With ‘legitimacy’ defined as that media which helps the government push its gun control agenda by ignoring how “mental health” provisions and “universal background checks” prepare the ground for government registries and defining “crazy” down. Or, if you prefer, what comes to count as legitimate, per Biden, is that media that backs the efforts of the state against the rights of the individual. Whereas any media that acts as a check on state authority — part of the impetus for the 1st amendment, incidentally? Illegitimate and inauthentic enemies of the children. Not to mention lying liars who lie and lie.
I want to write something here like “you can’t spell ‘Pravda’ without ‘legacy media’ — and even if you could, the legacy media would just lie and call you a racist for challenging it,” but honestly, it’s just too damn depressing.
They don’t even hide who they are anymore. Pimps with their stable of kept media whores. And yet for as many times as a tarted up Piers Morgan in stiletto heels leans inside their passenger side window and offers them CNN’s version of “around the world” for $50, too many still people can’t or won’t see it.
(h/t nr)
all the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run better run I think
All my lefty friends go into full auto-rant mode any time Palin or Paul Brouns names are mentioned about what blithering idiots they are, yet will solemnly testify that Biden is actually a really intelligent guy.
Legitimate medias can do things like that, I suppose.
This is the part where I celebrate Brownell’s for having come through with my backordered buttload of PMAGs.
Some people just ain’t right.
I was looking over the ammo selection at the store this afternoon and joked with some other dudes that we used to warn folks away from odd ball caliber guns because it was hard to find ammo for them. Now that is the only thing you can find ammo for, lol.
Criminal Organizations and Gun Control
Why would the media want to legitmate Obama’s war on women?
(as seen on Instapundit)
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outlaw pope
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No true Scotsman, you.
Pablo, I will happily take 4 PMAGs today and send you back 5 when Brownell’s fills my order.
Only $100 for a 30-round magazine?
Bargain!
Tanenhaus of Blues
Who knew Weaver and Kirk were “the intellectual authors of … modern right … doctrine?”
Who knew the right had any doctrines other than the so-called Reagan commandment and the so-called Buckley rule, for that matter? The only time I ever hear about doctrine is when some moderate is trying to tell me what I, as a so-called purist, am supposed to think. Followed, naturally enough, by an invitation to shut up.
It’s so good to have an ideology. We should keep it.
The Forward looking never looking back one is already taken. Which is why Tannenhaus can doublthink his way through Calhoun.
Can I have principles instead, sdferr? I find them easier to bitterly cling to.
One only need look at forums [like here at PW] to see that conservatives and Classical Liberals are not Ideologues.
The breadth and depth of small disagreements and approaches to problems on display points to a group of people who are not in the thrall of a system of ideas, which requires an unquestioning loyalty.
That damned apologist for mean doctrines, Russell Kirk wrote:
Finally…
Those who in Elysian fields would dwell
Do but extend the boundaries of hell.
[if anyone knows who composed this, please let me know – thank you]
Michael Oakeshott, Bob. It’s from Tower of Babel in On History and Other Essays
[…] sentence will get most of the attention, and it should. We ought to call out any government who openly enlists journalists in a propaganda effort unless we are in a war for the survival of our nation. World War II was one thing; Barack […]
Jeff,
It’s apparent that the nation’s executive branch (currently occupied by Socialists) is able to wield media against American citizens’ Congress.
And it’s equally apparent that the Congress, as a distinct Branch, can not. The result is an evergrowing tyranny of the Executive over the People.
I’m wondering, can the Congress (as a body) legally expend monies to evangelize its majority’s opinions in paid media outlets? And, if not then, Is it safe to vest such a monopoly power-to-publicize in our nation’s Chief Executive’s office?
If No and No are the answers, then, with an unethical elected executive presiding, such as the one we got in Obama, we’re living under a Monarchy already.
Thanks, Pablo.
I have it in my link/quote file, but I forgot to list the author.
When Biden says “legitimate media,” he’s talking about people like Suzi Parker.
Jeffrey Lord: Rove Email Leaks: Ideological War Opens in GOP
Yeah, and I’m not happy for other reasons. But hey, whaddaya gonna do when people want to eat paste? Take it away from them?
[…] course, such venal partisanship will be lauded, not questioned, by Pravda media — Biden’s timing couldn’t be better. Along with “top democrats” out to attack Rubio for […]