MSM, patriotism and the truth

In my previous post I made the point that the MSM is ignoring the content of Cindy Sheehan’s position. Rush Limbaugh also notes that the Left does not want to defend her statements:

Checking the e-mail here during the break. "What do you mean these people are now saying that the story is not Cindy Sheehan but that it is Bush?" All right, let me give you some quotes. Cindy Sheehan actually posted on a website a message to Matt Drudge. Matt Drudge has quoted some of the outrageous, crazy things that Cindy Sheehan has said earlier this year back in April in San Francisco, and she writes to Drudge, and she says that she's not the issue, that the disastrous war that's killing our sons and daughters is the issue. All right, there's #1. Frank Rich, as I mentioned, on Sunday in the New York Times, wrote that the public knows that what matters this time is Casey Sheehan's story, not the mother who symbolizes it -- and then the ferret-like Paul Krugman was on ABC's This Week roundtable yesterday, and he said, "You know, this is not about Cindy Sheehan. This is about what happens to the Bush narrative." So all of a sudden she and her left-wing buddies are all insisting she's not the story, but the only way they can say that or the only way they want to say it is if it's backfiring. It's anything and everything but Cindy Sheehan and what she has said. They're just trying to run away from that as fast as they can, because they understand that the vicious rhetoric that she and her friends have used is coming back to bite them in a big way, and so this has never been about Cindy Sheehan. "Oh, no, no, no, no. This is about Bush. This is about Casey Sheehan. This is about whatever else it is, but it's not about Cindy Sheehan," which means they don't want the attention focused on her, and they don't want to have to go to the trouble of defending her.

Limbaugh then explains that the reason why they can not defend her has to do with patriotism:

You know it's been asked and you know that it has been talked about, somebody will say something that's offensive to a liberal, and a liberal will fire, "Are you challenging my patriotism?"

"Oh, no, no, no, no. Nobody is challenging your patriotism! We are just questioning your judgment."

Well, with what the president had to say today in Idaho where he said those who advocate Cindy Sheehan's position advocate the weakening of America, it's hard to say that wanting to make this country weak is patriotic, is it not? Maybe it's time we stopped dancing around the issue. Maybe it's time somebody says, "Yeah! Yeah, we are questioning your patriotism, but don't get me wrong. You have the right to speak your mind." Remember, these people have had to redefine patriotism recently. Hillary Clinton defines patriotism these days as having the "courage" to speak out and criticize the president. That is their new definition of patriotism, among others. You people on the left can speak your mind all day long, but I'm going to question the workings of your mind as long as you speak. You have a right to come up with clever lines like, "I support the troops but not the war," but we have the right to tell you that those are trick lines, created by professional propagandists, not by your gut feeling, and the reason we know it's not a gut feeling is because once it's articulated, your whole movement then picks it up.

Limbaugh then explains who is the force behind the left’s propaganda machine…the MSM:

You even have the right to use the senseless phrase "the Bush attack machine." But you don't realize it's not Bush on the attack, it's your crowd. You are the machine attacking Bush, and there are people who are coming to Bush's defense. But the defense does not start things. Your offensive attack does.

I mean, is there any more vicious attack machine, more ferocious than the New York Times? You've got Maureen Dowd. You've got Paul Krugman the ferret-like columnist. You have Frank Rich. You've got the editorial page -- and even worse you've got the main news pages, and then you've got al-Reuters, then you have al-Jazeera, then you have al-CNN, and then you have al-MSNBC, you have al-CNBC. I mean, is it any wonder? Is there any attack machine more ferocious than the New York Times-led mainstream media?

If you want to have the truth on what it is to be an American patriot, you will not get it from the MSM.