Media Synchronicity and Confederate Thoughts on an Era of Elite Corruption

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Confederate, Confederate, Confederate, Confederate — the word is all over the headlines today, which was nothing that would have seemed a logical consequence of Dylann Roof’s shooting spree last week in South Carolina. What has happened, we may surmise, is that some activists, politicians and journalists reached an unofficial consensus that this was one of those “Do Something” moments we see from time to time: “This terrible tragedy requires that we Do Something!”

You notice there is no obvious cause-and-effect connection between the triggering event (Roof’s mass murder in Charleston) and the media-orchestrated reaction (the demand to remove the Confederate flag from a monument at the state capitol). Dylann Roof’s Internet “manifesto” contained this paragraph:

The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?

“OMG! Google and Wikipedia inspired a hate crime!” said nobody.

What the media zoomed in on was “Council of Conservative Citizens,”and why? Because the media are partisan Democrats and the CCC can be linked to Republicans. “OMG! Republicans inspired a hate crime!”

It’s that simple, really. Andrew Breitbart used the phrase “Democrat-Media Complex” to describe this problem, wherein allegedly objective journalists operate as de facto partisan propagandists and decisions about news are actually decisions about politics.

This synchronization between the news media and the Democrat Party, which has been a problem for decades, became far worse in the 21st century, because (a) Democrats went into all-out panic mode during the eight years of the George W. Bush presidency, and (b) George Soros and others funded the development of an interlocking series of “progressive” non-profit organizations, including Media Matters, to shift American politics leftward. Because nearly everyone in the major media is a partisan Democrat — honestly, what percentage of people employed by CNN or the New York Times have ever voted Republican? — the Bush era was a nightmare to them. In the minds of these “objective” journalists, they have a professional and moral obligation to make sure that no Republican is ever again elected President of the United States.

Of course, they don’t think about this in such direct terms, because they never actually have to think about it at all. In the newsroom at NBC or the Washington Post or any other “mainstream” news organization (where 90% of journalists always vote Democrat), this kind of bias is so ubiquitous that no one thinks of it as bias.

They don’t even think, really — their leftist reactions are an autonomous reflex, like blinking or respiration. Go ask them why they’re liberals, and they can’t really explain it. As a matter of fact, they may not even realize they are liberals, because in a room full of Bolsheviks or Maoists, the democratic socialist is a “moderate” of sorts, and America’s newsrooms are increasingly staffed by totalitarian fanatics.

This reality — that the major news media have become partisan organizations producing Democrat Party propaganda — is the necessary background to understanding both the Charleston massacre and the reaction to the massacre. Go read the entirety of Dylann Roof’s manifesto and notice that not once does he mention the Confederate flag. So the connection between Roof’s crimes and the Confederate flag is certainly not as clear-cut as the media would have you believe. However, notice something else: Why did Dylann Roof turn to the Council of Conservative Citizens for information about black-on-white crime?

Oh, he was watching media coverage of the Trayvon Martin story and became curious. And do you suppose that any major news organization — CNN, ABC, New York Times, Associated Press, etc. — has ever produced any in-depth examination of black-on-white crime in America? No.

Why not? Some questions are never answered because some questions are never asked, you see. It is possible to imagine how a responsible news organization could have produced a report about race and crime in America that would have turned up in the Google search that Dylann Roof did. It is possible that such a report might have directed Roof’s attention to authors like Thomas Sowell (The Quest for Cosmic Justice) and Shelby Steele (White Guilt) to seek an understanding of these issues in ways that don’t provoke irrational spasms of hatred.

There are many things we could imagine, including public schools that actually teach history and political science, but we can only imagine them because the political leadership of the Republican Party lacks imagination. The GOP is run by corrupt and selfish people whose only concern is to enhance their own power and prestige, and how to leverage their power and prestige to obtain cash.

Karl Rove cares about exactly one thing: “When do I get paid?”

That’s the real bottom line. Whereas the Democrat Party is run by people who actually share the same beliefs as the people who vote for the Democrat Party, the GOP is run by people who do not remotely give a fuck about GOP voters. Karl Rove hates Republican voters. All elite GOP operatives share a profound disdain for the party’s grassroots electoral base. Mitch McConnell? Isn’t it obvious how much he is ashamed of the people in Kentucky who elected him to the Senate?

