tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post7005460684745494986..comments2024-03-29T11:05:38.781-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Rise of the MediacracyDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-71431114065980160812012-10-20T19:32:29.719-04:002012-10-20T19:32:29.719-04:00The triumph of mediacrity.The triumph of mediacrity.Sky Captainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15154273736917461358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-35946115155146219222012-10-20T11:19:52.736-04:002012-10-20T11:19:52.736-04:00Anything you hear from a lawyer, a politician, the...Anything you hear from a lawyer, a politician, the government, or the Lamestream Media is to be regarded as false until demonstrated otherwise.<br /><br />The Establishment Media now enjoys lower esteem and trust from the Drooling Masses than Congress, and if Romney wins (looking more and more likely) I will be overcome with Schadenfreude. While voting for Romney probably won't bring about any Fundamental Change or save the Republic, it will be most satisfying to tell the arrogant mavens of twaddle to pound sand by casting my ballot to dump the Mighty Kenyan and his corps of sycophants.<br /><br />After such an expenditure of effort to get Saint Barry the Divine re-appointed failure will probably leave them flummoxed as to how the peons could have rejected the wisdom they have dispensed 24/7 for years. Newspapers are failing, and rightly so. Any more, the only reason to subscribe to a fishwrapper is to get the local news. When the NYT ceases its print edition it will be the handwriting on the wall.<br />_Revjen45Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3791637901086743972012-10-20T09:28:16.871-04:002012-10-20T09:28:16.871-04:00"....people learn what the politicians stand ..."....people learn what the politicians stand for and where the politicians learn what the people want...."<br /><br />==========================<br /><br />THAT is the root of all evil in this life.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-32750333097769313172012-10-20T09:20:04.311-04:002012-10-20T09:20:04.311-04:00The last time I checked, Romney-the-presidential-c...The last time I checked, Romney-the-presidential-candidate's name was "Mitt" and not "George".<br /><br />Unless of course the author of that article and people reciting it are implying or agreeing with something obvious to them which I do not understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48725876087221700652012-10-20T08:36:12.033-04:002012-10-20T08:36:12.033-04:00http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http...http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/10/one_question_for_a_romney_win.html<br /><br /><br />below quote is from AmericanThinker posted 20.10.2012 -- I guess the writer beat you to it this time. <br /><br />In the next debate, George Romney needs to begin with a simple question. He needs to ask why Obama has not visited Israel in four years. Romney needs to make Obama explain the apology tour to the Muslim world after Saudi Islamists attacked New York. Obama must also explain why so-called "allies," in places like Afghanistan and Libya, continue to assassinate our soldiers and diplomats. And Obama needs to explain why America needs to rationalize every Arab or Muslim barbarity -- and why America must continue to apologize for what seems to be a very sick Muslim culture. In short, Romney needs to ask the President to explain how America benefits from another four years of anti-Jewish, pro-Muslim pandering.<br /><br />mikeThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484770276722501096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-39187956556912444212012-10-20T08:33:28.147-04:002012-10-20T08:33:28.147-04:00"free" elecyions ended 40 OR MORE years ..."free" elecyions ended 40 OR MORE years ago. "Voteing" is meaningless. Delude yourselves any way you wish . The republic is dead. Only the stupid the weak minded, and the chidish still belive anything spoon fed to them by the CIA/NSA/DOD controled media. Or there shills on the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-37521396613785098362012-10-20T00:04:22.781-04:002012-10-20T00:04:22.781-04:00Fox News largest shareholder is a Saudi prince, I ...Fox News largest shareholder is a Saudi prince, I have "heard." Just because that channel provides contrast to the rest of the clones doesn't mean it isn't in the exact same game. It was Fox News that glorified the talk show clown Geraldo & asked us all to take him seriously as he emoted his opinions and soap boxed from the midst of Katrina victims. Serious journalism, and classy. <br /><br />So entertaining that the other networks had to get their own cult of personalities to step it up a notch. Nancy Grace, the witch hunter with flared, snotty nostrils being one such entertainer, perfect for the soap opera and harlequin romance novel addicts who no longer had Opera to tell them what to do and think. <br /><br />Fox News isn't in any true competition with the other couple of zombie corps's. Especially PBS and Big Bird. It exists to round out the Mediacrisy's multiple personalty, so when the public gets out of hand they can easily shift to the right hand instead of the left. Ambidextrous is as ambidextrous does.<br /><br />Eli A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-45960461720410375222012-10-19T23:22:53.317-04:002012-10-19T23:22:53.317-04:00Where can i pre-order the book you're writing?...Where can i pre-order the book you're writing? I'll need multiple copies.Eli A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61971183074795210012012-10-19T17:58:25.253-04:002012-10-19T17:58:25.253-04:00Thank you. Thank you. Gracenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23018590700535839282012-10-19T16:40:30.956-04:002012-10-19T16:40:30.956-04:00Great post! I've put up an excerpt and a link ...Great post! I've put up an excerpt and a link back to here on my blog.KGhttp://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6938412733630081622012-10-19T10:20:51.466-04:002012-10-19T10:20:51.466-04:00I also never thought of the media in this way.
