I think it was Barbara Walters who unwittingly gave away the leftist media's secret the other night while supposedly heaping high praise on the newly dead Peter Jennings. Between gushes of admiration and sighs of sorrow not seen since the apostles lost their Lord, Walters waxed poetic about this Canadian-born socialist whose mother had raised him to hate America. On and on she went until, near the end, she offered the highest praise a leftist could fathom: "What made Peter great was that he knew there was no such thing as the truth."
If there is no such thing as the truth then what was Jennings using as the basis for his reporting? Republicans know. He made it up. Or better yet, he, like the rest of the Old Media simply cherry-picked, spun and invented whatever was necessary to prove the truth -- which is that there is no truth.
The agenda of the Modern Liberal is to provide whatever misinformation and disinformation is required to disabuse the dolts and bigots who think truth exists. You think America is good? Well we'll show you it isn't by rerunning stories of Abu Gharaib for months at a time. You think democracy is good? We'll ignore the horrors of the Arab world and paint a democratic Israel that is the villain. You think God is good? We'll paint every religious figure as a fanatic (unless it's an Islamists then we'll just ignore the horrors coming out of their mouths on a daily basis).
To get Jennings -- to get the compliment that Walters thought she was giving her just fallen idol -- is to get why Nancy Pelosi gives standing ovations to lie-filled, anti-American propaganda films. It is to get why Dick Durbin ignores atrocities committed against Americans but calls our troops "Nazis." It is to get why Ted Kennedy screams the most vicious slanders about America at every opportunity. It is to get why the Democrats have become the party of liars.
After all, when there is no truth then what is a lie, anyway? Besides, they're lying for a bigger truth (which is that there is no truth) so therefore they're telling the truth by lying. The mission of the Modern Liberal -- from Ward Churchill to Dick Durbin to Dan Rather to Howell Raines to Nancy Pelosi to Ted Kennedy to Michael Moore to Peter Jennings is to convey "the truth" (that there is no truth) no matter how many lies it takes.
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Very ably and succinctly put! I still know some of the liberal persuasion who are thoughtful open minded good citizens, but the Democratic leadership, I fear, have lost their minds. Or perhaps their principles..or both.
Pancho
The Democratic Party is dominated by what I call "Modern Liberals." The best way to understand them is that they subscribe to the "multiculturalist" ideal that all people, cultures and forms of government are equally good and equally right.
Since all things are equally good and equally right the only reason some things succeed is because they cheated. The only possible reason for failure is that they were victimized.
So the Democrat -- out of a sense of justice -- will side ALWAYS with that which is wrong, evil and/or failed and attack ALWAYS that which is good, right and/or successful.
Since America is good, right AND successful America is the Democrats' biggest target.
Because I had long ago sworn off the lies and hate of Peter Jennings and the corruption of ABC News (whose president sent out an official memo during the recent campaign ordering his reporters to distort their coverage against President Bush) I was not all that aware of the things I'm reading in this section.
Peter Jennings was just another "hate-America-always" leftist and not much different (only "more so") than the forged document users at CBS and the spinmeisters who slandered 254 American heroes to protect their far-leftist liar in John Kerry.
GOP: The Party Of Death.
Years ago George Orwell wrote of a future nightmarish world in his novel 1984. In it Orwell wrote of a society that was kept in control via overwhelming government control, and of a people controlled by the use of language that he called “double-speak”. And more and more we see America turning into Orwell’s dreary vision of “thought crimes”, “big brother”, and perpetual war.
