Media Does Matter

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Media bias.

If you are against bias in the media, then don't read this "article." This is a hit piece, a totally biased "drive-by" shot at liberals and liberal media. You won't find proof in this particular post, just opinion. The opinion expressed runs counter to those commonly held by the liberal media, including their drive-by websites.

Rush Limbaugh explains the term drive by media.

They are exactly like drive-by shooters, they pull up to a congested area, they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd. It causes mass hysteria, confusion, mistakes, and misinterpretation, sometimes people and their careers actually die, and then the drive-by media smirks and they ride away, unnoticed in the excitement. They're never blamed, they're never held accountable.

Bias in the Media that Matters

As I've said before, I don't mind bias in the media as long as it's bias in favor of truth.



Since conservatism is much more in line with truth these days, then I never mind bias in favor of conservatism. I do mind, though, when people are unaware of biases, liberal or conservative. In this blog, I fight untruth, stupidity, ignorance, and demagoguery, all of which are found chiefly on the left.

It is ironic that most of the left accuses our President of being ignorant and even stupid, and yet they are the ignorant and stupid ones.

One example is all the liberal websites. I don't have the stomach to do the actual research to give you these sites, but I will mention Media Matters, one major site which constantly reports everything bad about conservatism. What's wrong with the site? First, they're attacking the wrong side, if they want to be on the side of truth. Second, they are biased, while purporting to be fair and objective. Third, liberals take what they report as gospel.

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This is where ignorance and stupidity come in. I don't mind there being a watchdog group for conservatism. This is the purpose of democracies. Each side watches the other. The same purpose is served on the right with sites such as Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter.

Biased towards Truth

The difference is that I, as a conservative, know that Rush, Michelle, and Ann are biased. Again, I don't care that they are biased, because their bias is in favor of truth. Still, I realize they are biased, and I take this into account when I read or listen to them. One reason I listen to them even though they are biased is that even when they are egregious, they hit on elements of truth. For example, when Rush lambastes liberals all day long, every day, you know he is looking for these things to say about liberals. Yet, when he says something, he generally is correct. Liberals really are that bad. He is not exaggerating. He is just honestly reporting what is really true.

Does Media Matter?

Media Matters, though, and other liberal sites like it, do exaggerate, and without any connection to the truth. Their theory is the mirror opposite of Rush, Michelle, and Ann. They believe that conservatives are all that bad, and they do their best to prove it. The whole site is dedicated to "gotcha" politics, catching conservatives saying dumb or contradictory things, promoting conspiracy theories, showing how evil our government is, and how bad America is.

Conservatives are the Thinkers

Again, this is one of those posts where I'm not out to prove anything, just to express an opinion. The opposite opinion is out there every day on all the liberal-controlled media, that conservatives are mindless automatons, brainwashed by religion, blindly following Rush as Dittoheads, and so on. I believe the opposite is true. Conservatives are the thinkers. Liberals are the mindless automatons. They have one theory—America and the conservatives who run it are evil. That's the sum of their life. They devote every passion to it, and make themselves feel morally superior by embracing it.

I can tell you this. I know every word that is going to come out of a liberal's mouth, before he/she speaks. I know every theory they have, every side of every issue they espouse; who they are going to vote for and why; how they feel about the major news topics of the day, and so on.

I can't say this for conservatives. Conservatives have a brain. Conservatives surprise me all the time.

Who are the automatons?

Know Your Enemy and Open Your Mind

Anyway, I don't blindly follow Rush, Michelle, or Ann, even though they are right much of the time. I will read Media Matters and other such liberal hate sites, to see what the enemy is doing, and to keep my mind open to any truths they might stumble upon once in a blue moon.

Bias on Both Sides

How do I know if a site is biased? Easy. Whether it's a liberal or conservative site, I know it's biased if it presents, always, only one side of issues. Media Matters reports only anti-conservative stuff; Rush, Michelle, and Ann report only anti-liberal things. These sites are biased. CNN is biased liberal; FOX is biased right. Again, this is okay with me. I just want folks to be aware of it. To get the TRUTH, you need to read and listen to both spectrums, and also to find unbiased sources, rare as they may be; for example, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Plus, it is my opinion that, again, conservative bias places you closer to truth than liberal bias.

Advice to Liberals

My egregious, biased, unwanted, and unwelcome advice to liberals is:

It's fine to be liberal; it's a legitimate political philosophy.

If you're going to be liberal, though, be liberal; don't veer off into hatred, blind bias, communism, totalitarianism or anarchism; don't blindly stand up for criminals, dictators and thugs; don't be reverse racists; and don't think that mouthing liberal mantras makes you a good person.

Plus, just because something is printed in a newspaper or on a website, doesn't mean it's true. Learn to be discriminating. If you base your hatred of conservatives on "facts" you read on liberal drive by sites, you are hating not due to reality, but because you, Sir or Madam, have a need to hate. You are projecting.

It is your problem.

Rock

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