There are few who doubt that the media is in the back pocket of Obama. Whether that is because they ideologically agree with him or because they are afraid of being shut out by him and no longer being on the inside might be in question, but the end result is still the same.
The genius of the whole thing more than anything, as is always the case with propaganda is that it is always about deception and misdirection. It is rather like a good magic act. Never let people focus too much on what is really going on. Keep the distractions going.
Sadly to a large degree even Fox News enters into this, only from a slightly different perspective and motivation. Look how long they covered the Sandra Fluke story. Now they’re hung up in the gay marriage issue, the equal pay for women issue is now on the horizon and I have little doubt they will have 100’s of interest facts to produce regarding how women’s pay is in parity with men’s, but the point is they are still distracted from the real stories. They fail to report the important things in favor of the buzz going on in then news. After all they want to seem out of step so they report the same thing the others do instead of leading they are following.
There is very little investigative reporting any more. Somewhere along the line true investigative reporting disappeared. Maybe it happened when the media saw such things as People Magazine take off. They began to see themselves more as entertainment than as factual. They began to put spin on everything so it would be entertaining. Really it’s an insult to thinking Americans. It says we’re not really cable of digesting the facts for ourselves and that we’re not even really interested in what’s going on.
The media is far more interested in telling us what the facts mean than what the facts are. Again they seem to feel that if they don’t comment on the facts that we won’t know what they really mean. Now I don’t believe they can really be that stupid so it then becomes a matter of the propaganda machine, which has to do with telling people what to think.
Consider for a moment how from the start of the republican primaries the media called Romney the presumptive candidate. Before anyone had even cast one vote they were saying that, and they continued to say it till it happened. Now they’re busy telling us the best people for Romney to pick for his vice presidential candidate. None of this is news, it’s presumption. News deals with facts. This doesn’t deal with a single fact.
When was the last time you heard something about bills being presented in the house or the senate? Or, better still when was the last time they told you what it SAID instead of just telling you what it would mean? Congress passes 100’s of thousands of pages of bills every year and yet we hear almost nothing about them. All we hear about is the arguing and infighting. I for one am really sick of the drivel I hear coming from the media. The sad thing is that it is pretty much our only source for what is going on in the nation right now.
I also do not understand why it is that the media and our government refuse to address the issue of radical Islam. Clearly we do not have any leaders in the Muslim community really coming out and condemning the Muslims for what they’ve done. It is also clear that for the most part the only people involved in this kind of behavior are Muslims. No one seems to ask why we don’t hear of Buddhist extremists or Christian extremists and even in the rare situations where you do it is recognized by all that they are the exception not the rule. Where Muslims are concerned people are not the least bit surprised to find they have committed some horrendous act.
This is more of the propaganda war. Then we find out today that Obama is planning on releasing some of the terrorists from Gitmo. The only reason Obama or others seem able to give is that it is a good will gesture. Doesn’t this make us look especially weak? After all you generally make good will gestures to those under your power that you have no need of doing such too. If you have not vanquished them or clearly have the upper hand then it is generally called tribute. I fear this is more like a tribute than it is a good well gesture.
I’m not sure if Obama really doesn’t understand the way Islam works and he is seriously deluded into thinking that if he treats them nicely they will reciprocate, or he knows exactly how they’ll take it and that’s what he wants. Obama seems to get away with being called neither of these things all the time. I suppose it’s that people are afraid to admit or believe he is really so stupid or really so naïve, or that he could actually want to see these people triumph. It is much like the situation of calling him a socialist or a communist. People prefer to think that he is a muddling buffoon who just doesn’t know about the economy than believe he is intentionally causing the damage he is.
Obama has used to cover of media and distraction probably better than any president in recent history. I do not know much about Franklin Roosevelt or some of the other horrible presidents we’ve had that brought us to the brink of socialism, but he certainly must rate fairly high up there among them. With the media running interference for him he has had as nearly a free hand to do as he pleases as you can imagine.
It is little wonder that not much got done the first 2 years he had both houses of congress. He was focused on one thing and one thing only which he was determined to push through at all costs, health care. He understood this was at best second only to social security and maybe not even second to that. Between the two he could make sure we had a socialist society.
Yes we have a few who are saying they are going to repeal health care but I can’t help but wonder just how much these progressive Republicans will actually fight to make that a reality. They certainly haven’t been doing very much to expose what is in it? I wonder if they even know what is in it.
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