“Walter Cronkite’s on-air report from Vietnam — which the president did not see — supposedly elicited his famous lament: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ Shortly thereafter, Johnson would make his most memorable television appearance, announcing that he would not run for president in 1968.”
You know the old saying, “the winners write the history books”? Its true.
So much of post-war history is Lefty propaganda that there is a thriving industry in books that debunk and de-obfuscate it. None of which ever get mentioned or promoted anywhere of course, because that would upset the ongoing media narrative.
Canada is much worse off than the USA in this regard. One really doesn’t get how utterly false our view of the world and our country is until one lives someplace else for a while. You live in another nation and watch -their- propaganda for a year or two, the scales fall from your eyes.
Sun News is a start on the problem, but only a start. We’ve got seventy years of BS to shovel through that’s never been touched.
Amen!
And, what is being taught in our schools is just one facet and the tip of the iceberg. Think of the latest flap in BC, where grade 8 kids were given a booklet “Lets Put on Something Sexy”.
Another, headlined on the SunNews website today is the UN pond scum telling Canada what is wrong with our food policy.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/03/20130304-073400.html
As another poster here said, it’s no longer about accuracy, or journalistic integrity or even reporting the news – it’s about controlling the message.
The general population who still have a modicum of critical thinking capacity have detected that the MSM has become a singular unified messaging media. They now understand that the media is an arm of the super class and that its agenda is to indoctrinate and condition the public, not inform them. This is now so obvious only a “progressive” (tyrant worshipper)would deny it.
Yeah well. I recall that Cronkite thing….for most of my contempories Cronkite was a trusted source….then that.
That and Jane Fondle’s Hanoi tour left a lot of us pretty bitter. I never saw any of it but the scuttlebutt at the time was that being a journalist in Nam had become a very hazardous occupation.
One thing we were very aware of is that as a rule for the avarage grunt, the only news/intel you can rely upon is what you witnessed.
Churchill was oh so right….
“A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth can get it’s pants on.”
Stansberry: Detroit’s socialist nightmare is America’s future
Thursday, October 29, 2009
From Porter Stansberry in the S&A Digest:
One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit. When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist “benefits,” when you start telling them which schools their children must attend, when you start giving jobs away to people based on race instead of ability… you quash human freedom, which bogs down productivity… and if continued for long enough, leads to social collapse.
I find it perplexing that only 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West continues to implement laws that mimic all of the failed policies of our former “communist” foes. In fact, our current president won the election by promising to “spread the wealth around.” But… truth be told… we don’t have to look to Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union to find a society destroyed by coercion, socialism, and the overreaching power of the State. We could just look at Detroit…
In 1961, the last Republican mayor of Detroit lost his re-election bid to a young, intelligent Democrat, with the overwhelming support of newly organized black voters. His name was Jerome Cavanagh. The incumbent was widely considered to be corrupt (and later served 10 years in prison for tax evasion). Cavanagh, a white man, pandered to poor underclass black voters. He marched with Martin Luther King down the streets of Detroit in 1963. (Of course, marching with King was the right thing to do… It’s just Cavanagh’s motives were political not moral.) He instated aggressive affirmative action policies at City Hall. And most critically, he greatly expanded the role of the government in Detroit, taking advantage of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Model Cities Program” – the first great experiment in centralized urban planning.
Mayor Cavanagh was the only elected official to serve on Johnson’s task force. And Detroit received widespread acclaim for its leadership in the program, which attempted to turn a nine-square-mile section of the city (with 134,000 inhabitants) into a “model city.” More than $400 million was spent trying to turn inner cities into shining new monuments to government planning. In short, the feds and Democratic city mayors were soon telling people where to live, what to build, and what businesses to open or close. In return, the people received cash, training, education, and health care.
The Model Cities program was a disaster for Detroit. But it did accomplish its real goal: The creation of a state-supported, Democratic political power base. The program also resulted in much higher taxes – which were easy to pitch to poor voters who didn’t have to pay them. Cavanagh pushed a new income tax through the state legislature and a “commuter tax” on city workers.
Unfortunately, as with all socialist programs, lots of folks simply don’t like being told what to do. Lots of folks don’t like being plundered by the government. They don’t like losing their jobs because of their race.
In Detroit, they didn’t like paying new, large taxes to fund a largely black and Democratic political hegemony. And so, in 1966, more than 22,000 middle- and upper-class residents moved out of the city.
But what about the poor? As my friend Doug Casey likes to say, in the War on Poverty, the poor lost the most. In July 1967, police attempted to break up a late-night party in the middle of the new “Model City.” The scene turned into the worst race riot of the 1960s. The violence killed more than 40 people and left more than 5,000 people homeless. One of the first stores to be looted was the black-owned pharmacy. The largest black-owned clothing store in the city was also burned to the ground. Cavanagh did nothing to stop the riots, fearing a large police presence would make matters worse. Five days later, Johnson sent in two divisions of paratroopers to put down the insurrection. Over the next 18 months, an additional 140,000 upper- and middle-class residents – almost all of them white – left the city.
And so, you might rightfully ask… after five years of centralized planning, higher taxes, and a fleeing population, what did the government decide to do with its grand experiment, its “Model City”? You’ll never guess….
Seeing it had accomplished nothing but failure, the government endeavored to do still more. The Model City program was expanded and enlarged by 1974’s Community Development Block Grant Program. Here again, politicians would decide which groups (and even individuals) would receive state funds for various “renewal” schemes. Later, Big Business was brought into the fold. In exchange for various concessions, the Big Three automakers “gave” $488 million to the city for use in still more redevelopment schemes in the mid-1990s.
