The always-interesting Tammy Bruce, appearing on “The O’Reilly Factor,” gives us a glimpse inside what she calls the “conspiratorial network” that moves politically-motivated hit pieces and propaganda through the mainstream media. And she is speaking from experience.
Is it any wonder progressive bloggers (along with “true conservative” Glenn Greenwald(s)) formed their own secret list, given the success their role models have long had in framing the national debate? The ends justify the means, after all—and sometimes you have to “guide” people into thinking “properly.”
The purge is on, brothers! Keep your head low and your papers handy…
Well smoke me a fatty. You mean all of those conspiracy theorists are just PROJECTING? And all of this time I thought I was part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(tm)
Lord Rove will not be pleased of this information…
Yay! I’m prolly on a LIST!
The ends justify the means, but what justifies the ends?
Ans.: the ends are the means, i.e., thought control.
you can put them on the list,
you can put them on the list,
and they’ll none of them be missed,
they’ll none of them be missed.
Can I be on the list?
I’m pretty sure everybody who posts here is on a list. My goal is to make all the lists.
Is there some place one can go to sign up to get included? I get solicitations all the time to be included in somebody’s publication of Who’s Who in Whatever, as long as I pony up $29.95 plus shipping to get the directory. I’d be willing to pay for a hardbound copy of the Enemies List, as long as my biographical info and a flattering picture is in there. It would make a great coffee table book!
I’ve emailed Media Matters to ask if I could be on their enemies list. Here’s what I wrote:
T-shirts. T-shirts with “I’m On Media Matters Enemy’s List”.
Not a bad idea, Robert.
On the back? BECAUSE OF THE CONSERVATIVENESS!
The only part I find troubling is the likelihood that I am nowhere near the top of the list.
Mediocrity and all that…
Musab and Saddam told me that there was a purge on. I figured I should drop by. I was chatting with Tailgunner Joe before I came over. I gotta tell you, the irony has him pretty tickled.
“I survived The List”
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“But It Can’t Last” ?
The pay-for-play aspects of what the Democrats do in collaboration with the media goes quite a bit further than a like-minded network that facilitates meme propagation…
<blockquote>In his recorded comments, Mr. Treglia expressed satisfaction at how the Pew Charitable Trusts were able to avoid public scrutiny of the $40 million the foundation poured into the campaign. “The strategy was designed not to hide Pew’s involvement … but most of Pew’s funding,” he said. “I advised Pew that Pew that Pew should be in the background. And by law, the grantees always have to disclose. But I always encouraged the grantees never to mention Pew.”
He acknowledged that this created an appearance problem. “Did we push the envelope? Yeah. Were we encouraged internally to push the envelope? Yeah. … We stayed with the letter, if not the spirit, of the law.” But the subterfuge was indeed necessary. “If Congress thought this was a Pew effort, it’d be worthless,” he confessed. Hence the need “to convey the impression that this was something coming naturally from beyond the Beltway.”
The efforts of Pew and the other liberal foundations, which include George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Carnegie Corp., were aided by the news media’s complicity. The American Prospect, a liberal magazine, put out a special issue on campaign finance reform in 2000 that was paid for by a $132,000 Carnegie grant–a fact the magazine failed to disclose.
National Public Radio openly accepted $1.2 million from liberal foundations to provide such items as “coverage of financial influence in political decision-making.”/blockquote>
Does this mean Media Matters is listing to port?
It’s the intersection of the dream of being on The List and the desire to be The Listmaker that is leftism. And much of what passes for rightism.
There is no ideology, only fantasy–and its guilty excuses, posing as philosophy.
Yeah this sounds all Orwellian and such, but you know… there are right wing groups doing this with left wing organizations and people as well. The difference is that when Media Matters calls CBS or CNN, they leap to it and ask “how high?” When say the Heritage Foundation points out that Hillary Clinton ripped on Indian Americans, they yawn and ask “what’s for lunch?”
So it isn’t a big deal to have these kind of lists and watchdogs – good idea. It’s a big deal to have the media so willing to assist one side and not the other.
Is this the beginning of one the “purges” the left is so famous for?
size64–not yet, but i gotta lay of the leftover Easter candy.
Screw that!
I’m keeping my gun handy, and my powder dry.
The purge of the old liberals from the Democratic Party is why I want the Republican Party to be big tent. If they have no where else to go old liberals’ll end up out on the street corners picking fights with the hobos.
Won’t someone please think of the hobos?
FYI, Jeff, your link is to Tammy’s front page. Here’s the link to the full video. The vid at Hot Air is only part of the segment.
I suppose that it’s asking too much to expect anyone to see the irony of a leftist media conspiracy being exposed on Fox News. Does “swift boat” ring a bell? How about the talking points handed out by the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the other “think tanks?” No one told any lies about Imus or that Dr. Laura nitwit. The fact that they got canned is just free enterprise taking out the trash. Can we agree that both sides use similar tactics?
Ronaldo, a more apt comparison when claiming everyone does it would be with the enemies list of Richard Milhouse Nixon. That the left wing uses the techniques of Richard Milhouse Nixen should give you pause for reflection.
Or maybe not. Perhaps you already know they also use the techniques of Nikita Kruschev.
Well, they did try to pawn Imus off as a “conservative”.
Interesting comparison to the Swift Boat Veterans—they didn’t tell any lies, either.
Did you see this, Robert?
Can we agree that both sides use similar tactics?
Which is what I said a day before you posted that, yes. I also pointed out the problem is not with the list, but with how it’s responded to by the media.
In any case, Swift Boat Vets for Truth was an independent organization who couldn’t stand Senator Kerry’s lies and distortion of his record being used any longer for his personal gain.
The television show M*A*S*H used to lampoon and attack guys like Kerry all the time to the cheers of the left, but when he’s one of their guys, they get all huffy.