No, really. Not only are members of the media trying to irresponsibly and erroneously tie J. Patrick Bedell, a registered Democrat, a Troofer and a total loon, to the “right-wing” in general, but they are now upping the defamation by attempting to libelously imply that the words of Jim DeMint “fed the rage.” Jim. DeMint. Full disclosure; I love DeMint. I was thrilled when moving from New Jersey to South Carolina because it meant I’d be trading Senator Frank Lautenberg for Senator Jim DeMint. Score!
However, even if I didn’t think so highly of DeMint, I’d obviously feel the same way about the following vile statements by the Associated Press:
In an Internet posting, Bedell had suggested an act like the 2001 terrorist attacks could have been the work of a criminal organization controlling the U.S. government, accepting a “sacrifice of thousands of its citizens … as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control.”
His poisonous view of the government appears well out on the extreme—until you see what some people close to the center of power are saying these days.
“America is teetering towards tyranny,” Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina told the Conservative Political Action Conference last month. He accused the governing Democrats of peddling socialist policies “that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world.”
Republicans have been branding Democratic policies as some form of socialism for generations, par for the course.
But tyranny? America has real issues with that—it violently overthrew that enemy at the start.
Wow. Firstly, DeMint’s statement isn’t “inflammatory”; it’s accurate. Secondly, while the media still insists upon claiming some sort of delusional moral authority, with aggrandized claims of journalistic integrity, it should now be quite clear to everyone that they truly have given up on any attempt – at all – at objectivity. They are no longer journalists; they are propagandists. The media is no longer merely biased, but they are now outright lying and propagandizing purely for the purpose of driving a false narrative.
The article continues to further try to pin blame on those nefarious Tea Partiers – you know, like your neighbor with the toddler at her hip and the elderly gentleman from church:
Multiply rhetoric like that and you have the new public square, swarming with bloggers and broadcasters reaching for the provocative and feeding the grievances of the like-minded.
Altogether it’s a rage against the machine. Activists such as the tea party movement tap that rage for political and policy ends—stopping the health overhaul, getting supportive politicians elected.
But it’s surely not been lost on the lone wolves, whether it fuels their acts or not.
The Pentagon gunman, who wounded two police officers and was himself shot to death, joins two other men with anti-government sentiments who have attacked the government since the beginning of the year.
Oh, those pesky bloggers! “Feeding” the grievances? Funny, I thought that redress of grievances was a right established in the First Amendment to The Constitution. But what do I know? I’m not a super smart AP propagandist journalist. I do know one thing, though — The Fourth Estate is insolvent. That is why the “provocative” (I think that’s NewSpeak for honest) New Media will soon take over from the Old. Listen closely, Old Media, and you can hear the sound of what was once a somewhat respectable profession not only crashing to the ground, but burrowing itself in the Earth’s crust.
And I say Good Riddance.
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I still don't get it...
merryj1 Sunday, March 7th at 3:27AM EST (link)I recognize and understand that many/most “lame-stream” so-called “journalists” are far to the left of most (sane) Americans, but I’ve never been able to wrap my mind around WHY!
IF they ever succeed in moving this country to the political niche they’ve been agitating for, lo these many years, they will be the first ones muzzled, carted off for midnight lobotomies, or lined up in front of the firing squads. Why? Because they cannot avoid, sooner or later, having an unacceptable sentiment expressed under their bylines, and the system they’re espousing is one that keeps track of such things.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch, but I’d really like to know WHY.
Because, they don't get it.
crush Sunday, March 7th at 6:01AM EST (link)Approximately 15 min. video interview of ex-kgb defector circa 1970. Well worth the 15 min.
http://www.notanotherconspiracy.com/2008/10/demoralizationdestabilizationcrisisnorm.html
They are the product of their environment...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 10:01AM EST (link)They are the product of decades of indoctrination and failed government schools…
Simply stated: They are useful idiots…
From a Frontpage interview with Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy, author of KGB/FSB’s New Trojan Horse: Americans of Russian Descent.
I must take exception to: “might very well affect the American political course.”