Now...I also never thought of the media in this way.<br />Now that you bring it up, however, I see that<br />they are not merely misguided lefties, there is<br />certainly something more ominous going on.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22203551316889398212012-10-19T09:40:17.883-04:002012-10-19T09:40:17.883-04:00This piece made me think about the MSM in a new wa...This piece made me think about the MSM in a new way.<br /><br />I thought of them as merely indoctrinated with socialism by all the influences that had shaped them through their lives. But a concerted plan to insinuate themselves as a powerful coterie in the political scheme of things? No, that hadn't occurred to me.<br /><br />Am I convinced? Well, the piece is persuasive. You usually are, Daniel.<br /><br />Excellent. full of insight, probative and ultimately, convincing. Well done.<br /><br />ChurchillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-26248570428604817692012-10-19T01:29:47.171-04:002012-10-19T01:29:47.171-04:00There are some things about which we agree, and so...There are some things about which we agree, and some we don't.....but man, you can write.TJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-54112886514121957672012-10-19T00:14:07.439-04:002012-10-19T00:14:07.439-04:00Media outlets are owned by those who do not like A...Media outlets are owned by those who do not like America as it is.<br />So you get a biased bunch.<br />Journalism is dead as well. <br />Newspapers, radio, tv and bloggers give personal opinion but do not really report the news anymore.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-17073836506169026352012-10-18T19:05:02.499-04:002012-10-18T19:05:02.499-04:00“Our enemies are a traditionless, homeless race. ...“Our enemies are a traditionless, homeless race. From the days of Cromwell to the present day they have been the disturbers of the peace of the world... After what has happened the last two years, my only wonder is that we consented to live for so long a time in association with such miscreants. Were it ever <br />proposed to enter again into a union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a den of thieves.” <br /><br />Jefferson Davis, December 26, 1862American Geniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514913997568552456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29926173140626269902012-10-18T18:12:08.025-04:002012-10-18T18:12:08.025-04:00Bilejones,
Ah, that damned Lincoln!
Thank you.
...Bilejones,<br /><br />Ah, that damned Lincoln!<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />I will go back to working on my next t-shirt design now - the one that says, Jefferson Davis was the only president my country ever had.<br /><br />American Geniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514913997568552456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-50687100678695633682012-10-18T15:34:22.088-04:002012-10-18T15:34:22.088-04:00Silvero, an intriguing scenarioSilvero, an intriguing scenarioDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23365691713254411212012-10-18T15:27:18.469-04:002012-10-18T15:27:18.469-04:00Excellent analysis! It must be difficult for you t...Excellent analysis! It must be difficult for you to outdo yourself, but you somehow manage to do it time and again!<br /><br />I can't help noticing another frightening aspect of the Mediocrecy (excuse me, Mediocracy): Presidents, senators, governors, and in general public office representatives need to be elected to office and their terms tend to be somewhat short. They are constantly uunder the public eye and if they somehow trip they are bound to get a public flogging.<br /><br />On the other hand, anchors, especially night-time anchors, are appointed and tend to sit on their thrones for decades on end, unchallenged and unquestioned. How many years did viewers had to endure a Peter Jenings or a Barbara Walters coming night after night after night into their living-rooms and bedrooms, bringing with them their slanted, biased version of the world-as-we-should-know-it.<br /><br />People get to "spend" more time in a week with their "anchors" than they will spend in a lifetime with their representatives or senators or presidents. These benevolent newscast dictators dictate to their subjects day after day what they should think and how should they react, what will they be outraged against and who will they make fun of. Yet there's very little public scrutiny for these people. Take for instance the pitiful Rachel Maddow. She is the epitome of disgusting. She's biased, rude, self-aggrandizing, self-righteous, self-important, yet she has a huge follower base for which she is a moral compass, a wise councelor and a carrier of the true gospel. And we can find someone just like her, only with another name throughout the various news agencies in the alphabet soup.