Time and time again I hear on the radio callers, usually liberal Democrats and Independents who are calling into the various talk radio programs throughout the day, lambast one single cable news channel; Fox News. Often the charges made are to call it biased against Democrats and in favor of Republicans; presumably from liberals and Democrats calling in. An amazing phenomenon however, is to hear journalists and reporters on the other competing news channels – what I call the alphabet soup media – make the exact same charges as well, often seeming as though they were taking their cue from the same playbook, and often it is.
In all of my years I have never seen any news organization criticize another of bias or partisanship. There was a time when such a thing was looked askance because it betrayed by its very charge a partisan charge from a different direction, in other words, whoever made such a charge against another betrayed their own bias and partisan leanings, so it wasn’t done. It was bad taste, and it showed a lack of class and professionalism. It is astonishing how the standards degraded in recent years. Today, all of the broadcast and cable news channel without exception charge a single cable news channel with being biased; Fox News.
There’s something very wrong with this picture don’t you think? A type of horde mentality so pervasive that those suffering it do not realize that they are giving themselves away as nothing but the very thing they as a group, as a mob charge the other single channel with; bias and partisanship. About twenty years ago, they were not as direct or as brazen as they are today. They were careful not to appear to be partisan, but one could tell from the way they reported the news, that they were, only there was the pretence of objectivity. Today it is quite different. The pretense of objectivity has been tossed in the wind and exchanged with a type of civil savagery where the attack on the other party is personal, and downright nasty. With the exception of Fox News, the organs of the mass media have become nothing more than the propaganda mouthpieces of the Obama Administration. But, let’s examine the charges of partisanship leveled at Fox by these others.
Now to call Fox News partisan, as CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN do quite often, because it reports news stories that the alphabet soup channels these other channels spike (selectively censor by not reporting) does not make Fox News partisan. A charge of partisanship from any group or person/s with specific and particular ideological predispositions in itself is evidence that it is only a charge not necessarily predicated in reality. It is an opinion, a charged one at that, from a source (or sources) with a specific ideology who claim partisanship from Fox because Fox is the only news outlet that reports outside of the stories and topics covered by the alphabet soup media, because it reports them in many cases in a manner that is at variance with their opinions. This is not partisanship, it is journalism. If it were, then the charge would hold equally, if not; more true of the alphabet soup channels whose editorial boards decide what stories to report or not report and how they will report them, while couching their opinionated editorials and passing them off to the public as news reports.
If anything, this is evidence that Fox is not partisan, because there is something intrinsically wrong when ABC, NBC, CBC, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN spike the same stories, and report almost verbatim the same line and in the same manner, and the same way, the issues and topics on our front pages which only those news outlets choose to report.
The true sign of a free press is diversity in reporting, and I have not seen this with regards to these news outlets, whereas Fox is a refreshing departure from these. It takes courage to stand out from the usual pack and talking heads, and Fox does that in spades. (See the article at the following link about how the media covered for the contradictory reports released by the Obama Administration following the mission which successfully killed Osama bin Laden: Obama, Osama and a Love Struck Media)
“An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible; whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. …….All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree; however, all things are not equal.”
Leonard Nimoy in the role of Mr. Spock in Star Trek IV: the Undiscovered Country, Paramount Pictures.
While it may be claimed by people of a particular political bent and ideology that these news outlets are “objective,” and charge Fox with not being objective because it reports news stories these do not and does not tout the usual media mantra these channels all spew and pass off as news, though it may appear to those people of such ideological bent that Fox’s choice to run stories the other outlets do not, as impossible as it may seem to these people, the illumination of what they deem what appears to them as a factual impossibility – that Fox is neutral and objective – “fair and balanced,” as Fox is wont to advertise; might in fact be true and therefore the truth, and their biased opinion based upon their flawed premise, an error of judgment on their part in charging Fox News with bias and the alphabet soup channels with objectivity.
Thus, when illuminating the facts, which to these people appear to be impossible, effectively erases even the smallest hint of the improbability of Fox’s objectivity in the face of such evidence being illuminated, and the facts brought out.
Even more evidence of media bias is how all of the broadcast alphabet soup channels have decided to spike the story of Van Jones and his Communist and radical ties, associations, and activities, including public statements which corroborate these. As Wikipedia the On Line Encyclopedia puts it:
The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists was released in May 2010.[25] In the book, (per the New York Times blurb), "President Obama's life and campaigns are sifted for Communist and socialist ties."[26] The book spent several weeks on the Times' bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction and appeared on other prominent bestseller charts, including those of Publishers Weekly and the Washington Post.[27] [4] [5] Some journalists, including from publications such as Time and Newsweek, sent emails to the author's publicist saying they did not want to receive a review copy of Klein's book.[28][29] [30]
It’s one thing to read a book and only after examining what it has to say, to either agree or disagree with it when critiquing it, it’s quite another when one simply censors oneself from even a minor glance of the material simply on the basis that he/she disagrees with what it has to say. As Goethe whom I quote in all of my e-mails under my signature puts it, “There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.” I would put it this way, “There is nothing more dangerous than willful ignorance in the face of facts.” I can disagree or agree with an opinion only after I have had time to examine all of its angles. To do any less is intellectually dishonest and dishonorable. It is to deny intelligence access to data. And this is how Time and Newsweek, two publications that are strongly favorably biased with Obama and have for decades promoted hard left positions; have chosen to deal with Aaron Klein’s book, The Manchurian Candidate.” Herein is another example of outright media bias to the Obama pattern of doing this, and it is very well explained by Washington correspondent Bill Koenig in the following manner:
Obama's pattern of behavior enabled by big media
Obama uses his visual props, whether it is his wife and adorable little girls, or his calm demeanor, while his associates are behind the scenes acting like termites chewing away at the foundation of our Constitution.
