It looks like the Obama people are taking a page from the Socialist play book that deals with discrediting the media prior to taking state control.

The past several weeks has been marked by the usual Obama rhetoric dealing with the dozens of programs he plans to initiate in his first and hopefully last term as President. The President is still giving almost daily speeches echoing the same message of Hope and Change in what appears to be some weird Manchurian candidate kind of brainwash that he and his handlers think will sway not only the American people but the whole world to willingly accept their Socialist agenda. He continues to waffle on Afghanistan, still won't give clear facts about his health care program, keeps babbling on about how he is going to generate millions of jobs in Green industries when the basic infrastructure is non existent and worse the technology is in most cases years off, the deficit continues to grow at a staggering pace and the administration keeps making excuses for all of the money that was paid out to various financial concerns and has virtually vaporized without leaving a trace.

All of the above adds up to news, news that doesn't have to be distorted or embellished, only reported as it is dished out by the White House and according to the spokespeople for the President, that ain 't right. From all appearances the President and his 'people' think the American people should just step up and swallow whatever message they hand out and we should accept blindly whatever policies they wish to put into effect regardless of what the cost to America is. So when anyone or any organization particularly the Television Media questions the administration's messages or policies they get very upset, so upset that they effect genuine Socialist tactics of attempting to discredit the Media, if you don't believe this you only have to look to our South American neighbor Venezuela, and it's current Socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. When Mr. Chavez took office after wowing the ignorant with promises of redistribution of wealth, he set about discrediting the Media shortly before he took state control, as Socialist governments know, it's easier to control the general population when you control the flow and content of information.

Now it appears that even the left leaning Obama supporting Media outlets see their own position as tenuous at best, they might agree with his politics to a point but they don't relish the idea of potentially being state run puppets one day, so like it or not they have to stick up for the people at Fox who have fallen into disfavor for relatively straightforward reporting and commentary. Whats odd is that the left Media outlets have terrible ratings in comparison to Fox, to the point that some of their most 'progressive' commentators have only a small following, yet they somehow managed see the danger of going down the path that the Obama people are attempting to get them to follow. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of a spin Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Gibbs try to put on this defection of their Media pets.

I'll bet that like the US, history isn't taught in schools in Venezuela as well as most if not all countries that are either run by Socialists or are leaning that way. Here's a hint, clueless is easier to control.

Thanks for reading,

"Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy, political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority....a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the state".
Benito Mussolini
1883 - 1945
Italian dictator during WWII

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