{"id":3145,"date":"2012-09-30T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/public-enemy-no-1\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T16:18:41","slug":"public-enemy-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/public-enemy-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemy No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mainstream Media: Public Enemy No. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

By DOUGLAS MACKINNON<\/strong>
\nPosted 09\/27\/2012 04:43 PM ET at Investors.com<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

President Obama offers an applause at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in Washington on April 30, 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Obama\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mitt Romney can still win this election, but first he has to confront the largest single domestic threat to our liberty, our values, and our national and economic security \u2014 the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Most mainstream “journalists” unethically supported then-Sen. Obama in 2008, and most have doubled-down on that bet in 2012. And that biased and corrupt support may be the least of their professional sins.<\/p>\n

The nation and world face an epic crisis made more dangerous by the proliferation of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and twisted minds who’d think nothing of using them to advance their cause or “theology.”<\/p>\n

Yet, our mainstream media deliberately choose to ignore these exponentially growing threats while working in concert with the Obama campaign to ensure the president’s re-election.<\/p>\n

Much worse, some in the media are themselves betraying national security secrets in an effort to make Obama look more “presidential” or harm the conservative narrative.<\/p>\n

Beyond their leaking of highly classified information, the media are a real threat to security because they flat-out know:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Public employee unions have decimated the finances of an expanding number of cities, counties and states.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Poverty is rising, unemployment is accelerating, median household incomes have fallen and Obama has created a debt poison-pill that will cripple our economic future.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Teacher unions are destroying the futures of poor and at-risk children, but the media look the other way to protect one of the largest special interests of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Obama has no foreign policy, and his ineptitude, along with that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was exposed with the planned terrorist killings of U.S. diplomats in Libya \u2014 murders the president dismissed as “bumps in the road.”<\/p>\n

Yet the media choose to attack Romney for rightfully calling on the president and Clinton to stop their campaign of appeasement and apology.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Green” initiatives such as Solyndra are paybacks to major donors, outright frauds or alternative energy “solutions” with one real purpose: to give liberals false talking-points while sucking hundreds of billions more out of taxpayers’ bank accounts.<\/p>\n

The list goes on, but suffice it to say a case can be made that the mainstream media represent a clear and present danger to our well-being.<\/p>\n

They also represent a clear and present danger to Gov. Romney’s chances for election.<\/p>\n

Even in the age of the Internet, blogs, cable shows and alternative news, I maintain that upwards of 80% of Americans still get 80% of their “news” from the left-leaning mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Those who still have jobs under this president work extremely hard \u2014 often at two or more jobs. And between taking care of their children, after-school activities or even night classes, they don’t always have the time to hunt and peck to find honest news.<\/p>\n

What little “news” many Americans do get is filtered or invented by liberal media. Knowing that, and knowing these liberal media have it in for him, Romney needs to confront them as many times as possible between now and Election Day.<\/p>\n

He must challenge them to be honest. He must ask who among them still cares about ethics, morality and doing their jobs in a professional manner? He should write op-eds calling out compromised liberal papers like the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Romney needs to let the American people know that the fix is in and the mainstream media are either trying to suppress the vote of millions of would-be Romney supporters or blatantly trying to steal the election for Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n

During his first debate with Obama, Romney needs to shame the media by telling Americans exactly how they’ve conducted themselves during this election.<\/p>\n

Should Romney choose not to confront this No. 1 domestic threat to our security, he may not only doom his own campaign, but hurt us all in the process.<\/p>\n

If not him, who? If not now, when?<\/p>\n

\u2022 MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official.<\/em><\/p>\n

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