In reading local newspapers and channel surfing through TV political commentary programs, it is quite apparent that the Mainstream Media has taken on the Herculean task of trying to discredit the Tea Party movement. With the results of the recent national election in hand, media pundits try to claim every Republican loss as attributable to their meddling and every Democrat win a repudiation of their beliefs. Tea Party-supported victors are seen as an anomaly.
But nowhere is this new crusade more evident than in the Mainstream Media’s newly-concocted premise that the Tea Party was responsible for Republican losses in the Senate. Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, and Ken Buck were all puppets of the Tea Party and all losers at the ballot box, so they got theirs. Ha-ha!
Nevertheless, if one swallows the Mainstream Media’s thinking, it must then follow that the Mainstream Media itself was responsible for the Democrat losses in the House. While Tea Party miscalculations might have contributed to Republican defeats, it appears that Keith Olberman’s secret Democrat donations, Chris Matthew’s thrill up his leg, and the open bias seen in the body language of news anchors of the Top Three television networks all worked together to defeat the Democrats pulling Nancy Pelosi’s rickshaw.
But what a spectacle America was treated to in the days before November 2nd and what a comparison between these two competing titans: if the Tea Party was strident, the Mainstream Media was shrill; if the Tea Party was energized, the Mainstream Media was dour; if the Tea Party looked away from the establishment, the Mainstream Media was the establishment; if the Tea Party labored for free, the Mainstream Media feasted off campaign advertising revenue; and if the Tea Party fought for the freedom inherent in capitalism and democracy, the Mainstream Media worked to enforce the enslavement built into big government and socialism.
The Tea Party represented the spirit of independence that wrested this country from wilderness and brutality, the Mainstream Media represented the sloth and oppressiveness of the British Monarchy.
Given the choice, was it really the Tea Party which lost in this election or the Mainstream Media?
Just about now you, as an American voter, are reaching critical political mass. Pummeled by incessant TV, radio, and newspaper ads, and deluged by dinnertime taped phone calls you want to kill the next person who brings up the election.
Then, again, you may have crossed over into that Zombieland of voting in which you can’t seem to get enough of the heady stuff. While the former state is normal, here’s how to tell if you’ve really had too much politics for the season and are badly in need of a vacation or at least electroshock therapy:
1) You know Sarah Palin’s dog’s favorite color.
2) You can recite the Hatch Act from memory.
3) You call polling companies and beg to be polled.
4) You can’t wait for TV shows to end so you can start enjoying the campaign commercials.
5) You’ve come to believe that Rand Paul is a type of gold coin.
6) You can spell Ben Bernanke’s name forward AND backwards.
7) Your shirt has color-coded campaign buttons with Republicans on the right side, Democrats on the left, and Libertarians down the middle. You agree with every political view no matter who holds it yet become irritated when someone refuses to have an opinion.
9) Your Favorites menu on your computer browser is full of campaign websites.
10) You can’t be reached on the Internet because your e-mail account is glutted with campaign spam.
11) You’ve got a space reserved in front of the early voting place so that you can get there before midnight.
12) You’ve got a tattoo of your favorite candidate on your shoulder and you were the tattoo artist.
13) You’ve painted half your car red and the other half blue.
14) You invite campaign flyer distributors into your house for coffee and cookies and to have a heart-to-heart.
15) You’ve removed the heads from your bobblehead collection and replaced them with leading candidates.
16) You straighten up campaign signs at intersections.
17) Your alarm clock has campaign ads to awaken you.
18) You call radio talk shows just to hear them breathe.
19) Instead of Fantasy Football, you play Fantasy Politics.
20) Your friends avoid you because all you want to talk about is the latest polling numbers.
21) When you dream, it’s of filling out your ballot.
22) Your iPod is full of recorded campaign speeches.
23) You’re disappointed when, after the phone rings, it’s only your mother calling and not a pre-recorded message from a local candidate.
24) You burned out your TIVO recording late-night political shows.
25) Your car has so many campaign stickers on it, it makes two miles less per gallon.
Seriously, there’s over 20 current TV shows… what’s up with them?
by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Originally published Friday, April 10, 2009 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article6273.html
I recently resigned my job in Shanghai, China and repatriated to Pennsylvania. It has been a bit of a reverse culture shock, and I keep most of my posts on message, but this is a little weird.
