Palin, the media and what it means to me

Newsmax Research

Brent Bozell

Newsmax research pulled every associated press headline on Governor Palin since her nomination. Also Brent Bozell from the Media Research Center has some new findings. You decide for yourself if the associated press is fair to conservatives. The links are above.

Let me explain why I think this is so important and why I harp on this with my liberal colleagues. These people are essentially rewriting history. In 100 years our ancestors will look back at history and they will have the word of liberal journalists to rely on. That’s how some of the biggest lies in history have been propagated. For instance, there is the false assumption that the Tet Offensive was a failure. It wasn’t until I was studying ROTC that I knew otherwise.

My favorite example is of Joe McCarthy. The term “McCarthyism” is ubiquitous when people want to accuse someone of demonizing another. Books have been written about “the McCarthy years” and how he ruined innocent peoples’ lives, etc., etc. When looking at the references from these books you see a common theme. Almost every single source is print media from the time. M. Stanton Evans wrote a book recently called “Blacklisted by History”, which is about McCarthy. It took him nearly a decade of research through government files, congressional testimony and firsthand accounts but he studiously trudged on to completion. These sources tell a story that is the complete opposite from the one you are used to hearing. It shows that his original task was not even related to communism per se. Evans shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false; including the eternally repetitive misquoting of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era (“I have here in my hand . . .”). When Russian documents surfaced in the 90’s and essentially proved all of McCarthy’s allegations no amount of retractions could have saved his reputation.

I’ve digressed but this is my point. If these things have been distorted as much as it seems and because of the media’s bias it took years of hard research to uncover it, then what does the future hold for us? Imagine if the media had accurately reported the activities from this era. Would public outcry turned the government upside down and rid it of communists? Would our nuclear secrets have ever gotten out? Would there have been a cold war? Would Iran, Pakistan, China, Russia and North Korea have nuclear weapons? Think about what it means for a free country to have a trustworthy press.