“Oh See, C.C. Rider. Oh See What You Have Done.”

Up here at the Old Place we love the King.  He used to sing in small dance halls all over this area back in the day.  When word got out that young kid with the “Swivel Hips” would be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, everyone around the lake crowded into Ruth’s General Store to see the action on her brand new black and white TV.  Turns out “The King” was clairvoyant!  The “C's” I am singing about today of course are the big media outlets: ABC, CBS, NBC, PMS-NBC, CNN, and the BBC.

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

In his book, The Art of War, Sun Tzu admonishes his readers to, “Know Your Enemy.”  My Liberal friends and family make many strong statements about Conservatives but generally have never listened to Conservative news sources or read Conservative sites.  They make assumptions based on incomplete data.  This is where the term, “Low Information Voter” came from.  Conservatives on the other hand have always been well informed because for years they had no choice; the C's were it!

Where Is the Motivation?

I am sure we all agree that the term, “Big Business” applies to the C’s as much as it does to Exxon. The C’s are multi-billion dollar businesses that would have great difficulty staying in business without the advertising dollars of other multi-billion dollar businesses, many of them Conservative.  Once consumers realized this, they began writing to advertisers telling them, “I will stop buying your product unless you stop advertising on ABC, CBS…” you get the idea. When those advertisers politely said, “No,” Conservatives, rather ironically, realized that the C’s were just another big, faceless, self-serving monopoly.  A very Liberal thought but read on. . .

Creating Your Own Worst Enemy

Until the advent of ole Rush Limbaugh in 1984 on AM radio, Conservatives only sources for news were the C’s.  When a C ran a story that a listener knew to be untrue, that listener was stuck without the consumer’s option to, “take your business elsewhere.” Oh sure you could write a letter and many did.  Conservatives began to talk about “media bias.”  We now call it, “Fake News.”  One fella who had enough was, media mogul Rupert Murdoch.  Twenty years ago, he hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes to start Fox News.  Fox was supposed to be a Conservative alternative to the C’s.  Ailes coined the Fox catch phrase, “Fair and Balanced.”  The Conservative distrust of the C’s as, only "Liberal agenda pushers" made Fox successful and quite literally created Hannity, Levin, the Tea Party and a host of others, all chasing Limbaugh’s lead.

When Too Late, You Realize What You’ve Done

Ever wonder why supposedly peace loving Liberals have become so violent of late?  In her book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Author J.K. Rowling explained it this way, "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do!  Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”  Are young Liberals so terrified that they have created a monster that will ultimately devour them?  Sadly, there is now no "Safe Place" for them to run to or hide.  Their names and faces are all over the internet and cannot be erased.  "Oh see, what you have done!"  McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover would have loved it!  I just find it sad.

Sitting in a rocker at the Old Place I am, Col. Jim.