There's no doubt the so-called mainstream media turned their collective noses up at the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C. to protest the policies of Democratic-controlled federal government - whether in the form of denigration, downplay or outright ignoring the event.
However, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has suggested a different tactic. On his Sept. 14 show, Limbaugh proposed a future round of these grassroots protests not take place at the seats of power in government, but instead the headquarters and outposts of the local and national media.
"There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered, and tiny turnouts by the left that are covered," Limbaugh said. "You know all this as well as I do. What about this? We're looking for a force multiplier. Yeah, the protest in Washington on Saturday was great, two million people, but imagine what a force multiplier would be if the next one were held outside of local and national television networks and their headquarters where they can't miss it?"
Despite both polling data and tangible evidence that people are growing increasing disenfranchised with the media in the country, Limbaugh said not to make the media the focal point of the protests. He instead said to protest the policy shifts and out-of-control spending, which has been the focus of many of the protests, including the tea party events and the most recent Washington rally. That would then force the media to take note of the protesters' efforts.
"Right there, on or next to the properties housing the TV networks - dare them to cover what is right under their noses," Limbaugh continued. "Put the media in the spotlight and on the hot seat. Don't make them the protest. Continue to protest Obama. Protest health care. Protest the loss of liberty. Protest the coming tyranny. Just do it on their property or as close to it as you can get being law-abiding and all that. Link the press with the Democrats. Make them part of it, but not the focal point. I'm not talking boycotts. I don't like boycotts, just show up where they can't miss it. Show up in numbers where they can't escape it."
Limbaugh offered the domain DriveByMedia.com, which he owns, for organizational purposes. According to the radio host, Washington, D.C. has been done and it's time to force the Fourth Estate to notice.
"Now, these protests would be twofold," Limbaugh said "The topics being protested today with the addition of protesting coverage and lack of coverage, leaders of the media rallies should have a list of grievances by individual stations. Make the challenges substantive and adult and challenge their journalistic ethics. In fact, we own the Internet Web domain DriveByMedia.com and I'm thinking maybe DriveByMedia.com might be a way of organizing such a thing. But I really do think the next time -- and I'm not trying to create it, I want this all to happen spontaneously. But the next time something like this happens... We've done Washington, that's great. We got the truth out - the British press, the so-called alternative media is getting the word out."
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Rush has a good idea but .
September 14, 2009 - 23:30 ET by Free StinkerRush has a good idea but . . .
the MSM still wouldn't report it.
oh they would
September 15, 2009 - 00:42 ET by katainkentthe spectrum would range from being annoyed they can't make to their parking space to "terrified" that they might be in physical danger.
Well the Today Show Broadcasts Live from Studio 1H
September 15, 2009 - 05:33 ET by allanfIt would be interesting to see how Matt, Al, Meredith and Ann ignore half a million people protesting Americans. Perhaps they'll just get a washed up rocker and say its part ot the Today Show Concert Series?
The Pretenders
September 15, 2009 - 11:10 ET by ecnirPHow 'bout having Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders appear to play "My City Was Gone"?
I would rather
September 14, 2009 - 23:33 ET by legacyrepublicanI would love to take it to the media next.
But, as I said in a different thread, I think it is time for a Ronald
Reagan moment and to take the next Tea Party to a black or hispanic
community and say "Tear down this wall of Racism!"
It is time we took it to Al Sharpten, Jesse Jackson, Obama, and all
the other race baiters and say it is time to dialogue, not call each
other names.
It is time to reach out to the Democratic base and show them that they have been ripped off in the name of winning elections.
legacy... Heck...that
September 14, 2009 - 23:43 ET by bigtimerlegacy...
Heck...that could be the third major protest, as the numbers attending each one increase...I love the idea.
Besides this phony racism charge being thrown at us....illegal immigration is HUGE on both sides of the aisle out here in the real world.
We have another year or more to go yet...there is plenty to work with, don't forget Cap and Trade either...this is going to hurt us all in so may ways it is not funny if this gets close to passing, and I feel it will if the pressure from the opposition in huge numbers isn't applied.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
I think we can do both at once BigTimer
September 15, 2009 - 01:50 ET by legacyrepublicanThink CNN and Atlanta. I think it is entirely possible to handle both objectives at once.
