The Deadly Irresponsibility of Newsweek Magazine

IControlThePast said:
Actually, during the Fairness Doctrine the media was much more objective and honest.

I don't know of a single liberal who is fighting to reinstate it


Here's a bit of that research I promised you:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a399cc08d3df4.htm

www.conservative.org/columnists/lessner/031113rl.asp

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Jesse Jackson, Barney Frank, NOW, PAW, Common Cause, MoveOn.org...

That's a FEW single liberals! That's a liberal cornucopia! That sounds like roll call at Lib Central!

I don't know of a single conservative who is fighting to reinstate it.
 
freeandfun1 said:
I wonder how many Bibles are desecrated every day in Muslim nations and nobody says squat about it....

How about here in the good ol' USA? Remember "Piss Christ"? The government funded "art" that featured a crucifix immersed in the artist's urine? How about the antics of ACT-UP the AIDS activist group that stormed into churches during services and threw condoms at parishoners? These aren't acts of desecration? Now I have to ask you, how many people died or were hurt because of these acts? Right.... zip.

How about Ted Turner's public and not very flattering comments about the Pope and the Catholic Church? How about the insulting comments made by then Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders that "the Catholic Church should get over its love affair with the fetus?". I don't think even one bandaid was needed after those comments.

Then of course, there is the oft repeated and repeated line about pedophile priests. Nevermind that the number of offenders make up way less than 1% of the total priests in the United States (yet, for some odd reason, we never hear about pedophile social workers, teachers, psychologists and psychiatrists which have molested far more children that all those priests put together). Again, not a single person killed, probably more blood is shed when I cut myself shaving than was spilled over those comments.

But oh boy, don't even think about insulting those Moslems and their faith! Why? Don't we worship the same God? Why is the Left so incensed when Allah is insulted and mocked but not Yahweh?

I'll tell you why flushing the Koran incites such sanctimonious outrage among the liberal elite. It's not about the Koran or God or defending any sort of faith. It's all about the Left using any pretense at all, even religion, which they so detest, hate and despise, to attack what America and Christianity stand for. If the truth be told the Left thinks, but won't admit, that those Moslems are nothing but a bunch of ignorant backward brown types in need of the enlightenment of the Left and their gods, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. It's like the White Man's Burden revived and updated but without the racist overtones.

The Left isn't for liberty, it's for license. The irresponsible squandering of liberties that valiant patriots fought and died for. They aren't for freedom, but for slavery, the slavery of immorality. Consequences? That's a construct of the bougouis capitalists to keep the masses sexually repressed and oppressed! And damn the torpedoes, who cares who gets hurt, as long as the Left and those who belong to it look good, that's all that matters.

And these idiot journalists, wrap themselves in self righteousness and the Constitution. How DARE the White House question the journalistic standards of Newsweek! How DARE the White House criticize the High Priests! Why, why.... that's.... that's BLASPHAMY... is what it is! And then when they apologize, they do it in such a way that it isn't an apology and they make it sound like it's all Bush's fault.
 
musicman said:
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Jesse Jackson, Barney Frank, NOW, PAW, Common Cause, MoveOn.org...

That's a FEW single liberals! That's a liberal cornucopia! That sounds like roll call at Lib Central!

Correction, sounds like roll call at the Supreme Soviet...
 
KarlMarx said:
How about here in the good ol' USA? Remember "Piss Christ"? The government funded "art" that featured a crucifix immersed in the artist's urine? How about the antics of ACT-UP the AIDS activist group that stormed into churches during services and threw condoms at parishoners? These aren't acts of desecration? Now I have to ask you, how many people died or were hurt because of these acts? Right.... zip.

How about Ted Turner's public and not very flattering comments about the Pope and the Catholic Church? How about the insulting comments made by then Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders that "the Catholic Church should get over its love affair with the fetus?". I don't think even one bandaid was needed after those comments.