It’s happening right now.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Because they can...
smitch61 Sunday, March 7th at 6:03AM EST (link)The republican party had better wake up. They have allowed the Democrat party and the media to define what we are about for many many years, all without much of a fight. Jim DeMint should come out immediately and blast them for any mention of his good name in that article. The media and the left will continue to discredit any of us, in any way possible until we finally demand that it stop. They must plug along fighting the left, speak the truth and remain on the offense instead of consistently allowing themselves to be on the defense time after time.
They convinced enough Americans that Bush was EVEEL
Doc Holliday (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 7:21AM EST (link)and Cheney was some monster that we got Obama and Pelosi. It is obvious to me they are going to try to convince the people this time around that Tea Partiers, libertarians, conservatives, and Republicans are a dangerous, imminent threat that only the Democrats can stop.
I can see it now, 2010 Vote or Die! II, Cruise Control (little joke)
Molon Labe!
the three d's
olddog Sunday, March 7th at 6:14AM EST (link)of the complicity of the deceitful media. Dismiss, Denigrate, Destroy!
All to aid, the progressive crowd in D.C., whose main goal is the purposeful destruction of our Constitution, via our economy. Once destroyed the people will have to turn to government, ever larger for aid. In the last seven or so years, there has been a huge increase of people,depending on Government programs, just to get by,and that is the trap they set.,, the more money,, they transfer to Washington, the more power they hold over you. They are systematically stealing, through massive taxation and excessive spending, the accumulated wealth of working people. They steal our retirements, Our children and their children are economic slaves to pay this debt , that they didn’t incur.
Support our Troops! We didn’t lose in Nam, the left wouldn’t let us win, and now they are in charge!
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Lovely quote from Pete Stark
wannabeanncoulter Sunday, March 7th at 6:51AM EST (link)In the fine journalistic “tradition” of slamming both sides to make the story seem unbiased, the AP article has a lovely quote from Pete Stark.
It was California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark who said, late in the Bush administration, that Republicans want to spend money “to blow up innocent people—if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter
Who are these propagandists? (Rule 12)
techsan (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 7:51AM EST (link)Eileen Sullivan has a history of writing this tripe. He article, Homeland chief: Domestic extremism is top concern,about Islamic extremists (without naming them) tries to pin it on a shift from international to domestic terrorism. rather than focus on the real threat of people just wanting our country dead.
Calvin Woodward doesn’t appear to be so extreme based on his articles….however, he may just be better at hiding it than Eileen, who knows.
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
oops
techsan (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 7:52AM EST (link)scratch the “, who knows” at the end.
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
fake story, fake name?
notonmywatch (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 9:25AM EST (link)These AP “names” are totally faceless also. As such, they don’t have the responsibility for what they write, and it’s why so many people just refer to “AP stories” generically.
Most likely it’s a fake name, designed to sound middle-American & homely, while the actual writer’s name is something like Zaheed Islami.
It’s still morning in America.
I don't think you need a conspiracy of that nature.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 9:45AM EST (link)There are enough “useful idiots” in the US with names like Calvin Woodward that truely believe this stuff with out having to add layers of conspiracy to it.
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This is what passes for "Accountability Journalism"
romeg Sunday, March 7th at 8:06AM EST (link)by the Moonbats at AP. But where were they when the Troofer Movement actually got underway? Where were they when “mainstream” Democrats such as John “I have the hat. I STILL have the hat.” Kerry railing against Duby’s abrogation of the1st, 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution? It is comments such as these by Kerry and his ilk that feed into this radical lunacy more so than anything uttered by any serious advocate for limited government.
But Accountability Journalism doesn’t extend to the left of George H.W. Bush so they will always get a free pass from the State Controlled AP.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis
obamas' "guns and religion" speech on SF was the most inflammatory statement. NT
bobojake (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 8:20AM EST (link)give it your best shot MSM....
drbob1988 Sunday, March 7th at 8:45AM EST (link)A note to the liberal mainstream media…..so this is all you’ve got? You are obviously afraid that freedom loving people are better informed that ever and to try to change that perspective you want to try to make an Senator Demint look like a radical nut?
