Posted by
Gamecock on Friday, November 10, 2006 4:43:41 PM
As we exit the nightmare of campaign 2006, the GOP must directly confront its MSM handicap or it will have no chance at success in 2008.
cross-posted at http://www.redstate.com/blogs/gamecock
FNC was a breath of fresh air for conservatives when it was founded a little over 10 years ago, and remains more breathable than any other MSM news network on cable or broadcast. The contrast between the way it covered the news and the rest of the MSM was stark in its respect for conservative ideas and its scrutiny of liberal conventional wisdom.
But unlike its critics claim, FNC has never come anywhere close to the advocacy journalism engaged in by the rest of the MSM, unless one considers being patriotically for One's own country as it wages war against Islamo-Facist terrorists and Baathist-Fascist mass murdering terror-sponsoring regimes to be improper "advocacy"?
Fox prides itself on being "fair and balanced," and compared to the MSM, it is, whatever "fair and balanced" means beyond having Combs eat up Hannity's valuable time.
However, given the recent spectacle of the MSM's grossly biased behavior as a 527 adjunct of the Democrat party during the recent campaign and their historical bias for the Democrats in varying degrees since the 1960's, America needs FNC to be the "balance" against the MSM for the sake of Jefferson's imperative that democracy cannot succeed absent an informed electorate.
How could Fox perform a balancing role and maintain their fairness and integrity?
Why not have a program fashioned after Brent Bozell's MRC, Newsbusters and Hot Air, and display the lunacy of the MSM as well as their factual inaccuracies and lack of similar treatment of democrats and republicans in similar situations?
Why not have a program that explores what patriotism meant to our founders and to Americans during previous wars?
Why not have a program that dissects liberal myths such as the Wall of Separation, McCarthyism, the unheroic 60s hippies, the noble cause in Vietnam and the carnage the Dems wrought with their activism, etc.
Why not cover Congress like a campaign commercial with a truth detector review?
Why not provide a regular forum for conservatives to advance their cause without being constantly interrupted by an emotional substanceless Democrat?
Why not occasionally deciding for themselves what is news instead of letting the NYT decide for them?
If this country is going to have a chance to staunch the Slouching Towards Gomorrah, modern day Liberalism, of the kind that Europe is dying from, the Democrat Party is sick with and which has given the GOP a rash, must be fought and weakened if not defeated outright.
We must have a public that hears the truth told in English and not the Orwellian 1984 PC speak of the MSM.
The MSM planned October surprises to divert the attention of the American people from the issues and Fox followed along with its nose up the MSM-Foley butt.
It has got to be tough on conservatives in the beltway. They are surrounded by stupid liberals that they want to be friends with, which makes it harder to call them stupid. But the MSM libs have no problem calling us racists, starvers of the old, the poor and the children, warmongers and religious kooks. And too many conservatives just smile and grit their teeth. This kind of go along get along crap will lead either to the fall of America or a bloody Civil War.
Can anyone doubt after the spectacle on the MSM in campaign 2006 and the behavior of the Dems and the MSM since soon after the invasion of Iraq, that the liberals are a clear and present danger to defeating our enemies abroad and maintaining the values necessary to our domestic strength?
Orwell feared an all powerful State. He had it half right. The Media is imposing 1984 on the State. We must have an ally in the milieu from whence the threat is borne.
Conservatives must own and use television media to combat the MSM political party, so dubbed by Howard Fineman and other honest liberal MSM reporters.
originally posted at www.race42008.com
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan