An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
ABO 2012
This is going to be another extremely long day. I typically don’t do much on Sundays, other than go to church, and maybe nap, but since I’m not at home, and didn’t make it to church (lack of appropriate attire is one reason….don’t think they’d appreciate me showing up in baggie sweats and an NRA ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ t-shirt), I was put to work. Cleaning. UGH! Actually, I put myself to work, but some things needed to be done, so we did them. We’re all pretty amazed at the results. 
I won’t go into the reasons things had to be done, but suffice it to say, it was a priority.
Anyway, I am slurping coffee, attempting to get at least one eye open, and going through emails. I got a link to something I found quite interesting, and pretty much agree with it, with one exception….I don’t think voting for Ron Paul is a good idea. Other than that….I have to say that yes, our lame stream media is nothing more than a government run propaganda machine, in the same vein that the media of Nazi Germany was, or the state run media in Venezuela.
A snippet:
The elites are masters of propaganda. They have at their beck and call an army of “journalists” who never stray from the official state line for fear of being ostracized. They eagerly and happily spread lies and half-truths in order to gain and then keep their seats near the halls of power. Those who stray from the party line (Helen Thomas) are harshly dealt with.
They have learned that the more lies they tell, the more lies we believe. And the more lies we believe, the more dependent we become. Conversely, the fewer myths, lies and deceptions we succumb to, the less dependent — and, therefore, the freer — we are.
If you watch the news, read the papers, either print or online, no doubt you’ve notice a serious deterioration in the quality of the ‘news’. Instead of all the facts, we get slant, from all the outlets. The majority, however, slant so far to the left with their propaganda, it’s difficult to know what real anymore. The lack of reporting is just as bad as flat out lying. Those who actually pay attention have seen a great many omissions in what most would consider vital information pertaining to the story that’s being ‘reported’. But since it doesn’t fit into their agenda, and that of the current administration, it gets left out, or the spin is so blatant, you get dizzy just hearing it….kind of like going a few rounds in a dryer. 
Just one example of the media ‘in the tank’ for the administration would be the recent WaPo column by a total Obama suck up. *shakes head*
When confronted with a challenge to the established belief system, the mind closes off. When this happens, the individual employs avoidance behavior, writes off the new knowledge as conspiracy theory and labels it as kooky, insane or stupid. The information is then dismissed, never to be considered again, even when the facts support the new knowledge.
The esoteric purpose of propaganda is to extract wealth and labor illegally as concealed involuntary servitude. The people who use propaganda to persuade the populace against their best interests create myths and sell them as benefits.
Have you ever had, what started out as, what you THOUGHT was a rational conversation with a liberal? Within minutes, confronted with the truth, the majority will totally become unhinged. Recent videos of the OWS crowd proves that point with no need for explanation. You can find them anywhere on the net, unless, of course, some underhandedness has occurred, which you KNOW it does! YouTube is notorious for pulling videos , especially when the rabid leftist complain. Let a conservative say that something is highly offensive, and you get either silence, or ‘it’s protected by the 1st Amendment. Funny how that works, eh? Google apparently is another arm of the socialist movement known as the Democrat Party, with the head, Obama/Washerwoman-Schultz, pulling the strings. Or would that be George Soros? Uh oh! A conspiracy theory. tsk tsk tsk
So, anyway, the column has a list of lies, covering a variety of topics, from The War on Terror to The economy is improving. One topic of interest is There is a difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. In today’s parties, some might agree. In a way, I do as well. All we have to do is look at the candidate we were stuck with in 2008, and to a degree, who THEY have decided our candidate is this time around. I know of very few people who actually supported either one. The elites at the top are actually quite similar, however, us rank and file out here in the REAL world, are quite different from each other. The majority of us stand on principle. The head honchos blow with the wind. Quite disturbing actually, which is why the Tea Party is so vital to all upcoming elections. No, we are NOT fading away. We are still out here, doing our best to not only take our country back, but the party of Reagan as well. The reason you don’t see us out there, like you you do the OWS types, is because the majority on our side either work, or have family obligations which prevents us from traveling distances, not to mention, we don’t get financial support from ANY organizations to bus us in for rallies. We foot our own bills, and unlike the unionistas who get bused (and in most cases, paid) in to protest something or other, of people who are just handed a sign, and paid to carry it for the cameras.
