Orwell Was Off by 24 Years
Kathryn Lopez, editor of National Review Online, wrote in The Corner today ...
"We Do Not Have a Crisis at Freddie Mac ... " [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
This must haunt congressional Democrats.
09/29 09:00 AM
I would contend that NOTHING haunts Democrats, because they are 'revisionists', and because the media does not hold them accountable. It's Orwellian.
The biggest lynchpin of our Constitution is Free Speech, and the biggest protector of Free Speech is a Free Press. But the assumption that our Founding Fathers made was the the Press would have integrity, would look for the facts, and present those facts to the People, so that the People could judge clearly what had merit and what didn't.
Sadly, this foundational assumption no longer holds true. The press no longer operates from a base of integrity or a quest for the Truth. They are openly partisan, withholding facts or refusing to investigate into areas they don't want made public. The result is that the People cannot clearly judge the facts, and so our system fails.
Mark my words, none of these Democrats will be held accountable (for example, everyone but everyone knows that Franklin Raines cooked the books to snag $millions in bonuses at Fannie, but nothing! has been done about it). And worse than that - the NRO guys judge that McCain won the first debate, but after the talking TV heads got through with their spin, the public thinks Obama won it. Not even Ronald Reagan (God Bless His Soul) could win an election with this kind of a deck stacked against him.
We - the United States we've known - is in dire trouble.
"We Do Not Have a Crisis at Freddie Mac ... " [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
This must haunt congressional Democrats.
09/29 09:00 AM
I would contend that NOTHING haunts Democrats, because they are 'revisionists', and because the media does not hold them accountable. It's Orwellian.
The biggest lynchpin of our Constitution is Free Speech, and the biggest protector of Free Speech is a Free Press. But the assumption that our Founding Fathers made was the the Press would have integrity, would look for the facts, and present those facts to the People, so that the People could judge clearly what had merit and what didn't.
Sadly, this foundational assumption no longer holds true. The press no longer operates from a base of integrity or a quest for the Truth. They are openly partisan, withholding facts or refusing to investigate into areas they don't want made public. The result is that the People cannot clearly judge the facts, and so our system fails.
Mark my words, none of these Democrats will be held accountable (for example, everyone but everyone knows that Franklin Raines cooked the books to snag $millions in bonuses at Fannie, but nothing! has been done about it). And worse than that - the NRO guys judge that McCain won the first debate, but after the talking TV heads got through with their spin, the public thinks Obama won it. Not even Ronald Reagan (God Bless His Soul) could win an election with this kind of a deck stacked against him.
We - the United States we've known - is in dire trouble.
posted by Lawrence 3X at 8:08 PM
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