Reagan’s not a bad hero as far as conservatives go IMO. Could’ve been Strom Thurmond or Jesse Helms. Me personally, I have a bit of a soft spot for Eisenhower for a few reasons.
Reagan came into town portrayed by the MSM as a rootin’ tootin’ redneck cowboy who would likely get the world blown up on account of his reckless disregard for the nuances of the global system. That was what Rich was doing here.
Most of the left don’t want that remembered though. When it came to the fall of communism, Reagan’s achievement is mind-boggling. Nobody would have believed that it was even possible. This was a big, big win.
The MSM was simply flat out wrong in their assessment, and Reagan is no a hero to the people of Eastern Europe.
The disposition of the “MSM” is, however, not remotely the result of some infiltration by Muslims or Islamist apologists.
The disposition of the MSM has everything to do with the fact that they swing left.
All news is filtered through that perspective. An ABC reporter gets stripped naked and repeatedly sexually assaulted on the streets of Cairo while be sneered at as a Jew, and this does not make the headlines.The story line was one of peaceful democratic demonstrations by friendly, ‘progressive’ young Egyptian professionals. This story does not fit into that storyline, so it gets buried. But for internet news, it would be buried still.
Also, cowardice has a lot to do with it too. There was a time when the Salmon Rushdies would get a little support at least. But the ayatollahs have demonstrated that putting hits out on people makes them think twice before they say something.
Violence works like a charm.
. I don’t think most Muslims in the Middle East could care less less what our media say about them.
I don’t know if ‘most’ do or not. Why would they care what cowards think about them, I guess?
Islamists though, with the full cooperation of the world’s left, do very much have an interest in using the world’s media to get their points across. Terrorism depends very much on the media to be of any effect.
The media is the main weapon in the Islamist’s quiver.
It’s more because self-criticism is generally more popular and more ‘progressive’ than criticism of “the other.”
Yea, 'progressive".
There was really a funny Shire network news audio of how Hitler and the Nazis might have been covered by a ‘progressive’ press
Such ‘progressivism’ makes a mockery of the very concept of intelligence actually. It is better known as appeasement, only in retrospect though. Until its utter failure to get peace in our time, it is known as progressive.
You will also never hear for instance about the role of Buddhism in Japanese imperialism.
I don’t think that Buddhism played a huge role role frankly. Japan was trying to emulate the success of the West and show that they were better. Any religion can be brought into to support the goals of a tyrant, but the actual tenets of that religion would not support such wordly pursuits.
It’s also why most of the best historians of the Third Reich are German rather than French or Russian. Most societies are more interested in the skeletons in their own closets. Call it civilizational masochism, if you will.
Bernard Lewis is probably the best historian and analyst of the ME today. When it comes to masochism, Arabs prefer the story line that the left puts out about them, which is of the hapless victim of greedy colonialist imperialism who would have the best civilization in the world, if not for that.
Just remember Obama’s ingratiating speech in Cairo if you don’t believe me.
