Elite Media = Evil Media?

When you get tired and your eyes skim what you are reading sometimes you get a word slightly wrong. Reading a response by a commentator about media bias who referred to the “elite media” I read the words “evil media.” Elite … evil; I suddenly realized that this is what the media has become: evil.

Evil: that’s a very serious charge. Unless you’re Michael Moore or Al Gore speaking to a Moveon.org meeting you had better be prepared to defend yourself. So let me explain.

The news media are populated by the Left. A 2003 study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago showed that the media are much father to the Left than the American people. A Measure of Media Bias
To quote the authors:

“Journalists as a group are more liberal than almost any congressional district in the country. For instance in the Ninth California District, which includes Berkeley, twelve percent voted for Bush, nearly double the rate for journalists. In the eighth Massachusetts District, which includes Cambridge, nineteen percent voted for Bush, more than triple the rate of journalists. In the 14th California District, which includes Palo Alto, 26 percent voted for Bush, more than four times the rate of journalists.”

Having demonstrated the identification of the Left with the media, the rest of this essay will identify the Left and the media as having the same identity. The “media” is simply the Left with a printing press.

The Left sees the War on Terror, especially the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq as a catastrophe. There are a number of reasons for this, but the primary one is a combination of a visceral hatred of conservative American values and a vested interest in multinationalism with its center in the United Nations.

The Left despises Red State America as a bunch of ignorant yahoos who marry their cousins, handle snakes on Sunday and shoot Bambi for sport.

They also believe that we must outgrow nationalism. They have managed to overlook the fact that the foremost forum for multinationalism. the UN, is dominated by despots who shot their way into power, literally rape and pillage their subjects and hate the United States with a passion that only envy and lust can explain.

Strobe Talbott Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton summed it up best: "Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete." Time Magazine, July 20, 1992.

Now comes George Bush; lone cowboy. After 9/11 he is determined that this unprecedented attack on America will not be followed by ineffectual responses. George Bush: “When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.” That does not sound like UN Speak.

Worse yet, despite rejection of pre-emptive action against Iraq by France, Germany and Russia and without UN approval, Bush invades Iraq and drives Saddam from power.

There can be no doubt that the Iraqi people are better off having had Saddam’s brutal dictatorship removed. But just as the immediate aftermath of Word War II was hunger, fear and scattered resistance, the aftermath of the war in Iraq is much the same. The exception is that whereas Germany and its allies were defeated in world War II, here we have only defeated Saddam. Neighboring countries such as Iran and Syria are essentially in a state of cold war with the US, aiding and abetting the killers who roam Iraq. This must be dealt with, but the left has spent its time backbiting.

For the Left, the focus is on the upcoming election. It’s a choice between Bush and Kerry; between Red State America and the Left. It’s too late to give a charisma transplant to Kerry. In fact the less he campaigns, the better he polls. So the Left is determined to drag Kerry over the finish line over the prostrate body of George Bush. And if that means giving a win to those who literally shoot from “Holy Sites” and take shelter behind women and children, it’s OK with the Left. Those who piously invoke the Geneva convention grow strangely silent before those whose interpretation of the Geneva Convention allows for beheading their captives.

The left are willing to throw away the lives of a thousand fighting men who died in the War on Terror. They will consign to the memory hole the 3,000 who died on 9/11.

Those who are willing to do this are evil. If for the sake of domestic politics you will objectively side with the most brutal murderers and dictators you are evil. It’s not a judgment call any more, you have sided with the enemy. Go, for I no longer want to know you.