Besides, in his remarks on the radio today, I heard Rush make the point that we can't just show up at the media's doorstep just to protest them. We have to have a larger objective in mind.
Given the demographics of Atlanta and it being in the south, it would seem a fitting place to kill two birds with one stone -- and I meant that as only a classic metaphor.
I think this is a great
September 14, 2009 - 23:33 ET by d1carterI think this is a great idea...we didn't need no stinkin' Elite media to report on the protest in DC. It would be delicious irony outside their offices.
Bad idea. Demostrations at
September 14, 2009 - 23:38 ET by NL207Bad idea. Demonstrations at the Gates of Hell aren't going to accomplish much.
Yep... I posted about
September 14, 2009 - 23:38 ET by bigtimerYep...
I posted about this earlier somewhere this evening...
Great idea indeed....
Capitol Hill heard...it would be more than rich to watch the glittering jewels of colossal ignorance shine.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
May I Ask What Purpose These Protests Serve?
September 15, 2009 - 00:02 ET by The7SticksIf you think about it, what purpose did those leftist anti-war, anti-President Bush protests serve? Nobody took them seriously (save the clowns in the MSM, the Democrats and third-party circus freaks.) The Bush administration managed to do almost everything they needed to do on their agenda in order to protect us. That included the War on Terror and the TARP funds (which are now beginning to pay off), all while under constant pressure from these liberal advocacy groups. Now the same thing is happening with these rightist morons whining about President Obama's push to over-haul healthcare. If you asked me, I would have used a firehose on both the anti-Bush protesters AND the anti-Obama protesters. These people are freaks, plain and simple. What kind of loser crosses half-way across the country in order to yell at the president?
Sometimes a big government approach is the only way to go. The same is true with a small government approach, which worked out better under the Bush administration. Eventually, though, we get a little tired of it and decide that maybe we'd like to go in the big-government direction for a while. Eventually we'll go back to a small government approach, but until then, it'll all work out eventually. It did for President Bush and it will for President Obama.
Interestingly, I must be the only one around here who must support both President Bush and President Obama.
"May I Ask What Purpose These Protests Serve?"
September 15, 2009 - 00:12 ET by R D HelmTo put the thieves and societal leeches on notice:
We, the productive (as in net-tax-PAYING) Americans are no-longer willing to allow the useless and worthless among us (net-tax-CONSUMERS) to use the police powers of government to STEAL a large portion of what we earn, and give it to those who sit on there asses and whine.
Any questions?
-Dave
I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.
→ Sticks
September 15, 2009 - 00:16 ET by Cool ArrowOnly thing that worked out for Bush was that we were never attacked by terrorists again after 9-11.
Couldn't care less about the other stuff you claim worked out for Bush. It didn't work out for us. Bush started this ball rolling, and though Obama has added to that ball's girth manifold, he still slinks back to his tired old mantra "I inherited this"
You would really turn firehoses onto peaceful protesters?
Not one arrest at Saturday's protest and you have the inner hatred within you to treat peacefully assembling Americans the same as your party did during the Civil Rights protests of the '60s?
Your true colors have now bled through that lily white sheet you wear to disguise yourself.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Gosh you're so right
September 15, 2009 - 00:16 ET by lsudolemiteWe have absolutely nothing to fear from incurring multi-trillion dollar deficits in the midst of a probable double-dip recession with double-digit unemployment. The poor guy just had no choice but to push a $787B stimulus that hasn't and won't stimulate anything, that just happened to be filled with a ridiculous amount of pork and funding for endless liberal pet projects. Oh and we just might need another such "stimulus." We have nothing to worry about forcing people off their private medical insurance and paying into what will inevitably become a supermassive, ineffective bureaucracy that is a proven failure everywhere it has been tried, which gives the gov't control over 1/6 of the economy. Which, by the way, would become impossible to get rid of once implemented. We don't have anything to fear from Obama's campaign promise of brownshirts, er, excuse me, a "civilian security force" to act and be funded alongside the police. We have nothing to fear from his administration hiring self-proclaimed Marxists and communists as unaccountable czars. Gee, I can't imagine why people would be upset about this.
