Greg Krehbiel
Cal Thomas comments on the MSM’s commie-friendly past
by Greg Krehbiel on 5 November 2009
Communism’s enablers and excusers
“The Media Research Center (MRC) has compiled reports, editorials, articles and commentary that extend over the last 22 years revealing how the pre-Fox, pre-talk-radio liberal media were the handmaidens of one of the greatest totalitarian evils to strike the planet.”
The MRC has a report called Better Off Red: Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media’s Blindness to the Evil of Communism.
I haven’t read the whole report, but here’s a good quote.
The media fancy themselves as those who give voice to the voiceless, who stand as a check on those in power. But looking back at the media’s track record on communism, one sees a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim that communism meant safety and security for its people.
2009-11-05 » Greg Krehbiel
5 November 2009 @ 7:43 pm
That’s a bit of a bizarre quote, since we installed some of the world’s worst dictators simply because they weren’t communists.
5 November 2009 @ 9:23 pm
There is that.
The cold war made everything east v. west, and to get a leg up on the Soviets we put up with (or even supported) monsters in little places to oppose monsters in big places.
5 November 2009 @ 10:39 pm
Hardly any room for comparison, our “monsters” to theirs. Who do we have to stack up against Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot?
5 November 2009 @ 11:31 pm
In terns of numbers killed, there’s no comparison. We allowed little monsters to help us against big monsters.