Orwell noted that “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength”. And today we have a president who has said, “when we’re talking about war, what we’re really talking about is peace.” Iraq has been enslaved by an occupying US force, and it has been declared that those very same forces have “freed 25 million people”. And most of all, we have George W. Bush, who has repeatedly been depicted as “a strong moral leader”, despite that he has perhaps made some of the most ignorant and embarrassing remarks in the history of the US politics (such as “However they delineate; quotas, I think vulcanize society.” -Jan. 21, 2000)
In an even more grotesque turn of events, the GOP has told the American public that it is “the party of life”, and that it values nothing higher than “the sanctity of human life”. George W. Bush has convinced a great number of conservatives that he is a moral and Christian man, who acts on the “will of God”. Despite that Jesus taught us in The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-15) to “forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”, as governor of Texas, George W. Bush did not heed the lesson. As governor, George W. Bush executed 152 people, in a state with no public defender system. Among those killed is Karla Faye Tucker, the first female to be executed in the state of Texas in over 100 years. When speaking to conservative pundit Tucker Carlson about what Karla Faye Tucker’s last words might have been, he mocked her saying “Please, don’t kill me”.
“‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘Don’t kill me.’”
But The Party of Death was just warming up in Texas. It had to go national before the bodies could really pile up. In 1999, George W. Bush told his original ghost writer for “A Charge To Keep”, that if he had the chance to invade Iraq he wasn’t going to withdraw early, but would instead stay so he would have the “political capital” to get his agenda passed. Similarly, the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century had their own plans for Iraq. On January 26, 1998 PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton, telling him “That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power.” Those who signed the letter would see themselves in high positions thanks to the Bush administration. Among them are Elliott Abrams, who became a senior Director on the National Security Council, and who was also a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. Richard L. Armitage, who went on to be the Deputy Secretary of State. Zalmay Khalilzad, who Bush appointed as special envoy to Afghanistan. Richard Perle, who went on to chair the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. John Bolton, who Bush just appointed as US ambassador to the United Nations. Paul Wolfowitz, currently the President of the World Bank. And Donald Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense. PNAC made it very clear that their goal was to dramatically increase Defense spending so that the United States could military dominate the world. In their publication “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, published a year before 9/11, the group said that this military transformation “would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies”, and that “the process of transformation” would “likely be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.” (pgs. 50-51)
With 9/11 The Party of Death got that catastrophic event, and they milked it for all it was worth. Using it as a pretext for a larger “War on Terror”, the Bush administration lied to the American People and to Congress (a violation of the 9th Commandment, that forbids one to bear false witness), saying that Saddam’s regime had weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence for Bush’s claims were fixed, not by the CIA, which would normally review such things, but by the Office of Special Plans, set up by and answerable to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
For the first time in it’s history, the United States waged a pre-emptive war (an act of terrorism in it’s own right, as defined by US Code), entirely orchestrated by The Party of Death, which has resulted in at least 100,000 Iraqi deaths.
Those things dangling off of her used to be her feet.
We live in a day when the GOP has taught us that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. But most of all, the Republicans have taught us that their “pro-life” party is the Party of Death.
More and more we see that conservatives simply have no morality whatsoever. If a man dies he deserves not to be remembered for his hard work and dedication, or anything remotely positive unless he gave the cons their daily propaganda.
I rarely agreed with Jennings. Yet his hard work and dedication to his job was unbelievable. After 9/11, Jennings stayed in the office, working the anchor desk nearly non-stop for four entire days.
What Barbara Walters was referring to was a philosophy of Jennings. As Jennings would say, we live in a world where the news media constantly wishes to show us the world in black and white terms, when Jennings, as a proper newsman should do, preferred to show us all the gray. Conservatives have been so propagandized that they are incapable of seeing that gray, which is why they cannot fathom why a group of Arabs would wish to see us all dead. After the shock of 9/11, they without questioning it one moment, followed the bouncing ball, and attributed it to the religion of Islam, instead of 50 years of American foreign policy that has turned a region that once was the scientific and mathematical beacon of the world into a land of utter poverty and ignorance.
As citizens in a representative democracy, we have the power to stop this kind of destruction, if you make the effort. Until you conservatives can look yourselves in the mirror and acknowledge the blood on your hands, and then act within your upon your own decent natural impulses to stop it, then the US will continue to see ourselves the victim of terrorism.
“Violence begets violence”.