The GOP is the Party of Money, and the guys who pay big money to control the Republican Party hire people like Karl Rove whose only concern is how to get paid more money. As a result, there is a very short-sighted concern with the day-to-day poll numbers and more or less trivial “message” items, so that there is no larger vision, no deeper interest in the problems affecting the lives of the American people, and then here you have a drug-addicted dropout like Dylann Roof who goes in search of background about the Trayvon Martin story and what he finds is a dangerous “racial awareness” rather than political enlightenment. Consider this line from Roof’s manifesto:

To take a saying from my favorite film, “Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society.”

According to Mother Jones magazine, this is “a reference to the 2011 ultra-violent Japanese crime drama, Himizu“:

The movie, adapted from a popular manga by director Sion Sono, is set in tsunami-hit Japan in 2011, and follows the story of two teenagers — unloved, unwanted — struggling to survive amid the chaos wrought by the earthquake, and corruption. It’s a twisted and dark coming-of-age story (at some points a romance) . . .

How strange that a young white man in South Carolina should find inspiration for mass murder from such a source, when he might otherwise have been directed to a far more appropriate source.

“The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”

So wrote Gen. Robert E. Lee in a September 1870 letter to his former staffer, Lt. Col. Charles Marshall. When we consider how many reasons Lee might have had to despair, and see that he instead sought to encourage hope, how can anyone who would claim inspiration from the general’s honorable example permit himself to lose hope? Bishop A.M. Randolph once observed of Lee:

“As a thinker and a man of intellectual powers little has been said of him, and, yet, intellectual power, associated with moral purity, are the true springs of greatness. General Lee was a thinker of broad sympathies, deep insight, and of philosophical grasp, which would have made him, had his vocation called him to the field of literature, one of the wisest writers of his time.”

Those “broad sympathies” certainly had no resonance in the depraved mind of Dylann Roof, who quite likely never knew anything of the “intellectual power” and “moral purity” of Lee. What we now behold is an entire generation of young Americans — North and South, white and black — who have been deprived of a legacy to which they are rightful heirs. They have been systematically cheated of their patrimony by a process of corruption that has affected every aspect of our culture.

Our schools teach nothing of value, the news media is full of shallow propaganda, and the popular entertainment produced by Hollywood is a sewer of immorality. Nowhere can the troubled youth find inspiration toward the kind of courageous patience, Christian faith and manly determination that Robert E. Lee exemplified.

Does anyone in the Republican Party understand this? I fear not, but as Stonewall Jackson said, “Never take counsel of your fears.”

Remain calm amid crisis. Heed not the voice of discouragement. News that Jeb Bush is leading Republican presidential polls for 2016 prompted Ace of Spades to mutter that he is “really running out of hope,” and who isn’t? Recent years have wrought so much destruction in our society and culture that many have lost both reason and faith. President Obama promised Hope and Change, but has instead produced a tsunami of hateful savagery, degenerate perversion and frantic insanity. Every day, the headlines bring us news of some bizarre outrage.

The intellectual, cultural and political elite of American society are determined to destroy American society, and the influence of this decadent elite now pervades every institution of our culture. Certainly, any intelligent observer must be pessimistic about the future of a nation that has been cursed with such depraved and wicked “leaders.”

We must nevertheless resist the temptation to despair. We must each determine to do as much as we can to resist this onslaught of satanic perversity, to expose the cowardice and corruption of those dishonest Republican “leaders” who are paid by the party’s money men to assist Democrats in the destruction of our civilization. We live in a dark, disturbed and depressing age, yet we cannot take counsel of our fears, nor can we forget the history that teaches us to hope.

If you ever begin to weaken, pray to God for more strength.

If you ever begin to fear, pray to God for more courage.





 

57 comments

  1. Leftist trolls online sometimes ask what Republicans will do if Hillary is elected, thinking this would be psychologically devastating to us. Maybe it’s because the reverse would be devastating to them.

    I think I would be sanguine about it.

