Media Mutters

Timothy Birdnow

It couldn't be that small town America, the farmers, the small businesses, the rural miners and whatnot have been decimated by Progressive policies over the years?

Jim Acosta Says the ‘Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Heartland,’ Led Farmers Astray

This is the kind of self-delusion that only an elitist from the coast can indulge.

Middle America has been treated like a bunch of toothless hillbillies by the Ruling Class for decades now and the policies these people have put in place have been horribly destructive. Farms have disappeared at an alarming rate, being purchased by corporations or gobbled up by government. Taxes have strangled middle America. NAFTA and the other so-called "free trade" policies led to exactly what even some Democrats predicted "that giant sucking sound" which took all the better blue collar jobs. Environmental regulations and health and safety regulations eliminated many profitable farming enterprises (anyone remember tobacco farmers?) They have waged war on coal. They have waged war on domestic oil production. They have waged war on fossil fuel powered equipment, making it more expensive (farmers MUST have such equipment or go under.) Fianance too has systematically squeezed the farming community as well as small businesses in general, especially since DEI was implemented and it pushed loans to minorities rather than to those who were actually using the money for their businesses. Cattlemen were driven off public lands, leading to the Bundy standoff in Nevada, for instance. And always there were more and more aliens pouring into the country to replace the native born folks in the heartland. Middle America didn't like being replaced.

Acosta said:

He specifically blamed Rush Limbaugh, whom he sees as a svengali who hypnotized the public. This shows how out of touch he is; Rush was from the Heartland itself - Cape Girardeau Mo. (BTW My family hailed in part from there) and he simply stated what many in Middle America were already thinking but were afraid to say - and lacked the research to back it up.

(Oh, Rush used to read this blog, I might add.)

Acosta is right about one thing; the old news model no longer works. That is in no small part because now everyone has cell phones with cameras and we can see the raw footage and judge for ourselves without it first passing through the filter of the media. People are all now journalists themselves. And with the internet it's possible to post these videos or these news stories that the mainstream neglects.

A great example of this when it first started was the Drudge Report. Drudge was just a guy who started a blog, nothing special. But the story about Monica Lewinsky was being frozen out by the Mandarins of the media; Michael Isikoff had the story already written but his editors wouldn't publish. someone leaked it to Druge and it exploded, roiling the political landscape and leading to the impeachment of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. This began the revolution which saw the explosion of blogs (like this one, which itself is a spinoff of American Thinker, a Rush approved site as was this.) Social media only made the dissemination of information easier, even while they desperately tried to control news by lots of dirty little tricks (shadow-banning, suspending writers, etc.) The fact is the old model where so-called journalists get news stories from the wire services and rewrite those to suit their own biases is broken. They can't manage the news anymore; it's coming at everyone pretty much in a raw state. And then there are places like The Aviary which puts a different slant on things.

How often have we encountered the groupthink of mainstream media over an issue? The exact same phrase repeated over and over? Anyone remember when George W. Bush was running "gravitas"? Nobody used that phrase until Bush, then they all did. Or how about the way they kept repeating Trump said there was vote fraud without any evidence? EVERY SINGLE STORY about the election inserted that phrase. But it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. Or how about the lie that said Trump praised white supremacists at Charlottesville?? You can see the whole clip, and read the entire transcript and know it is a lie. But the media, while no longer saying it, never fact checks any Democrats who do.

This is the Empire of Lies Acosta gave fealty to and that Acosta seeks to protect.

To those on the Left there is no concrete reality. There are just frames of reference, particular viewpoints. (Heck, George Lucas enshrined this view in Star Wars,for crying out loud!) Reality can be changed by an act of will, and by controlling how any issue is framed. This has served them well for some time, as long as the public has not had access to any other source of information. Now they do and reality is reasserting itself. The media built an empire by twisting reality.

And it goes all the way back to the birth of the Progressive movement, when William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer contended for control of the American mind. Journalists all attend the same schools which teach them to be activists, not simply recorders of events. Most kids in journalism school do it because they want to "make a difference" as polling shows (not to present people with the Truth). Well, as Frank Capra said "if you want to send a message try Western Union". Of course Capra's was a minority view in Hollywood.

Actually this business with the press goes back even farther; the Enlightenment was triggered by the invention of the printing press, which the Protestants used as a most effective tool to attack Catholicism. The Philosophe's of the Enlightenment saw this effectiveness and started multiple newspapers to get their sometimes revolutionary views out. They also started schools to teach people to read their newspapers. The French Revolution was the inevitable afterbirth of this, and from that came the rise of Socialism through Rousseau and socialism has been the driving force of civilization ever since, even though it is a horribly bad idea that has never worked for people for more than a generation at most (and in fact not even that.) Every revolutionary movement from Fascism to Bolshevism has at it's roots the philosophy of Rousseau, and has succeeded by control of the press. That machine that inks typeset and puts it on paper overthrew the whole world.

But now the electrons are overthrowing the printing, and the mad king is trembling as they see the writing finger on the wall. They are losing their power and are unwilling to admit why that is so. They have gaslit the whole world for a hundred years or more now.

Eventually, no matter how vivid the dream, one must awaken. We are doing that now.

Our big problem now is AI, which is going to sweep aside the upstart order of blogs and podcasts and a.m. radio. It's centralized and can be programmed to do what the media used to do. We have to find a way to make sure it doesn't just restart the Black Iron Prison. '

The Bible says Christ will "destroy them with the sword of His mouth and the brightness of His coming". What is that but the light of truth over the kingdom of lies we've lived with for so long? If we believe in the Bible we have every reason for ultimate confidence in defeating the system of lies being peddled by men such as Acosta. He will be cut down by a truthful tongue and the bright light of truth.

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