And did we mention no one was laid off, either? Quick: let’s get some poseur college students and paid union thugs to sit in at the Assembly building and RAIL AGAINST THE MAN! For the children!
Fact: Legal and fiscal conservatism / classical liberalism works. Meanwhile, Obama — in his “Trumanesque” speech yesterday — continues to play class warfare games in an effort to push the envy and emotionalism that drives whatever appeals his Marxist ideology holds over the weak-minded and the frankly ignorant.
Had we a mainstream media in this country that was doing its job leftism would have been killed off years ago. Sadly, though, the left was savvy enough to entrench itself in our institutions, and we lacked the balls to intellectually kneecap them when we should have.
When the TEA Party takes over, one of the first things it should do is reform the press. Ideas?
They should hire us all.
Long brick wall and a gatling gun? I keed, I keed…
Kill it. Watch Palin work. Watch Beck work. Watch Breitbart work. Ridicule works if shame won’t.
here is a for reals interesting idea from those Parent’s Television Council wackadoodles
The avaricious turds are in full force here in Ohio trying to defeat SB 5, which makes the avaricious turds'(aka public employees) compensation and retirement more in line with the private sectors’. Their greed has truly fucked up their moral compasses. There will be nothing civil from me should their greed be unassuaged.
At first I was thinking
The right of American citizens to a free and fair press shall not be abridged. The right of American citizens to freely associate in furtherance of their free press rights shall not be abridged. Every American citizen has these press rights.
but I don’t see a way to work the fair part. I guess we need to buy one of the Big 3 networks, bring Brit Hume in to clean house, and offer a refreshing new option – straight news, and when opinion is offered, it is clearly labeled so.
The Milwaukee Public School system went ahead and signed long term contracts with the unions before the bill went into effect that didn’t require these benefit reductions and they’re now in a world of hurt.
Some guy on the radio (school board member?) still had the gall to complain how the bill didn’t allow them to raise taxes to get out of the mess they just created.
They’re going to lay off a bunch of teachers now.
Gotta like the contrast, school district by school district, that this provides. Should help elect more conservative board members and local officials across the entire state.
Jeff once described ‘classical liberalism’, and it sounded exactly like what I call ‘conservatism’. I looked it up, and he was right, I was wrong. So now I’m wondering, since Democrats have been called liberals for as long as I’ve been alive, who was the last Democrat president that was a classical liberal? When did they diverge?
Or, have ‘liberal’ and ‘classical liberal’ always meant two different things?
“Classical” was added to differentiate real liberals, proponents of individual rights, of the Enlightenment ideals of the English & American revolutions, from modern liberals, who value group rights over individual rights.
Liberal came to be associated with the Democratic Party in the 30s while the Republicans were seen as the Party of conservatives. When this event happened the term “liberal” was taken on, as a mask, by those who were anything but.
We could tell a story (a true story, even) where at their birth in the 17th century, the terms Conservative and Liberal, while posed on opposite sides of the human issue of politics, respectively stood for “Throne and Altar” on the one hand, and “Popular Sovereignty and Religion as a private affair” on the other.
Things have since gotten confusing, as is easily guessed in America, where Conservatives are liberals in the older sense who fight for or seek to conserve a species of popular sovereignty and religion as a private affair.
Our party’s motto: “Stand up, free.”
Their party’s motto: “Bend the knee.”
When the TEA Party takes over, one of the first things it should do is reform the press. Ideas?
When the TEA Party takes over, the usual suspects’ heads will explode. All we need to do is put on some nice clothes and sit down in front of the cameras.
Easy!
Thanks much!
Rectal probes, just like the aliens use…all advanced life forms use them.
Legal and fiscal conservatism / classical liberalism works.
Works for whom? For the proles, sure, but for Those Who Ought To Rule By Virtue Of Their Credentials?
Epic fail.
the term “liberal” was taken on, as a mask, by those who were anything but.
Taken on by the progressives, who had soiled their brand by championing eugenics and fascism and totalitarianism and all that other cool “progress” that was happening in Europe, and then there was WWII and we found the death camps and it kinda put a damper on the whole enterprise.
Mask is coming off, though, if you haven’t noticed. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
It’s something of a start, but the underlying problem is in the very notion of “channels” itself. Instead of asking why a viewer should pay for a channel they have no interest in, why not take that to its logical conclusion and ask why a viewer should pay for all of the content on a channel if they’re only interested in one or two programs on it?
Consequently, I’d love to see the current television programming model be deconstructed further into an iTunes-like pool of individual programs. Pay for what you watch (or allow it to be subsidized by advertising) and ignore the rest.
Excellent post geoffb. I’m surprised there was no comment on the similarity to Stalin’s path to power.
I dunno… there’s an art to developing a schedule that would be lost going that route Mr. curmudgeon. But at the same time I think some v.o.d. content should come with every channel as well.
Perhaps, but if we want to reform the media (and, by extension the press) the first thing we need to do is to disintermediate it something fierce.
Imagine a future where the production studios offer products directly to viewers without needing an intermediate network. Where sports events are either direct pay-per-view, hosted on dedicated sports networks (ESPN, Fox Sports, Altitude, Root, etc.) or by the leagues themselves. And, finally, where news organizations can present content directly on the ‘Net without requiring external gatekeepers in the process…
Electronic Press – LOTS of them, all scurrilously yellow and untraceable. AP feeds for free! Righthaven made to walk plank! Talking Heads sent to re-education camps!
Hey, I can DREAM, can’t I?
I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
“Walker Budget Gives School District Surplus, Reduces Class Sizes, Hires More Teachers”
Shame! Shame! Shame!…to the echo.
Cordially…
Thank you mv.
Been listening all day today to the sound of the Blue Angels flying over my home. It’s nice and will be all weekend.
When the TEA Party takes over, one of the first things it should do is reform the press. Ideas?
It seems like the reformation has begun with citizen journalists setting up shop on the I-net like yourself and others. I suspect the only people getting their news form traditional sources are the elderly and people stuck at the dentist’s office. The big problem I suppose is that original reporting requires expenditures which some bloggers and aggregators lack at this time, however, Lexis/Nexis research and other means of obtaining the fruits of other people’s investigations and research are gaining popularity. In time I would expect the most successful citizen journo’s to finance their own investigations, likely within there own particular area of expertise and disseminate among the people most interested in that area. Those people would then broadcast and share the information via social networks exposing more and more people to the information. In Instapundit language it would be ab Army of Davids.
I think were at the very dawn of this model of reformation and I hope it sticks. If not, who knows?
I relate geoffb – about every other weekend I can hear the sweet sound of the big guns at Pendleton.
The natives are getting restless.
Seems the police union is refusing any adjustments to their members bennies, so the mayor is telling the people without any concessions, other city employees will have to be laid off.
Things are getting interesting…
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Talking Heads sent to re-education camps!
Hey now!
Sure, I’ll bet David Byrne is a typical liberal douche, fair ’nuff… but you’re taking Tina Weymouth away over my dead body!
We need to focus on making the government smaller and let the press take care of itself. And it will do that. As you said, liberal capitalism works, and nothing succeeds like success.
As a plan B, we might want to consider kidnapping and/or killing a white schoolgirl.