    People get the government they deserve. If Hillary is elected, it will be because people haven’t been burned badly enough; a Hillary presidency would fix that quickly. The same reasoning applies to Jeb (!) and the GOP establishment, vis-à-vis the Republican base.
    The political left is like the demon in The Exorcist: a liar. We must not listen to the demon. If everyone does their duty instead of giving in to despair, we’ll be just fine.

  2. Our esteemed host wrote:

    That’s the real bottom line. Whereas the Democrat Party is run by people who actually share the same beliefs as the people who vote for the Democrat Party, the GOP is run by people who do not remotely give a fuck about GOP voters.

    I very much disagree that the Democratic Party is run by people who share the same beliefs as their voters. The Clintons care about exactly one thing: themselves. The Democratic Party elites talk and talk and talk about helping the poor, but they are monstrous hypocrites concerned only with power and their own money. Even the supposed socialist Barack Hussein Obama has proved to be a major disappointment to large sections of the Democratic base.

  3. Our honored host wrote:

    What has happened, we may surmise, is that some activists, politicians and journalists reached an unofficial consensus that this was one of those “Do Something” moments we see from time to time: “This terrible tragedy requires that we Do Something!”

    No, not at all. Rather, they saw an opportunity to do something that they’ve wanted to do for a long time now. They don’t really care about the Confederate flag, except as an opportunity to gain some sort of symbolic victory over conservatives, most of whom don’t care one way or the other about the flag.

    When I was in elementary school in Kentucky — a state which did not secede — instead of cowboys and Indians, the boys played Rebels and Yankees, and being the only student from the North (my mother was from Maine), I was the designated Yankee. What the left are doing today is no different from the schoolboys playing Rebels and Yankees, but the left is damned determined to win.

  4. Well, we had a good run…

    The sheep have been safe for so long that they don’t believe in wolves anymore… Things are about to get “interesting” as the world prepares to enter a period of what Heinlein would describe as, “bad luck.”

  5. An alternative theory: We truly are doomed beyond hope of all redemption.

    The Almighty God saw fit that a Christian people should have this nation and, so long as they were faithful to God, they were preserved against all enemies. The nation they founded grew strong, prosperous and free, so that all the world marveled at America. It was foreordained by God’s will, in this view, that America would endure great trouble and yet grow ever stronger.

    First, we defeated Britain, overcoming the greatest empire in the world to gain our independence. We conquered the continent from coast to coast, and fought a great war amongst ourselves over the issue of human liberty. Ever stronger America grew, becoming a mighty industrial colossus. We destroyed Spain’s empire in this hempisphere, and when the French and English were besieged by the Kaiser’s vaunting armies, America lent its strength to defeat the power of Germany and her allies.

    American emerged from the First World War victorious, her world prestige unparalleled. Surviving through a Great Depression, once against America was called to war against enemies of liberty. We crushed Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich, and blasted the Japanese empire into smoldering ruins. Yet still was our nation’s great mission not fulfilled.

    The world now stood terrorized by the Soviet tyranny, and Communism soon raised its banner over China. A war ensued in Korea, and a great patriot from Wisconsin stood forth to warn that our nation’s leadership had been subverted by agents of our worst enemies. Joe McCarthy was destroyed by the slanders of Communist stooges, yet other patriots who saw the menace of subversion realized that a new movement was needed if America was to prevail in the Cold War.

    Bill Buckley, Stan Evans, Phyllis Schlafly — to cite just three names from a roster of glorious heroes — rallied the forces of freedom, and chose as their champion Barry Goldwater. He also went down to defeat, but not before America heard from a man destined to be the Great Champion of Freedom.

    This was “A Time of Choosing,” Ronald Reagan warned in 1964. It took another 16 years to elect Ronald Reagan president, but from the day he took the oath of office as Commander in Chief, the clock began ticking toward the final destruction of the Soviet Union.

    Here we are then, scarcely a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we find Americans seem to have forgotten everything they ought to have learned from history.

    Most shockingly, America has forgotten God, who delivered us from every evil in the past, and who blessed our nation with wealth and power exceeding everything the world had previously known.

    So … we are doomed. It has suited God to bring our nation thus far, so that an ungrateful generation might forget all that God has done for us, and thus to invite the wrath of the Almighty to destroy us. If that be God’s sovereign will, so be it. Yet those of us who still have faith in God must never cease to speak the truth, nor surrender to the satanic voices that bid us to aid in the works of evil now afoot.

