Jeb
12-04-2009, 10:52 PM
Those of us that grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's and saw the defeat of the Soviet Union culminate with the fall of the Berlin wall, think it was a great triumph celebrated by all freedom loving Americans! But, that's not quite the case. In fact, the leftist in the Democrat party and the MSM spent 20 years defending Communism while slamming our free-market capitalism! Read this article and reflect on our current State-run-media as they are on day 14 of not reporting the Whistleblower Global warming Hoax!
New MRC Report Recalls 20 Years of Media's Blindness to the Evils of Communism
November 05, 2009 08:00 ET
Alexandria, VA – As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s collapse this November 9th, the Media Research Center has released an extensive 20-year review of how many in the liberal media utterly failed to accurately portray communism as one of the worst evils of the century, with their coverage actually leaning in favor of the totalitarian oppressors, not the oppressed.
The two-decade compilation “Better Off Red” reveals trends in coverage – from glowing reports of Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev to perverse arguments that the end of communism was a setback for human rights – and cites dozens of liberal, pro-communist accounts. Lowlights include:
• CBS anchor Dan Rather asserting in 1987 that “Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”
• NBC’s John Chancellor lecturing that “the problem isn’t communism; nobody even talked about communism this week. The problem is shortages,” as the Soviet coup unraveled in 1991.
• Time magazine’s Strobe Talbott claiming the threat of totalitarian communism never even existed as he reported “Gorbachev is helping the West by showing that the Soviet threat isn’t what it used to be, and what’s more that it never was” [emphasis added.]
• CBS’s Harry Smith scorned that “Yes, somehow, Soviet citizens are freer these days — freer to kill one another, freer to hate Jews,” in 1990. "Doing away with totalitarianism and adding a dash of democracy seems an unlikely cure for all that ails the Soviet system."
“The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the official end of a brutal and vicious dictatorship. But unfortunately for too many in the media, it was just the start of a shameful tirade against capitalism.
“This report shows the depths to which some ‘reporters’ went to cast a favorable light on communism. Their alarming distortions should offend those who suffered the nightmare of the Soviet Union and its satellite regimes in East Germany and across Eastern Europe. It should also enrage those of us whose children and grandchildren will have to rely on media for a firsthand account.
When you leftest dare question why Reagan did the things he did to keep freedon Fighters funded and bring about the defeat of the murderous CCCP...well he had too! The damn media was propping the murderous freedom killing bastards up why kissing the ass of Gorby, Ortega, Castro, and every other pinko communist slug! Which is also why BHO could'nt stand the idea of celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the wall comming down! Tear down that wall NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC...that wall of silence! Red is still their color!
New MRC Report Recalls 20 Years of Media's Blindness to the Evils of Communism
November 05, 2009 08:00 ET
Alexandria, VA – As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s collapse this November 9th, the Media Research Center has released an extensive 20-year review of how many in the liberal media utterly failed to accurately portray communism as one of the worst evils of the century, with their coverage actually leaning in favor of the totalitarian oppressors, not the oppressed.
The two-decade compilation “Better Off Red” reveals trends in coverage – from glowing reports of Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev to perverse arguments that the end of communism was a setback for human rights – and cites dozens of liberal, pro-communist accounts. Lowlights include:
• CBS anchor Dan Rather asserting in 1987 that “Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”
• NBC’s John Chancellor lecturing that “the problem isn’t communism; nobody even talked about communism this week. The problem is shortages,” as the Soviet coup unraveled in 1991.
• Time magazine’s Strobe Talbott claiming the threat of totalitarian communism never even existed as he reported “Gorbachev is helping the West by showing that the Soviet threat isn’t what it used to be, and what’s more that it never was” [emphasis added.]
• CBS’s Harry Smith scorned that “Yes, somehow, Soviet citizens are freer these days — freer to kill one another, freer to hate Jews,” in 1990. "Doing away with totalitarianism and adding a dash of democracy seems an unlikely cure for all that ails the Soviet system."
“The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the official end of a brutal and vicious dictatorship. But unfortunately for too many in the media, it was just the start of a shameful tirade against capitalism.
“This report shows the depths to which some ‘reporters’ went to cast a favorable light on communism. Their alarming distortions should offend those who suffered the nightmare of the Soviet Union and its satellite regimes in East Germany and across Eastern Europe. It should also enrage those of us whose children and grandchildren will have to rely on media for a firsthand account.
When you leftest dare question why Reagan did the things he did to keep freedon Fighters funded and bring about the defeat of the murderous CCCP...well he had too! The damn media was propping the murderous freedom killing bastards up why kissing the ass of Gorby, Ortega, Castro, and every other pinko communist slug! Which is also why BHO could'nt stand the idea of celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the wall comming down! Tear down that wall NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC...that wall of silence! Red is still their color!