<br /><br />The only way these people get to be ejected from office is by low viewer ratings. Ratings are the Mediacracy polling booths, and these people don't need to campaign, or to show their intentions, or to show their credentials or to compete against other equally "competent" candidates for the job. Thay get appointed by a holy finger and remain until unseated by their commercial performance, not by their knowledge or their political capabilities.<br /><br />If, as you propose, Mediacracy is trully the new branch of government, it is starting at the Middle-Ages standards, where appointed, long-term leaders were the rule, isolated and far-away from their subjects and living in a world of make-believe. The only way the top-dog could be unseated was by either murder, natural death or coup-d'etat. Will that happen to Mediacracy?Silverio Facundonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-19533387820590444902012-10-18T14:38:44.507-04:002012-10-18T14:38:44.507-04:00The media isn't operating in a vacuum though. ...The media isn't operating in a vacuum though. MSNBC and CNN clearly and unapologetically get their talking points from the White House. They often use the same exact words. It's as close to state run media in the US as you're going to find. And the talking heads all see themselves CLEARLY as working for the White House, even more ideologically driven than the White House itself. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14588106090162660932012-10-18T13:46:30.593-04:002012-10-18T13:46:30.593-04:00The problem with network news--FOX, CNN, MSNBC etc...The problem with network news--FOX, CNN, MSNBC etc. is that the broadcast day never ends. There is only so much actual news to report 24/7 so they're resorted to basically filler matierial (heavily slanted talk shows.) The line between straight news reporting and filler fluff has been so blurred few can even recognize it.<br /><br />There's no mistaking what my favorite news network is all about. It's very name and funding source make it obvious and would probably have gotten me in dutch with McCarthy decades ago lol. But they only broadcast four hours worth of coverage before a new cycle begins. <br /><br />Watch any four hour block of coverage and call it a day.<br /><br />I like the network beause 1. it is very enteraining 2. provides much more international news than ABC/CBS/NBC.<br /><br />Re FOX--my chief complaint is that some of the hosts on the non-news shows is that they claim to be fair and balanced. It is impossible for any media outlet to be fair and balanced because the media has shifted from simply presenting the facts as accurately as possible and putting these facts into some context.<br /><br />Re re: Second complaint about FOX is that some of the hosts and their guests are extremely overbearing. Not that the liberal shows get a pass from me either.<br /><br />The liberal hosts are more of a nagging nature and holier than thou attitude.<br /><br />Just give me the facts in context. If you can do it in an entertaining and/or thought provoking manner great.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76332179865002739192012-10-18T13:36:38.006-04:002012-10-18T13:36:38.006-04:00Daniel, you are a genius. Thank you.Daniel, you are a genius. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-56850020450457052502012-10-18T13:32:29.762-04:002012-10-18T13:32:29.762-04:00This is an excellent companion piece to your wonde...This is an excellent companion piece to your wonderful column on addiction. They make me think about the chilling film Requiem for a Dream (the theme music is used so often in videos about how the US is becoming a police state).<br /><br />It's even been used in Lost and another film. Perhaps Lord of the Rings or something. I've never heard violins sound so menacing and haunting.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-81224650372712241012012-10-18T13:24:45.519-04:002012-10-18T13:24:45.519-04:00American Genie
"When did America devolve from...American Genie<br />"When did America devolve from a constitutional republic to a democracy?"<br /><br />Lincoln's war on the South effectively removed the pretense that the US was a Republic.<br /><br />It pretty much wiped out this line from the Declaration of Independence: <br />"Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States"<br /><br />They were reduced to mere administrative units of the central State.Bilejoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426920337506809987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-69361442160187733782012-10-18T12:51:15.343-04:002012-10-18T12:51:15.343-04:00The country was lost in 1933, not 2008. Romney aim...The country was lost in 1933, not 2008. Romney aims to slow the decline, which he may, but in so doing he will in also solidify their gains. It's sort of like life--there is no getting out of this alive. james wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06423091782308888563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-41992832020553422122012-10-18T12:03:13.060-04:002012-10-18T12:03:13.060-04:00Fox News is popular not just because it gives a vo...Fox News is popular not just because it gives a voice to conservatism but because it is populist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com