Good grief.
The7Sticks
September 15, 2009 - 01:05 ET by BarkerIf you asked me, I would have used a firehose on both the anti-Bush
protesters AND the anti-Obama protesters.
Thank God nobody asked the waterboy to let loose with his squirtgun.
These people are freaks, plain and simple. What kind of loser crosses half-way across the
country in order to yell at the president?
I don't know, what kind of freaking loser are you to crawl half-way across the couch to type insults to people who give a **** about your future?
What kind of loser crosses
September 15, 2009 - 08:01 ET by USA4freedomWhat kind of loser crosses half-way across the country in order to yell at the president?
____________
I’m one of those losers, the kind of man that loves his country, that’s who.
My Grandfather landed on Omaha beach, I think I can drive my dam car and voice my opinion!
How in the hell did we become so ball-less??
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
It serves the People
September 15, 2009 - 00:24 ET by CobraManThese protests serve the People. The more they protest, the more the Senators, representatives, and the president himself realize that they have to answer to the People for their policies, their actions. A million voices being raised in common protest carry a LOT of power, those voices can actually change things. It's worked before in the past, and it will work again in the present.
You speak of the protest against Bush, but all of those protests combined over 8 years don't equal the numbers of people who attended a SINGLE protest in DC over the weekend. Those prior protests were weak, they didn't have a common voice, nor did they have large numbers, so they were ultimately ineffective.
You have to understand that the effectiveness of a protest is in it's size, in it's numbers. The larger the number, the greater it's effect. This is because those people also VOTE, they don't just protest. If enough protester gather together and decide that someone isn't representing them, the greater the chance that that person will find themselves out of office after the next election. Trust me, the politicians know that, which is why they are afraid of the large protests.
The protests will have an effect, in direct proportion to their size. Watch and see over the next two years what happens.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
*reads twice to assure she's not mistaken*
September 15, 2009 - 00:29 ET by candanceThe same is true with a small government approach, which worked out better under the Bush administration.
When was this? The Patriot Act? The first bailout? No Child Left Behind? Bush expanded government every chance he got.
What kind of loser crosses half-way across the country in order to yell at the president?
Never again should you be allowed to ask "what were the Germans thinking."
Interestingly, I must be the only one around here who must support both President Bush and President Obama.
I give everyone a chance, but when you act like a doofus it's not my job to support you anymore. Refer to my comment about the Germans.
→ Thanks, candance
September 15, 2009 - 00:34 ET by Cool ArrowHe seems particularly anxious to break out the waterhoses agai, too.
I think his dad must be telling him stories about how they treated them protesters back in his day.
Sad to see a kid trained up all bigoted like that.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Here is the purpose 7sticks
September 15, 2009 - 00:59 ET by JWFWe are putting them all on VHS tape. And then we are gonna beat your mom in prison with the VHS cartridges and take all her medicine.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars. Day 4, where is Binky?
BTW....
September 15, 2009 - 01:07 ET by CobraMan"Interestingly, I must be the only one around here who must support both President Bush and President Obama. "
BTW, why must you, or anyone else, support anyone? Only a dictatorship requires that all citizens MUST support the Leader. I would say that you performed a classic Freudian Slip there.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
Hey guys. Don't even bother reading 7sticks posts.
September 15, 2009 - 01:16 ET by JWFHe is a drive-by troll through and through. He drops a nasty little load on us and then runs off. He has very rarely ever come back for a 2nd response.
I hit him with his mother in prison schtick every time. Not even the slightest hint of a response. In case any of you don't know -
...solve our problems is to incarcerate drug addicts for life. My mother was one of those addicts, and even though she was never sentenced to life, she was harmed by these god-awful laws in so many ways. Just within the last two days, I paid my respects to her on the third anniversary of her death from congenital heart failure, which was no doubt exacerbated by these evil three-strikes laws...
He has another post where he told us how the prison guards stole his mom's medicine. Should trolls be giving us this much ammunition? I mean really. This is the troll that launched a 1000 your mom in prison jokes.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars. Day 4, where is Binky?
Wishy washy
September 15, 2009 - 06:35 ET by UnsaneSimple: conservatives are the world's worst revolutionaries. It's no secret as to why or that this is the case.
