A New Silent Majority

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http://buchanan.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/a-new-silent-majority/

May 23, 2007, 6:11 pm
A New Silent Majority
By Mark Buchanan

Something seems a little out of whack between the mainstream media and the American people. Take the arguments of the past few days over former President Jimmy Carter’s remarks about the Bush administration and the consequences of its particular brand of foreign policy. Carter didn’t attack President Bush personally, but said that “as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,” which can’t really be too far out of line with what many Americans think.

In coverage typical of much of the media, however, NBC Nightly News asked whether Carter had broken “an unwritten rule when commenting on the current president,” and portrayed Carter’s words — unfairly it seems — as a personal attack on President Bush. Fox News called it “unprecedented.” Yet as an article in this newspaper on Tuesday pointed out, “presidential scholars roll their eyes at the notion that former presidents do not speak ill of current ones.”

The pattern is familiar. Polls show that most Americans want our government to stop its unilateral swaggering, and to try to solve our differences with other nations through diplomacy. In early April, for example, when the speaker of the House, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, visited Syria and met with President Bashar al-Assad, a poll had 64 percent of Americans in favor of negotiations with the Syrians. Yet this didn’t stop an outpouring of media alarm.

A number of CNN broadcasts — including one showing Pelosi with a head scarf beside the title “Talking with Terrorists?” — failed even to mention that several Republican congressmen had met with Assad two days before Pelosi did. The conventional wisdom on the principal television talk shows was that Pelosi had “messed up on this one” (in the words of NBC’s Matt Lauer), and that she and the Democrats would pay dearly for it. .............

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1. The Silenced Majority--Speaking Out on the Web!

This means war, you know--somewhat a replay of the Civil War, with the Bolshevik Revolutionary overthrow of Big Business and Big Government.

It's gonna be a Big Mess. And Nancy Pelosi could have avoided it all, by putting Impeachment where it belongs....

[pat_k]

2. And if Pelosi doesn't wake up, she'll find that. . .

. . .she'll go down in history as the first women to take the Speaker's gavel, and with it the power to do the ONLY thing capable of stopping Bush's criminal insanity, but who used her power to SUPPRESS any Member of the House who threatened to become a champion of impeachment.

A sad legacy for her, but her woes or regrets will be nothing compared to the devastating effects of her failure.