Quote of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on July 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
“[W]e pretend Yon’s massacre – and the North Korean killing fields, the Arab treatment of women, the Arab hatred of Israel, etc. – doesn’t exist, and instead focus our emotions and attention on the somewhat-bad domestic things that we can ‘fix’ with our DC-based allies. Things such as Abu Ghraib, wiretapping, etc. When we ‘fix’ them, then we get status, applause, power, new jobs, ego, etc.
Please don’t be surprised. We media are an interest group not much different from the automakers, the unions, and the farmers.”
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Indeed, we know it, and even they know it, they just don’t admit it, except in a confidential email like this.
This is why, as I have said before, they only way to make the Left, the journalists, stop their antics is to put fear into them, the likes of which only our enemies can, and will, do. Only when our society is burning and finished, will most of them see they took the charade too far.
jihadwatcher on July 3, 2007 at 10:10 PM
The MSM hedges their bets for their own monetary and self-serving gains?
Well, I never woulda thunk it.
I’d like to see that unidentified source be identified and come forward on National television and say that. Otherwise, the logical response by the MSM is to claim that it’s all made up. Actually, how do we know the “soure” isn’t all made up?
SilverStar830 on July 3, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Yon = the anti-Walter Duranty. The vast majority of the rest of the US media isn’t quite living up to the highest purpose of a free press – keep the citizenry informed. Go ahead and have opinions, inveigh against that which you do not like, bolster that which you do – but do so in the editorials. At least they could put the facts out there for all to see. But it is not to be. If we had no Yon, no Roggio, no Totten, no Greyhawk, no Milbloggers – how would we ever hear any of this? CENTCOM can make only so many press releases that are completely ignored.
major john on July 3, 2007 at 10:16 PM
As Worf would say:
They are with out honor.
Zorro on July 3, 2007 at 10:21 PM
It’s really a shame, that when America came of age and became the arsenal of democracy, the defender of freedom and the beacon of liberty for the entire world, our media just wasn’t up to the task.
conservnut on July 3, 2007 at 10:23 PM
Well, it’s a refreshing bit of honesty. I wonder who it is.
Pablo on July 3, 2007 at 10:38 PM
This thought is extremely deluded, that they have any power to FIX anything of what they claim they can? False power corrupts absolutely also.
When we ‘fix’ them, then we get status, applause, power, new jobs, ego, etc.
Narcissistic horror mission statement. Yet the Dems feed this false god of power.
And another similar Multi – deluded group.
The ones we cant say, talk about, mention…etc.
Muslims are Terrorists Islamofascists.
They’re all muslims where-in Islam brainwashes them to “kill all who differ” from birth. All of them who read the koran.
From the doctors to the extremely poor, they couldn’t be more alike. Kill infidels if you cant force their conversion.
does the MSM really think they FIX sh*t? That would be like a satanic O’Reilly on LSD?
shooter on July 3, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Dan Rather, Pablo.
andycanuck on July 3, 2007 at 10:44 PM
… and neither are their …
But of course, we knew that.
IrishEyes on July 3, 2007 at 10:45 PM
It makes perfect sense. When was the last time you heard anything on Darfur? I rarely read, see, or hear anything on that subject either. Remember the good old days when the MSM brought us stories about the killing fields in Cambodia? When we heard about the atrocities committed by Pol Pot? Gone are the days, my friends. ‘Cause now we got Paris.
thedecider on July 3, 2007 at 10:46 PM
so true, but is it reality or is it a falsity used to set up what follows…
So they go on to domestic laundry they can ‘FIX’ the rest of the world.
I liked the first part of that statement also, but it deteriorated quickly from there.
Like a pedophile with candy for a child….looks good to start, then…
welcome back Pablo, or have I just not noticed your commenting the last 6 months or so?
shooter on July 3, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Our macro media seems to be built up from 60s retread anti establishment balding hippies.
From their Tommy Chong haze they need to realize that the establishment they seem to want to replace the one we have is a teeny weeny bit more repressive than the establishment we have now.
Careful what you wish for America haters the alternative doesn’t allow media dissent or any dissent so far as that goes.
If you shlockmeister liberals want the freedom to bash the status quo you better support it too because nobody else cares.
Speakup on July 3, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Well, it’s nice to know that they know they are a self-serving interesting group, I guess. It beats all that mumbo-jumbo about how important they are that they usually spout.
