I know it is BS, and you know it, but I truly believe much of the country does not. They don’t care what the historical foundation of the journalism industry is; they believe the job of the media is to disseminate facts and they believe what they hear.

Conservatives certainly bear responsibility for allowing the media to get away with it without adequately challenging them, and I don’t blame the media for fooling me; but I blame them for taking the rest of the country down with them. I agree we need to make them pay, and I am happy to help.

Likewise, State Boards of Education and State Superintendents of Schools where they’re appointed, even where they’re elected; it is that important.

Example: Ronald Wilson Reagan. The beating he took from D’s and the media was 100 times worse than Bush ever got. Yet on every – repeat every – major issue he prevailed.

Or is it torture? Oh dear.

I’m doing everything I can to eliminate the market for the MSM. I cancelled all my subscriptions, I don’t read their websites and I do read their competition.

And I use Craig’s List. Just for a little extra salt.

I hope to do the same to the Treason Media, and I will curse them as they die ugly.

I am convinced that the only way to sway the country back in the right direction is to recapture the education system, and I’ll be damned if I can tell you how that could happen.

I say with you, make the bbbstards pay, hard. And I do blame them as the primary culprit in the downfall of the GOP and the ascension of this despicable crowd that now runs our nation and desires, post-haste, to drive it into the ground.

In fact, looking at the history of journalism in America the idea of a non-partisan objective Press is relatively recent. Most, if not all, newspapers began their lives as party organs. i.e. one of the first things any new political party in 1700s and 1800s would do at its inception was establish a network of newspapers and staff them with loyalists. How do you imagine those papers reported the stories of the day/week/month/year?

The issue now is that what’s old is new again; the days of the partisan Press are back, and the GOP has been caught flat-footed. Most of Big Media – from the Big Three networks to the nation’s major national, regional and state newspapers – is now owned, run and staffed almost exclusively by liberals, Democrats and people who contribute to Democrats. Naturally they would pass on Democratic talking points as facts and be cheerleaders for liberal candidates and agendas.

I don’t begrudge them that because I believe in private property and the First Amendment.

The responsibility falls on us to make them pay. And we haven’t even begun to do that. The only time a Republican made the effort was the speech given by Spiro Agnew in Des Moines nearly forty years ago. Reagan was content to simply go around them instead of challenging them directly. Bush I and II didn’t even bother to do that and they both ended up being filleted.

After all this time, the fact that the GOP continues to operate as if we have a Press Corps that is not anything but an adjunct of the DNC by the time it gets to campaign season (and a PR ally before that) that we have to force our message through is now entirely our fault.

As of January 2005, Bush had 55 Senators and 231 Representatives wearing Rs behind their names. His Treasury Secretary, like his predecessor had done in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that year came before Congress to complain about the danger to the economy posed by the two GSEs.

Democrats, of course, like they’d done before, went ape that a cash cow of theirs was being threatened with oversight and of course, Republicans in Congress, particularly our “moderates”, desiring nothing more than to be loved by their friends across the aisle (and invited to their swanky cocktail parties), backed down.

And as for Bush, he followed the “New Tone” philosophy, which posits that the American people desire nothing more than to see Democrats and Republicans holding hands and singing Kumbayah in DC. He also backs down, and continued to back down over the next two years until it all came crashing down around his head.

As for President Bush, he never insisted on reforming the GSEs because he was too preoccupied with the Iraq and Afganistan wars. Moreover, he never fought back against the Dems on any issue. I beleive that this was a result of the VP’s advise that good policy is good politicas and that he shouldn’t worry about bad press. Anyone who has ever runa campaign knows that in the ordianry person’s mind, the unanswered attack, not matter how farfetched becomes the truth. Witness the Katrina fiasco and the “Bush doesn’t like black people” lie. I am still mazed that people actually beleived it but they did and it was because the Administration didn’t respond to its critics.

As onservatives, we must take the fight to the liberal-dems at every level: School Board, City Council, county Comm, State Legislature. It is okay to fight and lose and election. Let’s not let the liberal-Dems win by default.