SPIES & LIES

SPIES & LIES


. . . AND PRIZES FOR WARTIME TREASON

April 28, 2006 -- IF a street-corner thug knowingly receives stolen goods for profit, he goes to jail. If a well-educated, privileged journalist profits from receiving classified information - stolen from our government - he or she gets a prize.
Is something wrong here?

Media outlets, including the generally responsible Washington Post, have had fits over a few retired generals' unclassified criticism of the Secretary of Defense, while simultaneously insisting on their own right to receive and publish our nation's wartime secrets - and to shield the identities of unethical bureaucrats who betray our nation's trust.

Since the Vietnam era, reporters have convinced themselves that they are the real heroes in any story. The archways above our journalism faculties soon may sport the maxim: "The Press can do no wrong."



But the press can do wrong. And it does it with gusto. Let me tell you what the illegal receipt and exploitation of our nation's secrets used to be called: Espionage. Spying. Yet today's "real" spies cause less harm to our national security than self-righteous journalists do.

A NATION at war must keep secrets. The media can't plead that classified documents just fell into their hands, obligating them to publish our secrets out of a noble respect for truth. That's bull, and every journalist knows it. Could a punk down on the block claim that, since he was offered a gun, he was obligated to aim it and pull the trigger?

Many in the media not only want to re-write election results and change national policies - they've been re-writing history, too. On the entertainment-and-propaganda side, George Clooney produced a gorgeous, seductive and whoppingly dishonest film about journalism last year, "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Deftly re-arranging the fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy - by slighting the fact that only the Department of the Army had the guts to stand up to Tailgunner Joe at the height of his powers (a civilian lawyer for the Army asked the famous question, "Senator, have you no shame?") - the film leads the viewer to believe that a lone journalist, Edward R. Murrow, broke the senator's evil spell.

More @ http://tinyurl.com/ool3a NY Post

MSM always spins current events/history with the Left as the stalwart hero's defeating the evil right wing demi-gods. Of course it isn't true, Tail Gunner Joe was right about Communists in the US Government and he would be right today. Sometime ago there were 40 some members of the US Congress who professed to be avowed Socialists. Socialists are Communists with a smiley face.

Communism is far from dead, it just calls itself Progressive and has new packaging. MSM is the mouthpiece of what is now described as a Progressive Political Platform. This platform is nothing more than the old sale Socialism/Communism that has been around since the 1840's.

Someone once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." When it comes to politics that is very true.