Then of course, there is the oft repeated and repeated line about pedophile priests. Nevermind that the number of offenders make up way less than 1% of the total priests in the United States (yet, for some odd reason, we never hear about pedophile social workers, teachers, psychologists and psychiatrists which have molested far more children that all those priests put together). Again, not a single person killed, probably more blood is shed when I cut myself shaving than was spilled over those comments.

But oh boy, don't even think about insulting those Moslems and their faith! Why? Don't we worship the same God? Why is the Left so incensed when Allah is insulted and mocked but not Yahweh?

I'll tell you why flushing the Koran incites such sanctimonious outrage among the liberal elite. It's not about the Koran or God or defending any sort of faith. It's all about the Left using any pretense at all, even religion, which they so detest, hate and despise, to attack what America and Christianity stand for. If the truth be told the Left thinks, but won't admit, that those Moslems are nothing but a bunch of ignorant backward brown types in need of the enlightenment of the Left and their gods, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. It's like the White Man's Burden revived and updated but without the racist overtones.

The Left isn't for liberty, it's for license. The irresponsible squandering of liberties that valiant patriots fought and died for. They aren't for freedom, but for slavery, the slavery of immorality. Consequences? That's a construct of the bougouis capitalists to keep the masses sexually repressed and oppressed! And damn the torpedoes, who cares who gets hurt, as long as the Left and those who belong to it look good, that's all that matters.

And these idiot journalists, wrap themselves in self righteousness and the Constitution. How DARE the White House question the journalistic standards of Newsweek! How DARE the White House criticize the High Priests! Why, why.... that's.... that's BLASPHAMY... is what it is! And then when they apologize, they do it in such a way that it isn't an apology and they make it sound like it's all Bush's fault.

Exactly Karl!!!!!!!!!!! :beer:
 
musicman said:
Here's a bit of that research I promised you:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a399cc08d3df4.htm

www.conservative.org/columnists/lessner/031113rl.asp

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Jesse Jackson, Barney Frank, NOW, PAW, Common Cause, MoveOn.org...

That's a FEW single liberals! That's a liberal cornucopia! That sounds like roll call at Lib Central!

I don't know of a single conservative who is fighting to reinstate it.

A little more on the subject

Monday, September 15, 2003
Hush Rush Redux
The left, specifically moveon.org and a handful of Republicans, apparently including former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, are attempting to increase government regulation of the news media.

Part of the effort includes a reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," which puts so much red tape on broadcasters who express on-air opinions that the modern-day talk radio industry could well be crippled if the doctrine is reimposed.

Rush Limbaugh explains it all here.

In addition, Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform has a website dedicated to stopping reimposition of the fairness doctrine.

A few years ago the left launched another attack on talk radio in the form of the innocent-sounding "Lobbying Disclosure Act," which could have been used to force talk radio hosts and in some cases listeners to register with the federal government as "lobbyists" if they expressed an opinion on a bill before Congress. We learned about this from Rep. Tom DeLay, who now is the House Majority Leader, and, using what was then the latest in communications technology, faxes, alerted hundreds of talk show hosts. They informed their listeners, and the Capitol switchboard was flooded with calls. That bill was not approved.


http://www.nationalcenter.org/2003/09/hush-rush-redux.html
 
Bonnie said:
Exactly Karl!!!!!!!!!!! :beer:

I know! You guys wouldn't believe it, but I went to a meeting at the liberal headquarters around here, a kinda "know your enemy" idea came over me. You won't believe what I saw.

The meeting was just an excuse for a pagan worship ceremony, except the liberals aren't even good enough to believe in satanism, they're just in it for the sex. Then there was a mass Bible burning ceremony and member of the party deemed worthy enough desecrated holy images.

Well after that everyone was pretty tired, so they proceeded to have a reading of The Communist Manifesto, and then had a keynote speech on how it is White Man's burden to spread liberty through the world. Their plan to do it was to use Communism. They decided the ends do justify the means, and that everything is ok even if some pretenses they would use were false.

