THE DECAY OF THE FIFTH ESTATE
I
The October 1, 2013 front page of the New York Daily News was perhaps the lowest point of its controversial history. On its cover sat a caricature of Speaker John Boehner, sitting on a Lincoln Memorial style throne a la Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards" but with the headline "House of Turds".
With that adolescent and vulgar headline, the News sunk back into the swamp it inhabited back in the 1850s and during the Civil War when it was the leading "Copperhead", pro-secession and pro-slavery newspaper in NYC and perhaps the nation.
There is no further need to to pretend that the Daily News reports facts in an unbiased and objective fashion. It has become an appendage of the radicals who run the Democratic Party and the willing serf of the most arrogant and disingenuous President ever to sit in the White House.
Less than two weeks before it had devoted major space and a front page to the demonizing of the AR 15 rifle which is claimed was used in the Navy Yard massacre. The fact that no such weapon was used was shoddy journalism at best and sheer propaganda for the anti-2nd Amendment/ anti Bill of Rights lunatic left also led by those who wish to bring the nation down.
Obama survives in large part by willing press and media slaves who cover him in the most fawning and worshipful way possible. The Schools of Journalism in this country have been busy for years creating the "agit-prop" shock troops needed for the "Progressive Putsch" that will flush away our Constitution, our institutions, our values, our individual liberties as well as our common sense.
The GOP in the House knew or should have known that fidelity to the promises they made to their constituents about Obamacare would subject them to savage lies and vituperations from Democrats and their President who deliriously wants to meet with terrorists and dictators but refuses to meet with Republicans.
His strangle hold on news people pretending they are journalists created by Aaron Sorkin, is perhaps the only thing for which Putin, Assad and the Mullahs truly are envious of him.
In the lead up to what became Republicans negotiating with themselves, Barack Obama had made promises to America concerning his signature piece of legislation. He told the nation that "If you like your health plan , you can keep it"..."the uninsured will pay less on a government exchange than they would in the individual market"..."every man, woman and child would be covered"..."it would create new jobs" and then backtracked and said "it wouldn't hurt jobs". He lied about all of the above and then to make things worse gave illegal subsides to Congress instead of making them subject to "Obamacare" as the statute required. None of this mattered to the Daily News and their ilk. They only saw an opportunity to destroy Republicans and create a one party nation! After all this is a man who once said “The PROBLEM is that I am the PRESIDENT of the United States; the PROBLEM is that I am not the EMPEROR of the United States.”
The House Republicans tried four times to reach some form of compromise on a law destroying the economy but Harry Reid refused to listen and didn't even have his house in session over the weekend thereby guaranteeing a shutdown.
Instead he and others launched an avalanche of barbs and insults for the lackey press to quote and use. The GOP was called "toddlers trying to get their way"...trying to sacrifice the country like pagans of old"..." obsessed"..."a roving band of anarchists"..."extreme and insane"..." a major party begging to get the nation to fail"..."unhinged and burning down the house because they don't like the kitchen"..."terrorists with bombs strapped to their chests"..."extortionists"... "trying to destroy the foundation of American economic power"..."reckless and irresponsible" and "fakers".
CNN, the so called news people who screwed up a Presidential Debate to help Barack Obama, tried to blind side two GOP members of the House by blaming everything on them and assigning no blame to Harry Reid and Obama. Reid has not passed a budget in five years and does not allow the Senate to operate under "Regular Order" and thus is the real source of this crisis. More and more he begins to resemble the Nevada Senator in "Godfather ll" who wakes up in bed one morning next to a dead prostitute.
The WW ll memorial which is on open space and thus accessible 24/7/365 was barricaded as part of the shut down making it the prime example of having to spend money we supposedly don't have to shut down a site that requires no shut down. Military commissaries were closed to deprive military families of tax free groceries in moves by the Executive Branch designed to simply hurt people for political reasons. It also seems that only 1000 employees out of 16,000 in the job killing EPA are essential thereby begging the question as to why we need the other 15,000. Again look in vain for reports of this.
Two journalistic icons of the left however have provided a ray of light in the thick miasma of infantile bombast coming out of the mainstream media.
Bob Woodward of "Watergate" fame told MSNBC on the "Morning Joe" show that if there is a "downturn or a collapse" resulting from the CR or upcoming debt ceiling negotiations "it will be on President Obama's head" meaning Obama has to lead and not be a critic and "demonizer" on the sidelines.
Seymour Hersh who broke the story on My Lai and received a Pulitzer and then followed with ground breaking stories on the Cambodian invasion, Watergate and Abu Ghraib lashed out at the American Media in the "Guardian" newspaper in the UK. He said, "90% of editors should be fired and replaced by those you can't control". He further stated that "the Obama Administration "systematically" lies and none of the Leviathans of of American Media, the TV Networks, or big print titles challenge him". "It's pathetic", he said, "they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to to pick on this guy" meaning Obama.
This President is not leading this nation...he is instead presiding over it's demise. The Fifth Estate which is supposed to protect us with the truth is in virtual decay. The Daily News that best demonstrates this putrefaction, I now use only in my bathroom ...but not for reading!
