The Old Libs are Gone: Long Live the Retardos!

FOX News is becoming an iconic scarecrow to the fidgety flighty hysterics on the left, for whom any resistance to their Oprahfied nannification agenda is Hitler personified. I just bought "Culture Warrior" and find O'Reilly right on the money. He quotes his friend Peter Jennings as telling him he was crazy when he started to criticize the media on the Factor. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them. They will come after you with a vengeance." Like Dan Rather did to Bernard Goldberg, until Dan's many journalistic crimes caught up with him and ended him on the garbage heap of anonymity---although libs like Chris Mathews have him on just to see if he is a hopeless recidivist. And the Billy Jeff episode on Fox now raises the hysteria to a new level. O'Reilly and FOX have scrutinized the MSM and they are coming back with a vengeance. As Ron Reagan, the tutu-boy on MSNBC said recently on an unwatched program, "Fox's ratings are plummeting." Yeah, sure, Ronette.

Of course, Peggy sticks to a gentrified East Side conservatism which harkens after the good old days when there was a CW, or consensus, on fighting the Cold War [though the Carterite Dems were wishy-washy on these issues]. Finally, against a lot of leftie cognitive dissonance, Ronald Reagan, a real man, put Pershings into Europe and Star Wars onto the balance of MAD. The Soviets crumbled, although the MSM gives credit for that to all sorts of reasons except Reagan and the Pope. Gotta keep the agitprop free from cumbersome human voluntarism on the traditionalist side of the ledger! Peggy's comments:

The left sees Fox as a symptom and promoter of anarchy. The old unity, the old essential unity one used to experience when one turned on the TV in 1950 or 1980, has been fractured, broken up. We are becoming balkanized. Fox, blogs, talk radio, the Internet, citizen reporters--it's all producing cacophony, and heralds a future of No Compromise. No one trusts the information they're given anymore, as they trusted Uncle Walter. This is bad for the country.
It is an odd thing about modern liberals that they're made anxious by the unsanctioned. A conservative is more likely to see what's happening as freedom. It isn't that honest and impartial news lost its place of respect, it's that establishment liberalism lost its journalistic monopoly. And it was a monopoly.

Not everyone believed Uncle Walter. Uncle Walter, and Chet and David, were all there was. But while they reigned, Americans were buying "Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater, and Reagan was quietly rising way out in California, and Spiro Agnew and Bill Safire were issuing mainstream hits like "effete snobs" and "nattering nabobs." In the time liberals think of as the last great unified era, Americans were rising up.

You can get "Culture Warrior" for $13.88 at Wal-Mart. Bet that will rile the "secular-progressives" to more gnashing of teeth in their own outer darkness!