Keep trying….this kind of crap used to work for you guys…not anymore, not on our watch, we have had enough and we will be sure the truth and the facts prevail. Go hide under your rock now.
It's Interesting to Note that almost All the Responses
Michael Dugas (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 9:43AM EST (link)…to Sullivan and Woodwards piece at Breitbart were negative of the story and the administration. It’s nice to see this as it didn’t used to be that way and is further proof that the citizens are waking up to what is going on.
Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”
Remember: A Citizen on the dole is a Liberal Vote at the Polls.
END ENTITLEMENTS!
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum !
true...but...
techsan (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 11:22AM EST (link)A Bing search turns up pages and pages of Unmanned Propaganda Vehicles (UPVs?) which regurgitate these stories without filter. The breakdown of news distribution is as much a decline in the expensive Old Media business model as anything. AP stories are keeping the Old Medai afloat…and a lot of people still consume it and further assume it’s fact. But on a positive note, that’s changing thanks to sites like RedState.
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
It is called a Tyranny of Laws
jccbin (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 10:14AM EST (link)Hundreds of thousands of pages of laws that apply to us all. From a tax code better measured in pounds than words to a criminal code rife with perceived corruption, there are simply too many laws, rules, regulations and arbitrary enforcers for this to be called a free country.
At some point there is revolution if neither party can clean it up. That point is incredibly close.
Complexity = Collapse?
Ausonius (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 10:46AM EST (link)One of the more recent debates in History is Complexity Theory: Professor Joseph Tainter about 20 years ago published a book called [i]The Collapse of Complex Societies[/i]. It derived from work done 30 years ago by Mancur Olson (q.v.)
Part of their thesis is that developed societies, when confronted with problems, immediately add layers of bureaucracy (i.e. complexity) to handle the problem, with diminishing amounts of return on the energy (i.e. tax monies) expended, as bureaucracies tend to perpetuate the problem to perpetuate their power.
Our tax code is a good example of this, along with every other department of government.
Tainter is not necessarily correct in everything, and other parts are debatable. Still, it seems the Complexity = Collapse equation can be correct, although it is not deterministic. Innovation, curiosity, ambition can always solve problems, if they are allowed to do so in a free society.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity,_Problem_Solving,_and_Sustainable_Societies
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Maybe instead of marching on Washington,
louisiana (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 10:19AM EST (link)the Tea Partiers, et al, should be marching in front of the gov.’t run media buildings in NYC. Expose them for who they are– the propaganda arm of the Dem. Party. Could they, would they, ignore the “story” on their front steps? What are they going to do to Patriots that they haven’t already done? Call us names? This would at least, somewhat, put them on the defensive.
The people who have emerged from the long slumber...
IronDioPriest (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 10:38AM EST (link)…and have begun making their voices heard at Tea Parties and other networking venues, know – KNOW – the lie that the media is attempting to perpetrate against the people.
Leftist media bias has always been a thing of contention, because the people making the accusation knew the truth, but felt isolated and unsure of whether their concerns were shared by a critical mass of Americans.
Now, people can look around them in the flesh, and see for themselves who the people are that share their concerns about government and media, and they can witness for themselves the purely organic catalyst for the movement. They are no longer isolated.
So, when the media conducts its propaganda smears, millions know exactly what the lie is and what the truth is, and those millions are not remaining silent.
Mom With A Baby On Her Hip, Grandpa, Working Joe, Veteran and the Next Door Neighbor are out, visible, seeing and interacting with each other, and for the first time, realizing that their concerns are shared by a vast, critical mass of Americans, and that the media is their enemy. Every false media proclamation of the movement’s “fringe” nature serves to solidify the media’s enemy status in the minds of the American people, and further galvanizes the movement.
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It's odd that the AP is not yet bankrupt
Scope (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 11:56AM EST (link)I remember reading an article, about a year or so ago, that claimed that many many of the countries newspapers were not renewing their contracts for the AP wire services. How many of the rags are in healthy financial status? I suspect very few.