What happened? Even with all of their power and all of the money, centralized planners couldn’t succeed with any of their plans. Nearly all of the upper and middle class left Detroit. The poor fled, too. The Model City area lost 63% of its population and 45% of its housing units from the inception of the program through 1990.
Even today, the crisis continues. At a recent auction of nearly 9,000 seized homes and lots, less than one-fifth of the available properties sold, even with bidding starting at $500. You literally can’t give away most of the “Model City” areas today. The properties put up for sale last week represented an area the size of New York’s Central Park. Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area the size of Boston – Detroit properties in foreclosure have more than tripled since 2007.
Every single mayor of Detroit since 1961 has been a Democrat. Every single mayor of Detroit since 1974 has been black. Detroit has been a major recipient of every major social program since the early 1960s and has received hundreds of billions of dollars in government grants, loans, and programs. We now have a black, Democrat president, who is promising to do to America as a whole what his political mentors have done to Detroit.
Those of you with a Democratic political affiliation may think what I’ve written above is biased or false. You may think what you like. But there is no way to argue that what the government has done to Detroit is anything but a horrendous crime. You may think what I’ve written above is merely a political analysis. Perhaps so, but politicians drive macroeconomic policy. And macroeconomic policy determines key financial metrics, like the trade-weighted value of a currency and key interest rates.
The likelihood America will become a giant Detroit is growing – rapidly. Politicians now control the banking sector, most of the manufacturing sector (including autos), a large amount of media, and are threatening to take over health care and the production of electricity (via cap and trade rules). These are the biggest threats to wealth in the history of our country. And these threats are causing the world’s most accomplished and wealthy investors to actively short sell the United States – something that is unprecedented in my experience.
Who won the Vietnam war?
“In the fantasy world of the American Left, Vietnam was not worth fighting because the Cold War was only a fiction whipped up by the military— industrial complex. If only those 100 million dead souls could answer that lie. The American victory in the Cold War was dearly bought, but if the Soviet Union had not been stopped, its victims might now number ——— how many? 200 million? 300 million? An endless number, as the Soviet Empire went from victory to victory?”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/05/how_we_won_the_war_in_vietnam.html
Maybe I’m dense…but I never thought that the “Cronkite Moment” (myth or not) was what supposedly triggered LBJ’s decision to not run again for the presidency. I always thought it was supposed to mark the moment where Johnson conceded to himself – and perhaps his inner circle – that it was futile to try and rouse the American people to support the war effort in Vietnam en masse. That, at least from the perspective of American morale, it was a lost cause.
I’m pretty sure Joe Biden said that LBJ seen that Cronkite clip on Tivo, then texted his advisors to say that running again would be a bad idea and to get the word out on facebook seeing as thought Al Gore had just invented the internet.
Those were interesting times when perhaps news reporting was more or less fair and journalists actually took pride in accurately delivering the news. It was certainly fairer than it is now. Johnson, the Democrat, took a lot of flack from comedians. Today John Stewart and all the others have their nose wedged so far up Obama’s derriere that they may need a winch truck to suck it out. The comedy is all one sided.
I don’t know that defeat, or defeatism, figured in highly in 1968. The Democrat’s war lasted another 7 years. My memory tells me that Johnson didn’t run because he was so unpopular and Nixon was so popular.
Ditto;Phantom and Occam; Cheers
ahh, there may be an all together “other” reason for Johnson not running for a second term, in writing his memoirs he stated to his biographer “that Oswald had not acted on his own”, it may be interesting to know how he knew that. His inquiry had determined(for public consumption) that Oswald HAD acted alone, was he afriad of the truth coming out and bitting him on his a$$?
NM; I think he was just commenting re. the p[opulat myths at the time. There are more than 2000 books written on the Kennedy assignation and more coming each year. However there are only about 5 that don’t make a grand conspiracy about it. It was simple, a loner did what an organization would have been found out trying. Thus the latest word from the Jihad organizers is “Act Alone”.
Paul Elam, A Voice for Men- the biggest conjob in the MRA and disinfo agent
http://www.crimesagainstfathers.com/australia/Forums/tabid/82/forumid/107/postid/4658/scope/posts/Default.aspx
A short commentary on MRA leaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElZzB4P2D4
The so called “Leaders” of the MRA area are lying to you all. They are telling you that governments make legislation that you HAVE to obey and that they can FORCE you to obey using the police FORCE. This is a lie. They know it is a lie. And they are telling you lies that they know are lies.
The TRUTH is that legislation is NOT LAW and you do not have to obey ANY legislation. Here are links to videos that go into this in detail. This is not a new idea. Many people KNOW that legislation is not law and have been telling you so for a long time.
The excuse offered is usually “well the guvment can hurt you if you do not obey” is just that. An excuse. The only reason that guvments do hurt men who do not obey is because men have TOLERATED these crimes and not formed new courts to put criminals in guvment on trial. Men only have themselves to blame.
Would you believe I was three meters from Cronkite with a lock and loaded M-14 and didn’t shoot?
Several wanted to frag his ass but we would have been arrested, handcuffed,
and made to appear on ‘Whats My Line’.
Same lines as PET, challenged by a reporter if he could bang a certain now current Liberal leadership candidate, “just watch me”.
Or was that during the Quebec Crisis…. hmmm it’s so hazy now….
Delete post, if a bit too much, I am a sinner, after all.