    Fight on. Stay true. And pray. Selah.

  6. None of what is going on is unexpected. The US is found no where in prophecy, and we are watching the reasons why. A country that hates its history is a country that will not survive. The electorate is insane, and both parties are so far left it doesn’t bear thought. Conservatives are a small minority in the country, and conservatives in the GOP are an aberration.
    When the US reaches the point it can no longer influence events in the world, the flood gates will open and things will move, very fast into Satan’s end game. The US is on the cusp of judgment, and I think the trigger will be pulled this summer.

  7. As a society, we have been propelled by progressives into yet another layer of metaphor intended to advance their secular Utopia.

    In case you haven’t noticed, progressives have morphed race into a proxy for presumed ideology. I say presumed because only 93% of blacks voted for Obama. So it is presumed that black => progressive values. The ideological opposite of progressive is conservative. The largest demographic that votes conservative is middle class Caucasian.

    Hence the assumption: “white” => opposed to progressive values, not “white” => supports progressive values. Thus not “white” => “of color”.

    Now we get to be treated to people, like Alan West, and Herman Cain, who are racially black, but because they are conservatives, they are not “black”. And we have Caucasians who can be black, like Bill Clinton, who was called “our first black president.”

    Off the deep end, we have Caucasians who are so repulsed by conservative values that they are repulsed by the race associated with them. An this gives rise to the complaint about “white privilege,” as if the values of honesty and hard work are racist because progressive blacks who are dependent upon the welfare state repudiate those values.

    How do we extract our beloved country from such a train wreck?

  13. Politics and culture have become so intertwined that people are confused as to the difference between the two, and this is deliberate. The Left decided decades ago (certainly as early as the 1950s, if not before) that they could use their influence among the intelligentsia to destroy the social basis of our Christian, democratic and “capitalist” society. Everything in the culture that tended to support the traditional order (established by the Constitution and our Christian heritage) was targeted for destruction by our nation’s enemies. At this late date in the American Culture War, unwinding this history and locating the causes and effects of our national decline has become a very difficult business, and people are quite confused.

  15. the GOP is run by people who do not remotely give a fuck about GOP voters.

    My guess is that that’s not entirely true. Likely true of Capitol Hill fixtures like Boehner and McConnell, true of Reince Priebus, true of the lobbying and fundraising nexus. True of a third [?] of the congressional caucus and perhaps more (Kelly Ayotte, I’m looking at you). True of a selection of opinion journalists (Jonathan Tobin and Jason Lee Steorts to name two).

  16. It’s the “yada yada yada” reasoning of the liberal, or what I call DRS (Diaper Rash Syndrome.) We upgraded email, my kid has diaper rash, he never had diaper rash before, ergo the email upgrade caused my kid’s ass to turn red.

  17. Abortion — God is not mocked.

    The leftist feminazism-and-homojihad that is presently destroying the nation is not the cause, but is rather the symptom, of our corporate decision to commit suicide.

  18. Heed not the voice of discouragement. News that Jeb Bush is leading Republican presidential polls for 2016 prompted Ace of Spades to mutter that he is “really running out of hope,” and who isn’t?

    And a different poll in recent weeks put him tied with Walker and another put both behind Dr. Carson. Polls are less reliable than they used to be.

    The nomination contest will be unusual. The one-third or so of the GOP electorate who cast ballots by rote for last time’s runner up have rejected Sen. Santorum much as they rejected Pat Buchanan (both men being being unpalatable for the terminally vapid). The Bush brand, a natural recourse for such people, is damaged. So, the deadweight bloc of the GOP electorate may stay home in sufficient numbers to allow people with actual preferences to prevail.

  19. The Liberal sycophant voters will just ignore this.Queen Hillary they will say what does it matter.I know if it were a Republican with that button it would be a never ending media story.

    Rush says next they will go after the American flag.Yeah, that’s no surprise. Governor Nikki Haley said in address on Monday that removing confederate flag would not have any impact on the private right of citizens to still display that flag really. Walmart,Sears,Ebay and by the end of this week how many more will no longer sell the Confederate flag. That will drive price up, and well you know make something prohibitive it turns into weird collectors forbidden fruit item.

