Month: February 2014

Maybe you remember Sherlock Holmes, in Silver Blaze, explaining to Watson a significant clue: the fact that a watchdog didn’t bark.

Well, here we have our big-time nooze media, which loves to call itself a watchdog, learning of a scheme to insert the federal government into TV and radio newsrooms–and the dog didn’t bark. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest–and not so much as a yip out of any one of them. “First Amendment? We don’t need no stinkin’ First Amendment!”

The FCC shelved the project after one of its own commissioners blew the whistle on it. Otherwise, we would’ve awakened one morning to a fait accompli–government “monitors” and “researchers”–that is, goons–in the newsrooms to see that the editors and reporters covered the stories that the White House felt should be covered, and burked the stories the White House wanted burked. That’s how you protect the Regime from unwanted stories of Climate Change denial, Benghazi, the cornucopia of scandal pouring out of the government, Obamacare glitches, etc., etc. That’s how you get non-stop coverage of whatever Dear Leader wants you to see.

Not a peep out of the free press. Happily, we now have enough “alternative media” to make a stink about this scheme and embarrass Congress into demanding explanations. And so it went back onto George Soros’ wish list… probably to be revived another day.

Just as a thought experiment, try to imagine what the nooze media reaction would have been, had President George W. Bush made just a little joke about doing something like this.

The howl of protest would be heard beyond the Solar System.

It is distressing to learn that the free press has so little interest in keeping the press free.

But that’s leftists for you–the sworn enemies of freedom, every day, in every way.

To any tyrant, a free press is intolerable. That’s why it’s enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution.

Of course, our nooze media mostly serves as an arm of the Democrat Party and cheerleaders for whatever lib politician happens to be in power. Toward the current administration, and the current occupant of the White House, the press has been subservient to the point of idolatry.

And what has it gotten them?

Government “monitors” in TV newsrooms! ( http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/20/shockwaves-over-obama-administrations-plan-to-put-goverbnment-monitors-in-newsrooms-101932 )

Egged on, no doubt, by the Hugo Chavez wannabes in the White House, the FCC plans to send goons–er, “researchers”–“to oversee TV and radio newsrooms” and examine “the process by which stories are selected,” and so on. They’re going to take care of “perceived station bias–”

All right, get up from the floor. You don’t really need a barf bag, do you?

Now, what do you suppose would have happened, had George W. Bush even cracked a joke about wanting to do this?

For five years, the noozies have crept and crawled and groveled to the commie cabal on Pennsylvania Avenue, as they creep and crawl and grovel to every leftist who slithers into the seat of power.

And this is what they get!

It serves them right, of course. But it doesn’t serve the American people right.

UPDATE: This just in, from Fox News via Free Republic… The Federal Communications Commission has “shelved” its plan to take over TV and radio newsrooms.

Translation: The story broke before they were ready, embarrassed them, and they had to back off.

But they’ll try again.