I don’t watch TV, but my family does. Recently, I was trying to read while this cop show “The Mentalist” was on. Someone wanted to switch channels and lo and behold it was just another cop show. I got curious and started asking how many cop shows there were, and was surprised to hear a list of over 10 rattled off. Here’s the results of a 2-minute brainstorm… geez.
Also, there may be one more surprise guest added to the lineup at the last minute.
It sounds like another great show with some new blood (so to speak). Please spread the word and tune in to the show tomorrow at 2pm if you can. The more people that watch the show online the better chance it has of making into the normal Fox TV lineup. You can watch the show here: http://foxnews.com/strategyroom (Foxnews.com Strategy Room online channel).
I watched John Stossel’s latest wonderful 20/20 special on ABC last night. I can’t tell you how excited I get when I see libertarian views being expressed on a main stream media show like this.
These ideas should be commonplace, but over the years they’ve been usurped by statism–the belief that the government is the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-do-good god. But the devil is in the details and Stossel once again reveals the devil in statism
The show is in six parts.
Economic crisis?
Should roads be private?
Should drugs be legal?
Should the federal government (our tax dollars) pay for preschool for every child?
Is combating illegal immigration doomed to fail?
Is America still the land of opportunity?
Watch all six in the playlist embedded below. (Thanks go to youtube user wisted for uploading the videos)
This is yet another effort to demonstrate the popularity of the Judge’s show so that it may get on the Fox News TV channel at some point. So, please visit the new site, watch, comment, and rate the videos, then spread the site around to friends and colleagues.
On the site you will find all the show archive videos (and audio for the first show), a link to the live show, links to guests’ sites, and upcoming guest announcements.
Regular guests to the show include Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell, Cody Willard, and Tracy Byrnes.
We’ve received word that Judge Andrew Napolitano will have Ron Paul, Cody Willard, Peter Schiff, and Tracy Byrnes on his Internet show “Freedom Watch” tomorrow at 2pm EST.
Also joining those regulars will be Glenn Beck (via telephone) who now hosts his own television show on Fox. While Beck differs on foreign policy with Paul, they are on the same footing when it comes to the economy and free markets.
If you listen to Beck enough you will find that he really isn’t too far away from Paul on foreign policy. He claims that we need to do something to fight terrorism abroad and that we don’t have the luxury of being complete non-interventionists when it comes to “protecting” our borders. It’s like he “wants” to believe in non-interventionism, but he just can’t seem to get there. He is constantly quoting the Founders to his guests, using their words to emphasize his own beliefs.
Perhaps at some point he’ll quote the non-interventionist “entangling alliances with none” and come back with an argument FOR bringing our troops home. If that never happens, at least there is another voice out there preaching the free market message.
During Ron Paul’s primary campaign in late 2007 I was traveling for a conference wearing my Ron Paul 2008 t-shirt. A man noticed the shirt and struck up a conversation with me by saying, “That guy is real. He’s an Independent, not like the others. I saw him on that show on HBO… uhmm… Bill Maher! He was great!”
The man who spoke to me about Dr. Paul in the airport was not the first nor last person that told me they first learned of Ron Paul by watching him on Maher’s show.
Outside of the Leno, Meet The Press, and Comedy Central appearances his appearance on Real Time was probably the one that gave him the most exposure. This is especially true since it occurred fairly early in his campaign, following the debate where Paul and Giuliani exchanged blows regarding the Iraq war.
Look for video of his appearance here tomorrow after it airs.
Trends researcher Gerald Celente was on Glenn Beck’s show today. They discussed the potential for a “Global Katrina” (in Beck’s words).
I said a long time ago that I thought Glenn Beck was the “main stream” media equivalent of Alex Jones. I don’t think this is too far off the mark. In fact as time goes by it becomes more evident.
Ron Paul appeared on FOX News with Neil Cavuto today to discuss the latest bailout package: adding another $50 Billion of taxpayer money to the coffers of AIG. Ron Paul is like a beautifully welcomed broken record. A few choice quotes from this latest appearance from Dr. Paul are listed below along with the video.
“When companies get too big and make mistakes they should fail.”
“We’re propping up all the bad mistakes.” (which penalizes the people that made the right choices)
“Governments can’t make the correct decisions. They aren’t smart enough.”
“This whole idea that Washington are genuises… that they can do central economic planning. In this country we don’t call it socialism we call it interventionism and a planned economy.”
Obama coming in is a lot like “Hoover leaving and Roosevelt coming in.”
Liberty Maven
You agree with every political view no matter who holds it yet become irritated when someone refuses to have an opinion.
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