Conservative Blog Reporting on Media Bias and the Liberal Agenda

The “Rolling Stones” article about General McChrystal makes it clear that the general has little to no respect for his Commander-in-Chief or for most of his staff. I guess that is to be expected. You have to show respect before you can receive respect and it is clear that the man in charge of our entire United States military has no respect for military people. If he did he wouldn’t be enforcing rules of engagement that end up getting more of our military killed than is necessary. Perhaps our Commander-in-Chief doesn’t understand what President Lincoln understood when he was looking for a general who would brutally execute the Civil War in the short term in order to bring it to a quicker, more merciful end.

Perhaps he doesn’t understand a lot of things.

He doesn’t understand that raising taxes stifles business.

He doesn’t understand that nationalized health care and the health care regulations he is forcing down our throats stifle, and even end, businesses because they can’t afford the extra cost.

He doesn’t understand that environmental regulations that force oil companies to drill in more dangerous waters can result in greater hazard to the environment.

He doesn’t understand that taking from the rich to give to the poor makes the rich give up and makes the poor lazy.

He doesn’t understand that BP doesn’t give a damn about his criticism or his puny financial penalties. They are a British company that can declare bankruptcy in its U.S. branch, expand its operations in other parts of the world and probably improve its financial position in the process.

He doesn’t understand that shutting down all oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico makes our Jihadist enemies stronger while it puts Americans out of work.

He doesn’t understand that our porous borders make America vulnerable to terrorist attack and weaken our economy as American business pays more tax to support the illegal alien burden.

He doesn’t understand that all of these things combine to weaken America economically, militarily, and in the eyes of all in the world who have in the past seen America as the dominant power in economics, capitalism, democracy and personal success.

If he doesn’t get it then he is by far the most inept President and Commander-in-Chief that this country has ever had.

Then again, maybe he does get it. Maybe his actions are designed to level the playing field and make our country just one of the world pack.

If he doesn’t get it then he is incredibly dangerous. If he does get it he is beyond incredibly dangerous.

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Their political philosophy is ever bigger government, taking over every aspect of the American life, along with ever-higher taxes required to fund their utopian dreams.  The government takeover of 17% of the private economy has been their goal since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The more of our life they can control, the larger their political base becomes, and the faster they can complete their work, that is, destruction of our capitalistic system and a population that is completely dependant upon the government.

True and lasting reform can only be done on a bipartisan basis.  Healthcare reform cannot be owned by one party, and it certainly cannot be done to satisfy an ideology or appease special interest.

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The British politician, Edmund Burke is quoted in Thomas Carlyle’s book “Heros and Hero Worship in History” as follows. “Burke said that there were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all.”

Edmund Burke would be aghast at the power and influence of the fourth estate today. Political columns are written within hours after an event has taken place and then transmitted across continents and even around the world. Within just a few more hours they are printed, distributed, read and accepted either as gospel or biased opinion. Television and radio report information to hundreds of millions, perhaps a couple of billion, as it takes place. Commentators add their own spin within minutes and add improbable elements to that spin as the story is analyzed and dissected among themselves and with “experts” until it becomes as worn as a months old newspaper passed among greedy readers.

It is indeed true today that the fourth estate is far more important than our government. The media has more power than ever before to get people elected or removed permanently from public service. Interestingly enough, media today is generally owned by massive conglomerates with elements that might be dependent upon elected officials for income from government contracts. Our government officials and the media consequently operate in total complicity to assure the health of their mutual interests. In this incestuous relationship the fourth estate has become more important, more powerful, totally complicit with and integrated with the government. It influences legislation much more than it did in Burke’s day. That influence is clearly for reasons much less pure today than they were in the 1700’s.

PeacockWatch is especially concerned about the objectives and intentions of MSNBC. In a recent article PeacockWatch took MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to task when he said of Obama’s speech at West Point “he went to maybe the enemy camp tonight”. On November 30th, 2009 we have Keith Olbermann saying in an MSNBC article on Afghanistan that “the Pentagon is a bunch of perpetually 12-year old boys”. Matthews later offered an apology for his statement. However, that apology was thrown into disbelief by the context of his overall comments. His apology falls into the category of total fantasy given his associate Keith Olbermann’s insult to our military defenders.

The dislike these two men have for the military becomes easy to understand when one remembers that it is the military men and women who have fought so hard against socialism and Marxism in the last few major wars. And socialism and Marxism are what MSNBC is supporting so strongly today when they champion the present administration and its group of czars. If our military is strong, and continues to be the most respected of all government agencies, then socialism and Marxism will have a more difficult time in the rest of the world and not have the full support in the U.S. that Obama and his spokespeople at MSNBC desire.

Just as part of the agenda of MSNBC is to denigrate our highly respected and heroic military it is also focused on supporting the public option health plan (See PeacockWatch article “NBC’s Support for ‘Public Option’ at an All Time High”) which is the cornerstone of the move toward socialism in the U.S. and “The Big Lie of Global Warming” which is a supporting strategy.

It has been reported, though only very minimally on MSNBC, that the health care program means a takeover by the government of another 1/6th of the U.S. economy which would be the dream of any avowed socialist. It was also recently reported by the NY Times and CBS (with great publicity from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann) that support for the health care public option according to a December 4th through 8th poll is now at 59% with only 29% opposed. On the contrary, a Bloomberg poll during the same period, and not mentioned at all by MSNBC, shows that 62% of Americans are mostly pessimistic about the benefit of a health care bill that Congress would pass. A Quinnipiac University poll as reported by the Washington Times shows 52% of voters oppose and 38% support the current Congressional health care reform bill. There are many other polls with varying results but MSNBC consistently reports only on those that support the current administration for which they are the primary media outlet and from which their parent organization receives great financial favor.

