Where wise men never go….(apologies to Johnny Mercer)…
Well, the honeymoon is definitely over. The Democrats are no longer even attempting to hide their greed and avarice. The corruption is paraded about with gleeful cheek. The Emperor has no clothes! Michelle Malkin has an excellent round-up on Alcee Hastings (D-FL), the impeached judge in line for the House Intelligence Committee. Of course, now that a tasty committee chair is almost within his grasp, he cries foul for those that would call him out on his record…
Last week, disgraced and disgraceful Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) fired off an unhinged rant to fellow House Democrats denying he was corrupt and attacking “Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Barone, Drudge, anonymous bloggers, and other assorted misinformed fools” who have cited his House impeachment and Senate conviction on bribery and perjury charges.
I guess I fall into the “assorted misinformed fools” category. Fine by me. Read it all and follow all the links. Michelle has definitely done the homework on this moron. Too bad the Pelosizoid is too busy doing her time warp to see the damage being done to the country or her precious reputation. Maybe that’s why she looks so surprised all the time.
There’s a definite stench in the air and the bloggers are raising the fire flags. It’s the smell of lies, deceit, blatant delusion. The MSM , along with their friends and relations, boldly lie about what no man has lied about before. Any manner of credibility or integrity is thrown to the winds. Many bloggers, much brighter than me, have extensive posts on the subject. With names.
- The Anchoress, who is supposed to be FINISHING HER BOOK writes on What’s a Little Fakery among Friends(?)
Could it be this easy? Get your information from a dubious source and use it to declare “civil war?”
Well, why not? The press has done everything else it possibly could to undermine our troops and the president, since 2003. It’s all about honor, you know. Honorable withdrawal and stuff. Further, check out this: AP makes a terrible charge against our troops with unnamed sources. The military denies it, the press says, “yeah,sez you, we’re running it and not naming a single source, because we believe anyone but you guys…”
- Siggy, who is always asking about your mother (who didn’t lie, by the way), has an excellent post on the party line spewed by the press, the UN and a dubious Bill Clinton determined to channel Al Jolson
In publishing the IRIN fantasy as ‘news,’ Reuters highlights the difference between themselves and Nazi era media outlets. Those German media outlets were forced to report the lies and deceit and of the Third Reich.
Reuters and most of the mainstream media are perfectly happy to report the ‘party line’ and agenda as real news, willingly and without coercion. They cannot be expected to be taken seriously.
- Dr. Sanity talks about the Dems“undoing” behavior
Now that the Democrats are in charge, they can easily segue from expressing their dysfunctional emotions about this to actually acting on those dysfunctional emotions.
- If that post didn’t get you going, then this one from Patterico will have you throwing dishes at the walls!
Read them all and weep. In a way, it reminds me of a scene from The Pianist. The Szpilman family is sitting around in their parlor, while the Nazis tromp around outside, rounding up Jews. They comfort each other with the thought that it could never happen, especially to them.
Second Thessalonians has some interesting advice…
3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. … 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
How sad that the Democrat’s only goal for the next two years is to reverse anything with Bush’s name on it. Maybe when someone they care about is endangered by their policies will they begin to understand what a great disservice they have provided for their constituents. All in the name of spite.
Related: Flip, Flop, Slap, The Press and Liberal Politics Co-Dependent Relationship, Playground Politics, David and Goliath, Bad Manners Abound, Stupid Is As Stupid Does, Redeux, I Get It – Why Don’t You?. Hmmmm, I detect a pattern here….
UPDATE: Lorie Byrd has an excellent post on Media Malpractice
Bloggers are just recently catching on and exposing fake stories, but these exposes have not yet reached the people in the form of a story on a primetime network newscast. What the heck will it take to get some serious MSM attention to this problem? Will they wait until their credibility is on par with Rather and Mapes? It would appear that is the course they have chosen. Michelle Malkin sums it up perfectly: “Journalists in the legacy press are too busy trying to write the Bush administration’s obituary to notice that they are writing their own…MSM credibility, R.I.P.”
and The Anchoress, yet again nails the damage done in her update.
As usual with stories like this the fake story – and the impressions it has made on the minds of the public – is out there, damage done. I don’t see how alternate media can win against a major media that fabricates crap and puts it out there knowing that even if they correct the story a week later, they’ve done their damage. It’s a sneakly lawyer’s trick, actually – like putting an idea in a jury’s head and then having the judge tell them to “disregard” it.
I frankly don’t know how the president had endured this non-stop game, the incessant lying and leaking, distortion and hate-mongering in the press. I don’t know how anyone can endure it and not lose heart. Perhaps he has. The press is literally trying to not simply destroy the man but take down his government and surrender a military action that is important to the survival of our identity, and the West’s. And, sadly, they seem to be succeeding.
