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| The Election Campaign Begins | If Democrats Win in November |
The Path to Censorship
by Christopher Chantrill
September 07, 2006 at 9:18 am
IMAGINE THE following news item in your friendly local newspaper.
A furious former President Bush is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to Kuwait" grossly misrepresents his actions in the first Iraq war - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
Imagine the screams. Imagine the outrage. Censorship! Abuse of power!
Actually it would never have happpened. Republicans know better than to even whisper a suggestion that a broadcast TV network should edit, or, God forbid, withdraw a drama on network TV.
But when ABC puts up a mini-series “The Path to 9/11” that dramatizes the ineffective policies and actions of the Clinton administration in the happy-go-lucky Nineties, the old Clinton War Room swings into action. As reported in The New York Post:
A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
But wait. I thought the Democrats believed that the war on terror was a Bush Lie, a put-up job to scare the American people. I thought that President Clinton believes that Global Warming is the number one problem in the world.
Why should the Clintonoids and the former president care about 9/11? It’s just a law-enforcement problem, isn’t it? Really not that important when compared to global warming, institutional racism, gay marriage, and embryonic stem cell research.
So maybe the Democrats are misleading us on the war on terror as well. They know it is important, and they know that the American people think it is important.
The problem is that they can’t appear to take the war too seriously. Their base won’t let them.
Sphere: Related Content |Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
Comments:
Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:44pm
The "War on Terror," the way it's being fought, is bound to go the way of the "War on Drugs, the "War on Poverty," and now, the "War on the Left".....failure. Proof is all around you, but this administration doesn't care if it's right, just that it's in control. Come away from the darkside, Chris. You can be a conservative without being a neocon!
Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:43pm
Further, most democrats aren't against the war on terror, they are against squandering it, our treasury, and our children's future in the wrong place and in the wrong manner for war profiteering. You know that, when the Clinton administration warned the new Bush administration their biggest problem would be Osama Bin Laden, they were ignored. Keep pointing that finger, Chris....your shadow is showing.
Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:37pm
"Republicans know better than to even whisper a suggestion that a broadcast TV network should edit, or, God forbid, withdraw a drama on network TV."... How quickly you've forgotten the screaming and demands around the Reagan TV movie.....and convenient, too! The fact is, there are made-up scenes that never happened in this tripe piece of propaganda. Disney, ABC, and you, should all be ashamed to support this drivel.
What Liberals Think About Conservatives
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300–301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
Pentecostalism
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
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