How Did We Get Here?

How did we reach the point where a well-educated American decided it would be a good thing to assassinate the President and members of his Cabinet? How did we get to the point where hours before the event, a comedian (and I use the term loosely) made a joke about the First Lady being a widow? Is the mainstream media part of the ‘deep state’ or are they simply the result of a decision made in the 1930’s?

The Frankfort School was a group of intellectuals that existed in Europe from about the 1860’s. Basically, it was a group of Communists who wanted to eradicate Christianity. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, many members of the Frankfort School fled to America, aided by John Dewey and Edward R. Murrow. John Dewey was associated with Columbia University and helped place members of the Frankfort School at leading colleges and universities around America. In 1982, U.S. News And World Report noted that there were 10,000 Marxist professors teaching at America’s colleges and universities. It took about a generation for the seeds planted by Dewey and Murrow to bear fruit. These schools also have tenure systems which may often be controlled by people with a political agenda. It should also be noted that somewhere in the past few decades the goal of journalism morphed from reporting facts accurately to influencing public opinion.

Is journalism part of the ‘deep state’? It doesn’t have to be as long as it is philosophically aligned with the ‘deep state’.

As we begin to process what happened Saturday night, there are a few things to notice. Most of the initial mainstream media reports talked about a gunman—the word assassination was generally not used. Many of the leading democrats are denying that they ever advocated violence. You can debunk that claim very quickly. There is a two-minute video on YouTube of Democrats calling for violence against President Trump. For instance, on Wednesday Representative Jeffries called for “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time,” with a picture of Trump. The person who attempted to kill President Trump and members of the Cabinet believed that he would be a hero if he succeeded. The manifesto the gunmen wrote includes a number of Democrat talking points of charges the mainstream media has made against the President, none of which are backed up with actual proof. Our education system, the mainstream media, and leftist hate groups created this shooter. Until we sort out what has happened to our education system and our media and eliminate the hate groups, we can assume that this will not be an isolated incident.

Prayer works. I believe that God has President Trump where he is for a reason. The Bible tells us to pray for our leaders. I believe that Word is very important right now. Remember also that May 17 is the day President Trump plans to rededicate America to God (as those on the Mayflower did in the Mayflower Compact in 1620). Obviously, there are those in the media and the deep state that may not fully support that idea.

View From The Lair

Losing the Race Toward Irrelevance

As Granny G recently pointed out, the lamestream media is becoming irrelevant, and it’s their own fault. Quite true. And while many Americans, especially those over fifty (sixty?) who grew up with the three alphabet networks as their primary news source, do seem to cling to this obsolete habit; those younger citizens increasingly do not. There are those of us who remember Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Huntley & Brinkley and Tom Brokaw.  Mention these names to anyone under fifty and you’ll get a blank stare.

Edward R. Murrow?  There might be a few reading this that go to Google for a hint for him. And as our benevolent matriarch of this blog suggested, maybe most should let bygones be bygones.

I’m not one of the most.

While in journalism school our professors – and especially our dean – made it very clear that our job was to report the news accurately, corroborating facts, double checking descriptions, never including anonymous information unless it was verified, and then only using it as anonymous to protect the source. Opinions were fine – on the opinion pages. Never in a news story.  A little favoritism was permitted in sports reporting. Never in political and hard news.

Those news anchors listed above might have voted democrat, in fact I’m sure some, If not all, did.  But you didn’t get the rabid worshiping of the leftists that you see today. An interesting historical tidbit that RWG mentioned is that Edward R. Murrow, he who covered the Blitz in London during WWII, was also instrumental in bringing the start of the Marxist movement to Columbia U. That was somehow missed in journalism school. But then most of such ideological history was missed in all levels of schooling I received. Marxists have been infiltrating our government since WWII.

I was taught that the First Amendment to our Constitution was first for a reason. That our republic depended upon it for an educated and responsible citizenry. And we learned about the years of “yellow journalism,” the scandal sheets that were published even before the constitution was ratified. But those were known to be a biased source. That’s why they were published, and not regarded as a source of accurate news.

Today’s lamestream media has sown the seeds of its own demise and is reaping the results before our eyes. I saw it starting from the inside. I was part of the TV news industry for a few years. I saw it becoming “socially conscious” before it spread to the rest of the country. I could complain, point out bias and hypocrisy. And be fired. So I left, as did a number of others I worked with.

As for the current crop of “journalists,” other than Fox News, they can go up in flames like Los Angeles has done.

They lit their own fire.  Let them burn.

Ciao,

The Snark