Where's the press? Where's the coverage on the war? I know there's a war going on and I want to know as much as can be known about it - why isn't the press covering it?

 

Oh, Congress is out of session. Obviously the war itself is not news, only the pontificating upon the war that comes out of Washington is news. I begin to see how this works - there has to be something in it for the press, i.e. currying favor with one of the major political parties. Without a rabid Congressperson to lead them, their reporting might benefit the opposition.

 

Here's another one: Why won't the MSM cover Islamic terrorists in any way, shape or form? We need to know about the threats we are facing, possibly right here in our own back yards. We know they are here, we probably know who they are - why don't reporters investigate them? Reporters investigate Christians (especially Catholics) all the time, especially extremists, and then try to paint all devotees as extremists.

 

Oh, it's probably better all the way around to just pretend that radical Islamists are no real threat to us at all, and then we don't _HAVE_ to cover them and invite the wrath of twisted Jihadi angst upon our own heads. Let’s leave it to the Bush administration to handle that dangerous stuff, and while we’re at it, let’s cut their legs out from under them so that they can’t protect the American people and when the next terrorist strike happens we can have a field day blaming Bush for failing us again. Yes, this is better all the way around – truly a win-win strategy. Oh, except for the people who might get killed as a result. But heck, at least it won’t be us reporters getting killed – we’re too important to the process!

 

 

They won't tell us what we want to know, they won't tell us what we need to know. Refresh my memory again - what do we need them for?

 

It is clear that one of the MSMs major weapons against Conservatives is simply exercising the power to IGNORE. Without news coverage, news does not exist. In this regard, the MSM creates news by choosing to report. Additionally, smiling in the face of Liberals and frowning in the face of Conservatives has the effect of biasing news coverage. Additionally contesting every assertion Conservatives make and giving a pass to assertions from Liberals has the effect of biasing news coverage.

 

 

Question: After months and years of negative news coverage, why is there suddenly no news at all when it "suddenly" appears that the war is beginning to go well for our side?

 

What are we waiting for - for the Democrat spin machine to come up with a new way to create the perception that all is lost?

 

What is most sickening of all is the notion that, once their feet are held to the fire for their abject failure to objectively report the news, all they need to do is take a few days to publish a few mea-culpa and some half-hearted, faux-introspective drivel like "How could we have been so misled by the Democrats?" or "Where did we go wrong - are we too trusting? Too naive? Too virtuous in every conceivable way?" and they will pledge to do better next time (meaning pledge to not get caught next time) and then they will go right back to business as usual.

 

"If we appear contrite and sincere our public will surely forgive us our missteps - they always do." Perception is reality. This is the mantra of the MSM and of the Liberal wing of the Democratic Party. They are unified in other ways as well, but I digress.

 

Why does anyone still believe anything that the MSM has to say about anything? The MSM doesn't report news - it *filters* news. The MSM personifies the frightening culture of double-speak etc. from Orwell's 1984 and they do so in the worst possible way - the MSM are completely unaccountable to citizens AND to government and they protected by the Constitution. This means the only defense we have against their insidious influence is, ironically, to utilize one of their own major weapons against them. That's right - we ignore them.

 

Turn off the evening news. Put down the leftist newspapers that mis-represent personal bias and wish-fulfillment as fact. Turn off the news reports of mayhem everywhere except for the little slice of the world you occupy - it's all exaggerated and blown up to GRAB your attention, then it is puffed up to HOLD your attention. The common denominator is that it is YOUR ATTENTION that makes it all work.

 

Without your attention, the crap cannot continue. So turn it off, put it down and cut it out of your daily routine. Then one day, eventually, out of the ashes of the news industry should arise a better institution, one that we more rightly deserve, one that is worthy of our sincerity and our earnestness and charitableness and altruism, not one that preys upon these virtues to twist our opinions to fuel their political purposes.

 

On the brighter side, there are new sources of news; sources reporting the rest of the story, the other side of the coin and all the facts that are fit to print. They don't tell us everything, or even everything we might want to know. Some things we do not need to know, like how our best and brightest are tracking and pursuing those who would do us harm. We don't need to know about secret operations and countermeasures and the like - such knowledge is useless to us. And if those who would harm us can read the same papers and watch the same news programs, then they know better how to avoid detection and to succeed in their efforts to maim and kill us and our loved ones.