Miami,
The Democratic party is the party of abortions? Or is it the party that doesn’t wish the government to have it’s hands in every American woman’s uterus? Under George Bush abortion rates have dramatically increased. The reason? Poverty has dramatically increased.
The dangers of a big government is clear. And more and more Big Brother is watching us. The PATRIOT Act is a great example. You might also notice that in the last 25 years, the government has DRAMATICALLY grown, under the leadership of “conservatives” such as Reagan, and both Bushes. Under Clinton, the rate of government growth was slowed. Since Bush has taken office he has DOUBLED the size of government in just one term, including the creation of two entirely new federal agencies.
There is a close association between “thought crimes” and sending average Muslims to Guantanomo Bay. The “War on Terror” has been described as a war that may be fought for the duration of the rest of our lives. We have spent more time fight the “War on Terror” then it took us to win World War II, when the US was ACTUALLY threatened and attacked by a foreign state.
The Iraqi people indeed have been enslaved. Labor unions are outlawed. They don’t see running water or electricity. Children are “wasting”, dying of malnutrition. Women have been forced to put the berkas back on. 100,000 Iraqis have been shot dead or blown to bits. Entire cities have been demolished. And if they stand up and protest, half the time US forces will fire upon them. I suppose you call that “freedom”. Saddam was a sick and horrible man who did much harm to his people, but under him in comparison to today, the Iraqi people were much better off.
I think you’re confusing “poor diction skills” with complete ignorance. He apparently does not even know what his job duties are. (“The legislature’s job is to write law. It’s the executive branch’s job to interpret law.” Nov. 22, 2000) You’re also making quite a leap of assumption in saying that I have a “love” of Clinton. This is a man who I never voted for, who I criticized at every time he blew up a innocent civilian in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan, and who sold America down to toilet to multinational corporate hegemony. The best thing you could say about Clinton is that he was the best REPUBLICAN president we’ve had since Eisenhower.
As compared to Democrats who want to lower abortion rates by making the American middle class less desperate.
Bush had the option to delay the execution for 30 days, in order to get the board to review her plea for clemency. He did not do so, and instead MOCKED her. What “left-wing nuts” were fighting to keep Tucker from being executed? Pat Robertson for one, as well as much of the conservative Christian community. Even radical conservative Gary Bauer weighed in saying, “I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death”. Charley Davidson, who was a prosecutor of Karla's accomplice, Garrett, stated publicly, “The Karla Tucker who killed Jerry Dean and Debra Thornton cannot be executed by the State of Texas because that person no longer exists. The Karla Tucker who remains on death row is a completely different person who, in my opinion, is not capable of those atrocities. I am comfortable enough with this belief that, if possible, I would welcome Karla into my house to meet my family.”
Alva,
Not only are the Democrats the party of abortion -- not choice, abortion -- but they are the party of death.
These are folks who hold rallies called "Fuck Abstinence" and where Planned Parenthood was selling T-Shirts celebrating abortions like its a night to remember akin to a Green Day concert.
Leftists love death just as the their sister in communism -- the most murderous of all regimes -- and support murderers from the Palestinian terrorists to the communists themselves (so beloved they called the most murderous human being in history, Joe Stalin, "Uncle Joe."
You talk of "Big Brother" but where is it but on the college campuses where they tried to outlaw free speech by creating the Orwellian named "free speech zones" (tiny slivers of campus off the beaten track where people could "enjoy" free speech. Everywhere else only leftist talk was allowed as everything else was dubbed "offensive" or "hate speech.")
Your claims about Iraq are typically ludicrous and typically anti-Americans. No troops have opened fire on protesters yet you claim it as fact. Why? Because facts mean nothing to Democrats they simply support any and all evil regimes.
It's not a coincidence that during the Jimmy Carter years Communism spread to Afghanistan and into Central America while Islamic fascism got its first nation with the help of J.C.
Just a few years later communism -- the most murderous mentality in human history and not dissimilar to Modern Liberalism -- was nerely defunct thanks to the Republicans.
