Day: March 14, 2011

It Is NOT Yellow Journalism!

Daily Agitator

Or is it?

Recently a noted conservative investigative film maker (his definition not mine) did a hidden camera piece with the guy from NPR and of course this guy babbled on and on about the evils of the Tea Party and funds for NPR to the point that it became big news….this was the same little dude that helped bring down ACORN, you know that truly radical group that helped the poor…..but anyway, the Left has been condemning this guy for the work that he did saying that it was “yellow journalism” and of course the radical Right has defended him saying he was doing undercover investigative reporting……

What do you think?

But before you answer this….how about the blogger that made the call to Gov. Walker during the protests pretending to be one of the Koch Brothers, who BTW have a vested interest in the success of the TP….anyway the Governor was offered a trip and said that he would use plants in the crowd and that it was all about a lot of things but NOT about the deficit…..the blogger was condemned as a coward and a crank for the phone interview by those on the Right……

But if the blogger was wrong in using trickery to get the interview…how is that different from the wannabe investigative film maker?  If one is yellow journalism, why is not the other?

What do you think?

Is not it a little sad that the only way we can hear the truth is through trickery?  No matter if you want to lean Left or Right the truth should always be paramount when dealing with the public…….I cannot believe that the American people are still as stupid about their politicians as ever…with all the scandals, lies and misinformation……something never change and the people never remember…Like I said….STUPID!

My grandfather always said, “the best thing to do with a retired politician is to flush him down the toilet with the rest of the Sh*t”…….

Is It Reactionary?

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  Political Theory

It all pretty much began back in the days of the 2004 political season with John Edwards appealing to votes on a us against them sort of platform and it has continued through 2008 and 2010 elections….the media has labeled this phenom as populism…..but is it?

The political ideology of populism began in the US in the 1840’s, I believe…….and reached a high point at the beginning of the 20th century…basically it was a revolt against the railroads and banks by the common people in the heartland….a fight against the “robber barons”………

Let us leap forward to the present……look at the populism of today, some of it faux and some real, such issues as the bailouts or the rule by special interests, etc. etc………..the media is billing at as populism when it smacks of reactionary to me……reactionary will seldom be used because it has a bad rep from the days of hunting commies behind every door…you know kinda like the Tea Party of today…….

Reactionary is defined as…….relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction; especially : ultraconservative in politics, as according to Webster’s…..and since populism is a reaction to a specific issue….I will say that it is reactionary…..to me it is also a description of pragmatism……reacting to an issue and taking the most simple solution…….by simple I am referring to the most advantageous to have it enacted…..

Populism was a reaction to a political problem…….and populism was a pragmatic approach to the problem…ergo it was reactionary……reactionary then, reactionary now…..seldom is it about well thought out solutions but rather a reaction….a real solution would be one that is based on knowledge not one based on numbers or stats or emotional tantrums….but then that is what we Americans are noted for…..reaction…seldom a well thought out response……