Posted by
Patrick Henry on Monday, July 26, 2010 9:19:00 AM
In his excellent piece "The Blame Stream Media and the Sherrod Charade," Doug
Giles, of whom I am rapidly becoming a fan, revives the euphemism for mainstream
media outlets and proceeds to give them what for. (You can and should read it on
Townhall.com).
So just what is the "BSM?" A little boy once asked his grandpa what the letters
B.S., M.S. and Ph.D after a person's name stood for. The old man reportedly
replied, "BS means just what you think it does, MS means more of the same, and
Ph.D. means piled high and deep." In the case of the Blamestream Media, the BS
stands for just what you think it does. Think MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR,
the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and their
ilk. These are so-called "news" organizations that have forsaken reporting what
actually happens in favor of "shaping" or interpreting events to advance a specific
(liberal, politically correct, neo-socialist) agenda.
If there was ever any doubt about the foregoing, it evaporated with Tucker
Carlson's revelations from the liberal listserv Journolist, in which "news" reporters
from all of the foregoing are revealed in e-mails trashing conservatives and urging
one another to level false or unproven charges against them to benefit Barack
Obama and distract attention from his questionable associations and wrongdoing.
And have you noticed how little attention has been paid in those outlets to the
disgraceful DOJ handling of the New Black Panther voter intimidators, or the
charges of internal racism by a former DOJ lawyer, or the way Barack Obama
utilizes his "czars" to circumvent congress, or runs roughshod over the courts
(Louisiana) or spins the constitution to mean things it has never meant before?
Yeah, you get the picture. Print or broadcast nothing that will jeopardize Obama
and his socialist agenda. Blow even the slightest gaffe, hint or question of
conservative error out of all proportion. That's how they got Obama elected,
and they're proud of it. That's the BSM (and remember the BS part).
Enter the fox -- FOX News, that is. FOX is the most watched cable news
network in America. They stream hard news stories on a nonstop basis, and while
their opinion programming and panel shows lean decidedly to the right, their news
coverage virtually always includes spokespersons from the left as well. They are
the flipside of MSNBC, which tilts left on both news and opinion, and meticulously
selects only stories to tout liberals and trash conservatives. Their foul-mouthed,
gutter-scraping trash mongers like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel
Maddow and Ed Schultz never miss a chance to badmouth FOX. Why?
It's simple. FOX gets a far broader segment of the viewer market, and actually
makes a difference in how people think, question and vote. And the Obama
administration is scared to death of them, which is where the Chicken comes in.
Barack Obama declared war on FOX because they criticized him and his agenda.
He lost, over and out, and many in the BSM have already admitted it in print. By
trying and failing to intimidate FOX, and by urging people not to watch cable news
because it puts out too much information too fast, the Chicken-In-Chief only made
himself look petty, small and impotent, while feeding a monster in Rupert Murdoch
and Roger Ailes' FOX News Network.
There is a story from inside the White House that when the Shirley Sherrod tape
was first aired, terror set in at 1600 Pennsylvania because they thought Glenn Beck
(at FOX) was going ballistic with it. They panicked and colluded with USDA
Secretary Tom Vilsack to show Sherrod the door and sweep her under the rug, only
to have Beck side with the woman and question whether people rushed to judgment
about the tape. That's just how afraid this president, who has laready gotten his nose
bloodied once, is of FOX News. Cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck.
But all of this has served one wonderful purpose. No one will ever take the BSM
at its word again, and everyone will realize what their agenda is. Would I suggest
watching, or reading their tripe? Hardly! But you can go to MSNBC headquarters
and see a statue that looks just like Keith Olbermann fashioned from bovine excrement.
At least you'll think it's a statue until you notice that the mouth is moving. Or you can
see Air America bag lady and journotrollop Rachel Maddow screaming hysterically
that someone from FOX News put a camera in her shower. Or you can listen to
the maniacal shrieking of Ed Schultz, a shambling troglodyte who is always off his
meds, as he confesses that he has busted his *ss for Obama. (Sometimes when the
meds wear off, even Schultz tells the truth). Or, you could just go back and view
a Laurel and Hardy flick with an X-rated soundtrack overdubbed. It's ugly, depicts
nothing real, and has an agenda. Remember, BSM!