Category Archives: Media

Updated: Prophet Paul & Good Guy Glenn (Beck)

Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation, Media, Ron Paul, Socialism

More TV traitors, who condemned and cussed Ron Paul, are calling on him to explain what he has been predicting vis-à-vis the consequences to markets of the government’s reckless squandering and its monetization of debts and deficits.

Glenn Beck is, naturally, no traitor, he’s a patriot—the only man on TV who gets it and is honestly grappling with the truth. Beck challenges the liars, and takes no nonsense from pols pretending to be good guys. He’s the only TV talker on whose show you’re likely to hear sentences and sentiments such as, “Where is that in the Constitution?”

Here is Beck’s latest interview with Paul, via New Liberty. The reality is BAD, but Paul is sounding better and better by the day. Transcripts are here.

Update (September 23): Sadly, Good Guy Glenn has joined the bad guys. He informed his devotees last night that, over the weekend, he had been beefing up on “editorials,” and had come to the conclusion that socializing whole industries was a necessary evil. Said Glenn:

“The $700 billion that you`re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it. … The bailout — I see this as just stopping the plane from falling out of the sky.”

Peter Schiff, President of Europaca, who is clearly libertarian (and Austrian on economics), tried to reason with Glenn:

“Now the problem is our pilot and our co-pilot, Bernanke and Paulson, don’t know how to fly. I mean, they’re blind. They’re drunk.
You know, they’re going to crash this plane even faster. You know, the bailout is actually going to make it worse because we don’t have the $2 trillion. We’re just going to print it up.
Instead of just the entire economy coming down, we’re going to take our currency and we’re going to have a much bigger crisis when our money isn’t worth anything and interest rates are double digits because nobody will lend us any more.”

AND:

“The government’s not going to save us. They did this to us. They’re the ones that created the greed by eliminating all the risks of mortgage lending in the first place. They say we have to do this, they say we have to go into Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. This plan is a weapon of mass destruction to destroy our economy and to destroy our currency.”

I say fire Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who, before joining the Byzantine bureaucracy, had a $40 million per-annum job on Wall Street. Hire Schiff.

More from wise man Schiff:

“The government is just borrowing and spending more money. They’re not letting the market fix the problem. And how are we going to get out of this mess with more government, with more inflation?
As bad as this collapse would be, this is going to make it worse. Doing something different would be shrinking government.”

But Glenn let the wise guys—the State’s stool pigeons—have the last word, which he then seconded.

Updated: Prophet Paul & Good Guy Glenn (Beck)

Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation, Media, Ron Paul, Socialism

More TV traitors, who condemned and cussed Ron Paul, are calling on him to explain what he has been predicting vis-à-vis the consequences to markets of the government’s reckless squandering and its monetization of debts and deficits.

Glenn Beck is, naturally, no traitor, he’s a patriot—the only man on TV who gets it and is honestly grappling with the truth. Beck challenges the liars, and takes no nonsense from pols pretending to be good guys. He’s the only TV talker on whose show you’re likely to hear sentences and sentiments such as, “Where is that in the Constitution?”

Here is Beck’s latest interview with Paul, via New Liberty. The reality is BAD, but Paul is sounding better and better by the day. Transcripts are here.

Update (September 23): Sadly, Good Guy Glenn has joined the bad guys. He informed his devotees last night that, over the weekend, he had been beefing up on “editorials,” and had come to the conclusion that socializing whole industries was a necessary evil. Said Glenn:

“The $700 billion that you`re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it. … The bailout — I see this as just stopping the plane from falling out of the sky.”

Peter Schiff, President of Europaca, who is clearly libertarian (and Austrian on economics), tried to reason with Glenn:

“Now the problem is our pilot and our co-pilot, Bernanke and Paulson, don’t know how to fly. I mean, they’re blind. They’re drunk.
You know, they’re going to crash this plane even faster. You know, the bailout is actually going to make it worse because we don’t have the $2 trillion. We’re just going to print it up.
Instead of just the entire economy coming down, we’re going to take our currency and we’re going to have a much bigger crisis when our money isn’t worth anything and interest rates are double digits because nobody will lend us any more.”

AND:

“The government’s not going to save us. They did this to us. They’re the ones that created the greed by eliminating all the risks of mortgage lending in the first place. They say we have to do this, they say we have to go into Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. This plan is a weapon of mass destruction to destroy our economy and to destroy our currency.”

I say fire Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who, before joining the Byzantine bureaucracy, had a $40 million per-annum job on Wall Street. Hire Schiff.

More from wise man Schiff:

“The government is just borrowing and spending more money. They’re not letting the market fix the problem. And how are we going to get out of this mess with more government, with more inflation?
As bad as this collapse would be, this is going to make it worse. Doing something different would be shrinking government.”

But Glenn let the wise guys—the State’s stool pigeons—have the last word, which he then seconded.

RIP, George Putnam

Celebrity, Conservatism, Ethics, Ilana On Radio & TV, Media

George Putnam, the “greatest voice in radio,” has died at the age of 94. Mr. Putnam’s was the greatest voice not only because of its sonorous quality, but because of how incisive, smart and principled the man behind the voice was.

“Former President Nixon, speaking on videotape during a 1984 roast of Putnam given by KTTV to celebrate his 50th anniversary in broadcasting, said of the outspoken newscaster: ‘Some people didn’t like what he said; some people liked what he said. But everybody listened to George Putnam. That is why he has been one of the most influential commentators of our times.'”

Read about Mr. Putnam’s inspiring life, and life’s work, here.

I was immensely privileged to have been a guest on Talk Back, George Putnam’s nationally syndicated show, on October 9 of 2007. I came away feeling I had been graced by a great American.

At the time I wrote the following: “Mr. Putnam is a national treasure, who should be on TV to remind Americans how incisive, sonorous and super smart some of their media mavens used to be. (Now none of them are.) I was also touched by Mr. Putnam’s graciousness about me and my work. This is a man whose counsel Nixon and Reagan sought, and who ‘has a star on the Hollywood Boulevard ‘Walk of Fame.’ Again, an honor.”

Our good friend Chuck Wilder has been doing a splendid job of hosting the syndicated show on CRN Digital Talk Radio. Chuck continues the tradition of reasoned, civil, politically incorrect debate. I wish wonderful Mr. Wilder continued success.

‘He’s One Of Them – She’s One Of Us’

Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Elections 2008, John McCain, Media, Sarah Palin

MSNBC’s Barack Brigade—Chris Matthews (said Obama sends a chill up his leg), Norah O’Donnell (like Campbell Brown, she too is not working with much) and wild man Keith Olbermann—attempts to speak over MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan whenever he opens his mouth. Fortunately, the man writes up a storm. In the process, Buchanan manages to say it all about the Palin factor and human nature:

“Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that have been so in the tank for Barack even ‘Saturday Night Live’ has satirized the infatuation?

Because she is one of us – and he is one of them.

Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.

Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America – until Barack started winning.

Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.

Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.

Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son heading for Iraq.

Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin’s stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan’s 1980 “no pale pastels” platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.”

[Snip]

Those who dare not speak honestly will omit the following: When you and I look at the Obamas we see accusing, blaming eyes. This, even though they are better off than we and have had opportunities we’ve not had because we’re the official “oppressors” and they’re the sanctioned “oppressed.”

Unrelated: Palin must muster a fresh speech; she keeps regurgitating her Convention address while campaigning. The lines sounded stale the first time she reused them.