The Brownshirt Media--Paul Craig Roberts

[Jade Fox]

Conservative Roberts keeps blasting away at the Bush Administration....

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts-arch.html


The conservative media will never recover from its role as Chief
Sycophant for the Bush administration. Journalists who demanded that
Clinton be held accountable for a minor sex scandal (Monica
Lewinsky) and a minor financial scandal (Whitewater) now serve as
apologists and propagandists for the Bush administration’s major war
scandals.

<snip>

For example, Tom Frank of The New Republic (once considered to
be part of the hated "liberal press") recently expres sed his thoughts in
that unfortunate magazine. Frank wrote that dissenters from Bush’s
gratuitous war should be beaten and even killed. He expressed his
wish that Arnold Schwarzenegger would punch Stan Goff in the face.
He wrote that seeing Arundhati Roy taken out with a "bunker buster"
would be a satisfying experience. As for Sherry Wolf and other
dissenters, "I wanted John Ashcroft to come busting through the wall
with a submachine gun to round everyone up for an immediate trip to
Gitmo, with Charles Graner on hand for interrogation."

<snip>

Conservatives regard dissent as a serious offense, but they think it is
treasonous to give the public real information, as contrasted with Fox
"News" propaganda. Former Newt Gingrich operative and current
Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley believes
America’s premier investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, should be
arrested for treason and perhaps shot for warning Americans about
the Bush administration’s plans to start a war with Iran.

<snip>

"Conservative" talk radio hosts and Republican politicians are foaming
at the mouth over Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor
of ethics. The professor’s crime – and the crazed Republicans mean
the word literally – is to have stated that the US should apply to itself
the same standards it applies to other countries.

[libodem]

1. I know the theme of what 'liberal media' has been hashed

to death...dis-information seems to be the order of the day. Do whatever you want and proclaim the opposite. Nobody is going to distinguish the difference. Being able to speak-out is the hallmark of democracy. Having all the facts and then deciding what is right for yourself. I thought that was democracy. How ironic.

[Strelnikov_]

2. "At least the German . . . Soviet press were forced into these roles . . "

Slam!

At least the German press and the Soviet press were forced into these roles by Hitler and Stalin. The American conservative media willingly adopted the role on its own.

The function of a journalist is to speak truth to power and to hold accountable those with power. Abandoning this role, the conservative media cheerleads for war, incompetent leaders, and a police state.

[kineneb]

3. Excellent article

Print it out and show this to your "conservative" friends. Make them read it. If they refuse, roll up the paper and hit them with it.

bad doggie, no biscuit

P.C.R. gets it. These neo-cons don't want to "conserve" anything, just destroy the country and Constitution.

[librechik]

4. This article has 2 titles. When you open the link from the title pg,

"Brownshirt" becomes "Sycophantic."

Hmmmmmm.

Just an oversight I'm sure.

[indepat]

5. Tom Frank and Tony Blankley are merely telling us what it will be like

once the neocons have total control and they are close to having achieved total control. Then the people will finally have the government they so richly deserve.