Thursday - July 21, 2011

a worthy read

Rich K. sent me something reported to be funny.  I guess in some ways it might be but frankly, I find it scary.  Scary because so many Americans actually buy into this, scary because I know for certain that kids here in the UK are being fed left wing obnoxious doctrine as a way of life and belief.

This really is a coincidence since I have had an article by one of my favorite conservatives, Melanie Phillips.  I’ve been very much occupied lately and have not been posting much for which I apologize.  Unfortunately, there will be a few more days when I won’t be here full time.

Well then … Here’s what I got from Rich and he got it by reading – gasp –
The San Francisco Chronicle. And in particular, a fellow named Deepak Choprta, whose article is entitled;

A critical moment: Why we need President Obama

One of the virtues of being on the liberal side of politics is that total obedience isn’t required. There are no hidden agendas. Ideology doesn’t lead to unreason.

the prevailing sanity of President Obama

Liberal politics is based on a non-regimented, all-inclusive approach to democracy. Freedom of thought is paramount.

progressive tradition has been severely undermined, dating back to Nixon’s “Southern strategy” (coddle the racists) and Ronald Reagan’s smiling reactionary agenda (AIDS victims deserve what they get), through the first President Bush’s Willie Horton strategy (another boost for racism)

(oh never mind that the killer/rapist was coddled by that silly looking jerk governor in a tank re. Horton. Being critical of that move is automatically race related.) (I have forgotten that govs name. ?)

It was such a relief to return to humane, non-ideological governance when President Obama won in 2008 that we underestimated the debasing effect that two generations of right-wing indoctrination has had.

I have obviously chopped up his editorial merely to give you an example.
You can read it all unedited HERE and I think you should.

No doubt the hacking scandal here is making some news in America since now we read that the wind bags in the senate are soon to initiate an investigation into possible illegal behavior in America, by the Murdoch group.
Again, this article has been edited. I have posted her rant against the left but the thrust of her editorial while anti-left is an attack on the BBC & the left leaning media.

Monopoly of the BBC and the Left-wing intelligentsia.

Melanie Phillips

Murdoch’s real crime in the eyes of the Left-wing intelligentsia is simply that he has stood in the way of their total capture of the culture.
The dominance of Left-wing ideas has been such that even among so-called conservatives, many of them have become accepted as mainstream. And one of the most powerful architects of that shift has been the BBC.

Even its own executives have sometimes been forced to admit that, far from the objectivity required by its public service remit, the BBC generally subscribes to a Left-wing ‘group-think’ which dictates the agenda both in its journalism and entertainment programmes.

With some honourable exceptions, whether in its drama, comedy, news reporting or current affairs, the BBC’s output rests upon certain articles of faith.
For example, traditional Christians are all fundamentalist bigots; the science of man-made global warming is settled; opponents of mass immigration are racist; Eurosceptics are swivel-eyed fanatics; and all who oppose these opinions and more are Right-wing extremists.

And then to add insult to injury, the BBC forces people to pay for the privilege of being told day in, day out that their own views are stupid or prejudiced.
What’s more, such is the enormous power and influence of the BBC through its reputation for trustworthiness and fairness that it has arguably moved the very centre of political gravity in Britain to the Left.

By contrast, Murdoch’s popular papers have tended mainly to follow public opinion once voters’ minds are made up. So they respond to and then amplify what people already think.
But for the Left that is anathema, because nothing can be allowed to disrupt the great project to tell people what to think and shut down all opinion to the contrary.

Murdoch’s empire has acted as at least a partial antidote to that agenda by defending America, Israel and the interests of the West.
Which is why he provokes near-apoplexy on the Left.

And which is why they are all slavering at the prospect of bringing down a media organisation which provided an element of competition to the true monopoly of the BBC and the Left-wing intelligentsia.

The great irony, of course, is that for all those years while this scandal was taking place, the Labour Party fawned over Murdoch and his lieutenants. While he was riding high, none of them saw fit to challenge the power they now purport to find so unacceptable.
Only now Murdoch is lying bleeding on the ropes does Miliband flex his puny muscles. And they call that leadership.

MELANIE PHILLIPS

And then there was the Telegraph’s Janet Daley who is an American expat married to a Brit and living here since 1965.
Again, she makes comments with regard to the liberal biased BBC but the following says it all. And again, I would encourage you read all of her.  She has lots to say about American news and cable TV and compares how news is presented in both countries.
She is on the money and you will get an education reading her.

JANET DALEY Comment on Janet Daley’s view at » telegraph.co.uk/janetdaley
The Left really thinks the Right is evil incarnate

Those of us on the Right are inclined to believe that our antagonists on the Left are simply wrong-headed – sometimes well-intentioned, sometimes malevolent but basically just mistaken. Whereas the Left believes that we are evil incarnate. Their demonic view of people who express even mildly Right-of-centre opinions (that lower taxes or less state control might be desirable, for example) would be risible if it were not so pernicious.

The Left does not want a debate or an open market in ideas. It wants to extirpate its opponents – to remove them from the field. It actually seems to believe that it is justified in snuffing out any possibility of our arguments reaching the impressionable masses – and bizarrely, it defends this stance in the name of fairness.

The problem is that Fox’s audience share is enormous, by far the largest of any cable news channel, whereas MSNBC’s is tiny, the smallest of any cable news channel. People are voting with their remotes for the kind of opinions they want to hear and the result is infuriating for the Left-liberal axis – and particularly for the Obama White House, which has made no secret of its desire to shut Fox News down.

There is, incidentally – contrary to the conjectures of some excitable commentators – no possibility of the “Murdoch empire” spawning a British version of Fox News. By law, broadcast news in Britain must be impartial. That is why all television news organisations in this country subscribe to pretty much the same soft-Left rendition of neutral reporting (in which Euroscepticism was, until very recently, treated as a lunatic fringe irrelevance, etc). And just the sort of liberal received opinion that now dominates television news.

JANET DALEY

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