When things are so that a good number of them show up at DC without a single visible leader of the conservative movement for a protest, something is going on.
Sometimes a big government approach is the only way to go. Really? Care to show me when in history that has been the case? Even in the Great Depression it succeeded...in cutting unemployment from 33% to a slim 14%. Eventually, though, we get a little tired of it and decide that maybe we'd like to go in the big-government direction for a while. Eventually we'll go back to a small government approach, but until then, it'll all work out eventually. It did for President Bush and it will for President Obama. So, due to cyclical nature, we should all just shut up and become Happy Little Socialists under His Majesty The Shahinshah? Um, I don't think so. Especially considering the pervasive, entrenched nature of government. I'd love to see Social Security gradually privatized, but that has not happened, and we have had that program for close to 75 years now.
And you seem very upset that protestors would "travel halfway across the country to yell at the President". Sadly, you refuse to recognize the beauty of our system. As of now I am sure there are a few million Uighurs of the Xinjiang Province who would be HAPPY to travel to Tiananmen Square to do that to Hu Jintao, but 20 years ago people learned what kind of consequences that leads to. So that doesn't happen. Sounds to me like you cheerfully embrace the approaches of China rather than that of the United States. Doubtless the final words of the 1st Amendment trouble you: "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right to peacebly assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Operation In Your Face
September 15, 2009 - 00:04 ET by BarkerSurely there are 100,000+ Conservative Patriots in Georgia who could meet at 190 Marietta Street (1 CNN Center) in Atlanta, on a "slow news" Saturday.
Protests of local stations can be very effective as well.
Barker
September 15, 2009 - 00:07 ET by MrShyI was entertaining something like this back in '07 or '08, here in NYC where we have almost all of the lib-controlled media headquaters. Problem is, um, rounding up 1,000, much less 100K conservatives, would be a daunting task.
you wont find them in the city
September 15, 2009 - 00:51 ET by ChattychitoBut you will find then in New York State
"A man who doesn't borrow from the brains of others proves he has no brains of his own." CH Spurgeon
I think it's a great idea
September 15, 2009 - 00:06 ET by lsudolemiteMake no mistake about it, the media is every bit as much the political enemy as the Democrats. There is no longer any distinction between the two. The MSM has cast its lot with Obama and hitched every last shred of its credibility to his presidency; now they get to live with the unpleasant consequences. They have to learn that unabashedly taking sides while claiming neutrality comes at a heavy cost.
DEATH TO THE MSM...
September 15, 2009 - 01:29 ET by danybhoyIsudolemite,
You are correct, there is no distinction & we should treat them with no such distinction. The MSM should be forced to wear this albatross around their collective necks for as long as we can, well after the Obama administration is gone. They went all in with the Dems to get Obama & his thugs elected, they should be reminded of that now & forever.
El-Rushbo is right, they should be the next target, they sort of were in Washington DC, they really need to be made uncomfortable in whatever they do. Plus, we should demand more accountablity in at least 2 media outlets...
1. NPR/PBS- We own them, are gov't run & operated. There really should be more balance on both, they both lean solidly left.
2.GE?NBC/MSNBC/CNBC-We all know about the $138billion that GE Capital got in the form of bailout cash, but that number is really $340billion...
http://www.upi.com/Buisiness_News/2009/06/29/GE-is-quiet-bailout-recipient/UPI-11291246282301/ ...
so they too should answer to the taxpayer. I have a feeling that there too many big money people not performing that well, if you know what I mean. There are too many who perform very poorly in the ratings who get paid millions of dollars who should take paycuts untill we the taxpayer is paid back. I think you could make a similar list as to who I'm refering to.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Hell, I was screaming for this after the 1st Tea Parties!!!!
September 15, 2009 - 00:06 ET by R D HelmCNN Center is but 13 miles from my front door!
-Dave
I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.
Uh oh, Dave...
September 15, 2009 - 01:28 ET by JerUh oh...that puts you well within range of CNN's anti-conservative electronic brain-warping beaming device mounted on top of the networks's HQ in downtown Atlanta. Ted Turner himself gave me a personal demonstration of its extraordinary power a little over a year ago. It wasn't pretty.
