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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Jonathan Alter – Journalist, or Left-Wing Activist?

Written : July 24, 2013

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The MSM sees Mr. Alter as a journalistic genius.

Jonathan Alter, a member of the mainstream media (MSM), is held in high regard by his peers and is known by some mild terms, like ‘columnist’ and ‘author.’ His latest book is called, “The Center Holds, Obama and His Enemies.” Naturally, the use of the word ‘enemies,’ implies that those evil Republicans are out to get the president. It can’t be that we disagree with Mr. Obama’s policies, oh, no. It’s not that the president won’t work with our guys, naah. Alter discussed the untouchable’s second term on CSPAN’s Washington Journal a month ago, on June 24, 2013. Many in the MSM, I recall, predicted doom and gloom for President Bush’s second term, but not here. Now it’s, “This president can only succeed if the Republicans would just go away – or change their minds.” On TV, Alter showed confidence in the president’s ability to recover from the multitude of scandals; he has plenty of time. Sure, when you have a favorable media, I suppose you can overcome adversity, especially if all the nagging problems are completely ignored.

The Center Holds, Alter’s New Book, has a rather paranoid subtitle.

Alter says that the IRS and NSA stories are not going to be permanent blemishes on President Obama’s record. Given the media’s bias, he may be right. Like many of his colleagues, he’s excited about the possibility that if immigration reform doesn’t pass the House, the Republicans won’t be able to get their candidate elected in 2016. He, like many on the left, perpetuates the myth that all of a sudden conservatives support immigration reform, when we have been proponents of change in this area all along. Conservatives want to secure the border first, and then address the issue, but no one in the MSM wants you to realize it. They prefer that you believe the lie instead, that people on the right hate everyone, including grandma, and love dirty air and poisoned water.

One of Alter’s Other Books - The Promise.

Jonathan Alter also says that the Obama campaign stealthily visited the Latino community many times (quietly, to avoid attention), in order to win the hearts and minds of those voters. According to Mr. Alter, the immigration bill is now a direct result of that outreach… If the Republicans had done the same, though, they’d have been accused of buying votes, but in this case, it’s a wonderful tactic. If you believe there’s fairness in the media, google a left-wing pundit like Mr. Alter and a conservative journalist, like Sean Hannity, and compare the wording.

Jonathan Alter, neither a reporter or a journalist, is a liberal pundit.

Alter thinks he knows why the president is so silent. He said that President Obama learned that if he raised his profile too high, or come out in favor of something, the Republicans would immediately come out against it. Sort of like each time President Bush did the same, and the Democrats and the media came out against him. They called Bush ‘imperial’ for ‘hiding’ during his second term, but in this case it’s politically smart. Sure. I’ve seen that all presidents do this. There’s nothing smart or sinister about it, unless you push a political agenda.

Jonathan Alter spent 28 years at Newsweek, no wonder they love him.

It’s amazing how important the media moguls think President Obama’s legacy is, when they couldn’t wait for Bush to leave. While Mr. Alter says that his job is to hold politicians from both parties accountable, he only holds Republicans accountable. Democrats were not obstructionist during President Bush’s term, only Republicans are now, during President Obama’s. If Democrats had passed Bush’s Social Security reforms I’m sure Mr. Alter and the rest of the MSM would have had a fit, but if Republicans pass the Democrats’s immigration reform they are “stepping up.” This seems just a bit one-sided to me.

Alter’s an MSNBC kind of guy, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Mr. Alter is a liberal and a proponent of the president’s policies, but I don’t hold that against him. The media pretends that he’s a fair journalist, and that’s what I find reprehensible. He’s neither. To explain it to left-wingers, he sounds like a liberal Sean Hannity to me. I don’t say that my blog is journalism, but neither is Mr. Alter’s work. He’s as partisan as I am. He said that righties need to stop resisting Obamacare, no matter what we might think of it, and we need more investment in infrastructure. He’s right, some roads and bridges do need repair, but doesn’t that sound rather familiar?

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We Do Not Preach

Written : June 16, 2009

When I first heard about David Letterman’s “flawed joke” concerning A-Rod “knocking up” Sarah Palin’s fourteen year-old daughter Willow, I thought it was just an instance of bias in our media. Another liberal comedian took a crack at another conservative in an attempt to make the conservative look bad. This particular joke was also another chauvinistic stab at women, supported rape, and it assaulted progress made by liberal women’s groups in the last century. But it attacked a conservative, so it was for the most part left alone by our mainstream media and most liberal women’s groups. (I used to call them “women’s groups”, but no longer. After the relentless, vicious attacks in the media on Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign with no “women’s groups” coming to her aid, I have begun calling them “liberal women’s groups.)

There’s a little more to it than I originally thought. This speaks to one of the reasons why liberals are unjustifiably angry at conservatives. They view us as part moron, part warmonger, and part intolerant religious zealot, among other things. Of course, those stereotypes are as untrue as any other. I want to address the "religious zealot" portion of our perceived character.

I wonder how people on the left can see us like that, but they do. They see conservatives as holding everyone to every religious and moral principle. However, where they have it wrong is that they see us shaking our fingers at them, scolding society, forcing everyone to adhere to the same standards. I admit, some of us do, but most of us just try to “live right”, and many teach sensible principles and morals to our children. No conservative I know scolds others for moral errors, nor do they hold anyone else accountable for not adhering to standards we hold dear. Most conservatives and I know that God alone will do that.

Liberals insist, therefore, that ALL conservatives must live up to every religious and moral principle known to man because their perception is “that’s what we preach”. They savor depicting us as morally hypocritical. So, when Sarah Palin’s daughter got pregnant (had pre-marital sex) it makes them want to stick it in all of our faces. Gillian Barberrie Reynolds said as much on “Hannity”, on June 15, 2009. They’re apt to say something like, “Aha, so there! You conservatives aren’t perfect, either!” But we know that. We know that people (even conservatives) make mistakes and use poor judgment at times. We forgive all those who err; liberals in general, forgive only liberals. We attempt to make the best of any situation and generally look on the “bright side”. That’s our power, our strength, as I see it.

When Hillary and Bill Clinton told the media to leave their daughter Chelsea alone, they were correct. Why can’t liberals and liberal groups do the same for Sarah and Todd Palin’s children?

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