    Also like Laura Ingraham said some college students have had confederate flag on display in their campus dorms try getting a job after having someone show a pic of you with that flag.
    Many liberals not all are in a constant state of rebellion

  21. After all, the UK pollsters had the Cameron-Miliband contest ‘too close to call’ right up until Cameron slaughtered Labor.

  22. I agree to a certain extent with you. There are actually some leftoid loonies in the Democrat heirarchy who are true believers.

    But the people really in charge? My, how they love that Wall Street/corporate money!!

  24. Keep telling yourself that. It won’t be much comfort when God does what he says he will do.

  25. I’m just astounded how people never feel like tools when they’re frothing enraged about something that’s been around for over a century… but they didn’t give a tinker’s damn about it last week.

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  27. Just anot her pair of data points from the WaPo
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-piyush-to-bobby-how-does-jindal-feel-about-his-familys-past/2015/06/22/7d45a3da-18ec-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html?tid=sm_fb or “OMFG!!!!! BOBBY JINDAL DOESN’T WANT TO BE INDIAN ANYMORE. THIS JUST PROVES RETHUGLICANS ARE RACIST!!!!!”

    And this beauty of an op-Rdhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/22/black-america-should-stop-forgiving-white-racists/
    or “BLACK AMERICANS FUCKED UP SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS VALUES ARE EVIL AND ALLOW EVIL TO HAPPEN”
    From someone who doesn’t know nor care those icky religious ideas of forgiveness and hate only allows hate to continue. Heck even Malcom X learned that one later in life after a religious journey that he aggressive policy was counter productive to the goals trying to be achieved.

  32. I’m sure Miley only made that comment when she was self-identifying as male. She’s probably much less judgmental when she’s identifying as female.

  34. It took him awhile, but eventually he found someone that could commit tactical murder as well as Hooker and but wasn’t afraid to keep doing it.

  36. Racist Black Patricia Pace in Plano, Texas: “I’m down for randomly killing white people, Rs”

  37. “I can’t spare this man. He fights.” – Lincoln, on being told Grant had allegedly relapsed into alcoholism.

  38. Let us know how that works for you, Patricia. I predict a short and frustrating career before one of your fellow Texans wastes your ass.

  39. Even the true believers hold positions that would shock much of the Democratic base. For example, to the best of my knowledge, no one in the Democratic leadership has denied supporting no limits on abortion, let alone specified a limitation that they do support.

  40. Liberalism as currently constituted is a suicide cult. It is so intellectually fallen in it can’t grasp it is by far the single greatest source of racial incitement and formal institutional segregation in America. Is there a white Spirit Awards? Are there white “safer-spaces”? Are there calls to not read black gay women? Are there white mainstream websites with hotel chain ads with articles about the best tourist spots for whites? How about how whites did at the Olympics?

  41. Had to back up and reread that sentence. I thought you said it was Punch Harry Reid Day!

  44. Almost all pols are self-interested to a malignant extreme, but the leaders of the Democrat party hate their country at least as much as their voters do, so there’s some philosophical alignment. No such alignment exists for Republicans and their conservative voters.

  45. I move that we ban the sale and display of the hijacked-rainbow flag. It is deeply offensive on many levels. First, the rainbow is God’s symbol of His promise to never destroy the earth with a flood, ever again (fire is another story, though), and no one has a natural right to commandeer that sacred symbol for evil purposes. Secondly, the hijacked-rainbow flag represents real, powerful, CURRENT tyranny and oppression of a free people. It is anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-freedom and pro-degeneracy. It represents the in-your-face rot that has infected the heart and soul of our nation.

    The hijacked-rainbow flag is a gross affront to free people everywhere. ~Gina Miller

  46. Reportedly Lincoln was going to buy the rest of his Generals a barrel of Whiskey of the same type Grant was drinking.

  49. Southerners flying their old flag hurt no one. The liberal elite isn’t harmed. But they just want to follow their own puritanical tradition of enforcing their judgments on others. They claim that the old flag is an insult to black Americans; perhaps so. But in an age when groups leverage imagined psychic harm into political advantage, this is an excellent time to draw a line against such impostures. ~ Laura Wood

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