Losing Vietnam
The American Thinker links to this essay about the role of the media in losing the Vietnam War. This sounds awfully familiar, doesn`t it?
If something isn`t done about the lies and willful manipulation of the news media, we are going to lose in Iraq. Unlike Vietnam, a loss in Iraq will open the floodgates of war, and America will be attacked repeatedly here on our own soil. The stupid, stupid people in the MSM willfully misunderstand this situation, and are trying to relive their ``glory days`` when they defeated the evil U.S. military and brought down a president. Of course, now they could bring down our country, the country which gives them their right of freedom of the press. How do these arrogant blowhards think they will fare if it comes to total war, or if the Jihadists WIN?
We have a decent start with the bloggers, talk radio, and Fox News acting as an antithesis to their Marxian thesis. It`s not enough; Conservatives need control of one of the big 3 networks, and at least one of the major news services. The news services are vitally important, because lesser media outlets use them to set the agenda, and a liberal bias at a news service means the left sets the agenda for what is discussed. Why was the Foley affair so large? Because the news services ran continuous stories about it, and the smaller media had little choice but to run these feeds.
What we need is to establish a conservative foundation whose purpose is to buy control of one of the major networks and major news service. This foundation needs to be prepared to put the right people in charge, people who will clean out the leftists running the show and replace them with actual conservatives. (Fox News is not a conservative outlet, by the way libs.) Until we break the liberal stranglehold on the dissemination of information, we will forever be at the mercy of the MSM with their biased and inaccurate staging of the news. We cannot win the war-either on Islamofascism or the culture war, while the shapers of opinion continue to lie and obfuscate. Bloggers and talk radio can do nothing more than point out the most egregious examples of media bias; we need a more positivist agenda.
Attempts have been moving forward to change the landscape in academia; a number of new, conservative universities have been founded in recent years, and their success could break the leftist stranglehold on college campuses. Even so, those who make it to the top in government, academia, and many businesses (law, for instance) must come from an Ivy League institution-and these are solidly leftist(not liberal, leftist) institutions. Also, some of these new Universities have backed off of their original commitments because of left-wing pressure on them-and their donor base. Ave Maria University was going to have a clean university town which was not going to allow pornography to be sold, or allow the more egregious social corruptions so near and dear to the liberal heart. They have since backed off on this commitment due to pressure, and have even backed off from hiring only professors with staunch Catholic views. I fear they may become just another secular university before it is all over.
Liberals saw that Protestantism was so successful because of the printing press, and the left has never forgotten that lesson. THEY started most of the newspapers early on, pushed for universal government run education to teach children their views and educate them to read so they could read their propaganda news, they infiltrated the universities, and immediately jumped on board when the early electronic media appeared. By the `70`s they had pretty much sewn up the dissemination of information-with the exception of a few paltry print magazines, which they left in place to act as a safety valve to alleviate conservative pressure (much like the ``one minute hate`` in 1984, or the numerous pressure relieving techniques such as ``half a gram of somma`` in Brave New World). AM radio was so dead they didn`t care about it, and so it slipped away from them. They were never able to get a lock on the internet either, so these two media have broken their monopoly.
But a broken monopoly is a long way from broken power, and we bloggers are too often busy congratulating ourselves while ignoring the elephant in the room. That elephant is the MSM which is still far more powerful than we are, and they could still crush us if we don`t do something about it.
Conservatives should hold a conference-perhaps in conjunction with CPAC, to develop a media foundation similar to the one I have described. This foundation should raise money and investigate the possibilities of purchasing some major news outlets.
I don`t think we can win the long war if we fail to do such a thing. There is far more at stake than a loss in Indochina.
If something isn`t done about the lies and willful manipulation of the news media, we are going to lose in Iraq. Unlike Vietnam, a loss in Iraq will open the floodgates of war, and America will be attacked repeatedly here on our own soil. The stupid, stupid people in the MSM willfully misunderstand this situation, and are trying to relive their ``glory days`` when they defeated the evil U.S. military and brought down a president. Of course, now they could bring down our country, the country which gives them their right of freedom of the press. How do these arrogant blowhards think they will fare if it comes to total war, or if the Jihadists WIN?
We have a decent start with the bloggers, talk radio, and Fox News acting as an antithesis to their Marxian thesis. It`s not enough; Conservatives need control of one of the big 3 networks, and at least one of the major news services. The news services are vitally important, because lesser media outlets use them to set the agenda, and a liberal bias at a news service means the left sets the agenda for what is discussed. Why was the Foley affair so large? Because the news services ran continuous stories about it, and the smaller media had little choice but to run these feeds.
What we need is to establish a conservative foundation whose purpose is to buy control of one of the major networks and major news service. This foundation needs to be prepared to put the right people in charge, people who will clean out the leftists running the show and replace them with actual conservatives. (Fox News is not a conservative outlet, by the way libs.) Until we break the liberal stranglehold on the dissemination of information, we will forever be at the mercy of the MSM with their biased and inaccurate staging of the news. We cannot win the war-either on Islamofascism or the culture war, while the shapers of opinion continue to lie and obfuscate. Bloggers and talk radio can do nothing more than point out the most egregious examples of media bias; we need a more positivist agenda.
Attempts have been moving forward to change the landscape in academia; a number of new, conservative universities have been founded in recent years, and their success could break the leftist stranglehold on college campuses. Even so, those who make it to the top in government, academia, and many businesses (law, for instance) must come from an Ivy League institution-and these are solidly leftist(not liberal, leftist) institutions. Also, some of these new Universities have backed off of their original commitments because of left-wing pressure on them-and their donor base. Ave Maria University was going to have a clean university town which was not going to allow pornography to be sold, or allow the more egregious social corruptions so near and dear to the liberal heart. They have since backed off on this commitment due to pressure, and have even backed off from hiring only professors with staunch Catholic views. I fear they may become just another secular university before it is all over.
Liberals saw that Protestantism was so successful because of the printing press, and the left has never forgotten that lesson. THEY started most of the newspapers early on, pushed for universal government run education to teach children their views and educate them to read so they could read their propaganda news, they infiltrated the universities, and immediately jumped on board when the early electronic media appeared. By the `70`s they had pretty much sewn up the dissemination of information-with the exception of a few paltry print magazines, which they left in place to act as a safety valve to alleviate conservative pressure (much like the ``one minute hate`` in 1984, or the numerous pressure relieving techniques such as ``half a gram of somma`` in Brave New World). AM radio was so dead they didn`t care about it, and so it slipped away from them. They were never able to get a lock on the internet either, so these two media have broken their monopoly.
But a broken monopoly is a long way from broken power, and we bloggers are too often busy congratulating ourselves while ignoring the elephant in the room. That elephant is the MSM which is still far more powerful than we are, and they could still crush us if we don`t do something about it.
Conservatives should hold a conference-perhaps in conjunction with CPAC, to develop a media foundation similar to the one I have described. This foundation should raise money and investigate the possibilities of purchasing some major news outlets.
I don`t think we can win the long war if we fail to do such a thing. There is far more at stake than a loss in Indochina.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 7:26 AM
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