The Dems agenda…
The theme of hiding costs is consistent throughout the progressive march to bigger and bigger government. Step number one, present great “benefits” you will bestow on the populace and present them as if you are nicer people than the other side who want to deny these benefits. Step two, hide the costs, either through the complexities of the tax system, or more overtly through off-the-books regulation like ObamaCare. Step three, continue to advance the progressive myth that if government provides something, or mandates something, it’s “free.” Step four, get the people hooked on the freebie until they are too scared to give it up even if it costs them well more than it’s worth to them. Step five, move on to destroying the next part of our economy and freedom.
And they’re pretty much on track…
And this is NOT the first time the MSM has been in somebody’s pocket…
Thanks to Cliff, the following is NOT true per SNOPES.
General VoNguyen Giap.
General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi:
‘What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battle of TET. You defeated us!
We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We
were ready to surrender. You had won!’
General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam — it was lost at home. The same slippery slope, sponsored by the U.S. media, is currently underway. It exposes the enormous power of a Biased Media to cut out the heart and will of the American public.
However, this truism is STILL worthy of note:
Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media, for they will distort your grasp of reality and destroy your honor…
h/t- JP
When you can ‘earn’ a B.A. in Pop Culture, Women’s or Minorities Studies, never hear of Bastiat, Voltaire, Adam Smith, The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, or any of that boring rote memorization stuff we old farts had to put up with, this is the result.
When your medium gets higher ratings, and more revenue, explaining how many kneepads the latest ‘celebrity’ has worn out this week than if you run a dry, boring report on how deep Congress put it in this week, this is the result.
Paul Harvey and Hughes Rudd may not have been the most conservative men in broadcasting, but they at least read the news straight, and without editorial.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/giap.asp
verify, verify, verify!
Don- True.
Cliff- Thanks, updating post.
Power to the People! The Internet. Example: Mike Vanderboegh/David Codrea/CleanUpATF.org and the Fast and Furious debacle.
May be too little, too late, but much more effective than the old self published news letters.
The present MSM reminds me of the characters and national controls in place in Orwell’s novel, 1984.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
“Let the people know the facts and the country will be saved.” -Abraham Lincoln
WSF- Yep, thankfully THEY stepped up!
LL- Well said, and on the money!
Andy- Excellent quote, but in this day and age??? Probably not… sigh
There are too many people in this country who take what comes out of the idiot box as the real world and believe that a newspaper wouldn’t lie to them.
“…believe that a newspaper wouldn’t lie to them.”
Or their president.