The New Journalists

I watched a program on which the managing editor of Politico.Com attempted to explain why Democrats won't speak up about Moveon.Org's obnoxious Betrayus ad in the NY Times.

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The Dems don't HAVE the votes to stop the war. Therefore, not every Dem approves of the leftist turn their party has taken, lest they'd have the votes to bring cloture and stop the funding to the war! But instead of relating this important facet of today's political reality, i.e., the Democrats simply don't have enough votes to get their way, the media instead turns its attention to the smallest of the small, the most extreme of the extreme: the far Left.

Now, if you were to watch any news program, you would believe that at least sixty percent of the Democrat Party stands behind the kinds of shenanigans the crazy Left has pulled. But how can that be? To suggest that the current Leftists (yes, Leftists) in the Democrat Party have brought it to the center is ludicrous. Have all moderate Dems died? Have they stepped off Planet Earth?

The Dem Left is a rather questionable group of people--very, very small, with a lot of money who has a history of temporarily rearranging the Democrat Party every few years or so. Way too many of today's political observers are too young to actually appreciate what happened in 1968 when the Dems were dominated by the McGovern Left. The Chicago Seven (or was it eight, I can't remember)and the rest of them were viewed as an annoyance by the American people. Meanwhile, most voters, including Democrats--the ones the media thinks fell off the earth--gladly cast their ballots for the Republicans. The Democrat Party was dessimated by these far left loons. They will be again.

Where'd You Get Your Journalism Degree? Sears?
I'm waiting for the time when these journalists have to stand up and defend the institutions which avail them the very freedom to write and say whatever. It is the obligation of the journalist to help maintain a structure of freedom. Not just freedom from the state, but also freedom from the tyranny of minorities who mean America harm.

As it is now, news organizations allow small interest groups the mainstream attention they don't deserve. By doing so, they are ignoring standards that have been in place--for good reason--in the Fourth Estate forever. Our current news readers and kid journalists don't have a clue. They don't know, I suppose, and don't know they don't know.

They'd rather be cool than right. (Isn't it cool to be against the war, if you're in the media?)


Thanks for the read.