Fighting The Good Fight: Taking On The Obama Media
About the Author: I am an ex-urbanite who escaped the city life and has lived for the past 27 years in a rural, mountainous area of Virginia that in colonial and early-American times was part of the "Backcountry." Politics: Democrat by tradition, but moderate-to-conservative views on most issues; I fit the description of "traditionalist." Please visit my Web site, Backcountry Notes, at http://www.backcountrynotes.com/ Read more from this authorFrom a McCain Democrat’s Journal, September 9, 2008.
We who blog have feelings of angst and frustration from time to time - - are we really doing any good? Is this effort having an impact? I believe the answer is “yes,” to both questions, and that it is important to keep doing the best job we can - - including taking on the Obama media allies like MSNBC at every opportunity.
Someone once wrote, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” A humorous way of saying that the publisher of a newspaper has an inherent advantage - - he can print what he wants and leave your dissenting opinion out. With the rise of the Internet, that no longer applies - - we can do battle with the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and other media types.
One of the things that has most angered the Obamaphile media folks about Sarah Palin is that they have lost control of the “narrative.” They have lost the ability to represent Barack Obama in a good light and misrepresent John McCain in a bad light, because of the intense interest Palin is generating.
Therefore - - one of the best things we can do is ensure that the Obama campaign and its media allies do not take control of the narrative again. Many people read what is posted - - not necessarily my writings, or any specific person, but in the campaigns and elsewhere, they are reading the blogs because they want to know what people thing. That’s what we can give them: immediate feedback; immediate reinforcement; immediate debunking of the other side’s lies.
It can be something as simple as ferreting out a rumor-mongering page on the Obama-Biden Web site and making a copy of it before they can take it down. It can be spreading the word about a baseless charge, such as the book-banning thing, and making sure the information gets out.
Collectively, the bloggers who support the McCain-Palin cause form an army - - an army of reporters, investigators, thinkers, analysts, and commentators - - which can play an important part in this election. McCain-Palin have taken the lead, but it is still close, and there is much that can be done.
We are already seeing some of the results of what the McCain-Palin bloggers can do. Item: I heard a Democratic apologist on Sunday claiming that the New York Times and Washington Post had not made the same kinds of attacks on Sarah Palin as were seen in the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. BS, of course; the Times and Post were spreading the same merde; it was simply their own brand of erudite, well written merde. Regardless, this is called back-pedaling - - the Obamapologist had already seen the backlash, and he had seen it in places like this, on the Web. Item: The Web-based backlast against the US Weekly magazine cover was so fierce that the publication is desperately trying to regain its readership. See US Weekly Now Offering ‘Five Free Issues’ To Outraged Readers.
One thing we can do is write letters to the editors of local newspapers. I have already started on this, and I assume others have as well. The other side hasn’t missed the importance of this; they actively solicit letter-writing. Let me suggest this: make a list on your computer of the names and addresses of your local newspapers and make it a point, once a week, to get a letter out to each of them. Pick a topic that interests you, write and re-write until you have something that is short, sweet, and to the point, then print it out and mail it in. Seriously - - snail-mail. You are sending your thoughts to people who still think in terms of words on paper; they take words on paper more seriously than they do e-mails.
And where do you get the information and ideas you need? Do you have to ask? You’re there. Cruise this site, and the many others like it, then go and do.
Fight the good fight. Take on the media and dare to win.
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AMMUNITION:
Sliming Palin - - a special edition by Factcheck.Org
The Audacity of Socialism - - a multi-part series running in Investor’s Business Daily
Columns By Michelle Malkin, and also her blog, Michelle Malkin - - lots of good stuff
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Good stuff, Jay. Thansk. Especially that we must not let the very wrongly named MSM take control of the narrative.
I’d say that the demotion of Olbermann and Mathews is one serious signal to the OMSM about how that OMSM can truly mismanage even their advantage. Hope so, anyhow.
Thanks, too, for reminding me of that joke re: barrel of ink. One of the reason’s I’ve wanted for years to own a newspaper so big that I and folks like you and others of similar sensibilities could take on the Gray Lady, WaPo, USAToday, etc. Real reportiing. A place where people know the difference between objective live news and features, opinions and editorials.
RE: Letters2Ed: You bet re: writing them. One potential obstacle: Given the paper’s politics and guts, they may 86 those letters. Have seen it happen time and time again, and not just to me.
Best.
I hope you didn’t spend more than 5 minutes writing this.
The Obama media?
Why isn’t Rev. Wright a commentator on FOX, like Karl Rove is?
Wow. That’s bright. Why isn’t Wright a commentator on MSNBC? Because as fruity as they are, they still think that Wright is too crazy even for them.
The jealously of the left over one network that is honest and not in the pocket of the Democrats is just amazing.
CKA: Be persistent, and don’t settle for just one paper. Any newsrag within an easy day’s drive is fair game. And don’t forget the weeklies - - the Main Street Media, as it were.
example1 - Glad you stopped by to give us a sample of the Big Brain! Let me guess - - you’re one of those types who thinks that NBC is fair and balanced and FOX News is a tool of the Republican National Committee, right? Come on, don’t be shy; impress us with more of your rapier-like wit.
Palin’s bogus “Troopergate”
You might find this interesting….
There is a time-line and info.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072102/posts
Monegan admits to the Anchorage press that NO ONE (Gov. Palin, Palin’s husband or Palin’s staff) asked that trooper Wooten be fired.
Monegan is a governor appointee and can be fired at any time for any reason (or no reason)
The chief investigator/overseer admitted (before any depositions or investigating) that it will be an “October Surprise”, “damaging to the governor”, and even hinted at possible criminal charges (aka: impeachment).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746477267499109.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
According to Fox News, several top Palin investigators were spotted at
Obama Headquarters (Alaska) in July.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/AKHQBlog/2008/07
Okay….I admit it….I was wrong about Obama and the people accusing Palin. This Troopergate thing is bogus!!!!!
Tim: Thanks for the information and the links; interesting information
Jay, I send Letters2Ed everywhere, even to Europe.
The most local rag — and it’s in that town near where I live, the one you know about — they won’t publish anything. Used to work for them. Serious case of the you-know-what their exec editor and managing editor have for me.
BTW: “example 1″ makes clever response. You wonder in which cognitive-dissonant or denial’s-just-a-river-in-Africa cave he and those who see nothing, hear nothing live?
No Obama media? I’ll bet that person actually thinks that the community organizer really does have the experience to be POTUS. And that, yes, the young fellow really does transcend race, politics, gender, religion–well, shoot, he’s just not one of us.
Why, he’s an extra-terrestial!
I’ll be “example 1″ must have gas about Keith Olbermann and Chris Mathews being dumped. After all, their “fair-and-balanced” coverage was so compelling that NBC couldn’t contain itself.