May 2005

Larry King.... Almost live.

Well a judge today pronounced officially, from the bench in a court of law, what most of America has believed for years.

Larry King, that CNN everynight stalwart, is mostly hearsay and is irrelevant.

As King passed through the security coming to court he appeared chagrined. He the man, the TV celebrity was being subjected to the same security as mere mortals.

Then, his day worsened severely when the judge pronounced his testimony as not relevant to the proceedings at hand.

NewsWeek has perpetuated the Original Sin.....

In the beginning there was Woodward and Burnstein and their tale of the Watergate repercussions in the Nixon Whitehouse. In retrospect, it is now quite believable to think that the unknown source Deep Throat was pure the minds of the authors. Deep Throat was gathering of lint and dust bunnies swept up from the power corridors of Washington. Deep Throat was a collection of fiction and rumor and lies designed to bring down a hated President. Deep throat was the original sin. After Deep Throat it became acceptable and even fashionable among the leftist elite to print anything that came to mind, especially if the thought somehow advance the leftist agenda. The first amendment protects political liars.

The legacy sin was inherited by all the true believers, the radical leftists who make the American Mainstream Media. The sin is all pervasive, from the bottom at small town papers, to the middle at such as the Minneapolis Star Tribune to the top, the New York Times and Jason Blair et al. Anonymous sources and made up thoughts allows them to advance any agenda they want. It becomes propaganda in the best manner of Josef Goebbels him self.

Print journalists in their suicidal quest to remain relevant were not alone. Increasingly, the TV networks sinned by gushing the false reports of the papers. Some could not stand the background and strived for the big spotlight. Thus Mary Mapes sinned by creating a nonattributal story from whole cloth with just enough truth to slightly flavor the pieced with truth. Having been a sinner since his earliest days, Dan Rather the ancient anchor agreed to deliver the lie. Alas he died and is now in journalist hell.

Then finally the sin becomes crime…… Michael Issakoff writes an innocuous piece designed to put another layer of tarnish on the President by advancing the ludicrous theme of Abu Grieb. Alas the man and his medium were undone. His lie became truth and the truth reverberated across the Islamic world and people died. He poured gasoline on the fire and expected to escape in his nomex first amendment suit.

The concept of anonymous sources being free from revelation should be abolished and shown to be the shield from truth it actually is. The practice, the Original Sin, allows the writer to create what ever he desires from thin air. The Original Sin allows any one the ability to maliciously lie about any thing they want to advance their agenda. The acceptance of the practice as ordinary and necessary to propagandize what ever needs to be advanced is destroying the Old Media.

The First Ammendment allows any one to say in print or in private the right to say what ever they want. It does not give any one the right to hide in the darkness or remain under the rock of protected source. The light of truth must shine on all journalists to assure public knowledge of who makes anonymous statements. Jailing journalists for contempt of court for not revealing sources is a good practice. Sources afraid to come forward into the light need not be heard.

Michelle Delio.....Journalist?

Re: Probe Can't Confirm Sources in Freelancer's Stories for 'Wired News' (Michelle Delio, "Journalist")

The American press is now mostly women who find Journalism to be a career that will let them earn some money and make a difference. They are hired because they will work cheap.

We have learned from the left over and over that guilt doesn't matter, it's the seriousness of the charges. Such is the credo.... truth doesn't matter when making a difference.

These young women, even those in the boondocks writing for a very local readership routinely fabricate what ever they need to make the piece conform to some preconceived notion. It should not be assumed that promotion to a larger publication with national scope will change the methods.

Local editors who don't really edit are responsible. The only goal is to slow diminishing readership rate and fluffing a story is ok if it makes it more interesting.

Who are our enemies?

When we look at the world to discover the names and numbers of our enemies, we can quickly name The Terrorists. We are at war with a stateless enemy called Al Queda, an enemy that has many faces in many places. It is easy to correctly place the tag of enemy on these multifaceted terrorists.

But from there, beyond the Terrorists, if we were to try to develop a top 10 or top 5 enemies list, who would be on the list? What group or nation is enough of a threat to actually be called an enemy? Does any nation actually have the ability and the will to come to America or even elsewhere to draw blood?

France, of course not. Although not an ally or even a friend, there is no will even though there is AntiAmerican sentiment.

Russia? Not there either. Some old men may spin plots against America in the middle of their sleepless nights, but those are just dreams.

China? Too much money. The leaders are too busy building businesses to bite the hand providing a market.

North Korea? Now we’re getting somewhere. There seems to be ability, but no will. Bullies are cowards and in this case likely fear annihilation as retribution.

Iran? Mad Mullahs cling to power by cursing the Great Satan. They prefer to rant and equivocate and egg on Al Queda. Serious enemy potential but danger will come from their surrogates, the terrorists

Mexico? Hmmmm…. No military threat, but we may have been invaded and Mexican cabinet leaders may think their invading hoards need more forceful political backing. Enemy might be too strong to describe Mexico.

Well maybe there are no other real external enemies of consequence.

Perhaps it is wise to look inward. Is there an enemy within?

Well, yes there is. There is one very strong entity that repeatedly gives aid and comfort to our greatest external enemy, the terrorists. By opposing the death and destruction and the winning of the war, and by taking the side of our enemy on grounds that ultimately are resolved into leftist Political Correctness, The New York Times has taken on the role of Enemy of the Republic.

If the adage “ The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a truism, the converse must also be true. “The friend of my enemy is my enemy”. The ungrateful New York Times has demonstrated friendship with our terrorist enemies by opposing their destruction. The Times is therefore the enemy. The Times is a collection of minions who work for a publisher. The publisher is Arthur Sulzberger Jr. The enemy of America is Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

There is no right to yell fire in a crowded theater. There is no right to free press that aids and comforts blood enemies.

PBS and NPR funding

For PBS to change, the agent must be the Governors of the Red

States.

There is a periodic hue and cry to eliminate the funding for PBS and NPR, but

nothing ever happens.

The Funding of PBS is too well protected to make it a politically viable target.

The political battle will be too costly for the return on the political capital

invested. There are successive layers of mines, barbed wire, sand bags and

machine guns protecting the federal funding.

An analysis of public television and public radio by CCRM yields the info that

the stations are owned and operated by state governments that in turn are

controlled by governors. In many states, the stations are involved in some

manner with the state universities.

The change should come from inside, that is the governors of the various Red

Zone states should send an emmisary to the station to bring about change.

The first and easiest action to implement would be to develop acceptable

programming. That is, the change could begin immediately of there were

programming available. The emissary could give the station the tapes and say

play every night at 6:30 or on Wednesday at 8:00.

As other programming becomes available, it can be introduced. We now own the

stations, we should be using them. We should not kill them, merely capture and

reconfigure.

The Wedding Circus

I have still not heard who produced the Georgia wedding circus.... the bride or the mother.<P>

In light of events I suspect the mother of producing the extravaganza as a monument to herself. The bride knew it was going to be a disaster because the complex production could not possibly come off error free. The introduction of any error would destroy the perfection and thus blemish the bride for life.<P>

The mom will complain for ever, perhaps even from her coffin, how the daughter/bride failed her in the hour of glory by somehow allowing some less than perfect event to occur. The fateful day and the inevitable error will forever sever the mother/daughter bond. The daughter/bride was in a loose/loose situation. She chose the lesser evil..... there can be no blame for a less than perfect wedding if there is no wedding. <P>

I suppose this piece is off topic but it has sure occupied the media during a slow news spell. The lesson to be learned is that if you choose to be somehow indiscrete, do it during a major war or election cycle.