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America being done a disservice by MSM..

Had to link this incredibly important article over at American Thinker discussing the MSM because it hits the nail on the head. Many conservatives like myself are tired of playing nice. Democrats play to win. They consider us the enemy and treat us as such. Conservatives on the other hand seem hell bent to lose this fight because they refuse to recognize that this is war and the other side fights for keeps. We have tried being nice, that was what Bush and “compassionate conservatism” was all about, and look what it got Bush, or us. The fact is that the left uses the MSM to carry their message and twist anything we say or do. We need to face that fact and deal with it. Here is the money quote from David G. Muller, Jr.’s article:

Conservative exasperation with media bias is a tired refrain, a waste of energy. Complaints of bias start from the premise that press coverage ought to be fair and objective. But is this the premise on which today’s mainstream media is based? It’s not. The premise that now guides the mainstream media is something we haven’t seen before in this country - thus the never-ending consternation of conservatives at the blatant bias of the media and the nonchalance of its practitioners when caught in the act. We have seen press behavior like this before, though - not here, but in China and the Soviet Union during their classical Leninist eras.

When studying Chinese and Soviet politics back in the 1960s and 70s, I lived on a constant diet of the People’s Daily, Pravda, and their companion publications. It was clear from the first day that the press in Communist China and the Soviet Union was fundamentally different from ours. It had a different purpose, a different relationship not only to the political power structure, but to the truth itself. Railing at Chinese or Soviet media bias the way that today’s conservatives whine about ABC or the New York Times would have been foolish. Instead, it was necessary to understand the assumptions and objectives that underlay media that was under Leninist control. How did they see their role in society? What did they see as proper and improper practice?

There are rules about how a Leninist press works - its operational code. When reading People’s Daily and Pravda with these rules in mind, the controlled press made perfect sense. What’s the point here? Troublingly, these same rules fit today’s American mainstream media - and the media’s relationship to the Democratic Party - nearly to a T.

And there you have it. Today’s MSM is doing what the media in the old USSR and in China did for the political establishment: it filtered the message in favor of the party. In this case the party that our MSM is working for is the democratic party. Democrats will tell blatant and obvious lies, and not only will they not be challenged or ignored, but are quoted verbatim in the MSM. Whatever conservatives say however is always twisted to allow it to be presented in the worst possible light, and with commentary to make sure it is negative.

When we look through this Leninist prism, the behavior of today’s American mainstream media becomes quite comprehensible. Where conservatives see dishonesty, double standards, and deception, media practitioners see themselves as fulfilling their role in consolidating Party power in pursuit of a socialist utopia. They have fundamentally different ideas of the media’s role in society.

And there you have it. We need to treat the media like the enemy. Expect that they will obfuscate and even twist anything we say. All while helping the democrats and their agenda. A big challenge, but if we continue our current strategy of trying to play nice and hope we get even a little break, we are going to lose. The way Bush was treated, the democrats taking congress in 2006, Obama’s election, and the fact that Obama is getting a pass, even though it is obvious he and his administration are either purposefully destroying our country or have no clue what they are doing, is proof of that.

Democrats have been explicit about plans to revive the Fairness Doctrine, whose implicit goal is to drive conservatives off the talk-radio airwaves. There is no reason to think that a new Fairness Doctrine would not also be festooned with prohibitions against public “hate speech,” defined as anything critical of the Left’s political program or personalities. Hate speech prohibitions could also be extended to the Internet, targeting conservative opinion sites and blogs. A compliant Supreme Court is only an appointment or two away.

It explains why this “fairness doctrine” is so important to the left. They need to shut down any and all other outlets that counter their effort to control what passes for news. Buyer beware, and conservatives better step up and start swinging at the fences, or else. We need to stop trying to watch what we say and to act like pansies for fear the MSM will screw us. They will screw us over regardless. Start from there, assume they are the enemy and part of the DNC, treat them as such, and work from there. Many people are starting to see the bias and wonder about it. Hammer that home. Shame & ridicule them. Point out their bias and lies. Do we want to let the left define what we stand for and believe, or do we want to do so and communicate that to people?