Has the World Gone Stark Raving Mad?

 

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Culture Wars: With liberals dancing on the great Maggie Thatcher's grave, it's clear they don't think they'll pay a price for their hatemongering. Why? Simple: The media won't shame their own.

The left's typical violence and vulgarity was on display in Great Britain following the death of the Iron Lady, one of the world's finest leaders.

Protesters celebrated by holding "death street parties," during which they set fires, vandalized stores and attacked police. They strung up effigies of Thatcher and sang "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead."

The leftists showed no more respect at her funeral Wednesday, loudly booing as her coffin passed. A socialist union worker hoisted a poster that read, "Now bury Thatcherism."

As vile as their actions were, the Labour Party did not condemn them. Nor did the London press, with the exception of the conservative Sun. BBC even chimed in with the "Witch is Dead" ditty.

Similarly, neither the Democratic Party nor the American press denounced the violent tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The leftist rabble instead were lionized as the id of the "99%," despite breaking bank windows, committing rapes and even plotting bombings.

In the latest outrage, Columbia University recently rewarded communist subversive Kathy Boudin, who did time for killing cops in the '80s, with a professorship.

In its faculty bio, Columbia says nothing of her criminal record and simply describes Boudin as "an educator and counselor working to solve social problems."

Boudin joins fellow Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who also got well-paid university jobs.

Then there's Barack Obama, who shamelessly mapped out his political career in the living room of these known, unrepentant terrorists — even barbecuing with them on the Fourth. And yet he was still elected and re-elected president, perhaps the biggest unexpressed outrage in our history.

It all leaves us shaking our heads.

Apparently we're not alone. John Hinderaker at Powerline asks: "Why aren't more voters repelled by the constant parade of vulgarity, hate and violence that characterizes modern liberalism?"

Blame points back to the national media, which have powerful sway over public opinion. If there's a shortage of shaming and shunning in America, they may be the main reason.

Mass outrage is fomented by mass media; but when it comes to outrage over left-wing extremism, the media are silent. They have no interest in shaming their kind or shunning their own agenda.

Unfortunately, liberals still control the major networks and the lion's share of the TV audience, and surveys show most voters still get their political information chiefly from TV.

So beyond the several million voters Fox News can whip up against anti-American radicalism, the vast majority of the electorate sees such radicalism portrayed as normal.

Through a constant barrage of propaganda-masquerading-as-news, the major media manipulate the broader public into accepting homosexual rights, socialism and other extremism as mainstream.

With ample help from Hollywood, the media are indoctrinating the public into believing this is "progress," and that only the unenlightened cling to traditional America. Only troglodytes reject gay marriage or socialized medicine or man-made global warming.

The media weren't always in bed with radicals in this country. During the Red Scare of the early part of last century, in contrast, the media actively rooted out the Bolshevik agitators funded by Lenin to infiltrate the U.S. labor movement and government to start an insurrection here.

The public shaming and shunning of radicals back then was ruthless. Even the New York Times blasted the troublemakers as "Russian Reds."

We no longer have a patriot press. Which is why anti-American activists are not called by their proper names — socialists, subversives, traitors, enemies — and sufficiently flogged in the square of public opinion. Which is why many rise to the top, from the Ivory Tower all the way to the White House.

The radical left also prevails by fighting dirty.

Conservatives still ceremoniously march into battle in perfect formation, like so many I-beam backed redcoats, only to be mowed down by leftist guerrillas lobbing Molotov cocktails and taking potshots from behind trees.

The ever-decent GOP has to start fighting fire with fire, thinking creatively, outside the box, when it engages in tactical warfare.

While vulgarity, hate and violence have no place, the Marquis of Queensbury rules the right follows only work if both sides honor them — and there's an impartial referee in the ring to make sure they do.

The referee in the ideological and cultural battle to save America's heritage is anything but fair. It's the mono-partisan media, who not only side with liberal extremists but throw in a few elbows and low blows of their own.

Which brings us back to the corrupt Fourth Estate, the source of most of the ills plaguing our great nation, as well as Britain, in our considered view.

IBD rated media malfeasance tops among the most important issues in the new century. The ongoing spectacle we're seeing in our government and streets, and elsewhere in the world, certainly have done nothing to change our mind.