Misplaced outrage of the Left
In the inverted world of the New York Times, there is no outrage over real atrocity, and no celebration over the defeat of evil. Instead, the leftist intelligentsia have focused on second and third order "outrages", manufactured by their own delicate sensibilities and an utter disconnect with the real danger we face as a civilization. Like dinner guests who fume over the wrong choice of wine, they seem oblivious to the barbarians waiting outside the castle walls, ready to saw off their heads.
The latest example can be found in a piece by David S. Cloud and Jeff Gerth titled "Iraqi clerics found on Pentagon payroll". Gasp!! Is it possible that the United States might buy some good press and good will with evil dollars? Say it isn't so!
No, we must depend instead on the pristine objectivity of the NYT/WAPO news machine to not only tell the truth to the American public, but to tell the truth to the Iraqis as well. We must put our trust, indeed our faith, in the high standards of journalists who not only despise Bush, but also despise our military, our capitalist system, and our way of life. Only they can be objective because they see through the webs of deceit cast by the Bush cabal. So then, this tempest du jour fits a pattern of disinformation. Who else might Halliburton be paying to mislead not only Iraqis, but the world? Let's see if I can manage to plot the points on a line: the evil American military dictatorship in Iraq is buying favorable press from local journalists, paying off amateur bloggers to feed the conservative base back home, and now they are buying good will from clerics. Next thing you know they will be broadcasting Radio Free Islam on XM radio. How insidious!! How dare our government engage in the business of the exhalted Fourth Estate!
Why does the Left protest against the very tactics they have mastered so well? It is the ideological color of the tactic which determines its ethical status. Advertising and editorializing are perfectly acceptable as long as one is of the correct political persuasion. It would be intellectually honest (even if it is wrongheaded) to say that war is wrong, killing is evil and the United States is trying to achieve world dominion at the expense of exploiting the poor masses. Unfortunately for the Left, this message does not sell on its own. So they must also insist that the Pentagon is out of bounds for waging this war using information as well as military muscle. Only the leftist media has the exclusive moral authority to wage an information war -- against the United States.
So the strength of the fabric derives from being woven one thread at a time. The New York Times already has their agenda and sequence, but as with any new product introduction, timing is everything. Stories must be fed slowly to the public, so that they maintain the appearance of enterprising investigative journalists, digging their way through the parking lots and bars of the powerful, somehow narrowly escaping the roving Eye of Lord Bush, then bravely splashing their latest findings on Page One. Take that, Evil One!
In the meantime, history unfolds and the stakes get higher. If or when the United States preemptively takes out the nuclear facilities in Iran, the stories have already been written. This is a war, but it isn't just a war between the United States and Islamofascists. It is also a war between Western Civilization and the nihilistic spawn who want to bring it down, namely, the Western leftist intelligentsia.
The latest example can be found in a piece by David S. Cloud and Jeff Gerth titled "Iraqi clerics found on Pentagon payroll". Gasp!! Is it possible that the United States might buy some good press and good will with evil dollars? Say it isn't so!
No, we must depend instead on the pristine objectivity of the NYT/WAPO news machine to not only tell the truth to the American public, but to tell the truth to the Iraqis as well. We must put our trust, indeed our faith, in the high standards of journalists who not only despise Bush, but also despise our military, our capitalist system, and our way of life. Only they can be objective because they see through the webs of deceit cast by the Bush cabal. So then, this tempest du jour fits a pattern of disinformation. Who else might Halliburton be paying to mislead not only Iraqis, but the world? Let's see if I can manage to plot the points on a line: the evil American military dictatorship in Iraq is buying favorable press from local journalists, paying off amateur bloggers to feed the conservative base back home, and now they are buying good will from clerics. Next thing you know they will be broadcasting Radio Free Islam on XM radio. How insidious!! How dare our government engage in the business of the exhalted Fourth Estate!
Why does the Left protest against the very tactics they have mastered so well? It is the ideological color of the tactic which determines its ethical status. Advertising and editorializing are perfectly acceptable as long as one is of the correct political persuasion. It would be intellectually honest (even if it is wrongheaded) to say that war is wrong, killing is evil and the United States is trying to achieve world dominion at the expense of exploiting the poor masses. Unfortunately for the Left, this message does not sell on its own. So they must also insist that the Pentagon is out of bounds for waging this war using information as well as military muscle. Only the leftist media has the exclusive moral authority to wage an information war -- against the United States.
So the strength of the fabric derives from being woven one thread at a time. The New York Times already has their agenda and sequence, but as with any new product introduction, timing is everything. Stories must be fed slowly to the public, so that they maintain the appearance of enterprising investigative journalists, digging their way through the parking lots and bars of the powerful, somehow narrowly escaping the roving Eye of Lord Bush, then bravely splashing their latest findings on Page One. Take that, Evil One!
In the meantime, history unfolds and the stakes get higher. If or when the United States preemptively takes out the nuclear facilities in Iran, the stories have already been written. This is a war, but it isn't just a war between the United States and Islamofascists. It is also a war between Western Civilization and the nihilistic spawn who want to bring it down, namely, the Western leftist intelligentsia.
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