A majority of the American media — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post — do his bidding and assist him. Moreover, they never vetted him as a presidential candidate as they did John McCain — and as they are aggressively doing with the 2012 Republican presidential candidates.
He also receives a lot of help from the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-oil-and-gas, deficit-spending Democrats.
Obama and his czars have a pattern of behavior. He or they stir up things which lead to major divisions. Then he acts like he is the adult in the room and has his adversaries come to the White House with his pro-Obama media coverage — putting things in the best possible light for him — and then he comes forward with the solution as if it is his doing.
On another issue, he began promoting his LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) agenda the day he took office. He pushed the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) in the U.S. military. He brought his gay crusader friends into key positions in the government — in the courts.
He and his attorney general refuse to defend the "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) at the same he is pushing the gay agenda at the United Nations. He takes much pride in his annual declaration of LGBT Pride Month in June (Obama 2011 LGBT declaration).
No one has done more for the gay agenda in the United States and throughout the world than Barack Hussein Obama. And the secular liberal media has been there for him.
He spoke to the world on his position on the 1967 borders in Israel, then spoke to Jewish supporters while the world only heard about his main statements and analysis. The damage was done.
He has also used this strategy with the federal takeover of national health care.
Need I say more? This media is carrying Obama’s water for him, and has been since before he took office. From the moment he became a candidate for president two and a half years ago until the present, the organs of the mass media have been nothing more than an extension of his propaganda machine. It goes into great lengths to present all that he does, all that he says, and the disastrous results of these in the best possible light. In all the years that I’ve lived, I’ve never seen a more flagrant and calculated bias by the mass media than how it treats Barack Hussein Obama and his policies, and their results. And worst still is that they do this openly and without the slightest hint of any attempt to play “fair and balanced” or “objective and detached,” instead they now have tossed aside all pretense of objectivity and are themselves spokespersons of Obama’s in their reporting.
During the crisis in Egypt, Libya and the Middle East, Obama went on vacation to Brazil at tax payer’s expense (as they do with every trip) with his family and an entourage of key executives of various industries who form part of his campaign war chest, and while there, he and his group met with key industry and government leaders of Brazil’s petro-chemical industry known as Petrobas. While Obama and his Energy Department placed a moratorium on offshore drilling and exploration by American oil companies off of our shores, he gave Petrobas a billion tax payer dollars for it to do precisely what he and his administration are keeping our companies from doing – explore for oil, drill and extract oil from the ocean’s bottom in the Gulf of Mexico, ANWR, Alaska, the US’s west coast, and the US’s east coast. You would think that the press would at the very least report this; well, they didn’t. Talk radio show host Michael Savage of the Savage Nation has provided a list of those who travelled with President Obama to Brazil. The mass media wouldn’t even do that.
But, the scandal isn’t just that Obama and his regime – as talk radio host Rush Limbaugh prefers to call this government – energy policy is to keep American companies from exploring and exploiting our oil off of our shores by enforcing a moratorium on drilling and exploration, and refining; he promotes with American tax money the same exploration by another country. He adds insult to injury by being selective as to what companies and corporations get federal money – only those who support his campaign and the campaigns of other Democrats – and is now openly advocating a law that will require all companies competing for contracts from the federal and state governments to fill out a form that details their political affiliations and contributions before they are allowed to vie for those contracts with their competitors, and the Obama Administration reserves the right under this law to choose what companies get the federal contracts and moneys along with them. This is nothing more than bold, corrupt in your face crooneyism of the worst type, and no sitting president has ever had the temerity to attempt anything like this on the American electorate and the industry that employs it. You would think the media would be all over this. Not a peep. Not one story. Not even a passing mention, and the implications if such a law should pass congress.
I have never seen anything like this here in this country. The closest example of how the media treats Obama and his administration is how the media was controlled, manipulated, used to do Hitler’s bidding during his reign of terror in Germany, and the Stalinist propaganda machine in the old Soviet Union during the early part of the 20th century. But where the press and organs of the mass media were controlled and part of the Fascist government of Hitler and the Communist government of Stalin, the press in America is supposed to be free and independent of Obama’s government, and presumably it is. What makes the media’s behavior and pattern of reporting this administration’s policy initiatives and public statements more onerous is that it is doing it voluntarily, that is, the government is not forcing to report the way it has and is, it is simply doing it out of its own volition. This is unprecedented in the history of American journalism. The closest the media ever came to this was during the so-called Camelot Years of the Kennedy Administration, but even during those troubled and halcyon years, some elements of the mass media did report the news objectively. This press is not. And it is openly conducting itself in this manner freely and without any outside pressure by Obama or any element his government not to.
