By David Limbaugh
Friday, February 01, 2013
Many have rightly condemned MSNBC's serpentine editing of
a video to make it appear that certain gun rights activists heckled the father
of a 6-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre, but let's not
pretend this was a one-off event.
The liberal media long ago forfeited their respected role
as watchdog over the government and have voluntary descended to the status of a
public relations arm of the Democratic Party and various liberal causes.
It doesn't do it justice to call them cheerleaders, for
they are active participants, every bit as much involved in bringing about the
events as the party with which they collude.
They no longer merely report the news. They deliberately
influence it to advance the liberal political agenda. So while they engage in
plenty of deceptions on the micro level, they daily engage in a category of sin
that far exceeds the despicable doctoring of videos.
For what they're about is grand deception on a macro
scale. They aren't watchdogs, and they aren't just cheerleaders. Cheerleaders
wear uniforms and are readily recognizable. These progressive media mavens are
cloaked in a disguise of pseudo-neutrality and pseudo-objectivity, such that
when they root for the political team that is assaulting America's founding
principles and driving us headfirst into national ruin, many in their unwitting
audience have no earthly idea they've got skin in the game.
The liberal media's fraud is so pervasive that by
presenting the news through a distorted, progressive prism, they've created an
alternate reality that bears little relationship to actual reality. What has
emerged is a new normal, foisted on us by a cluster of malicious manipulators
who long ago abandoned their honor and their professional calling.
This manufactured pseudo-universe is what allowed
President Barack Obama to win re-election despite presiding over (and largely
causing) the longest period of high unemployment since World War II and the
worst recovery in 50 years. It's what enables him to enjoy a 60 percent
approval rating despite being conspicuously radical, hyper-partisan,
consciously divisive and dogmatically uncompromising.
Just ask yourself whether Obama could have won if the
media had reported on his economy objectively and let the facts speak for themselves.
But they did much worse; they apologized for him and his failures every step of
the way, shamelessly conspiring with him to scapegoat his predecessor,
President George W. Bush, even four years after his term ended. This was as
immoral as it was preposterous, but they did it with such faux earnestness that
those who rely on them for their news lapped it up and digested its poisonous
seed.
These are media that appointed themselves the chief
prosecutors against Bush for his alleged mishandling of the federal cleanup
operation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They were on that story 24/7
from the outset, not to apprise the public of the conditions in New Orleans and
other stricken locations but to cause premeditated political damage to President
Bush. Contrast that with their orchestrated cover-up of the Obama
administration's selective negligence for some of Hurricane Sandy's victims and
affected areas.
This is a press whose superstars, with exceptions,
insinuated themselves into moderating the presidential debates and actively
interceded on behalf of President Obama, both in their questions and in their
improper injections.
These are the "professionals" whose job is to
hold our governing class to account with legitimate, pointed questions and follow-ups.
Instead, they offer French kisses and free passes, despite the smorgasbord of
corruption, scandal, mismanagement and policy failures that would be a welcome
feast for journalists with a modicum of integrity.
Whereas they aided Democrats in constructing false
scandals against the Bush administration, they wholly ignore very real ones
under Obama, from the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter
intimidation case to "Fast and Furious" to Benghazi.
From the corruption and waste in the president's stimulus
plan to myriad green energy schemes to the fraudulent calculation of projected
Obamacare costs to their protective reporting on the administration's handling
of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the media have done this president's bidding.
Worst of all, Obama's media cohorts are helping him get
away with not addressing the major culprit in our impending national financial
catastrophe, entitlement spending. If it were not for the media's complicity,
we could avert this imminent national calamity, but they simply will not
perform even their rudimentary duties so as to expose this president as the
uncompromising spendaholic ideologue he is.
So while we justifiably complain about doctored
videotapes, let's not miss the larger point: that if this nation goes over a
Greek-style financial cliff, we need look no further than President Obama's
comrades in the institutionally corrupt media, without whom his destructive
path could be deterred.
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