Jer
Jer,
September 15, 2009 - 07:36 ET by R D HelmLOL-Yeah, but my tinfoil hat protects me. :-)
-Dave
I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.
Dave,
September 15, 2009 - 11:29 ET by Chris NormanAnd I know I have also suggested this several times over the course of the last few months. It's never taken seriously until someone with a big name suggests it, is it? :)
It's the dishonest media presenting a warped view of the state of life who is responsible for someone like Obama getting elected and getting away with what he does. Until the media is corrected, neutralized, or marginalized, conservatives will only ever make so much progress. And when we do, it's one step forward, then two backward...
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Chris,
September 15, 2009 - 23:07 ET by R D HelmI would love to see them driving around us and stepping over us to get to work, then later pretending we weren't there.
:-)
-Dave
I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.
They'd Have to Be a Daily Occurance
September 15, 2009 - 00:32 ET by BondPlainBondWith the likes of MSNBC's Shuster and Hall blatantly and irrationally denying the truth, ON THE AIR!, even when it is detailed and explained for them, ON THE AIR!, point by point, we have a serious, serious problem.
What am I saying?
Congress denies the truth every day by making deliberate and calculated decisions which become laws which actually harm the American public (financially) all in favor of their personal greed and public status.
Look at the health care bill that allowed for illegal aliens to be provided Obamacare. If it didn't, as Shuster and Hall assert, stupidly, then why did Congress insert language, finally specific, that would ensure verification of citizenship is provided.
You must know, though, that even with the inclusion of this language, illegals will still be able to particpate in Obamacare, just as they do on Section 8, welfare, food stamps, and government cash programs. All these government programs require you be a citizen, but they ALL grant waivers to the illegals, for thirty days, to get their documentation together to prove their eligibility. When those documents are not forthcoming, the waiver is extended, and extended again, and extended again. BUT, if you're a(n obvious) citizen applying for assistance and do not provide your documentation IMMEDIATELY - you are immediately DENIED.
ONE STRATEGY
September 15, 2009 - 00:54 ET by ChattychitoWe must find the foundational supporting collumns of Obama and his Media cohorts. we need to go after their money, their comforts, and underemined their whole system just as they are doingto us.
here are some ideas.
First, all of us who have stock in Companies who advertise on these networks write the boards and ask them to boycott all advertising until the networks be more balanced and fair. sell any stock you have in any of the Maimed Stream Media.
Second, start putting money into newer networks and get them to the forefront of News reporting and decent TV programing.
Third, buy up the Failing Newspapers around the country and print a balanced news paper with links to web sites where non biased reporting are. and advertise the new networks
Four, get all who are like minded in the media such as producers, writers, actors, journalist, TV crews, singers, comedians and anchors plugged into these new networks so they can produce quality news and information as well as decent programing.
Five, get the companies we have stock in and our own companies to by advertising on these new networks.
that is five steps to crumbling the ABC, CBS, NBC and the CNN monopoly of media and movie fare.
Any other Ideas anyone?
"A man who doesn't borrow from the brains of others proves he has no brains of his own." CH Spurgeon
on a "slow news"
September 15, 2009 - 01:12 ET by Cooltomon a "slow news" Saturday.
It would have to be because conservatives have jobs. The most impressive thing about the 9-12 march is that the attendees traveled there on their own dime and weren't paid to protest. Not to mention they all looked like earthlings with easily determined genders.
The biggest sign at a protest in front of a TV network should read:
"CBS (or ABC, CNN, etc.) -- Why are you ignoring 50% of your potential viewers?"
At the rate we're going
September 15, 2009 - 01:15 ET by lsudolemiteNo one is going to have their jobs for that much longer. So conservatives are going to find themselves with a loooooot more time on their hands.
breaking news
September 15, 2009 - 01:19 ET by candanceBreitbart has new video of a third (count em, third) ACORN sting, this time in NYC. Why, I remember when the first video came out, ACORN accused them of trying and failing in New York. So much for that explanation.
Go to biggovernment, sorry I didn't get the link while I was there. Observe James and Hannah taking their story to a new office with a new set of staff, and ... wait for it ... they're given the exact same advice!
