Is the combination of the Internet and conservative radio taking a toll on the Main Stream Media? We conservatives would like to think so, but what is happening in the USA this year is proof that the ghost of Joseph Goebbels is alive and well.

Just look at the polls today. We hear, even on Fox News, that the polls show that President Bush has slipped to 35 or 39% that over half the nation thinks that he has lied about the reason for going into Iraq, that he, Rove, Libby and Cheney are all involved in poor ethics and that our country is in bad shape.

Of course none of this is true, but polls are affected by what the majority of potential voters believe. And how do they form their political belief system? By what they read and see in the main stream media, of course, our newspapers and television networks!

And it is not just liberal-slanted news that manipulates voters. Add biased political cartoons and liberal TV comedians to that mix and you can better understand how the leftist propaganda machine really works.

Jay Leno is constantly telling jokes that are designed to sell the concept that Bush is stupid. They work, because his large studio audience laughs and applauds each time.

Bill Maher was in my city this week signing his books and doing a show afterwards. Our major valley newspaper carried the front page news that hundreds of people stood in line for up to three hours to get a handshake or a photo and that his show at a local large theater was sold out.  Bill was quoted as being happy that the Bush polls were low. The paper went on to report, "Maher has a question for the growing number of Americans dissatisfied with the Bush job performance--- where you been? �.It's not that they are having so many problems now, it's that it took so many people five years to catch on."

Cartoonists have been known to defeat presidential nominees. The most famous case for this was back in 1964 when Barry Goldwater ran against President Johnson. The cartoonists so successfully tied Goldwater to an atomic bomb explosion that it worked, the political strategists tell us. Johnson won by a landslide. Even worse was how the reporters and editors, especially those of The New York Times and the Washington Post slanted their stories.

This is amply demonstrated at www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/1964.html.

One quote from this reads "One of the ways was how the press used the Senator's (Goldwater) photo: No matter how large the crowd, the picture in the newspaper was the Senator either by himself not smiling, or with a small crowd.  The impression the pictures left was that the Senator had a small following and/or was not happy with his campaign.  However, the story that accompanied the picture told that the Senator was on a huge rally with numbers either exceeding the President's or matching it. � The media had committed an egregious mistake by giving the readers the wrong impression because readers usually look at the pictures first before reading the article.  Not that the articles were any better; most of the articles were about a rift between the Senator and Governor Rockefeller and the Goldwater strategy, with headlines like 'Goldwater Hunts A Winning Tactic,' or 'Aides Can't Agree on a New Strategy.' These kinds of headlines emphasized the impression that the Senator's campaign was in trouble."

Is not the media, along with the so-called loyal opposition, doing the same today, trying to show a rift between moderate and conservative Republicans and trying to prove that the Bush Administration is in trouble? And are not the majority of people swallowing this propaganda whole hog? Is there any wonder why the polls read as they do?

Joseph Goebbels was propaganda minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the leader, Adolf Hitler. Goebbels's policy was based on the notion that a lie repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth. When the defeat of Germany seemed inevitable, he killed himself and his family. ---but does not his ghost live on in the main stream media and also in the current Democrat party leadership as they use the Big Lie policy over and over again in order to keep leftists in power and to defeat conservatives?

Am I wrong?

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