{"id":744,"date":"2009-06-13T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-06-13T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T22:40:48","slug":"the-desperate-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-desperate-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desperate Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

While right-leaning opinions have always been available, the mass media has been predominately lefty for the past half century.\u00c2\u00a0 People on the right think it’s more lefty than it is, but that’s understandable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where you stand on the political wheel determines your perception<\/a> of the other sides’ position.<\/p>\n

But the ever efficient marketplace changed all that, and moved to fill the near vacuum of conservative viewpoints in the media.\u00c2\u00a0 It started when Reagan removed the fairness doctrine from talk radio.\u00c2\u00a0 The right moved in and took it over.\u00c2\u00a0 This incensed the left, who, for a long time, have pushed to reinstate the doctrine to silence the other side.\u00c2\u00a0 Much to their dismay L.M. Obama declared he has no intention of bringing it back.<\/p>\n

Then came Fox news, which proceeded to suck away a huge percentage of the news watching public, people who were delighted that someone was finally catering to their political POV.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot to dislike about Fox, of course, but not as much as the left would have you believe.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In my experience most of the lefties who continually bitch about it have never really watched it.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of them watch it with the sole goal of discrediting it.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is fine, it beats working for a living, but you don’t see them focusing that kind of attention on the lefty media outlets, who are just as dishonest, biased, and hypocritical.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that would be a full time job.<\/p>\n

The latest round of whining is just pathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 Any thinking person, even those who are “pro-life,” agrees that the murder of Dr. Tiller was evil.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet the left is now declaring that the right wing media, all of it, is indirectly (or even directly) responsible.\u00c2\u00a0 The dumbest diatribe I’ve seen so far (and the competition for that title is huge) comes from Paul Krugman’s latest column in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

Using the Chomsky method of strongly implying things without actually saying them, he first acquits Bill O’Reily of being guilty of directly inciting murder, then blames the right wing media for the recent violent actions by right wing extremists.<\/p>\n

He says: “And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s count the plethora of violent incidents that proves this point, shall we?<\/p>\n

One: Someone murders an abortion doctor.<\/p>\n

Two: A crazy old fart goes nuts in a holocaust museum.<\/p>\n

Three:\u00c2\u00a0 There is no three.\u00c2\u00a0 Or four or five or six.\u00c2\u00a0 Hardly a plethora, is it?<\/p>\n

Note the weasel words: “seems <\/em>to have been virtually <\/em>erased.”\u00c2\u00a0 Old Noam must be so proud.<\/p>\n

But this paragraph really points out his extreme dishonesty:<\/p>\n

“Glenn Beck. Here we have a network where, like it or not, millions of Americans get their news \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it gives daily airtime to a commentator who, among other things, warned viewers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency might be building concentration camps as part of the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153totalitarian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agenda (although he eventually conceded that nothing of the kind was happening).”<\/em><\/p>\n

Glen Beck reported the rumor, sparked by a viral video, specifically saying it was a rumor and that he’d look into it.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t just “eventually concede;” his reporters did a rather through report about the video making the claim. They tracked down the real buildings in the video, visited them, and proved it was bogus.\u00c2\u00a0 They thoroughly debunked the claim.<\/em> That’s just a bit more extensive than “eventually conceding.”<\/p>\n

He continues: “The R.N.C. says that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Democratic Party is dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals.”<\/em><\/p>\n

We are now major stockholders in GM and most major banks.\u00c2\u00a0 Banks who want to pay back TARP money are being told they can’t.\u00c2\u00a0 How dare the RNC get it right?\u00c2\u00a0 (Technically, they’re off a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Government ownership on this level isn’t socialist, it’s communist.\u00c2\u00a0 You might think Krugman, having won a Nobel prize for economics, would know the difference.\u00c2\u00a0 You would be wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 What does that tell us about the validity of the Nobel prize?)<\/p>\n

The lefty mass media is getting increasingly pissed at any media that leans to the right, and is using these incidents to lump all conservatives – the slightly conservative, the moderately conservative, and the very conservative – in with the tin-foil-hat wing-nut crowd.\u00c2\u00a0 We can expect more and more of this desperation as they continue to lose their influence and market share.<\/p>\n

But we should be delighted that Krugman and his ilk are going off like this.\u00c2\u00a0 While it will induce bobble headed nodding among some lefties, those with functioning brain cells may finally begin to see their spokesweasels are every bit as clueless and dishonest as many commentators on the right \u00e2\u20ac\u201c maybe even more so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While right-leaning opinions have always been available, the mass media has been predominately lefty for the past half century.\u00c2\u00a0 People on the right think it’s more lefty than it is, but that’s understandable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where you stand on the political wheel determines your perception of the other sides’ position. But the ever efficient marketplace changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}