Just what is “legitimate media?” I thought all media like TV, radio, cable, newsprint, magazines, and even websites are legitimate according the First Amendment of the Constitution. Somehow, President Obama and Vice President Biden believe otherwise. To them “legitimate means under their control.”
I have friends and relatives who believe only the mainstream news outlets. They have sated themselves on the Kool-aid generously poured for them by our government. Does anyone remember Jim Jones? He was a cult leader who gave new meaning to Kool-aid. In 1978 he led a colony of believers to establish Jonestown in the jungles of Guyana in South America where the First Amendment rights do not apply. There he fed his followers the message he wanted them to hear. He controlled them completely.
Things went horribly wrong when an US Congressman visited Jonestown after hearing some of his constituents were being held against their will. The thought of losing his tiny empire to the US Government caused Jones to panic. Again, he controlled the message. He told his followers that the US would come from out of the sky to murder their babies. Not having any other information his followers believed him. He ultimately talked them into the only solution he had, “revolutionary suicide.” Over 900 people died.
The USA is far from revolutionary suicide, but these things begin small and evolve into ideas and movements that become mainstream. Ultimately, the tighter gun control regulations will evolve into gun registrations, then gun confiscation, and finally annihilation of non-believers.
Obama’s media, those in his pocket, are helping him control the message.
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“I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.” –Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78
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It is my opinion that editors and reporters working in the main-stream media are not capable of separating themselves from their own personal politics. Their bias is too obvious and as such they lose their arguments to readers who can think and reason. They legitimate media feed us the “Kool-aid” being supplied to them from the Minister of Public Announcements.
Once a listener has heard a message often enough he begins to believe it. I admit that I listen to only conservative media, I like the message. I believe the message, I am an apostle of the conservative message. My own conversion to conservatism began shortly after I graduated from college. Until that time, I followed the democrat line my parents followed. I’ve said it many times before, my parents registered as democrats, but lived a conservative life. They believed what their neighbors and bosses told them, “the democrats are for the working man.” They didn’t have a clue about how the democrats did that, but my dad believed it nonetheless, and voted for whoever his boss told them to vote for, and my mom voted for whoever my dad told her to vote for. It is the democrat way.
My conversion came from discussions with a fellow engineer. Joe De Maris was two years older than me, but his arguments about the virtues of conservatism made sense. I began to see how the principles were the same ones my parents lived by. Joe introduced me to Barry Goldwater the then Senator from Arizona. By Joe’s recommendation, I read Senator Goldwater’s book “Conscience of a Conservative.” Goldwater’s words convinced me that I am a conservative.
I also lived through Hitler’s annihilation of six million Jews during WWII, the Cold War, and watched the grand experiment of Socialism conducted by Joe Stalin, and his method of slaying non-believers to get his constituents to fall in line. By the time I came out of the closet as a conservative, I knew Socialism was not the way I wanted to live.
Even though Joe outed me, I fell for the message conveyed by John Kennedy. I voted for him, then I fell for the Jimmy Carter, I voted for him. Both times I really thought I was doing the right thing. Although I had mixed feelings about Carter. He won because his opponent was Gerald Ford the Blame-Bush candidate of the time. Ford was also the only president ever to hold the office without running for it or being voted for. Then Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. President Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to fill the VP spot. Then Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment over the Watergate scandal.
As a side note, it is also my opinion that the Watergate scandal was kindergarten stuff compared to what Benghazi-gate is, and our current president is skating free on that one because of the legitimate media is too lazy and incapable of reporting and asking real questions. Instead, they accept the line being fed to them from the Minister of Public Announcements. It was the legitimate media reporters Woodward and Bernstein from the Washington Post who investigated and relentlessly went for Nixon’s throat. Today, these guys are heroes. Who will be the legitimate hero of Benghazi-gate?
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