If anyone could gather information on the average age of the AP article writers (they are not journalists), I would be willing to bet that the majority are young enough to have received a propagandized education, from grade school through college. They have been bombarded with information that socialism is not only acceptable, but, preferable. And, add to that “if you are twenty, and not a Democrat, you don’t have a heart.”
One day, I think we will find that the AP, and some of the other MSM types, are being paid by either the Obama admin. or George Soros, or both. I disagree that the Ill. prison be used for the Gitmo detainees, we need to reserve that space for the terriorists occupying the WH, Congress, and the communists in the media.
This AP piece is laughable -- they're writing is being influenced by the bloggosphere!
conservos (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 12:25PM EST (link)I had always known AP to distort or omit certain truths to portray their bias.
But this is the first I’ve seen where their leftist opinion is drenched in opining bloggery.
In the future, I advise anyone having to read AP to read CliffNotes style: read the intro for 2 paragraphs, jump to the last 2 paragraphs and you have it.
That being said, the solution to this farcical piece is simple.
FIRST and FOREMOST, protect DeMint at all costs.
Second, remind everyone that it’s the left who favors motolov cocktails and rioting and calls it “Freedom of Speech.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1T8xgHdMEM
Where the hell is Berkely in the news, btw?
Third, find every dangnabbit piece of Socialist, Left-Wing information you can from the past 10 years and saturate the web with what those kooks are saying and doing.
It’s everywhere. You’d have to go into slimmy corners of the www, but there are openly communist and socialist sites that openly recruit and spread their anti-American dogma.
They have also gotten more numerous since this bozo took office.
Don’t know if you guys understand, but moderates from the right are creeping toward labeling the entire conservative / teaparty movement to get them to tone it down a bit.
Hate speech that influences ppl like these lone fools from the Pentagon and Austin.
I wish they’d go after the Imams in New York first, though.
One party, one vote.
Work from within.
Didn't these guys...
clement Sunday, March 7th at 12:47PM EST (link)Do a story about a soldier supposedly captured by Al Queda in Iraq that turned out to just be a GI JOE action figure?
I forgot about that!
wannabeanncoulter Monday, March 8th at 10:22AM EST (link)But to be fair to both the AP and Reuters, they simply reported that a group on an Iraqi website was making the claim that they had captured an American soldier. AP and Reuters themselves did not make the claim.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_group_claims_us_soldier_hostage/
I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter
Great Post!
Brian Darling (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 12:47PM EST (link)Remember when we trusted the AP? Even mentioning two members of Congress in the piece is beyond the pale. This guy was unbalanced and crazy. Any menion of DeMint is an attempt to taint DeMint for his correct and brave comments at CPAC.
Exactly, Brian
Lori Ziganto (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 2:13PM EST (link)I’m not even saying they should make a big deal out of him being a Democrat; he was a cuckoo pants nut job. But, to try to intimate that he was “right wing” is bad enough. And mentioning Jim DeMint, in a way that is meant to serve as almost a justification or excuse for the shooter, is not only disgusting, but is a blatant attempt to try to demonize DeMint.
Truth doesn’t matter, I guess. Only ideology does. No matter the cost. Smearing DeMint, a good, brave man, is sickeningly justified in their minds.
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Tyranny: we're getting there.
GregInFla (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 2:05PM EST (link)We have the Executive branch telling the legislative branch what to do and what not to do; telling the legislative branch that they will rule by fiat (Co2 regulation) and ignore them. Executive branch publicly telling judicial branch that they are ruining the country (election speech ruling) and will be overruled. Executive branch using judicial branch to get votes (bribing Congressman with judicial appointment).
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
I love it...
brian_garst Sunday, March 7th at 3:42PM EST (link)when they time these things as if to deliberately help me make my point: http://biggovernment.com/bgarst/2010/03/07/big-government-is-no-victim/
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Media Misleads Americans About Left-Leaning Attackers Bedell, Stack and Bishop
ahffgeoff (Diary) Sunday, March 7th at 8:47PM EST (link)Media Misleads Americans About Left-Leaning Attackers Bedell, Stack and Bishop http://tiny.cc/rDTAb
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