The October 1, 2013 front page of the New York Daily News was perhaps the lowest point of its controversial history. On its cover sat a caricature of Speaker John Boehner, sitting on a Lincoln Memorial style throne a la Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards" but with the headline "House of Turds".
With that adolescent and vulgar headline, the News sunk back into the swamp it inhabited back in the 1850s and during the Civil War when it was the leading "Copperhead", pro-secession and pro-slavery newspaper in NYC and perhaps the nation.
There is no further need to to pretend that the Daily News reports facts in an unbiased and objective fashion. It has become an appendage of the radicals who run the Democratic Party and the willing serf of the most arrogant and disingenuous President ever to sit in the White House.
Less than two weeks before it had devoted major space and a front page to the demonizing of the AR 15 rifle which is claimed was used in the Navy Yard massacre. The fact that no such weapon was used was shoddy journalism at best and sheer propaganda for the anti-2nd Amendment/ anti Bill of Rights lunatic left also led by those who wish to bring the nation down.
Obama survives in large part by willing press and media slaves who cover him in the most fawning and worshipful way possible. The Schools of Journalism in this country have been busy for years creating the "agit-prop" shock troops needed for the "Progressive Putsch" that will flush away our Constitution, our institutions, our values, our individual liberties as well as our common sense.
The GOP in the House knew or should have known that fidelity to the promises they made to their constituents about Obamacare would subject them to savage lies and vituperations from Democrats and their President who deliriously wants to meet with terrorists and dictators but refuses to meet with Republicans.
His strangle hold on news people pretending they are journalists created by Aaron Sorkin, is perhaps the only thing for which Putin, Assad and the Mullahs truly are envious of him.
In the lead up to what became Republicans negotiating with themselves, Barack Obama had made promises to America concerning his signature piece of legislation. He told the nation that "If you like your health plan , you can keep it"..."the uninsured will pay less on a government exchange than they would in the individual market"..."every man, woman and child would be covered"..."it would create new jobs" and then backtracked and said "it wouldn't hurt jobs". He lied about all of the above and then to make things worse gave illegal subsides to Congress instead of making them subject to "Obamacare" as the statute required. None of this mattered to the Daily News and their ilk. They only saw an opportunity to destroy Republicans and create a one party nation! After all this is a man who once said “The PROBLEM is that I am the PRESIDENT of the United States; the PROBLEM is that I am not the EMPEROR of the United States.”
The House Republicans tried four times to reach some form of compromise on a law destroying the economy but Harry Reid refused to listen and didn't even have his house in session over the weekend thereby guaranteeing a shutdown.
Instead he and others launched an avalanche of barbs and insults for the lackey press to quote and use. The GOP was called "toddlers trying to get their way"...trying to sacrifice the country like pagans of old"..." obsessed"..."a roving band of anarchists"..."extreme and insane"..." a major party begging to get the nation to fail"..."unhinged and burning down the house because they don't like the kitchen"..."terrorists with bombs strapped to their chests"..."extortionists"... "trying to destroy the foundation of American economic power"..."reckless and irresponsible" and "fakers".
CNN, the so called news people who screwed up a Presidential Debate to help Barack Obama, tried to blind side two GOP members of the House by blaming everything on them and assigning no blame to Harry Reid and Obama. Reid has not passed a budget in five years and does not allow the Senate to operate under "Regular Order" and thus is the real source of this crisis. More and more he begins to resemble the Nevada Senator in "Godfather ll" who wakes up in bed one morning next to a dead prostitute.
The WW ll memorial which is on open space and thus accessible 24/7/365 was barricaded as part of the shut down making it the prime example of having to spend money we supposedly don't have to shut down a site that requires no shut down. Military commissaries were closed to deprive military families of tax free groceries in moves by the Executive Branch designed to simply hurt people for political reasons. It also seems that only 1000 employees out of 16,000 in the job killing EPA are essential thereby begging the question as to why we need the other 15,000. Again look in vain for reports of this.
Two journalistic icons of the left however have provided a ray of light in the thick miasma of infantile bombast coming out of the mainstream media.
Bob Woodward of "Watergate" fame told MSNBC on the "Morning Joe" show that if there is a "downturn or a collapse" resulting from the CR or upcoming debt ceiling negotiations "it will be on President Obama's head" meaning Obama has to lead and not be a critic and "demonizer" on the sidelines.
Seymour Hersh who broke the story on My Lai and received a Pulitzer and then followed with ground breaking stories on the Cambodian invasion, Watergate and Abu Ghraib lashed out at the American Media in the "Guardian" newspaper in the UK. He said, "90% of editors should be fired and replaced by those you can't control". He further stated that "the Obama Administration "systematically" lies and none of the Leviathans of of American Media, the TV Networks, or big print titles challenge him". "It's pathetic", he said, "they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to to pick on this guy" meaning Obama.
This President is not leading this nation...he is instead presiding over it's demise. The Fifth Estate which is supposed to protect us with the truth is in virtual decay. The Daily News that best demonstrates this putrefaction, I now use only in my bathroom ...but not for reading!
ERLANDSSON
No comments:
Post a Comment