I hope it has cable
Warning....This is long winded as I am standing atop my soapbox.
My good buddy Wild Bill of Rednecks Revenge from the great state of Texas brought up an excellent comment to my post on Israel finding their roots and that is, to put it in a nutshell, SO WHAT – Shut the hell up Media! Well, honestly speaking, that is the way I feel. Actually Wild Bill said this, “WHY, should a country HAVE to subscribe to M.E.D.I.A. maneuvers to win a gotdam war anyway ?? Who says that the media should have any other aspect and responsibilty to play in a war, other than to report the F.A.C.T.S. ??”
That is so darn true that it should be written in pure gold. However, ( As I move my soapbox a little closer) the problem is our wonderful world has in that great proverbial phrase, “gone to hell in a hand basket.” As I have been standing on my soapbox shouting loudly to anyone within range, the world is now politically correct, everything we do, say, feel and think has to fall into what “some” people foresee the proper politically correct category of it should be. Personally, I could care less what someone thinks of me, but the world stage, well son, that is a different matter altogether.
The fine art of war falls straight into this area of new age political correctness, but not what other people think, what the media thinks and why is that you ask? Because the media propels the thinking world into the direction of thought it perceives it should be. That is wrong and should never be, but it has come to this and there is nothing we can do. If the media says something is wrong, then by God you can bet the picnic basket that the rest of the world will say it is wrong. It matters not if it was truly right, nope that no longer matters my children, because the media said otherwise, the media God has spoken and the world listens.
Therein lies the current world problems, it is no longer an issue of the Hezbollah committing an act of war upon the state of Israel and the soldier hostage, well, he is no longer an issue either. Look through all the articles condemning Israel and try to find any mention of the return of the hostage or Israel ever being attacked. None, and why is this you wonder, because the media wants to pound the tragedy into our heads, not that Israel was attacked and they have accomplished this.
The Hezbollah manipulated Israel every step of the way, they wanted Israel to begin bombing targets of opportunity within the city and they accomplished this by launching hundreds of rockets into Israel from within the confines of the city and only that location. The only possible recourse available to Israel to effectively combat that situation is to issue warnings to the inhabitants of the city then commence bombing the targets. Which is exactly what transpired and it was accomplished as I wrote, by the Hezbollah walking Israel right into it inch by inch.
That is the course that Israel followed and it was the course laid out by the Hezbollah to trap Israel into bombing an innocent target and bomb they did. Now they are the scorn of the media, consequently the free world must comply with the media, now calls of war crimes are being heard.
It was a total shame that all those women and children perished in the bombing, but even though Israel dropped the bomb it was orchestrated by the Hezbollah every step of the way. Do we hear anyone condemning them, no, and that is the way they set the trap. To the Hezbollah those innocent people were simply the bait in the trap, nothing more. We will not hear anyone condemning them for it either.
This is why many of us have been writing that WWII type bombings would never be permitted in this brave new world of media controlled political correctness. We can only imagine the outrage of the firebombing of Japan or the total bombing of Berlin in this new age thinking. Me, as a soldier I always felt I had the answer to everything, explosives and plenty of them properly placed could solve any problem in combat, but no more. Let’s be honest, if the liberals and the media had their way the entire world would join hands and skip merrily through the countryside doing good deeds for others.
The world’s mind has all gone out to lunch and we are all going to hell for not being politically correct, I hope it has cable.
6 comments:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news(for the media), but the scope of your post has hit a sensitive nerve in me..
It has finally dawned on me that to win a war, we must first defeat the media !! If we want to expedite a war win, then we must first have a FAST defeat of the media..
So, if the (D)'s FORCE an immediate withdrawl from Iraq, does that mean we can just SHOOT the media to achieve a victory first ??
I can always HOPE, caint I ??
Here is another quote I found Ranter..
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
--William Tecumseh Sherman
[The Ranter Replied: ]
Very good, wish I would have thought of that recourse.
I think it has become a mixture of both. The media does not dictate policy, however, it can make or break the situation. The point I wanted to get across was the Hezbollah orchestrated the entire tragedy from day one. And Israel had no other option then to do what they did, that was the way they planned it, walked them into a corner.
They fired constant rocket attacks from within the city, one video I saw had a shot of all the rockets being fired from between residential dwellings, yet the Hezbollah denied it. Israel followed all the proper protocols, they dropped flyers, etc to tell all the habitants they were going to bomb, they waited the proper time and did just that. The trap was set, bait and hooked.
Then the Hezbollah and Lebanon cries to the media and makes a big issue of cancelling the Sec Def visit, it was as if they were spoon feeding the headlines and that is exactly what happened.
I have been waging my person war of words with the media for some time now, even snail mailed a nasty gram to the Times, nothing transpired. I hate them as much as you my friend. Keep up the fight.
Ranter
[ Ranter Replied ]
Great quote, thanks, it is now my tag line.
Ranter
Mark Twain has always been one of my heros. Not only for his writings but his wit and his way of getting to the truth of the matter.
Here are a few of his quotations on the press:
"It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people--who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations--do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies."
- "License of the Press" speech
"I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy."
- speech, 2/1873
"It seems to me that just in the ratio that our newspapers increase, our morals decay. The more newspapers the worse morals. Where we have one newspaper that does good, I think we have fifty that do harm. We ought to look upon the establishment of a newspaper of the average pattern in a virtuous village as a calamity."
- "License of the Press" speech
It seems the press has always been a problem, but you and Wild Bill are right. They are not just a problem they are becoming THE problem.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Howdy Papa Ray,
Love those quoted, I kept them too. Yep, they are THE problem, pure and simple. The Hezbollag played Israel right into the too.
They should have seen that coming, but that did not and the trap was set. What can we do about the media? That is the question of the ages.
Ranter.
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