People started getting bored again, so just to further their plot they went to a graveyard and dug up all the dead veterans, and scattered their bones chanting that god and liberty are dead and they must impose a new order. Then they burned down the church the graveyard was at, and the local VFW right next door, just to prove their point even further.

Yes, I infiltrated their ranks, and I'm back here to report on how liberals really are.
 
IControlThePast said:
I know! You guys wouldn't believe it, but I went to a meeting at the liberal headquarters around here, a kinda "know your enemy" idea came over me. You won't believe what I saw.

The meeting was just an excuse for a pagan worship ceremony, except the liberals aren't even good enough to believe in satanism, they're just in it for the...
POWER!

While working under the guise they are in it for... "the good of the people".
 
IControlThePast said:
I know! You guys wouldn't believe it, but I went to a meeting at the liberal headquarters around here, a kinda "know your enemy" idea came over me. You won't believe what I saw.

The meeting was just an excuse for a pagan worship ceremony, except the liberals aren't even good enough to believe in satanism, they're just in it for the sex. Then there was a mass Bible burning ceremony and member of the party deemed worthy enough desecrated holy images.

Well after that everyone was pretty tired, so they proceeded to have a reading of The Communist Manifesto, and then had a keynote speech on how it is White Man's burden to spread liberty through the world. Their plan to do it was to use Communism. They decided the ends do justify the means, and that everything is ok even if some pretenses they would use were false.

People started getting bored again, so just to further their plot they went to a graveyard and dug up all the dead veterans, and scattered their bones chanting that god and liberty are dead and they must impose a new order. Then they burned down the church the graveyard was at, and the local VFW right next door, just to prove their point even further.

Yes, I infiltrated their ranks, and I'm back here to report on how liberals really are.

And this rant of absurdity does nothing to diminish the turth of the socialistic secular philosophy of liberals....

But you do get a few points for imagination :banana:
 
***NEWSFLASH***

Newsweek magazine has now apologized for publishing a story that said U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet. It turns out the story is not true. The reporters will be punished in the usual way: given jobs at CBS.
 
IControlThePast said:
{The market is} not working at controlling bias.

Sure it is. Ask Dan Rather. Ask Eason Jordan. When the circulation numbers come out, ask Newsweek.

IControlThePast said:
If it is then the FD won't do anything, right?

Right. So why add another do-nothing government agency to the already burgeoning list?
 
musicman said:
Sure it is. Ask Dan Rather. Ask Eason Jordan. When the circulation numbers come out, ask Newsweek.



Right. So why add another do-nothing government agency to the already burgeoning list?

Circulation numbers do not reflect bias, but entertainment value and credibility. One channel can become the "liberal" channel and another the "conservative" channel and each recieve large circulation, but that won't mean they're unbiased.

Well why not give it a shot, and if in 4 years it hasn't changed the media at all you can say it won't do anything and cancel it. Put it in, and if it doesn't work you can take it out again.
 
IControlThePast said:
Yes, I think the liberal strategy will be to create liberal versions of Rush, Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc if the FD is not put back in place.

It's been done. Nobody, anywhere cares. That's why they so desperately seek government intervention. Their stale, hateful agenda got plenty of air when it was the only game in town. But they cannot survive economic reality.

IControlThePast said:
The media world will change into the "NBC Democratic Channel"

It's been done; in fact, if ratings are any indication, it's been done to death.

IControlThePast said:
By creating a "non-liberal" source they could have captured a large market share if there really was a liberal MSM.

It's been done. Welcome to a new day.
 
gop_jeff said:
***NEWSFLASH***

Newsweek magazine has now apologized for publishing a story that said U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet. It turns out the story is not true. The reporters will be punished in the usual way: given jobs at CBS.


:laugh:
 
musicman said:
It's been done. Nobody, anywhere cares. That's why they so desperately seek government intervention. Their stale, hateful agenda got plenty of air when it was the only game in town. But they cannot survive economic reality.