Spirit of 1776 on July 3, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Please don’t be surprised.
I’ll be suprised when they stop acting like a special interest group.
boomer on July 3, 2007 at 11:06 PM
That really reads like a snark piece from a conservative.
If it is real than why is there no whistleblower from the MSM. I mean, media attention where you are the star, a book deal, interviews with Larry King. Why doesn’t someone just blow the lid off the whole darn thing
VolMagic on July 3, 2007 at 11:10 PM
Then they truly are treasonous, if they are knowingly willing to undermine Coalition forces rather than acknowledge the reality that is the evil of radical Islam, that is a betrayal of the US and our Armed forces of the worst kind. The liberal establishment media cannot be allowed to act this recklessly without some sort of punishment, even if it takes the rest of our lives, we have to expose the betrayal of the media elite, and destroy any influence they hold on the minds of people.
Bad Candy on July 3, 2007 at 11:32 PM
BOYCOTT all major networks and their sponsers!
sonnyspats1 on July 3, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Speaking of agenda – look at this AP gem:
Diverse Group Allegedly in British Plot
The Highlights:
LONDON – They had diverse backgrounds, coming from countries around the globe, but all shared youth and worked in medicine. They also had a common goal, authorities suspect: to bring havoc and death to the heart of Britain.
Is that all the shared? – “youth and worked in medicine”?
Pathetic.
reaganaut on July 3, 2007 at 11:48 PM
I think that analysis is spot-on. We’re being fed liberal crap from a bunch of 1960′s burn-outs who went “chasing rabbit” but never discovered they went “too far”. The Red Queen’s on her head and all they can remember is what the doorman said: “feed your head” – only today, it’s Oxy-Contin they’re hearing from.
thedecider on July 3, 2007 at 11:49 PM
So reporters think of themselves as one more influence group, like automakers?
They’d have to be considered as producing the journalistic equivalent of Yugos or Ladas, if the analogy is to ring true.
Crap for an audience they hold in contempt.
With rare exceptions like Yon.
profitsbeard on July 4, 2007 at 12:20 AM
VolMagic:
Bernard Goldberg has written two books on the subject. You might want to look him up. John “The Scourge of the Liberal Media” Stossel still works on the inside and is quite willing to point out how insular the leftist newsroom culture is.
But then, if you get all your news from CNN and MSNBC and NYT, you wouldn’t know that.
Merovign on July 4, 2007 at 12:31 AM
BTW the delusion of influence in the note is one of the reasons it rings true – it does sound like someone who “got in” to “change the world” but was disappointed at the blinkered attitudes of his (or her) colleagues.
Merovign on July 4, 2007 at 12:32 AM
The headline on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today read:
Scooter Skates! in big bold type.
Not Scooter Libby sentence commuted by President Bush, but Scooter skates. I think most people in Seattle realize the P-I is a leftist rag, but it is still disturbing to see the “editorial” on the front page. Agenda, what agenda.
Mallard T. Drake on July 4, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Interest Group…The only thing the Media is interested in is defeat…
Tim Burton on July 4, 2007 at 12:45 AM
It’s killing me. I have to know who wrote that.
PRCalDude on July 4, 2007 at 1:00 AM
It would be hilarious if the effect of these Bozos hadn’t been so serious for so many years.
So many of us get hammered with liberal bias on so many different fronts that people don’t notice the difference.
The MSM is a very powerful liberal tool controlled by liberal Executives listening to liberal masters.
Speakup on July 4, 2007 at 1:12 AM
So true. Do you want to think of something really scary? Probably not, but think of the world of tomorrow when today’s teens ultimately become the voice of the MSM. Imagine teens growing up in a world of “PC” liberalism, anti-Americanism, anti-semitism, anti-military, anti-conservatism, (we could go on and on). Then imagine what the world will be like. I shudder to think of it.
thedecider on July 4, 2007 at 1:24 AM
I already assume that of everyone with a (D) by their name, or in the leftist press, unless they affirmatively prove otherwise. They get no benefit of the doubt from me.
urbancenturion on July 4, 2007 at 1:34 AM
Nonfactor “sheesh, now the media is using a bunch of red herrings – what has the world come to? can’t trust anyone any longer…”
Entelechy on July 4, 2007 at 1:54 AM
Whores stick better to their business core values.
