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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Great Left-Wing Media Conspiracy

Erroll Phillips sent me links to Andrew Breitbart’s JournoList: …Yes, But the Reporters at Pravda Weren’t Such Insufferable Assholes and Jonathan Strong’s Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

There’s nothing wrong with advocacy journalism, but let’s not camouflage it with the pretense of fair-minded objectivity. The public must never forget how radically skewed and unfactual are the editorial views expressed as news in the mainstream liberal-progressive media.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 07/20 at 02:16 PM
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Leadership, Socialist Neighborhood Agitator Style

President Obama, like King Canute, expects that he can stop the waves simply by delivering speeches. What else can we expect from someone with zero real leadership experience prior to taking the presidential oath of office?

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 06/08 at 08:49 PM
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Ignorance On The Left

Liberal-progressives, almost universally, misuse the terms Nazi and Nazism.

Liberal-progressives reflexively use the term Nazi to denigrate anyone or any point of view they dislike. Doing so is the equivalent of civil rights activists seeking to damn Ku Klux Klan members by calling them Abolitionists.

The name Nazi, apparently unknown to liberal-progressives, is a contraction of the full party name, National Socialist German Workers Party. Nazism, in short, is simply one of several varieties of socialism, the ideological faith of liberal-progressives.

Why this misuse of the words Nazi and Nazism?

Let’s be kind and not blame liberal-progressives’ incorrect usage altogether on malice. Let’s ascribe it largely to ignorance imposed in our education-indoctrination system. Since passage of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, liberal-progressive intellectuals have controlled nationally selection of textbooks and curricula. Left-leaning teachers’ unions, whose membership is fed by doctrinaire liberal-progressive teachers’ colleges, have diligently taught socialist-scripted fiction in place of actual history.

Underlying this ignorance is liberal-progressives’ romantic infatuation with and religious faith in socialism that came to full flower after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Liberal-progressives sincerely believed in 1917, and have continued to believe ever since, that socialism is the one true path toward peace and harmony within nations and among nations. The Soviet Union was seen as the vanguard of progress toward perfection of society and of human nature.

Inspired by this eschatological vision of secular religious perfection under the tutelage of intellectuals, liberal-progressives initially welcomed the advent of Mussolini’s Italian Fascist State Corporatism in the 1920s and of Hitler’s Nazi Party, organized during the 1920s and triumphing within Germany in 1933.

Apart from their nationalistic nature, Fascism and Nazism were every bit as much socialist political organisms as was Soviet communism. The difference was that Mussolini aimed at socialistic economic and political progress exclusively for Italians, Hitler, exclusively for Germans.

From the beginning of his party leadership in the early 1920s, Hitler proclaimed that the Nazis were socialists and that their aim was to spread German wealth among the workers and the farmers. Hitler, however, abhorred the German communists, whom he viewed as traitors against Germany, working for the interests of the Soviet Union. Hitler’s successful smashing of the German communist party was unforgivable sin in the eyes of American liberal-progressives, for whom the Soviet Union was the one great hope of mankind. As left-wing American journalist Lincoln Steffens’ put it after his 1919 interview with Lenin in Moscow, “I have seen the future, and it works!”

The Soviet Union’s claim to universal socialism was ideologically more congenial to liberal-progressive true-believers, who conceive of socialism as the new, scientific religion, of which the fruition is to be a one-world government under liberal intellectuals.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact of 1939 was a treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that secretly divided northern and eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence. Its signing permitted Hitler that year to invade western Poland without fear of military reaction by the Soviet Union. During this period American liberal-progressives, influenced by the Communist Party USA, supported both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Hitler’s military aggression and his brutal suppression of the Jews and other ethnic groups in the late 1930s strained American liberal-progressives’ support despite the treaty alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union. The final straw was Hitler’s repudiation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact by his invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Since then, Nazi and Nazism have been terms of opprobrium freely, and incorrectly, applied to anyone who questions or opposes liberal-progressive-socialism.

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Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/11 at 12:56 PM
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

News And Opinions About Obamacare, Version Two

A new fiscal policy website, The Fiscal Times, provides a balanced presentation of news and a thoughtful presentation of opinion. Unlike mainstream liberal-progressive media such as the New York Times, news articles do not state ideological positions as settled fact. Instead, news articles report both conservative and liberal-progressive views, identifying each as such.

The reason for this balance undoubtedly is that the website is funded by Peter G. Peterson.

With regard to Obamacare, see two opinion pieces, Bipartisan Indifference to Controlling Health Care Costs and Health Reform Preview: The Obama Plan.

For a news report, see Health Care Odds Long, but Democrats Push Ahead.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/27 at 08:59 PM
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Liberal-Progressives Find The Rest Of Us Beneath Contempt

Gerard Alexander describes the attitude in a Washington Post op-ed article.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/08 at 09:31 PM
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Obama Deserves An F in History

Karl Rove speaks the truth to Obama’s shameless and continual lying.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 12/16 at 11:12 PM
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Reflecting Upon Big Numbers

Thomas Sowell notes how much more prudent we are with our personal decisions than with assessing big numbers thrown out by politicians.

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More miles per gallon, for example, are usually achieved by having lighter cars-- and lighter cars mean less protection from the consequences of automobile accidents. Bluntly, it means more severe injuries and death.

Many of the same people who protest against “trading blood for oil” when it comes to military interventions in the Middle East seem not to see that higher miles per gallon can also mean trading blood for oil.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/16 at 12:00 AM
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Peace Prize Profile

President Obama exemplifies the characteristics typical of Nobel Peace prize-winners throughout the 20th century (and 21st to date): the triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/12 at 11:26 PM
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Even The Left Wing Wonders

Joe Klein (Time Magazine) is emphatic: “...let’s face it: this [Nobel Peace] prize is premature to the point of ridiculousness.”

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is nonplussed: “I admire his efforts toward Middle East peace, but the prize still seems very premature. What has he done?”

Hat tip to Abe Greenwald on the Commentary website.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/09 at 04:29 PM
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