May 19, 2004

A Big Time Newspaper with the Courage to Tell the Truth (And Why God Invented Weblogs)

Look at this—a major newspaper that isn’t a mouthpiece for the left. Bill Gertz and his associates at the Washington Times have just found at least one new regular reader, in me.

Most big-media outlets do nothing but spread propaganda for the left. For example, going on and on for weeks about this Abu-Ghraib story, that involved 20 soldiers out of the 150,000 we have deployed, and pretending it’s an indictment of the entire army and of George Bush. Do you know what percent 20 is of 150,000? It’s 0.013%. That’s not 13 percent—it’s 13 thousandths of 1 percent. That’s one in seven thousand five hundred. Extremely rare, in other words. If you can imagine interviewing 7,500 people to find the one you were looking for, you can see how rare that is.

But the left claims the behavior of 13 thousandths of 1 percent of our army, is an indictment of America and George Bush and what we’re doing in Iraq. What a load of malarkey.

Here’s a link to mass quantities of good news from Iraq, to which the media is giving only the most cursory coverage (via Andrew Sullivan ):

HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER AND WISER: ”[M]y salary was about 17 US$ before the war. Shortly after the war it was raised to 120 US$. Three months after that, they made it 150 US$. Two months later it became 200$... [and] from the next month… [it] will be around 300 US$” – read the whole extensive piece on salaries, unemployment, and the standard of living.

...Meanwhile, on the education front, “more than five million Iraqi students are back in school and more than 51 million new Ba’ath-free textbooks are in circulation.” And Iraqi universities are experiencing a brain drain in reverse, as many of the thousands of academics forced into exile under Saddam are coming back to teach the next generation of students.

...And in health, “some 100,000 healthcare professionals working in 240 re-opened hospitals and 1,200 clinics.” The health system has to be rebuilt almost from scratch: ”[it] was ‘already badly run down’ due to previous wars, sanctions, drastically reduced spending – some estimates suggest the Iraqi health budget was cut by 90 per cent during the 1990s – as well as an inequitable health treatment policy.”

And on and on and on. Tons of great, crowd-pleasing, newspaper-selling, feel-good stories, that the media is all but suppressing. It’s like living in a Totalitarian state that spreads disinformation and propaganda 24-7 in order to control a public that has no way of getting the accurate information.

That’s why God invented Weblogs.

Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time—but you can’t fool all the people, all the time.

Lincoln was right, but the left is trying to do it. Almost every newspaper and almost every major network is in on this baloney. They spread propaganda for the Party—the Democratic party—and the only difference between them and the media of dictatorships, is that our media has freely chosen to be lackeys and mouthpieces. Isn’t that interesting? You gotta wonder—why are they doing that? Why do they all toe the party line?

Per Instapundit:

It seems that once the press herd decides on a storyline, the facts don’t matter. So why bother even using reporters?

So you can practically feel the irritation in the voiice of Bill Gertz, this courageous reporter, who writes the obvious in the Washington Times:

A roadside bomb found in Baghdad contained a deadly nerve agent, the second time in 10 days, that U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction hidden since the fall of Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials said yesterday.

The second time in 10 days. If we had just a few more courageous reporters like those at The Washington Times, such as Bill Gertz, it would be hard for the left to keep spreading their propaganda and fooling so many of the loyal Americans who have been members of the Democratic party for decades, and who just want what’s good for this country.