As we have noted in the past, one of the basic tenets of a tyrannical regime is to control the media, because when you control the media, you control public perception. We have also cautioned that one of the first things to happen in an Obama administration will be the muzzling of dissent.
New evidence has come to light that shows that the Obama administration — and by default the Democrat party — will not need to exert much, if any, force upon the media to gain their cooperation. Why? Because the news media is already biased in their favor.
While there have been research and reports in the past, such as this one from UCLA, that detail and quantify media bias, nothing has been as shocking as this video. According to his website, filmmaker John Ziegler interviewed 12 Obama supporters immediately after they voted. Here is the video of those interviews, which is a teaser for Ziegler’s upcoming film ”Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected”:
The sample size is small, and it is entirely possible to just pick twelve rubes from a few hundred interviewees and show only the uninformed. The video alone is not damning. What is damning, is the results of a post-election Zogby poll along the same lines. A telephone poll of 512 Obama supporters nationwide showed striking similarities to Ziegler’s video. Some of the results:
- 17% correctly answered that Barack Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot
- 12% correctly associated Barack Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry
- 44% knew that Barack Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the homeland terrorist organization the Weather Underground
- 28% knew that Joe Biden had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech
On the flip side of the coin:
- 86% correctly identified Sarah Palin as the candidate whose party purchased her a $150,000 wardrobe
- 81% identified John McCain as the candidate who was unable to recall the number of houses he owned
- 94% correctly identified Sarah Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter
- 87% chose Sarah Palin as the candidate who said they could “see Russia from their house,” even though it was Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey — portraying Sarah Palin — who said it
While no media outlet is without some form of bias, the numbers are so skewed in favor of the Democrat party that it is clear the the mainstream media is not only biased, not only are they are shirking their responsibility to the public to inform the public as completely as possible, they are “in the tank” for the Democrat party and the upcoming Obama administration. Chris Matthews of MSNBC even went so far as to say his “job” is to ensure Obama is a success.
An informed electorate is essential to the survival of liberty and our Republic. The media is not doing their job. The teachers are not doing their jobs, either. Patriotism is considered “controversial.” Our children are being indoctrinated and we are being fed lies and manipulation in the TV we watch and the newspapers and magazines we read. Is all lost?
No.
We the People have the means to take our country back.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
–Thomas Jefferson
From a speech by Ezra Taft Benson, President Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture:
The Fairness Doctrine is when it all started to fall apart. It’s where we stopped talking about patriotism because it was branded a “controversial” topic. Where we stopped talking about states rights. Where we lost our national pride. Where speaking of the United States as the greatest nation on earth was ostracized and the demonization of the United States was encouraged.
Such anti-patriotic measures have resulted in jaw-dropping situations like this one in New Hampshire:
But efforts to restore them have erupted into a bitter dispute in this town of about 800 residents, with school officials blocking the exercise from classrooms over concerns that it holds children who don’t participate up to scorn.
Ronald Reagan’s ending of the Fairness Doctrine saw a re-awakening of this talk and conversation. But after over 20 years of silence, we are just now beginning to rediscover our voices.
Obama’s presidency brings with it the threat of the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine, which would silence our voices just as we began to speak.
We need to speak out. We need to re-discover that national pride and patriotism that was once a cornerstone of this great nation. The bitterness, anger, and vitriol associated with our currently divided nation is a result of the lack of national pride. That pride is the one thing that binds us together as a nation, the thing that transcends politics and political parties, the thing that binds us together as We the People who are protective of our liberties that The Government tries to regulate or take away entirely. Our national pride is the only thing that keeps our nation from descending into the muck and mire that has plagued virtually every other nation.
A nation divided against itself will not stand.
We need to rediscover our national pride. And we need to rediscover it now, before we lose it for good.
It was a revelation of sorts.
In listening to a news report about how the Big Three automakers in Detroit are asking for another bailout, we started thinking about the nature of these bailouts. What are they, exactly?
These “bailouts” are the giving of government money to struggling industries and businesses. The government doesn’t have the money right now, so they borrow it from other countries (like China and Dubai) in the form of 20-year U.S. Treasury Bills. These are paid back by… taxpayer dollars. And those who pay the most in taxes are the people who are responsible and successful, be they corporations or individuals.
So, we are taking money from companies and people who are responsible, successful, smart, and classified as “rich” by politicians, and giving it to companies who are irresponsible, unsuccessful, have made bad business decisions, and as a result are on the brink of failure.
Isn’t the proper course of nature for these beleaguered companies and industries to fail? Is it not in our best interests for them to fail?
By taxing those who are successful and responsible, we are punishing them for doing the right thing, for running their businesses and living their lives in a responsible way. So before any new tax plan even goes into effect, we are already redistributing the wealth of the successful and responsible to the companies and industries who — through their own irresponsibility — are least deserving of it.