Entelechy on July 4, 2007 at 1:59 AM
Anything But Conservative’s program Nightline had either 2 or 3 headlines like the one mentioned above for the Seattle PI. I believe one was “Scoots Free”. Maybe someone else who watched it could remember what the others were. They made it sound like he was no longer required to pay a quarter million dollars in fines and other penalties. I hope he wins his appeal, but President Bush is right to reserve the right to give him a pardon. If they would give Sandy Burgler a longer prison sentence than that given to Libby, then I wouldn’t be as outraged as I am about the double standard that is always applied to Dumocrats who commit more serious crimes and get less punishment.
TruthToBeTold on July 4, 2007 at 2:06 AM
Hi shooter. I’ve been around, just not a lot. Capitalism is a harsh master.
Pablo on July 4, 2007 at 8:45 AM
Well, at least one of them admits that they’re an interest group. I guess that this is a wee bit of progress. Is there a 12-step media-bias-anonymous program?
Bigfoot on July 4, 2007 at 8:52 AM
So as a ‘interest group’ they don’t get to enjoy ‘Freedom of the Press’ right?
Anyone note it’s referred to as “Yon’s massacre”? Kind of a weak attempt to ‘pin it’ on and associate it with Michael Yon.
Not once in Al Qaeda is mentioned….
Yon’s Massacre
North Korean Killing Fields (or Cambodian?)
Arab treatment of women
CrazyFool on July 4, 2007 at 9:06 AM
That is very scary but those PC kids grow up (unlike the hard core media libs) at least half once they become responsible will become conservatives and any media that is half right is four tenths more Conservative than now.
IMHO it’s happening now and has been for years, I think the publics’ influence on the Senate response to a horrid immigration bill could/should mark a turning point in citizen influenced politics.
This is independence day, “get the word out, let everybody know, how to take those sons of b*tches down”
Speakup on July 4, 2007 at 9:52 AM
Ouch. Remind me not to turn into a moonbat anytime soon, if only to avoid the flaming sword of your scorn.
241 years ago, a band of radicals, not content with an unacceptable status quo of oppression and tyranny, took a stand which they fully expected would cost most of their lives.
Upon this foundation is built the greatest nation the world has ever known, for no nation before it has given each and every citizen as much power over their own lives as this one. These men would have spit in your face if you called them conservatives, meaning what the word means today. They were not interested in conserving what was, they were interested in enhancing toward what could be. They were revolutionaries, in the most sanitary use that word has ever known, engaged in the most noble purpose imaginable, true Liberty.
Lawyers today say that this document is merely a public letter, that it is not an official document of our government. They do so only to sidestep the obvious references to God and God’s authority under which the Declaration’s authors submitted themselves. The government follows the birth of the nation, not the other way around. Without this document and the sentiments, honor and sacrifice behind it, there would be no government, no Constitution, NO LIBERTY.
Most of the men who signed that Declaration did indeed lose their lives and their fortunes to the conflict which made this nation possible, but their sacred honor is eternal, and is the first of so many things that we, their national descendants, must remember on this day.
Fly your flag today, Americans. Enjoy a great day and celebrate, but with remembrance, for that is the best way to pay proper tribute to the Patriots who gave you this home you love.
Freelancer on July 4, 2007 at 3:49 PM
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431 years ago, a band of radicals, not content with an unacceptable status quo of oppression and tyranny, took a stand which they fully expected would cost most of their lives…Fly your flag today, Americans. Enjoy a great day and celebrate, but with remembrance, for that is the best way to pay proper tribute to the Patriots who gave you this home you love.
Freelancer on July 4, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Indeed. With much gratitude.
p.s. FL, you’d suffocate as a moonbat, long before my scorn :)
Entelechy on July 4, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Merovign on July 4, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Yo. I know there is some crazy liberal bias on pretty much everthing but FOX. I was referring to the e-mail. I mean, it does read like a conservative snark piece. I was just saying that if someone is willing to write that e-mail, couldn’t they blow that story up. And I’ve read Stossel’s books. I just want someone who has the “smoking gun” of anti-americanism in the MSM to step forward.
That’s all I was saying.
VolMagic on July 4, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Gah. Thanks for catching my back. Fatfingered it and didn’t look back. PIMF.
Freelancer on July 5, 2007 at 2:13 AM