If the MSM continues to hide this, we should be camped out at every studio demanding an ACORN investigation.
Once is an isolated incident
September 15, 2009 - 05:57 ET by spmcintyretwice is a pattern
three times the same is racketeering
go NY, you are doing the proper thing here by sicking the big guns on ACORN
When it comes to government, its not whether the glass is half full or empty, its that the glass is just to big.
This is a classic shoot
September 15, 2009 - 07:08 ET by kangarooThis is a classic shoot your self in the foot moment I think.
If the SRM had of run this story and not try and bury it on page 1000, the rest of the acorn office goons might have got a clue and changed their ways, but since they don't watch fox they didn't know what was happening, he he he he he he he
3 down and counting, giddy up little doggy
Kangaroo, Acorn's isn't the only foot getting shot
September 15, 2009 - 07:19 ET by FeynmanFanThe response of the Attorneys General in each of the locations has been to talk about investigating the two people who made the videos for "illegally" recording the conversations.
The AGs weren't concerned about tax fraud or encouraging prostitution and violation of the Mann Act, they were worried about the legality of the videos.
I don't recall any AGs investigating NBC or 60 Minutes when they secretly recorded conversations with the people they were investigating.
I think the 3 AGs are going to find themselves the difficult position of trying to explain why they aren't more concerned about the illegal activities at Acorn.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Feynman Fan, I knew the
September 15, 2009 - 07:37 ET by kangarooFeynman Fan,
I knew the Maryland AG were going after the film makers, but didn't realize the other 2 AG's were as well. The plot thickens, Yowza I think we are going to need a bigger net.
Are you guys stupid? If not,
September 15, 2009 - 01:44 ET by danebramageAre you guys stupid? If not, then what is it that's compelling you to disrupt what's going on? Have you never heard the advice given by some mucky-muck of whom I can't recall the name at the moment: When your enemy's committing suicide, put down your sword and get out of the way? Precisely what part of that don't you understand?
We're winning. The other side is losing, big time, and they're scared and on the run. And because they're panicked and running scared they're stepping up the very efforts that led them to be losing in the first place. They think they haven't been aggressive enough and lied enough, so they're doubling down with their last remaining chips (I hope that's the proper way of putting that analogy; I don't gamble).
This is particularly true of the media. Far from it being a terrible thing that the media's in the tank for Obama and that they deliberately misreport an distort the news and that they ignore events that clearly should fall on their radar screen, and etc. etc. etc., in actuality we couldn't have asked for a greater gift.
Why do you think all those people were in Washington? Because they oppose Obama's program? Guess again. I mean, it's no doubt true that all or virtually all of them oppose his plans and his actions, but the real reason they were there is that they're scared.
And you know why they're scared? Because it has just been demonstrated to them over the last nine months in a way that cannot be denied or explained away any longer, that literally no one is on their side in this country and no one is looking out for them. On the contrary, people are finally realizing that the entire power structure here in the U.S.--the elites; the "Establishment--is actively arrayed against them, attempting to destroy their birthright: to wit, their ability to choose the laws they will live under and to steer the ship of state in the direction they want it to go. These insanely jealous and grasping elites are hellbent on destroying popular self-government in this last bastion of hope--this last line of defense against enslavement--called America and a rapidly growing majority of the American people clearly sense it.
That's why they were in Washington: because (among other things) the media is and has been lying to them and they damn sure know it now. So why do you want to come along now and help the media recover their credibility with the very people they're trying to destroy? That's madness. Do you really want these newly awakened and alarmed people to roll over and go back to sleep? Because what do you think's going to happen if they become convinced once again that the media's keeping watch and the media's looking out for them? I'll tell you what: sleepytime.
Sorry, but Rush and you guys who agree with him are way off base this time. You're not thinking strategically, probably because you feel insulted and slighted by the media and want to make them eat crow. Well, resist the urge and instead destroy them, utterly and permanently. They've drawn the knife a good part of the way across their own necks. Let them finish the job they've started.
We beg to differ.
September 15, 2009 - 01:55 ET by JWFThe Democrats may be slowly seeing the writing on the wall. The Far Left will never back down, they will just have dwindling numbers. The MSM, I believe can fight on quite a bit longer.