The one item I have an issue with is A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Obama. Actually, it is. I think Ron Paul is a smart cookie….when it comes to domestic issues. However, his foreign policy has turned off a large number of people, including me. We stand by our allies, not throw them to the wolves, as the Obama administration has. I think he’d make an excellent Secretary of Treasury though.
So, no, I do not believe “A vote for either Mitt Romney or Obama is a vote for continued and reinforced fascism.“ We can’t do this in just one election cycle, and we have to start somewhere. Getting Obama out of office, and in turn, removing all those freakin’ czars, reversing the numerous ‘executive orders’ that ‘go around Congress’, and getting a majority in both the House and the Senate is just the first step to restoring our Constitutional Republic.
Anti-Christian Media
Media Matters’ targets revealed: business, wealth, Christianity
When David Brock applied for tax-exempt status for Media Matters for America, he told the IRS exactly who his group would be fighting against: businesses, wealthy Americans and conservative Christians.
“Media Matters for America (MMA) believes that news reporting and analysis by the American media, with its eye on profit margin and preservation of the status quo, has become biased,” read the group’s application, obtained by The Daily Caller, “It is common for news and commentary by the press to present viewpoints that tend to overly promote corporate interests, the rights of the wealthy, and a conservative, Christian-influenced ideology.”
Ya know, I’d find such statements downright hilarious if I thought these people were actually kidding. But sadly, they are not. I’d like to tell you people at MMA that if Christians had control of the media, you wouldn’t be watching 90% of the garbage you see on TV these days, and that includes the flippin’ commercials!
Media Matters has made no secret of its adherence to progressive principles, but flagging Christianity as having undue influence in media is the latest revelation about the group’s treatment of religion.
I honestly don’t think they realize just how much influence the opposite of Christianity has influenced all media. And that’s quite sad. From the evening news, to the car commercials, we have seen a complete turn around in our society. From shame to anything goes, sending the message to young girls that it’s ok to be a ‘slut’, as long as you dress like one…get your sexy little girl panties and drive the boys wild. Seriously? Do you actually believe that if TRUE Christians had the sort of influence that MMA says it does, that we’d be seeing a commercial for “Three and a Half Men” with a major character stating ‘your mother and my mother are having an affair’? Would we be seeing Bones and Booth having a baby, living together, with no hint of matrimony? Would trash like Jersey Shore be renewed season after season? Seriously? Do they really believe that any true Bible believing, washed in the Blood, Christian would allow such garbage to be shown on their television, if they had so much influence in the media? How about that Seventeen Magazine? Have you seen a copy of that lately? I wouldn’t line my cat box with the garbage they print, but young girls are influenced by the pictures they see of those refugee from Auschwitz type models, and many end up starving themselves to death because they feel they are ugly. What is ugly is what the media portrays as beautiful and normal.
I won’t even get into what they pass off as ‘music’. “Bitches”? “Hos”? Violence, screeching unintelligible lyrics, that if most parents could understand, would find itself in the shredder. At least I hope it would!
Unfortunately, there are far too many churches in this country who have turned a blind eye to the negative message the media presents, all in the name of diversity, acceptance, and tolerance. I honestly wish that Christianity had as much influence in the media as this bunch of leftists would like to portray. Hollywood would produce movies without a load of four lettered words that add nothing to the dialogue, there would be an obvious lack of gratuitous sex, and boys and girls could find some role models that didn’t encourage them to destroy their lives with binge drinking and drug use, casual sex, and baby murder.
As parents, we have an obligation to teach our kids right from wrong. I, sadly, was a bad influence on my kid. Yep, I was a really bad mother. If I had had more positives in my life, than negatives…sadly, of my own choosing, perhaps I could have become a better role model for her. Thankfully, she overcame my stupidity, and has turned out much better than I had hoped.
Am I a prude? Yep…reckon so….now. Through my life, I have learned many lessons, one of which dragged me kicking and screaming OUT of that world, and into one where I have found true joy. We should be so lucky that the media would present the TRUE side of Christianity, and be so influenced.
