and all, let's just let America collapse instead.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-22 12:09|| 2006-06-22 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 A rant of truly epic proportions!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-22 12:12|| 2006-06-22 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Bush is such a nice guy and all, let's just let America collapse instead.

He's in the pay of strange jews from Haliburton Mars.

Posted by 6 2006-06-22 15:56|| 2006-06-22 15:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course Zarqawi didn't behead Daniel Pearl - thus everything else he said is suspect, at best.

/LLL supercilious mode off

Great rant, indeed.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-06-22 21:34|| 2006-06-22 21:34|| Front Page Top

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