Edmund Burke was right about the importance of the “fourth Estate”. One wonders how corrupt the media was in the mid-1700’s and if elements of it were as strongly influenced by a particular party as MSNBC so clearly is today. Whatever the answer, it is clear that MSNBC and its commentators Olbermann and Matthews have it as key objectives to denigrate our military through subtle and not so subtle opinion commentary and to report only that information supporting the take over of health care by the federal government. Those two key MSNBC objectives support one overarching Obama administration goal of transforming the United States of America into a socialist empire as quickly as possible.

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In a previous article, The Buck Stops…Where?, PeacockWatch, October, 6, 2009, Peacock has postured that President Obama is not the decision maker of his administration, but merely a talking head for some one else’s political philosophy and agenda.  Peacock stopped short of speculating on who this someone might be.

In the article, the case was made that President Obama has outsourced all of the decisions of his administration to Congress, a group of left wing Czars, and some cabinet members.  (Last week, Attorney General announced HIS decision to try the 911 terrorist in this country, and made it clear that President Obama did not make the decision, nor did he discuss with him.)

This is not opinion or guess work.  The facts speak for themselves.  President Obama has been only a cheerleading by-stander in all of the significant events of his administration.

This having been said, the thought of all of these people running off and making unilateral decisions is a non-starter.  It would quickly lead to anarchy.  There must be some command and control structure, and some ultimate decision maker if not President Obama.

Now comes a theory, first espoused by John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., that President Baraq Hussein Obama is in reality the first “Post-American” president.  The inference here is not that he is the first President of the World, but the first president that the world has conspired to put in place in our country.

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If the actions of this administration do not constitute a recipe for the destruction and diminishment of our country and a corresponding road to Socialism, Peacock is at a loss to know what would be.

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There is no smoking gun here, no wired conversations, no pilfered e-mails, no hard evidence at all.  All we can do, and indeed all we need to do, is to look at the empirical evidence that becomes more massive each day.  Every cause he has championed, and every apology he has made, has been designed for the financial destruction of this country, and the resulting diminishment of its role on the world stage.  He has done nothing to lift this country up, and everything to drag it down. To wit:

—        The Trillion-dollar bailout package was not an economic, job creating package, but a brazen payback to his constituency (unions, environmentalist, trial lawyers, Wall Street, and community organizing groups, to mention just a few.)

—        The government takeover of the automotive industry and the trampling of the rights of bondholders was another blatant move to socialism.  The CEO of General Motors was sacked, and a residual share of the company given to the unions.  Chrysler was literally given for gratis to FIAT and the unions.

—        The Cap and Trade bill, a tax on the air we exhale, would triple the cost of fossil fuels, and be a tremendous hit to an already struggling economy.  (The estimate from Spain is that for every green job that is created, 2.2 old economy jobs are destroyed.)  If taken to the extreme that this administration wants to take it, it will also result in the loss of U.S. sovereignty.

—        The Healthcare Reform bill is an unprecedented government take-over of 17% of our economy.  Estimated at almost one Trillion dollars via budgeting gimmickry and smoke and mirrors accounting, this program would will cost multiples of the estimate and result in the destruction of the best healthcare system in the world.  It will invariably result in rationing, and direct government control over one of the most important things we have, our lives.

—        All of this domestic spending will result in higher taxes (over five separate tax increases are on the table, not including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2010.)  We learned from the Great Depression that raising taxes in a period of economic decline produces a deeper recession.  History shows that increasing taxes results in less total taxes being collected, and this comes at a time when our national debt is $12 Trillion dollars and steeply climbing.

—        The Foreign Policy of this Administration has been one of throwing our allies off the bus and apologizing to our enemies, while inappropriately bowing to European, Middle East, and Asian dictators and emperors.  All of this has been coupled with a general denial of American Exceptionalism.

—        The Administration is now waffling on the war in Afghanistan, their self-described “War of Necessity”.  Further, we are not at war with terrorism, this is only a “Overseas Contingency Action”.  Moreover, as mentioned previously, we will now grant terrorists access to our criminal courts, giving them all of the protections of a U.S. citizen under our Constitution.

If the actions of this administration do not constitute a recipe for the destruction and diminishment of our country and a corresponding road to Socialism, Peacock is at a loss to know what would be.  George Soros has recently said, “Our economy is broke.  We just do not recognize it yet.  Now is the time to replace it with something else.”

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When the Cold War ended, the world was set somewhat adrift.  From the American perspective, it was “We won! How can we spend the peace dividend?”  Many other countries were not as sanguine.  For over fifty years, the rest of the world took some comfort in the standoff between the two major superpowers, and many were able to tweak their policies to play one power off against the other for foreign aid.  Overnight, the game changed.  Now the world was facing a planet with only one superpower, and the world was not comfortable with the situation.

Moreover, many ideologues were also set adrift.  What about all of those dedicated Marxists in the Soviet Union and around the world?  Did they just say, “Ah, shucks, we lost.  Let us all be capitalists?”

An ancient Chinese proverb states that, “It is good to strike the serpent’s head with your enemy’s hand”, or in Arabic: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.  From diverse groups such as radical Islam, to European and Russian Marxists, and on to the United Nations, there are many dedicated people, countries, and organizations that would like to see the playing field leveled.  They may have different and conflicting causes, but a diminished United States that would submit to a World Government under the auspices of the United Nations, would serve all of their purposes.

With the dedication of these groups, along with George Soros’s billions, a manufactured financial meltdown, an in-the-tank liberal media, and a much-maligned Bush Administration, getting the first Post-American President elected was probably child’s play.

So then, who is the decision maker?  Peacock’s guess is that the decision maker, or makers, reside in the same command and control structure that got President Obama elected.

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