Posted by
lobo1776 on Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:22:17 AM
Ok, Ok I'll admit it. I'm a professional wrestling fan. I picked it up in the late 70's when a buddy of mine turned me on to it. I remember sitting in my room at night watching the local wrestling broadcast on my little 12" black and white TV (any kid nowadays who "suffers" by having a 12" black and white TV would probably file child abuse charges against their parents). I knew it was fake, I didn't care, it was fun. The storylines were always the same: good vs. evil. The good guys wrestled clean and loved their fans . The bad guys always had to cheat to win and always said something to make the fans boo.
Pro-wrestling hit it's stride in the eighties and, much to the chagrin of Mrs. Lobo, I was right there with it. There were two main camps in those days. There was the NWA, a southeast regional league, with characters like "Rick Flair", "the Steiner Brothers", "Lex Luger", and "Sting", to name a few. Then there was the WWF. They must have had a lot more money to burn, because their matches were more colorful and had more special effects than the NWA. They had guys like "Hulk Hogan", "the Ultimate Warrior", "Macho Man Randy Savage", and a young guy named "the Undertaker". The Undertaker had a class entrance. His opponent would always be announced first and whether he was popular or unknown would decide how much applause he would receive. Then the arena would get deathly (pardon the pun) quiet and a large gong would sound. Then smoke would rise at the entrance to the arena. Out of the smoke would walk his manager, Paul E. Bearer carrying an urn of ashes and moaning. Behind him would be the Undertaker dressed in a long black coat, topped off by a broad rimmed black hat, dragging a coffin behind him and always looking menacing. After he'd win his match, the Undertaker would roll his opponent over the side, into the coffin.
Having left my wrestling roots temporarily to get a life, I returned to them Christmas Day. The WWE (which is the old WWF) was having a show in Bahgdad for our troops in Iraq. So I sat down and watched it and realized nothing changed. The faces and names were new but the "good vs evil" storyline still stayed. Judging from the smiles and cheers on the faces of our young men and women, a good time was had by all.
Then something remarkable happened. About midway during the show, the WWE cameras held an interview with an Iraqi army captain. He was a likeable fellow who apparently hadn't been briefed by the MSN (mainstream media) on how to act in front of American cameras, because he (gasp!!) told the truth. He said how grateful the Iraqi people were to the US for helping bring down Sadaam. In fact he mentioned how much the Iraqi people loved US soldiers several times. He said it was sad that the media only focused on the terrorist's attacks and didn't focus on the good changes being made. He made mention of the free elections and how much easier life was now than before. Then he finished the interview by saying that if this generation of Iraqi soldiers could not finish the fight against the terrorists in Iraq, they had "sons who would finish the fight". Sounds like the Iraqi people are in it for the long haul.
Isn't it a sad state of affairs in a civilization when you have to watch an entertainment venue to hear the truth? Since I was knee high to a grasshopper or doing drugs in the 60's, I've always heard it said that: "a free press is the cornerstone of a free society". Which is a crock. The cornerstone of any free society is the men and women willing to fight, and yes, to die to preserve it.
Nevertheless, the liberal MSN continues with that mantra. Having given themselves such empowerment, they now believe that they have a right to dictate to us the course of this nation and they will use whatever it takes to do so, whether it's hiding the truth, lying about the truth or out and out ignoring the truth, it don't matter to them as long as, at the end of the day, they achieve their main goal: the "liberalization" of the United States.
Really it's no big secret. We've know it for years. Ever since the MSN's prestige grew in the 60's they've been pushing the liberal agenda. They were on the forefront supporting liberal programs such as abortion, affirmative action, and costly government entitlements. Today, they support gay marriages, embryonic cell stem research, socialized medicine, and gun-control. They are anti-military, anti-religious, and anti-anything that this country use to stand for. They overwhelmingly support a small group of leftist elitists who think that we should become more like European nations. They long for an America devoid of morals and rules and work for the day that secularism rules.
Why? Simple: money and power. The same two ingredients that have corrupted politicians for centuries. They want their share. It's all about the ratings and the Pulitzer Prizes. Which garners the most ratings: showing the good we're doing in Iraq or constantly belaboring the death toll and showing the destruction? When you get the ratings and the prizes, you get the money. So why bother with the truth when you can be famous and rich? Ask the Katie Courics, the Dan Rathers, the Ted Koppels, the Walter Cronkites, the Keith Olbermanns, and the Chris Matthews of the MSN which they would rather have: notoriety or the truth? As you can probably tell by the way they report the news, the answer is very clear: its the notoriety. It's the 15 minutes of fame, the money, the celebrity status, that drives them. Not the search for the truth.
Which leads me back to my wrestling analogy. We conservatives are in a wrestling match, the prize being the American people. We are the underdogs. The other side is bigger and more powerful. Over 60% of Americans say they get a majority of their news information from the MSN. That's a heck of an uphill battle. They have the advantage of numbers. There are more liberal news stations and newspapers in this country than conservative. MSNBC, the queen of the liberal cable news stations, in their latest commercial,touts the fact that their ratings numbers are higher than the moderate liberal CNN or the sometimes conservative FOX. More places to work their brainwashing magic. More places to hammer home the point that conservative ideology is failing in Iraq, failing in the United States, and must be replaced by liberalism. More places to attack conservative ideals, conservative talks show hosts, and anything conservative. More places to influence the next generation. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to "smell what they're cooking". The liberal MSN is working hand in hand with liberal schools to change the attitudes of our kids.
There is an old axiom which says that you listen to the story from the left side, then listen to the story from the right side, and somewhere in the middle is the truth. It is time we conservatives started to fight back and insist that both sides of an issue be presented equally, and fairly. We need somehow to take the message to all Americans that they are not hearing all of the story and it's time they insisted on being told the truth. We need to quit making heros and wealthy people out of those journalists with a hidden, liberal agenda.
As a pro wrestling aficionado I can tell you many a match was won by an underdog. An underdog who had more courage, more skills, and most importantly, more desire to win. Right now the MSN has us against the ropes going for the pin. What we do now and in the future will decide whether they succeed or whether we can turn the match around and win.