But there is evidence however that for any in the media to do otherwise can prove to make them a Pariah with others in the news media and especially with this White House. We can cite the example of the Texas journalist who interviewed Obama and “had the nerve” (more like the courage I think) to ask Obama how he felt about visiting a state that rejected his policies, and the time recently during a fundraiser of radicals for radicals, where a group of radicals held a protest of sorts during a speech Obama gave in San Francisco, and a reporter there actually videotaped the incident on her iphone and later reported on it. There are many more, but what is interesting is not the occasional reporter who goes “off topic” and steers away from the media bandwagon by asking an embarrassing question of the president, or actually reporting honestly; what is very interesting is how this White House and this president reacts to it. I’ve never seen anything like it; it’s like a spoiled child being given all that he wants suddenly discovering that he can’t have something and pouncing on the offending party who is keeping him from getting it. This is the Obama Administration and Barack Hussein Obama. If anyone in the media gets out of line, or out of the usual media mantra of praises and platitudes in their reporting, the Obama thought police of usual administration officials are there to “correct” the matter and slap the offending party publicly for have the nerve to do what he/she did. Have you ever seen anything like this before in this country? Perhaps to one extent or another at the state and especially local levels, where politicians wield a lot of power and have their hands practically in everything, especially in cities like Chicago, where corruption goes back to the 1920s, but never on a national level, and never as pervasive as this.
We can go on and on, but there is not a person reading this who does not in one way or another agree that they have never seen anything like this administration and the shenanigans and goings on as evident as the one in this White House. Barack Obama and the people he brought with him into his administration from Chicago, are the most blatantly partisan, divisive, and corrosive elements within the body politic of this country. Since the days they decided to run the campaign for the White House with Soros money and money from rich Arab and European financiers overseas (to this day, Obama has not come clean about how and from where he raised over nine hundred million dollars in campaign cash. Obama claims to be a man of the people, and throughout his career and even now, continues to play the class warfare of rich versus poor mantra, but even with the obscene amount of money his campaign raised to get him to the White House in 08’, not one penny of any of the money left over from this campaign has gone to help the very people who elected him president. Like all other socialists, Obama is very comfortable spending other people’s money as long as he doesn’t have to spend his own. He’ll tax you to death to pay for the poor, but he won’t cough up any of his wealth in this regard. History teaches US that the proponents of class warfare are not know for their own generosity, they’re just generous with other people’s money but their own.
There was a time during the Carter Years, when it seemed like America was in decline, and it was, but never did anyone who lived through the double dip recession, hyper-inflated era of Jimmy Carter and survived it, dreamt that the nation could decline so precipitously as it has the last two and a half years, but here we are. If America falls it will be by our own hand, for out of our own people have arisen many who do not share in the vision and best traditions that made this nation great, and it is their hour now. With the election of many TEA Party candidates in 2010, we saw a brief respite from the onslaught of injustice legislative, judicial, and presidential injustice that we saw with the last congress presided over by Nancy Pelosi and the Harry Reid senate which still bedevils US. But, Obama is still president, and the hosts who support him are as the ancient Assyrians in number and in strength, and as the ancient Assyrians were the destroyer of nations, so are the modern horde of globalists, leftists, Marxists, socialists, and the great number ignorant masses held sway by the elites in Washington in the media, in the entertainment world, and in academia.
Now in conclusion, I would like to posit a very sobering and troubling thought. America is not mentioned in prophecy. This leaves US with great cause to be concerned. But be that as it may, those who have placed their faith and trust in the Almighty have never been disappointed. Regardless of what has occurred in the past, and what will occur in the future, every empire that existed in the ancient world is no more, yet one people have survived through every upheaval and catastrophe that has befallen man; the Jewish people. There is a very good reason for this, and it is the faithfulness of Almighty G-d. Even with repeated persecutions, expulsions, pogroms, and every other invention of man to destroy them; from Pharaoh to Haman, to Caesar, to popes, to Hitler, to Stalin; the Jewish people thrive to this day and ever shall because their G-d is the Lord, and anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be delivered. Make no mistake about it, those who place their trust in G-d find rest, and while every ancient empire and nation that has existed have all disappeared in the dust heap of history and have become just traces of dusty archeological artifacts, nothing more; the children of Israel – the Jewish people remain, and the dry bones of Israel have arisen after two thousand years and taken on new life, and are because of the faithfulness of Almighty G-d. You want to make it through this tumultuous time? Place your heart and trust in G-d and ask for His help and strength. He will be there to give it to you, and much more, more than you’ll know.
THE LORD IS EXALTED, FOR HE DWELLS ON HIGH;
HE HAS FILLED ZION WITH JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AND HE SHALL BE THE STABILITY OF YOUR TIMES,
A WEALTH OF SALVATION, WISDOM, AND KNOWLEDGE;
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS HIS TREASURE.
Isaiah 33:5-6
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