IMHO, this organization does not qualify as tax exempt, as it’s stated purpose for receiving it was based on complete lies!
The NEW White MAN
MSM’s Phony News
Public Enemy #1
Wake Me When It’s Over!
Not a whole lot to say today. My internal barometer is playing havoc with my will to be functional!
Of course, this weekend was just chocked full of nonsense in the political world, and I should give a flip, but it’s really getting difficult to even acknowledge the stupidity that runs rampant in our world these days. What can you say about probably the worst excuse for a debate mediator? What a total maroon! CBS has made itself even more irrelevant in the world of news. Criminy! Is that even possible?
We, at least those of us who still capable of putting a coherent thought together, already know the lame stream is less than useless for factual information. The better question would be to the CNN propagandist: “Are YOU uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?” The obvious answer would be “Oh yeah, I’m as dumb as a post oak stump!”
So, on that happy note, I am going to do something I haven’t done in 3 days! Take a pain killer and go horizontal for a while! sigh….
The Lame Stream Strikes Again
If you don’t question the behavior of the Lame Stream Media, it must be that you actually buy into their spin. During an interview with Newt Gringrich, Ann Curry of NBC didn’t ask the former Speaker and current presidential candidate about HIS campaign. No, she spent her time with the gentleman asking about Herman Cain. Is this really journalism, or an attempt by the lame stream to destroy what is obviously a good man by questioning his fellow candidates about the recent nothing of a scandal.
Behind The Bias – The History of Liberal Media
It’s the LEFT that needs to see this. We already know the main stream media is outrageously biased. These are just a very few examples of what we are fighting against. They could have made this a week long series, and still, would have barely scratched the surface.
Tell Us Something We Don’t Know :/
Tonight, on Fox (no lefties, not Faux….F….O….X), Sean Hannity will be airing a show about bias in the media, ‘Behind the Bias: The History of Liberal Media.’ at 9pm eastern, or in my time…8pm central.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter which media you get your ‘news’ from, there is ALWAYS a slant, mostly towards the left, but even occasionally to the right. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer my news filled with facts, and facts only. I can come to my own conclusions. Tell me who, what, when, where, how, and if the facts are there, I’ll take the why as well. But please, stop telling me just what you want me to know, quit hiding the facts just because YOU don’t happen to like them.
SUCH A Funny Fellow!
Republicans wrote the political dictionary: It’s proof Democrats don’t control the media
It’s hard to know where to begin in dismantling the Republican canard that Democrats control the media. Fox News is the most popular 24-hour news network by a whoosh and a cachung. Rush Limbaugh is the most powerful radio host, and lots of little Limbaughs line up behind him. Sarah Palin is the biggest media-political crossover star. And in an increasingly fragmented Internet, the Drudge Report continues to drives more political traffic than any other website. In italics and bold, to boot.
Where to begin? Let’s see….ONE cable news channel as opposed to 2, plus the network alphabets. Uh huh. Got it. Now, I will admit, there are a lot more conservative talkers out there on the radio. Why? Well, because liberal talk show hosts actually suck. They are all emotion, and no fact. So they fail. Miserably. And what business person would want to advertise on a radio show that totally blows? I mean….seriously! Well, unless of course if they don’t actually want anyone hearing their commercials, I suppose. As for the internet….has this guy actually LOOKED at all the left wing sites? There are more and more every day! That would include the websites from the aforementioned 2 cable stations and the alphabets.
Now, I don’t know about you, but when I see the results of a poll asking every day folks what they think, even if it isn’t ‘scientific’, I’d say that, yes, it does speak to the leanings of the media that even a four year can figure out.
The Left’s “Wet Dreams”
Jared Loughner Was a Tea Partier (and I’m an Atheist River Dancer Who Hates Hunting)
by Doug Giles
Don’t you love how the Left takes a warped twentysomething …
- Who went to a high school with curriculum crafted by Bill Ayers,
- Whose favorite tomes include The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf,
- Whose classmates describe him as a left-wing, weed-wafting, atheistic Beavis,
- Who had a human skull altar erected in his backyard,
- Whose hero list (according to Facebook) includes Barack Obama,
… and somehow, they magically wiggle their nose, tug their ear, and stomp their feet and poof, abracadabra, this punk instantly morphs into Newt Gingrich?
