We'll Never Know

It is those who question that control the narrative. During the Bush years, we questioned Republicans. The answers were insufficient. This would bring Obama and Democrats to power. Now, the tea parties are questioning Democrats and it looks much like a Republican sweep in November. Questions tend to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”. Seldom fatal, questions nevertheless put the heavy plodding of ideologues to shame in terms of artistic expression alone.

Back in the days when only Walter Cronkite and a just a handful of others read the news, no questions were raised. We all just tuned in to see what was happening. We pretty much accepted what we were being told. No alternate narratives were advanced. We now know that Cronkite was essentially a lefty, though it didn’t show and we never asked. It was during this time that the Left began to build its powerbase under cover of ignorance by infiltrating and taking control of every one of our sacred institutions.

Later, with the advent of (political) talk radio, questions were once again being asked. The public was fascinated and the whole notion of radio – which had been dying – revived. But overwhelmingly most people came to resent the ‘new’ medium. They did not appreciate the discord. Reasons needed to be found to dismiss the intrusion into mainstream corporate/government fiction. The drive was on to marginalize it; to pronounce it as ‘crazy’, radical - or merely burlesque. Still, as the taxpayer would continue to be raked over the coals, radio would grow into a significant player in our nation’s narrative; so much so, in fact, that serious consideration is now being given to banning the medium altogether – or at least to produce legislation to bring it to heel.

This is not to say that controlling the public narrative is akin to power. In some cases it might be argued that the questioning actually served to bolster the status quo by creating a backlash and give the likes of Limbaugh a black eye. However, questions remained and would accrue, especially as it became apparent that the course that the powerful, self-proclaimed elites had chosen for us would lead us to ruin.

The tea parties changed the equation. They succeeded in putting the elites on notice. Fueled by the questions that talk radio had been hammering all along, the tea parties have now grown into a movement. Questioning the powerful has become the narrative that now threatens to implode the very core of what is overwhelmingly seen as a failed agenda: liberalism. A new tactic had to be developed to counter it.

The questioning would have to be stopped dead in its tracks. We have been seeing this for some time now. Books that have sold in significant numbers remain ignored in literary and academic circles. Obama’s background remains a blank. The questions put forth by talk radio and other alternative sources are routinely dismissed. Conservative speakers are banned from university campuses.

It hasn’t worked. Despite the best efforts of the politicians and their media lackeys, the country stands on the cusp of rebellion. Stage three (stage one: ridicule; stage two: plead ignorance) would have to be implemented – and fast. We are seeing this now: News being squelched at its source.

As such, tea party activity remains largely unreported; as do problems along our Mexican border; looming economic collapse; the unmasking of the ‘global warming’ as fraud; etc. “Out of sight, out of mind” has become the motto of major news organizations.

To me, the most telling example of this trend came to mind in the non-reporting of the S. Korean naval ship’s sinking by N. Korea last month. The story of a clear act of aggression by a hostile power on one of our allies should be front page news everywhere. It is not. JB is the only one (to my knowledge) who is talking about it. Not even Bahukutumbi Raman who is like ‘white on rice’ regarding anything Asian has mentioned it.

We cross into dangerous waters when we go from ‘no news is good news’ to simply ‘no news’. How long before we will realize that 5.7 Jews have been massacred in Israel? How long before we realize that our dollar is not worth the paper it’s printed on? How long before we realize that our country as we have known it is gone forever? How long before we recognize that the president we elected was a Trojan horse working at the behest of our enemies?

I guess, if current trends take root, we’ll never know.