October 23, 2009
MSM GOOSE STEPS TO WHITE HOUSE ORDERS
WHILE ‘NEW MEDIA’ ROCKETS PAST THEM
Last night I was invited to speak before a group of fellow patriots — the local chapter of The Friends of Ronald Reagan club.
I was welcome to speak on any topic so after consideration, I decided to talk about the new media: blogs, on-line news journals, micro-blogs like Twitter, social networks like Facebook, and the growing impact these elements are having on news collection and dissemination.
Most of those in the audience already knew my background as a TV anchor/reporter, radio show host, newspaper columnist and magazine writer.
I told them about the radio show I host on the internet from the comfort of my home. Equipped with nothing more than a computer, internet connection, telephone, we bring on nationally reknowned experts, analysts, authors, and newsmakers who are plowing new ground with research and results that keep us updated and oftentimes ahead of the curve with breaking news.
Among the more recent guests — Dr. Jerry Corsi on the Selling of America, Anita MonCrief on the corruption of ACORN, Mario Apuzzo on the legal challenge to Obama’s constitutional eligibility, Jack Cashill on the Bill Ayers-Obama-Dreams From My Father connection; the controversial Orly Taitz on her lawsuits demanding Obama reveal his birth certificate; noted blogger Pamela Geller about Rifka Bary and Islamist “honor killings”; and so many others it would take an archive of shows to list them all.
I told them about Andrew Brietbart and how his Bigs (Big Hollywood and Big Government, and at least three more Bigs in the pipeline) are zooming past the legacy media with breaking news and exposes of ACORN, the NEA, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, and tons more. Leaving the “drive by’s” wondering what just blew by them.
I told them about Conservative Hollywood and actor Ed Ames, who talked of a growing conservative movement among the show biz types and Big Hollywood’s aim to expose Tinseltown’s Lefist agenda and show there is a growing united front on the Right. And how the Left marginalizes those who disagree with them, like they do with self-described Black Conservative Lloyd Marcus. And the special friendship writer and author Burt Boyar of L.A. had with the late Sammy Davis Jr. who struggled with racism and discrimination.
I brought the conversation back to the “now” — the White House attack on Fox News and talk radio and the internet, how Obama, Rahm and the Axe, along with Anita Dunn et al want to control the message, freezing out Fox. How Glenn Beck is charting new truth territory by questioning with boldness.
And how the current Administration could not — repeat, COULD NOT get away with what they’re doing without the mainstream (now more commonly known as the “fringe left”) media’s complicity. I contrasted today’s Washington Post with the WaPo of the Watergate era, reporters Woodward and Bernstein who routed about for the facts as though they were (pardon) boars hungrily digging for Watergate truffles.
I asked if they were familiar with Operation Mockingbird. Not surprisingly, they knew nothing of the 1940-50’s CIA project to feed misinformation to our domestic media outlets which were willing accomplices. Under the guise of national security, of course. The methods employed in Operation Mockingbird are being used with a deft and practiced hand by our president and his minions. Leaks. Lies. Misinformation. Media malfeasance.
The old media has thrown in with the Hopenchange crowd who are doing their damndest to bring our nation to its knees in obeisance before our enemies the world over. Mr. President, take a bow. Again.
But there is an antidote. New media is what will save our bacon, if (to borrow a phrase from Ben Franklin) we can keep it.
So, was my talk well-received? We’ll find out if I’m invited back.
Meantime, meet this emerging leader and new media pioneer — Andrew Brietbart.
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