The Lie of the Left Wing Media
“A lie repeated thousands of times becomes a truth.” Joseph Goebbels
The media often describes Newt Gingrich as the intellectual heavyweight of the Republican Party. I pain myself not to use any descriptive adjective when referring to “the media” because whatever label I apply e.g. “mainstream media”, “corporate owned media”, “left wing media”, “right wing media” would be construed as code by one group or another and color the reader’s perception of reality and the reality is “there is no “left wing media” because “left wing media” is in fact the lie that has been repeated more than a thousand times since 1980.
One only need scan their AM dial to find any number of talk radio stations all of which reeks of “right wing” bile based on distorted half truths or outright lies based on fabrications rather than facts and peppered with a baseless jingoism such as one propagandist claiming we are “the greatest nation on God’s green earth” without qualifying the term “greatest”.
I didn’t forget “lame stream media” but that’s only a phrase coined by a charlatan to express her utter contempt for the freedom of a press that made her a media sensation enabling her to receive millions of dollars while most of America is just getting by from pay check to pay check.
To be sure all the major networks and major newspapers are not only “mainstream media” but they are also all owned by corporations that’s not to say they are “right wing” but based on personal experience I haven’t seen any “left wing” media as I understand “left wing” describe the former Speaker at all begging the question just how do those who claim there is a “left wing media” define “left wing”.
Case in point: while covering the recent Republican Governors Association meeting the “mainstream media” and the “corporate owned media” reported that Newt Gingrich’s speech was “full of biting comments at Democrats and full of ides for the conservative governors”.
The example of “biting comment” provided was that Gingrich said the challenge is for Republicans to be a party of “jobs and paychecks that replaces “a Democratic Party of bureaucracy and food stamps”.
A “left wing media” would have pointed out that while Mr. Gingrich failed to explain exactly what policies he would advocate to create “jobs and paychecks” and a “left wing media” would have noted that what Mr. Gingrich did advocate by implication was replacing a Democratic Party bureaucracy with a Republican Party bureaucracy that would not provide food stamps to the already over 42 million Americans who currently need them to survive.
The “mainstream media” and the “corporate owned media” mentioned a few of the ideas from the so-called intellectual heavyweight of the Republican Party. One such “idea” was to turn unemployment benefits into a job-training program begging the questions only a “left wing” media would dare ask: how would the over 5 million people currently receiving unemployment benefits get by without any income in a consumer based society and if the over 5 million people who currently receive unemployment benefits suddenly have no money to spend wouldn’t that adversely affect the economy by causing more businesses to close, add to the existing number of unemployed and increase crime committed by those trying to survive.
In addition a “left wing” media would point out that the “real idea” from Gingrich is to stop unemployment benefits because we already have job training programs and that is certainly something the “intellectual heavyweight of the Republican Party” should know as such the deceit of Mr. Gingrich’s “idea” is exposed.
Yet the most disturbing idea produced from this demagogue was to “…insist on the teaching of “American exceptionalism” in all public financed schools. A “left wing” media would have mentioned that so-called conservatives were incensed and outraged by President Obama’s nation wide welcome by to school speech in 2009 because they felt he was going to press a “partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds”. The reality was that the alleged “partisan political agenda” was a speech that placed an emphasis on the value and importance of education.
A real “left wing media” would have pointed out that this “intellectual heavy weight of the Republican Party” was in fact proposing that “propaganda” replace “education” to breed conformity by requiring that these “impressionable young minds” be conditioned to accept the belief and display the concomitant conceit that the United States holds a special place in the world and that we are superior to all other nations because after all God is on our side or so says American myth makers.
In an article by Laurence Britt describing the 14 common characteristics of fascist governments Newt Gingrich’s views expressed at the Republican Governor’s meeting were best reflected in that characteristic wherein a fascist government disdains academic freedom and considers the freedom of ideas and the expression associated with them to be subversive to the patriotic ideal implied in Gingrich’s “American exceptionalism” and the logical conclusion is that for Gingrich and his followers education should serve the national interest or it has no right to exist.
If indeed there really were such a thing as the “left wing media” rather than describe Newt Gingrich as the “intellectual heavy weight of the Republican Party” Gingrich would be described as a dangerous demagogue whose reactionary views are anti-American and they pose a serious threat to the future of freedom in this republic.
“People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.” – Newt Gingrich – (the megalomaniac of American exceptionalism)