Name something that has truly, I mean truly, backfired on us recently.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars. Day 4, where is Binky?
Not sure what you're saying.
September 15, 2009 - 02:49 ET by danebramageNot sure what you're saying. I didn't say anything about anyone backing down. I'm talking about destroying the credibility of the left in America: the international, Fabian, Marxist and neo-Marxist left that is the man behind the curtain of contemporary American liberalism. Once people are onto the the game, the game is over. The trouble up 'til now has been geeting people to look behind the curtain.
I would like to modify one thing I said in my post. I said that the leftist elites are panicked. That was a poor way of putting it. I don't know if that's true or not. They may well be calmly and methodically going about their business, doing what they're doing. But that doesn't change the fact that what they're doing can only antagonize people further and continue to create new activists for our side, many of them refugees from their own camp.
Well I would hope your right
September 15, 2009 - 04:02 ET by Chattychitobut the awakened Giant is still bound by the Lilliputian cords of tyranny and oppression. and until we are fully free we are in the stinker with no TP.
"A man who doesn't borrow from the brains of others proves he has no brains of his own." CH Spurgeon
suicide and swords....
September 15, 2009 - 06:06 ET by dmntd1That's great advice, actually, unless you get to taunt the enemy into a quicker death..... If we don't keep up the pressure, helping to push that sword into the MSM, they have the option to put down their sword.
Recent quote I read: Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those that did not. Now the goal is to get the MSM to plow for me. It's going to take an awful lot of pressure, because they're rather entrenched in their ideology, in their madness, and in their delusions of grandeur.
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,
...to a point
September 15, 2009 - 06:46 ET by UnsaneWhen your enemy's committing suicide, put down your sword and get out of the way? Precisely what part of that don't you understand? Apparently you don't study history very well. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was committing suicide as well, especially in the last 25 years of its existence. All throughout that time it remained a threat, and in the end, it had to be pushed off a cliff.
Right now, as the enemy is committing suicide, it is wanting to bring down the country with it. It may yet do so in the end, but forgive me if I don't want the United States looking like a European Nanny State by the time they finally bleed out.
Sorry, but Rush and you guys who agree with him are way off base this time. You're not thinking strategically, probably because you feel insulted and slighted by the media and want to make them eat crow. It's ironic to be scolded and lectured on not thinking strategically by someone who, instead of working to re-orient the Republican party to conservatism in next year's primaries, decided to cast his lot with a kook fringe political party.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Boycotts...
September 15, 2009 - 07:36 ET by FuzzlenutterRush, how does one boycott something that one never uses?
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE ..bring it back!
September 15, 2009 - 07:38 ET by kengieRush is right!!! We need the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE enacted.
Here's the plan
September 15, 2009 - 07:49 ET by nwahsYeah, the protest in Washington on Saturday was great, two million
people, but imagine what a force multiplier would be if the next one
were held outside of local and national television networks and their
headquarters where they can't miss it?"
Why not have the 2 million people demonstrate inside the TV station? The 2 million people could walk around the anchor desk during their newscast...
Here's a story on how the DC fire department changed 2 million people into 70,000.
Politics is showbiz for ugly people
To answer the question.."Why
September 15, 2009 - 07:58 ET by kengieTo answer the question.."Why not have the 2 million people demonstrate inside the TV station?" keep it quite, because in reality there wern't that many folks there..the pic of DC with all those people was posted 5 years ago.
Nobody knows
September 15, 2009 - 23:23 ET by UnsaneUnfortunately for you, sweetie, no one knows what the number is. Nobody.
But Leftists/Socialists like you for some reason have an obsessive devotion to it. Keep spewing. You won't find one. Not now, not ever.
And naturally you post no evidence to back your claim. But then, if you did, you would merely demonstrate your inability to critically think and to conduct basic source evaluation.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
The liar links to an article that mentions lies.
September 16, 2009 - 00:15 ET by JWFYou oughta know all about lies, huh, liar. nhwahs, liar.
September 15, 2009 - 10:56 ET by jessieHGreat idea. Let's leave Gitmo open too. The MSM might need a place to stay for a few years.