Under Bill Clinton Islamic fascism, mass murder and terrorism grew with the Taliban at its peak and a few years later, under the Republicans, freedom is spreading through the Middle East.
As for the growth of government being cut under Bill Clinton that's just foolish. He tried to expand the welfare state and turn America's biggest industries communist under his wife's medical plan that was so anti-American that Clinton never recovered. Just two years later the people took his power away by giving the House and the Senate to the Republicans and from that moment on America has never looked back.
Evan,
Or was Planned Parenthood trying to bring the topic of abortion out in the open, instead of being something that no one talks about because women have been again trained by right wingers to be shameful of their bodies? Everyday the religious right in this country is more closely resembling the Talliban.
To say that the Soviet Union under Stalin was pure communism is like saying that the United States under Truman was pure capitalism. In reality, Uncle Joe (as AMERICANS called him) was a military dictator, and there is NOTHING in communist ideology and theory that suggests that the only way to implement communism is by military dictatorship. In FACT, for anyone who randomly GLANCES at Das Kapital, they will know that a genuine communist government cannot have a military dictatorship, much less a military at all.
The only “free speech zones” I’ve heard about in the last 5 years have been inside cages outside of the RNC convention. Those “free speech zones” have been used by the BUSH administration to smash dissent among the masses. As the leftist mantra goes, the UNITED STATES is a “free speech zone”. To suggest that conservatives cannot freely speak on college campuses is a lie so big as it would make Stalin himself cringe.
Facts mean nothing to Democrats? And yet YOU Evan know that NO troops have fired on Iraqi protesters? I guess FOX News makes FACTS up too, huh? How else could you explain this story, from FOX, entitled…drum roll please…U.S. Troops Fire Back at Iraqi Protesters; Up to 13 Killed. Or maybe this Associated Press story, U.S. Troops Kill Two Iraqi Protesters. Yes, us lefties just make shit up as we go along, right?
Incorrect, Islamist fundamentalism was CREATED by the SHAH who radicalized the people of Iran, by brutally slaughtering his people…with our help. Meanwhile, you pull the tired out crap out of the bag, accusing Carter for the hostages, when Iran-Contra proved that Reagan was the one who was giving ARMS to terrorists.
If you had been paying attention Evan, you would know that the CIA had been predicting a Soviet decline since the 1960’s. Reagan had ZIP to do with it. Furthermore, find me a single “modern liberal”, much less a Democrat who has suggested that private property be eliminated. Can’t do it? Then they are not following communist ideology. But since you bring it up, how the hell does “modern liberalism” (a term you have yet to define) have ANYTHING to do with communism?
And the Talliban still controls much of Afghanistan, but not enough to keep the heroin supply cut off. Yippy. Yet Uzbekistan still has a Talliban-style government, in which they literally boil people alive who happen to disagree with them. Bush’s response is to give them more US aid to boil more people alive. Yes, freedom sure is spreading throughout that region of the world, I know I’ll finally be free when I get to be boiled alive. Better yet, we might be even freer when 100,000 Americans get blown to bits, and our women are forced to cover their faces. Utopia, here we come.
Read again….slowly. The rate of government growth under Clinton was SLOWED. In fact it was slowed down so that it would not be exceeding our GDP growth rate. In realty, Clinton drastically cut the welfare rolls (that’s PUBLIC welfare…meanwhile CORPORATE welfare increased). The primary reason for the GOP success in 1994 was 1) the restriction on assault weapons, and more importantly 2) because Clinton followed a centrist platform. As John Zogby noted in 1994, the Democrats that stood their ground and stayed to the left of Clinton KEPT their seats. It has nothing to do with a universal health care plan (that the VAST majority of Americans want), so much as if you’re given a choice between an imitation of a Republican (like Clinton) and the real thing, you will always choose the latter.
And speaking of which, as the US now stands alone as the only industrialized nation on earth without a universal health care plan, it puts enormous strains on US domestic industry. So much so, that General Motors is knee high in shit because of it.
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