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                              JOURNALIST DON’T EXIST – PROPAGANDISTS DO

Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today

The following is from the Wall Street Journal 7-22-10. Written by Fred Barnes executive editor of the Weekly Standard and a commentator on Fox News Channel:

The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy

When I’m talking to people from outside Washington, one question inevitably comes up: Why is the media so liberal? The question often reflects a suspicion that members of the press get together and decide on a story line that favors liberals and Democrats and denigrates conservatives and Republicans. My response has usually been to say, yes, there’s liberal bias in the media, but there’s no conspiracy. The liberal tilt is an accident of nature. The media disproportionately attracts people from liberal arts background who tend, quite innocently, to be politically liberal. If they came from West Point or engineering school, this wouldn’t be the case.

I used the previous quote by “Nikita” recently, and I want to repeat. Most all our colleges are dominated by social/communist professors. Students are brainwashed with anti-American propaganda. When they join their chosen field they are nothing but little lap dogs for the elite. Communism doesn’t stop at Russia’s border.

“Just as an army cannot fight without arms, so the Party cannot ideological work successfully without such a sharp and militant weapon as the press. We cannot put the press in unreliable hands. It must be in the hands of the most faithful, most trustworthy, most politically steadfast people devoted to our cause.” (Nikita Khrushchev – 1957)

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Now, after learning I’d been targeted for a smear attack (communist tactic) by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I’m inclined to amend my response. Not to say there’s a media conspiracy, (I will) but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism. My guess is that this and other revelations about JournoList will deepen the distrust of the national press. True, participants in the online clubhouse appear to hail chiefly from the media’s self-identified left wing. But its founder, Ezra Klein, is a prominent writer for the Washington Post. Mr. Klein shut down JournoList last month – a wise decision.

It’s thanks to Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller website that we know something about JournoList, though the emails among the liberal journalists were meant to be private. (Mr. Carlson hasn’t revealed how he obtained the emails.) In June, the Daily Caller disclosed a series of JournoList musings by David Weigel, then a Washington Post blogger assigned to cover conservatives. His emails showed he loathes conservatives, and he was subsequently fired.

This week, Mr. Carlson produced a series of JournoList emails from April 2008, when Barack Obama’s presidential bid was in serious jeopardy. Videos of the anti-white, anti-American sermons of his Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had surfaced, first on ABC and then other networks. JournoList contributors discussed strategies to aid Mr. Obama by deflecting the controversy. (It happens often) They went public with a letter criticizing an ABC interview of Mr. Obama that dwelled on his association with Mr. Wright. Then, Spencer Ackerman of The Washington Independent proposed attacking Mr. Obama’s critics as racists. He wrote:

“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them – Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists. . . .This makes them ‘sputter’ with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”

No one on JournoList endorsed the Ackerman plan. But rather than object on ethical grounds, they voiced concern that the strategy would fail or possibly backfire. Among journalists in general, there’s always been a herd instinct. Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator and Democratic presidential candidate, once described political writers as birds on a telephone wire. When one bird flew to the wire across the street, they all did. In Mr. Ackerman’s case, I’m glad none of the birds joined him across the street.

We’ve often seen media groupthink in campaigns. In 1980, most of the media decided that President Jimmy Carter was being mean-spirited in his re-election effort with his harsh denunciations of Ronald Reagan, his Republican opponent. The media turned the meanness issue into a major story. In 1992, journalists treated the economy as if it were dead in the water, though a recovery from a mild recession had begun early the previous year. I could go on.

The opposite is true today. We get all kinds of reports from the media that the economy is on an “upturn” – the recession is “almost” over – jobs are beginning to comeback – it is all bullshit, folks. We are on a course that will bring economic disaster. We have incompetent people running our country bent on destroying our way of life, using their idea of “sharing the wealth” that has always failed in history. We are being communized slowly but surely and the only national voice out there calling it communism is Michael Savage. All other “conservatives,” including Fred Barnes haven’t got the balls to say so.. . .article continues

I think JournoList is-or-was-fundamentally different, and not simply because one of its members proposed to make palpably false accusations. As best I can tell, those involved in JournoList considered themselves part of a team. And their goal was to make sure the team won. In 2008, this was Mr. Obama’s team. More recently, the goal seems to have been to defeat the conservative team.

Remember what I’ve said in the past, President Pinocchio is the darling of the International Bankers. He IS the one they’ve been waiting for to complete the transformation of our country into a socialist/communist society. The “bad” publicity the banks are getting – especially Goldman Sachs – is just “another” distraction by the controlled press. No matter what, the bankers rule.

Until JournoList came along, liberal journalists were rarely part of a team. Neither are conservative journalists today, so far as I know. If there’s a team, no one has asked me to join. As a conservative, I normally write more favorably about Republicans than Democrats and I routinely treat conservative ideas as superior to liberal ones. But I’ve never been part of a discussion with conservative writers about how we could most help the Republican or the conservative team.

My experience with other conservative journalists is that they are loners. One of the most famous conservative columnists of the past half-century, the late Robert Novak, is a good example. I knew him well for 35 years. He didn’t tell me what stories he was working on nor ask what I was planning to write. He never mentioned how we might promote Republicans or aid the conservative cause, nor did I.

What was particularly pathetic about the scheme to smear Mr. Obama’s critics was labeling them as racists. The accusation has been made so frequently in recent year, without evidence to back it up, that it has little effect. It’s now the last refuge of liberal scoundrels. The first call I got after the Daily Caller unearthed the emails involving me was from Karl Rove. He said he wanted to talk to his “fellow racists.” We laughed about this. But the whole episode was also sad. I didn’t sputter at the thought of being called a racist. But it was sad to see what journalism, or at least a segment of it, had come to. . . end of article

I beg to differ about the accusation of being a racist having “little effect.” It is being used quite a lot outside the circles of Mr. Barnes chosen profession. This is a political weapon the communists will never stop using. Political Correctness and thought control has made people afraid and the word racist is a tool to use – very effectively.

For several days now, I’ve been hitting the intersections with a sign that reads “REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE COWARDS!” I stood outside the Republican headquarters and some of their workers came out and agreed. At other intersections the volume of beeps and the honking of horns were great. I did have some F words and middle fingers by disgruntled Republicans – I surmised – but not by Democrats – THEY KNOW Republicans are cowards.

We can see civil unrest, racial strife, being created by the White House, the NAACP, and the communist-led unions in the not too distant future – especially when the economy worsens. It is time the conservatives, like a Fred Barnes, take off their gloves and start writing about what is driving this turmoil – it’s not only the “Economy Stupid” it is the overthrow of our constitutional Republic BY COMMUNISM! One more Obama appointee to the Supreme Court after Kagan, and the transformation will be complete. After Pinocchio is gone the communists in the Court will rule the country as they have for too many years now. Your Bill of Rights will be decimated further, maybe out of existence. Write about that – Fred. . . I love you, America

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