 

The _new_ news media are responsible and are accountable to the American people. When they make a mistake, we expect them to admit it, to make corrections to their procedures to improve their accuracy and completeness and then to move on, not whitewashing the error or pooh-poohing it and repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

 

Democracies get the government they deserve. Democracies get the news media they deserve. We are a free and proud and terribly fortunate people. We deserve far better than we have been getting from the MSM. And now I EXPECT better!

 

 

 

Nobody believes Democrats are finished with knifing our troops in the back - they just need to find a way to do it without being called on it. Embarrassing President Bush is job #1 for the Democrats, and there is simply no other means of damaging Bush's legacy. If they can't spin the war or re-cast the waras some sort of failure, then George Bush wins. And he winds big.

And Democrats face an uphill battle next year at the polls.  On a level playing field they stand to lose everything. The Clinton/Obama ticket is doomed - too much baggage, too little seriousness. So it's back to President Bush. And the war. And the troops.

They've been focus-grouping their next attack on George all during their recess, and the sad fact is that, for all their bluster, no matter what it turns out to be, their constant deriding of the man and the decisions he had made indicates that George Bush is the strongest Lame Duck President ever!

George Bush has been taking the arrows for the party since day one and he has never complained or cried foul no mater what the Dems have stuck in his eye, no matter how unfair the coverage by the MSM. He has been Preesidential at every turn. Unflappable. The Dems want to (NEED to) knock him down a peg or two, and they still can't do it. For seven years they've tried, and now, when he should be weakest, his sad, sorry approval ratingpractically  towers above their own.

So it'll be back to attacking the war and the strategy and the troops and whatever else they can. Searching high and low for a defector from the camp to trumpet. Oh wait, that failed miserably already. But Dems aren't anything if they aren't  persistent and single-minded - they could try this again. We've got to lose this war. WE MUST LOSE THIS WAR.

The only question is HOW? Dammit, HOW???!!! Are military is unbeatable, unstoppable. The enemy is taking unsustainable casualties. We're clearly winning this war - and this is totally unacceptable.

So quick, while no one is looking, how do we derail this freight train? We can't let it pull into the station next year. We gotta stop it, BUT HOW????????!!!!!!!!

Well, here's one idea - we know that the foreign national terrorists will become more and more desperate and will schedule bigger, more dramatic killings of larger and larger numbers of Iraquis to try to win the battle of public opinion. Hundreds, maybe thousands of deaths per incident. Maybe they can persuade the UN to intervene and save them. Of course that would take a willing press and a more willing Congress. Hmmmmm, no fingerprints on this one - the major killing seems to be on hiatus, waiting for Congress to return to session - better put this one in the possibilities column.

As far as national security is concerned, Congress is our weakest link. Therefore all attacks *must* be aimed at Congress!

Good thinking, laddie! But There are so many other rocks you haven't looked under, don't get complacent!

Stay tuned for the next installment of Democrat Underhanded Cowardice On Parade, coming soon to an unbiased MSM outlet near you.   :-)

Only Libs stand to gain from losing in Iraq.

Our troops lose face and honor, having promised the Iraqis they fought and died for that they would stay until Iraq was safe.

The American people lose safety and security in a post-911 world as well as losing confidence and faith in their military.

Our commander in chief is embarassed on the international stage by his own party pulling the rug out from under him. A prat fall is always good for a laugh, eh?

The Iraqi people lose their dreams of freedom while they lose their lives by the tens of thousands.
(Libs think Iraqi lives are pretty cheap - several hundred thousand brown-skinned lives lost will not cost true-blue Libs any sleep)

Oddly enough, everybody loses with this strategy.

Strangely enough, only Democrat-party Libs could conceivably benefit from the *perceived* failure (and perception is reality - Democrat handbook) that an early pull-out would imply, which could then conceivably be spun into electoral successes in 2008.

No single other individual, group or interest is served AT ALL by an early withdrawal. Surely I am not alone in noticing this lop-sided equation. The Libs are ALL on the side of failure and EVERYONE else involved wants victory over terror.

What's wrong with this picture?

Next up, why aren't reporters reporting?