Thursday, March 10, 2011

Legacy Media: Death Threats Against Political Figures Are Now Perfectly Fine and Unworthy of Notice

...that is, so long as it is conservatives who are receiving the death threats.

...left-wing filmmaker and propagandist Michael Moore appeared yesterday on “The Rachel Maddow Show” and all but incited violence... “Really, this is a war,” Moore told Maddow. “This is a class war that’s been leveled against the working people of this country.”

...Thus, the danger in using such extreme and over-the-top rhetoric is that some people will take Moore’s rhetoric literally and act accordingly. The result, tragically, could be incidents of violence that result in murder and mayhem... Unfortunately, this is no phantom worry. It’s happened before in American history, thanks to violent union thugs, and it could happen again. And of course, it doesn’t help when Democratic members of Congress such as Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) urge union goons to take to “the streets and get a little bloody…”

So it isn’t surprising that, as Wisconsin talk radio host Charles Sykes reports, there is “growing intimidation and escalating threats of violence” in Madison.

Yesterday, 15 Republican state senators received a chilling, death threat-laden email from a union supporter.

This is how the civil society frays before it unravels altogether.

And legacy media -- which helped an inexperienced crypto-Marxist achieve the nation's highest office by completely failing to vet him -- is once again culpable.

Once so concerned with civility and the attitude of non-violent Tea Party protesters, The New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS and MSNBC have all fallen silent when confronted with real incivility and real violence on the part of the radical Left.

There is no media left in this country, save a few radio talk show hosts, Fox News, some intrepid bloggers, and a handful of digital gurus like Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart.

One gets the feeling that James O'Keefe could have successfully run the NPR sting operation against any of the best-known legacy media outlets.

They're all pathetic and disgraceful.


Image credit: Sad Hill News.

6 comments:

Quite Rightly said...

"One gets the feeling that James O'Keefe could have successfully run the NPR sting operation against any of the best-known legacy media outlets."

I think it's more than a feeling that leads to that conclusion. It's basic observation skills combined with logic.

VaGal said...

It has been shocking and frightening to realize how the media has blatantly supported the far left radical agenda. I shudder to think how much worse it would be without the internet and people like Breitbart. It's no wonder this Administration wants to control one and silence the other.

Jim - PRS said...

I guess the democrats weren't paying attention to the new civility lecture by The One at the Tucson Pep Rally.

Bones said...

CBS's 60 minutes has awards for doing the same thing as O'Keefe. I also have no doubt that he could have passed phony news stores to Dan Rather, especially if they were aboutG.W.Bush..wait,nevermind.

Wesley M. said...

I can never shake this feeling that Bill Keller sees himself as the Captain Picard of the NYT. He just gathers his reporters/crew, gives his orders for what he wants and then says, "Make it so..."

Anonymous said...

To Mr. Quite Rightly:
You are so observant and so logical! Where do we get such men?
NPR is a stinking cesspool of Bolshevik bullshit. Not one penny of US taxpayer's money should go to this vile anti-US communist front organization. I despise you. You pile of feces.