![]() Take a look at this piece of drivel from the chief foreign correspondent at ABC News. Their contempt for you is open and obvious. If they could dispose of right-wing America with a wave of their hand, they would do it without hesitation. Yet the Right has behaved, spoken, and written as if the most important of all its desiderata is not to offend the Left or its allegiants.įrancis doesn’t explicitly connect this behavior to the media in his post, but given their obvious left-wing bias, the implication is there. Leftist politicians and spokesmen have never feared to wound persons on the Right, whether by word or by deed. ![]() I posit that the Left has made its intentions plain at every step. Politicians and commentators in the Right have utterly missed that implication.Ĭontrast the behavior and statements of figures on the Left and the Right these past few decades. By implication, his opinion of you should be utterly unimportant to you. If you’re sane and possess appropriate self-regard, your objective is to prevent him from attaining his objective. He intends your subjugation or destruction. Your enemy is, by definition, someone who wishes you ill. But some people still believe it is better to trust them because they are the experts? It doesn’t make any sense.įrancis, at Liberty’s Torch, explains that you shouldn’t accord this respect to one who is observably your enemy: We can see it in our own lives, when they misreport everything with a political spin. The media, on the other hand, is observably bad, and in many cases intentionally so. We can see their record, and determine that for the most part, they do a wonderful job. Airline pilots are observably good at their jobs. Certainly we trust them, right? The comparison was all wrong. And his default position is trust the experts. Tom isn’t even a Leftist, but he is a technocrat. Tom took the position that it was better to keep as much as possible out of the public eye, because the public is too stupid, and decisions are best left to the experts. Some time ago, Tom Nichols and I got into it over whether or not the public ought to be informed about unclassified material. In other words, the proliferation of bloggers like myself is due almost entirely to the media not performing its own stated function. The market had a demand for news that was either unslanted, or slanted the other direction in a sort of compensation for the blatant left-wing agitprop spewed 24/7 from the major news outlets (Fox possibly excepted). They are pure propagandists, at this point. ![]() They are no longer reporters of facts, they are agents of propaganda as dishonest and skewed as the editors of Pravda.īlogging is relatively popular in the right-wing world, not necessarily because we are the best, or the most highly trained professionals, but because most of the highly trained professionals have stopped doing journalism at all. No matter how much training the technocrats in government and media receive, we cannot trust them. The intrepid anti-blog freeper missed that point. But regardless of my own errors, at least it can be said that I am not an enemy of America, her culture, and her way of life. My readers have probably noticed errors here and there, and in all likelihood I will continue to make those boneheaded mistakes from time-to-time (I count on my readers to let me know when this happens, of course). To be fair, I am not a trained journalist, nor am I even a trained author. When it was pointed out to him that the press is blatantly corrupt, and cannot be trusted, he fired back with an insinuation that at least the press is better than amateur bloggers. But another individual immediately lambasted the original poster with “oh, you follow blogs? I feel sorry for you.” It was the sort of self-absorbed, arrogant snark you usually see in places like the Democratic Underground. He suggested my blog was worth following, for which I can only express my gratitude. Some time ago, one of my readers linked a post of mine on Free Republic. Love or hate Donald Trump, one of the reasons he managed to win the election was that he spoke a truth we’ve all known for quite some time now, but which few others were willing to say openly: the press is the enemy of the American people. It’s a sad state of affairs, and indicative of the descent into technocratic government.
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