I have three words for such an amazing feat of mental gymnastics the Left is able to perform upon their own noggin and the accompanying boldness they have to trot out such balderdash to the masses that uniformly think such conclusions are crap-based. Those three words are: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Read the whole column here!
It makes me wonder…. Do the lefties have to work hard to be this blatantly ignorant, or are they just born that way? Perhaps they are just plain evil. It’s pretty bad, when even people on the other side of the pond is able to recognize them for shameful weasels they are.
Klavan On The Culture
Dupes and Dopes
Chris Matthews, on Monday’s Hardball, invited on his old boss, former President Jimmy Carter, to commiserate about the rise of the Tea Party as the two condescendingly praised the movement at first, with Matthews admitting “they’re not all crazies, they’re regular people” but then went on to ridicule them as dupes of the rich.
Just an FYI for Tingles! I haven’t been a “dupe” of anyone since high school, and figured out I had a brain, I could use it, and I began thinking for myself. It’s a shame the same can’t be said of you and your cronies! If we were actually ‘dupes of the rich”, then we’d all be leftard Democrats! WE are the rational, thinking Americans, and we scare the SH*T out of you!
MSM Totally In The Crapper!
Europe isn’t socialist enough for ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, who pushed French’s finance minister about how “prominent” economists are urging Europe to abandon “austerity” since “it needs more stimulus to provide more growth,” and later during the This Week roundtable, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ridiculed Tea Party candidates as “irrational” and “seriously strange” before he insisted that irrationality is demonstrated by their inability to recognize Barack Obama is a “centrist moderate President.”
If Obama is a “centrist moderate”, I’d REALLY hate to see her idea of what’s FAR LEFT! I guess she thinks Hugo Chavez is a centrist too?
And what about Paul Krugman?
There are some seriously strange people running, thanks to the Tea Party….It’s not just suspicion of government. We have people out there believing that this basically centrist moderate President we have is a socialist bringing Sharia law to America. None of that is rational.
Ok, let me get this straight. People, who advocate for smaller government, a return to the U.S. Constitutional limits of government, are strange? Really? Well, Mr Krugman, those of us who advocate for the Constitution think YOU, and your ilk, are strange. Why would anyone, with an ounce of common sense want to destroy the last great hope of the world? Why would we want to, voluntarily, give up our liberties, granted by God Himself? No sir, if anyone is strange, it’s people like YOU!
Good stuff from NewsBusters, here and here.
Give ‘Em Facts….
…..they’ll call you names!
Progressives’ racism knows no bounds
by Erik Rush
I don’t normally go out of my way to call attention to the products of dubious journalism, lest they receive unmerited attention, but occasionally exceptions have to be made. “Anchor babies, the Ground Zero mosque and other scapegoats,” penned by Matthew Yglesias and published on Aug. 8 by the Washington Post, is a quintessential example of Orwellian Ministry of Propaganda fare, so surreal in its assumptions that it its absurdity is scarcely to be believed, especially to those who do their level best to avoid the Post altogether. It is also a prime example of the composition of progressive racial orthodoxy, which is illustrated very effectively and at several junctures in this piece.
It definitely bears mentioning that Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress, which is, for all practical purposes, a Marxist think tank and the current headquarters of avowed communist and former Obama czar Van Jones. This speaks veritable volumes to the subversive, anti-American bent of the publication; no other conclusion can reasonably be drawn.
Progressives wear their cravenness, arrogance and conceit as unconsciously as someone with a giant nose goblin they have yet to detect clinging to their upper lip. The patronizing, imperious mien employed by intellectual elites (and shamelessly evidenced in Yglesias’ piece) in the face of manifestly juvenile, inane logic would inspire uproarious laughter were it not for the fact that the aforementioned intellectual elites have had such success in swaying public opinion across the board.
Read the rest here. Well, worth reading.
I’ve never understood why these people are called “intellectual”. How come anyone who is so ignorant of reality be intellectual?
