For most of World War II, and before, the German people had
access to just one newspaper and one radio station. Nazi propaganda minister
Joseph Goebbels also saw to it that Germans had little choice in radio
equipment. The only radio set available to them was the Volksempfänger,
designed to receive only local broadcasts. It insured that Nazi propaganda broadcasts could be heard, while other media,
such as the BBC, could not.
Sound familiar? Given their desire to censor, even to prohibit,
conservative speech, it is clear that American liberals are much more in tune
with Goebbels than with our cherished First Amendment rights. Their physical
assaults on conservative speakers on college campuses, the institutional bias
against conservatives in public broadcasting, the concerted effort to staff
mainstream media with none but liberal writers and commentators, their threat to
destroy conservative talk radio, and much more, are all reminiscent of tactics
employed by the Sturmabteilung (SA), also known as the “Brownshirts,” in
Hitler’s pre-war Germany.
Imagine what Goebbels could have accomplished if he’d had what
American fascists have had at their disposal for decades: four major television
networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN – with a stable of star-quality propagandists,
such as Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Bill Moyers,
Keith Olbermann, and Rosie O’Donnell, in their pocket.
Imagine what Goebbels could have accomplished if, instead of
just one major propaganda organ, Das Reich, he’d had access to dozens of
influential newspapers, such as The New York Times, the Washington
Post, and the Los Angeles Times… all of which obediently parroted the
party line.
Taking all that into consideration, what most distinguishes the
leftist propaganda assault of the past seven decades, or more, is not what
they’ve been able to accomplish, but what they have failed to accomplish.
With an almost total monopoly on news reporting and editorial content, American
liberals and Democrats should have been able to gain undisputed control of the
White House, the courts, and the Congress... but they haven’t.
Until the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, American
leftists had everything going their way, but the people were hungering for a
measure of truth and objectivity in broadcast journalism and the demise of the
horribly misnamed “Fairness” Doctrine opened the door wide for the likes of Rush
Limbaugh. Limbaugh quickly became a household word, reaching an average of 13.5
million listeners weekly, and the left wing propaganda machine suffered its
first major setback.
As Daniel Henninger wrote in the Wall Street Journal,
“Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the Fairness Doctrine) in 1987... and
Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East
Germany of liberal media domination.”
But conservative talk radio was only the first major threat to
the left wing propaganda machine. Beginning in 1996, the Fox Network came to
television broadcasting, reaching some 85 million U.S. homes. Using the slogans
“Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid” and “We Report – You Decide,” Fox featured
liberal commentators side-by-side with conservatives. Yet, in spite of the
inherent fairness of the Fox approach, liberal critics complain that Fox is “an
unabashed supporter of conservative causes,” proving conclusively what we
already knew: that the only programs that liberals consider “fair and balanced”
are those that communicate only the leftist point of view.
During his years as Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels
employed a simple, but highly cynical set of rules. He said:
· There is no truth, only what people believe to be true.
· Control people’s perceptions of the world and you can control
their beliefs.
· A big lie is as believable as a small one.
· Tell people what they want to hear; give them simple
solutions to complex problems, enemies on whom they can blame their discontents,
and promises to satisfy their narrow aspirations…
So what part of Goebbels’ cynical philosophy does not
describe the overall political approach of today’s Democrat Party?
George Soros, the anti-American billionaire who now owns a
controlling interest in the party, said recently that Nazis are running the
United States and that “we have to go through a certain de-Nazification
process.” He’s right. Fascists are on the ascendancy in America… but they’re not
the people Soros has in mind.
If the American people wish to identify the key players in the
move toward American-style fascism, all they need do is watch to see who stands
up and salutes when the call goes out to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine.
Without being privy to their deliberations, one thing is
certain: liberals and Democrats will not call for “fairness” or “equal time”
from the major networks or from print media… where liberal ideology reigns
supreme. They will call only for “fairness” and “equal time” in talk radio,
where conservatives have the upper hand.
Unfair, you say? Not the way liberals and Democrats see it.