It's been done; in fact, if ratings are any indication, it's been done to death.



It's been done. Welcome to a new day.

The unreliable news polarization has been done, but back in the 19th century, and it happened because of economic reality, before the government FCC regulations. The FD fixed this. Now the media is returning to that form. It's been done before.

Oh really, so what has been the conservative source that held the market share for the last 40 years? I hope you give conservatives more credit than thinking it took them 40 years to realize they need a conservative source if the MSM was liberal and then they created Fox. Fox is more entertainment focused than news focused, and that's why people will watch, and why average Fox viewers are less informed on most of the issues.

http://www.psqonline.org/cgi-bin/99_article.cgi?byear=2003&bmonth=winter&a=02free&format=view
 
IControlThePast said:
I know! You guys wouldn't believe it, but I went to a meeting at the liberal headquarters around here, a kinda "know your enemy" idea came over me. You won't believe what I saw.

The meeting was just an excuse for a pagan worship ceremony, except the liberals aren't even good enough to believe in satanism, they're just in it for the sex. Then there was a mass Bible burning ceremony and member of the party deemed worthy enough desecrated holy images.

Well after that everyone was pretty tired, so they proceeded to have a reading of The Communist Manifesto, and then had a keynote speech on how it is White Man's burden to spread liberty through the world. Their plan to do it was to use Communism. They decided the ends do justify the means, and that everything is ok even if some pretenses they would use were false.

People started getting bored again, so just to further their plot they went to a graveyard and dug up all the dead veterans, and scattered their bones chanting that god and liberty are dead and they must impose a new order. Then they burned down the church the graveyard was at, and the local VFW right next door, just to prove their point even further.

Yes, I infiltrated their ranks, and I'm back here to report on how liberals really are.

Know your enemy and keep em close...but do not sleep with them!...Also the founder of the ACLU in the 1920's was a card carrying communist! :terror:
 
archangel said:
Know your enemy and keep em close...but do not sleep with them!...Also the founder of the ACLU in the 1920's was a card carrying communist! :terror:

I had no choice, I was forced to do the sex rite if I wanted to stay :tng:.
 
IControlThePast said:
I had no choice, I was forced to do the sex rite if I wanted to stay :tng:.


Where would you like us to send flowers?Which hospital are you going to go to? Surely you may now be contaminated!...LOL
 
archangel said:
Where would you like us to send flowers?Which hospital are you going to go to? Surely you may now be contaminated!...LOL

I think I'm ok, I had protection, but I barely escaped the clutches of all the gay men.
 
Oh.... before we let this thread vanish into oblivion... let me bring this up for your consideration....

The Moslems are all upset over a Koran being flushed down the toilet, right?

Well..... why was it OK for them to desecrate a Jewish shrine in 2000? The shrine that I'm referring to is the one regarded by many Jews and Moslems as the tomb of the patriarch Joseph .... as in Joseph son of Jacob (Jacob --- AKA "Israel" in the Bible) sold into Egypt by his brothers... you know.... the one who was 2nd in command to Pharaoh?.... yeah THAT guy!

That is tantamount to the Moslems going to Mount Vernon and desecrating George Washington's grave

Oh.... you didn't hear about it? Well.... I wouldn't have either except that I just happened to have been a subscriber to Biblicial Archeology Review at the time.... Must have been the Main Stream (Anti-Semitic) Media must have somehow "forgotten" about it....

LINK

But that's not all.... Moslems are desecrating a lot of archeological sites that are associated with both Judaism and Christianity, because of course, we're nothing but a bunch of infidels....

Some more examples

If I was in charge? A B-2 fully loaded with nuclear bombs would be on its way to Mecca the next time the Hajj is in full swing..... then I'd flatten Medina, too

The Kabaa? A piece of rock that I'd take and use for target practice when urinating....

Of course, we should have done that on 9/12/01 in my humble opinion....
 

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