A great lesson from history

Here’s hoping...

Humans don't change which is what makes me hopeful. Over the course of history, there have been the McCarthys and the (in y mind worse) Roy Cohns of the world. There have also been the ones who report, the ones who push back and ultimately the ones who come to their senses. Let's hope that doesn't change. Thanks for posting this reminder.

Yesterday , in 1953, was his censure vote but i figure you knew that. The difference between then & now is the "public opinion".

When will a newsperson ask Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, etc., have you no decency?

Thank you for this blog. It certainly rings true for recent, and I'm sure, upcoming events.

Difference today is the technology to broadcast and capture every move, word or thought of the moment. Imagine if that technology existed back then?

Unfortunately - we have a very different senate today....... and the repugnicans have no decency :(

Interesting reference to the McCarthy era in The Amazing Mrs. Maisel.

I remain hopeful that decency will win out---although I just had a meltdown listening to the words of someone I still cannot believe wields such tremendous power and who is without empathy, humanity, or decency.

Oh for the days of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite on TV
and Howard Baker in the Senate.
We are in a bad place. Not where you want to be as we start the new year and a new decade.

Schiff is the new McCarthy. For over two years he boasted of having seen evidence of collusion with Russia. The Mueller report proved beyond a doubt he was just flat out lying. Where is the Murrow to call him on it? Journalism is dead. It’s all about getting clicks on a website.

My father always said “You’re entitled to your opinion”.

Schiff didn’t lie? Even WaPo gave him 4 Pinocchios, and that’s about the most left a news organization gets.

Interesting premise and quite timely and topical as we sift through the latest hoax being perpetrated on the American people. You see as Walter Cronkite, another great thinker and real journalist famously opined, "In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story".

Cronkite knew, as did Morrow, that "a journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism." Where do we even begin to see this today ? Today, the very fake news opinion-aters claim to be journalists but lambaste anyone whose response doesn't fit neatly within their narrative.

Today's "free press" is dead. Journalism is mostly dead. You see as Cronkite once said, "there is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free or you are not free". The pundits on many so called news programs are given an agenda to promote. You can hear it clearly as it meshes with the talking points of the day as I like to call them. Its as if they're both on the same side.

As Mark Levin writes in his recently released tome, Unfreedom of The Press, "The media constitute a profession whose members form a class or aristocracy of strident, pretentious, arrogant and self-righteously superior individuals, rarely capable of circumspection or improvement".

How right he is. The media is dead to me. I don't trust anything I see at face value. I do my own research, ask my own questions and compare different sources. That does not include "anonymous sources" or any spurious claims no matter their veracity.

As my old friend and former politician claimed on my Facebook page last week: "Steve, I think we live in two alternative universes" ! Yes, we'll agree to disagree but until we discover the truth and everyone accepts it, we are condemned to repeat the sins that our framers sentiently predicted and suspected, could be cause precedent of the undoing of the Great Republic they strove so hard to erect.

The differences of opinion on this is what makes it so paradoxical . So polarized when the obvious is so clear to different individuals . This transcends anything in history . Joe McCarthy ( a Democrat turned Republican BTW ) was a saint compared to Nadler and Schiff . His downfall was accusing The Army of being infiltrated by communists . Murrow was a chain smoking quintessential journalist and war correspondent who helped bring McCarthy down . Who can we compare him to today ? A big fat NOBODY . And that’s the rub . Where do you go to find the truth ? NOWHERE ! By the time it gets to you it has undergone extreme liberal and left leaning metamorphosis to the point of being unrecognizable from the original source . The aim of which is to misinform or disinform the low information voter . In the direction they choose . Sounds Stalinesque to me . Tass and Pravda . Does that ring a bell ? So the liberal trolls jump on the disinformation bandwagon. You know for example , the liberal Jews that turn their back on Israel, their heritage and their homeland because they don’t like POTUS . Critical of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem where it belongs . Why ? Because they hate Trump . Give me an effen break . And Gothamites you know who you are . Yesterday’s events in the Middle East prove to me that “Don’t Tread on Me “ is back . With a vengeance . Get your collective heads out of your arses . Get smart. See you in November .

Hollander Sends

This blog belongs as a politics thread not as a blog.

The original blog was about the media. The point is that the media used to be neutral and today they are not. The media itself has inextricably imparted their values and partisanship into their reporting and has this made the reporting political.

Gone are the days of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Bob Schieffer and Tim Russert.

Today we have clowns and partisans like Don Lemon, Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, Brian Stelter and John Berman.

They provide political commentary and present it as fact. They have corrupted the process and have become the fourth estate.

So what’s the big deal that the blog ended up discussing politics ? A blog is meant to stimulate thought, provide an arena for contrast and illicit opinions across the spectrum.

Why minimize it by saying “it belongs on a political thread” and instead serve to end the conversation once you determine the conversation is not going your way?