Okay - so the New Republic has been featuring stories from "The Bagdad Diarist", a soldier in Iraq who is blogging the horrors of American soldiers on innocent Iraqis. Since leaking this guy's name wouldn't compromise our national security, the New Republic refused to give out any info on this guy. It took suspicious Conservative bloggers to track down who this guy is: Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
No sooner than his name was released, he confessed that he made everything up. The New Republic's response was typical of know it all left wing media types: oops our bad, now on to other news.
So there you have what's wrong in the US today, right wing commentators on the radio. Hopefully Congress will get right on their overhaul of freedom of speech and stop these awful hosts from beaming out what they'll freely tell us are their opinions and trying to influence politics their way.
Seriously though, when are politicians going to decide that Journalists need to be "balanced"? I know what you're thinking, Journalists have free press - but I figure that the channels of speech are a public form and as such the people should be able to regulate what goes out over them.
Yes our Constitution says that the Government (which is comprised of "the People") can't do that but in a world where McCain Feingold is okay, why not?
The New Republic is lying to us. If nothing else, they're guilty of fraud. They want to hide behind the fact that they didn't know this guy was making up stories. But isn't it their job to find out?
The media is biased. They had preformulated conclusions and they try to hammer every story in to those conclusions. (Wasn't it the Seattle Times news room that cheered when Rove resigned?) If there was an unknown blogger in Iraq writing that yes, there are WMDs and we helped move them last night, there is not a doubt in my mind that New Republic reporters would be digging in to the story (if they considered it worth mentioning at all.) Not only would they know everything about the author, everything that even seemed mildly suspicious would be taken in to account: from his father voting for Bush 41 to his Uncle that had a yard sign supporting Bush 43 in '04. Any story written would mention at least ten times that the source isn't necessarily reliable and the phrase "rumored too" would be featured in every other line.
I'd rather take one Al Franken reporting the news on his bogus radio show than ten New Republics. I know where Franken stands: he's a partisan hack and doesn't pretend to be anything other than. He doesn't insult me by trying to tell me that he's not trying to win in the political arena the way news reporters are.
I'm a hack too. I'm not reporting anything, I'm simply commenting on it.
The New Republic is guilty of fraud. What I wonder is if making up the news is a new thing or if they're just now getting caught in the modern day thanks to watch dogs on the internet.
But the left wing of this country isn't going to do anything about lying and deceiving news agencies cause these places help get them elected. And the stupid left wing voter will continue to use these frauds as sources of information.
Jeremy Meister graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Flames of Summer', as well as owning his own film company LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he is a producer for Hansen and Cokin, Last Man Standing, The Clubhouse, Showerless and Mr. Sunshine as well The Las Vegas 51's baseball games at Lotus Broadcasting (AM 1460 and AM 920 - check out the streams at LVRocks.com). Contact him at LWC_Productions@hotmail.com or at www.myspace.com/tzimiscechi or at www.dndorks.com or at TownHall.com. Art for the People:dndorks.com/forums/thread/790122.aspx
