Obi’s Sister

Back, oh about a month ago, Breath of the Beast’s Yaacov ben Moshe wrote an outstanding (as usual, everything he writes is outstanding!) piece on Lies Our Media Tells Us. Be sure to note his examples.

A case could be made that in the age of television, and especially since 1967, there has not been a news event of major transformative effect that has not been presented to the public without serious distortions. Some have been outright lies. The seriousness of the effects of these distortions cannot be understated.

The post kept rattling around in my head… I know, because there is so much empty space, yeah, yeah… Lies, Lies, Nothing But Lies. Stewing and fermenting, like a fine sour-mash.

Then some amazing things happened.

First, Obama was asked a few hard questions about character and long-time family friends, and he crumbled into a whiny, weepy adolescent. With his wife waggin’ her finger at the camera (we know about waggin’ fingers) and warning that his rage is just a’simmerin’. Well, if he buckles under this, I’d love to see how he’d handle a nuclear warhead bearing down on American soil. Would he base his decision solely on whether he carried that state? Middle-school retaliation angst is a bummer. Robert Ferrigno has a vision of Obama’s America. But the MSM is too busy rewriting the script for their saviour.

Next, several accounts bunked the Media Blues of Recession/Unemployment/Gas Prices/Everything is Bush’s fault. First, a definition from GM Roper:

Here’s the technical definition of a recession: Recession is defined as a decline, for two consecutive quarters, of real gross domestic product - the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. We have not had that, as growth is not a decline.

Ok - Got that? The economy GREW this past quarter, not much, but it wasn’t negative and it wasn’t for six months straight like the screeching talking-heads want you to believe. Unemployment goes DOWN and public sector hiring goes UP. The gas price increase can be blamed on Congressional inaction during Pelosi’s tenure, not just one man. Even Jon Stewart made fun of the doomsayers. The MSM just changes the subject.

Then the GlobalWarmistas took one on the chin. The MSM cry “Deniers!”
while the Goracle begins to worry if his hysteria-driven revenue stream is going to dry up.

So it appears there is HOPE. Real hope, not just hype.

The blogs have played a big part in getting this information out - despite the MSM’s best efforts to discredit us - from the big to the tiny. Integrity. Creditability. Fairness. Simple fact-checking. Old-fashioned mores that have been discarded in order to out-scoop the competitor or simply driven by a all-consuming hatred of one man. They begin to see the imminent demise of the lifestyle in which they’ve become accustomed to. Too bad they turned their backs. What goes around, comes around.

Cross-posted at RedState.