TruthTower:

Who "is intentionally trying to decimate this country?"

In the same spirit of caution, allow me to point out that the country of Japan and, possibly, a small minority of its citizens may have harbored ill will toward the U.S. military and, possibly, a few other elements of that government on or around December 7, 1941. And further, that attitude may have possibly lingered on for a short period of time after that.

I think it was a variety of periodical, called a "magazine", which was fairly popular along with it's sister publication: "Time" or "Clock" or something similar.

They faded into obscurity around the end of the last century, I don't think they are found in nature anymore except in Dentist's waiting rooms. Other magazines that are of exceptional quality are still available, see the ad on this page.

I guess "ghoul lighting" portraiture is out of style; otherwise they would have gone with it instead. Conservatives used to get that type of portrayal all the time.

The magazine is a joke. It's owned by a former democrat member of Congress, after her fossil of a stereo magnet husband finally expired.

It was sold for a dollar. How do you have to pay for a company when you buy it for a dollar? Do you have to get a fancy bank check? A postal money order, who's 75 cent fee increases the cost by 75%?

If you write a personal check, did the seller have to wait two weeks for it to clear? Can you pay in cash? Coins? Can you pay in stamps?

You know you're a washed up, has-been partisan hack when you write for a magazine that could have been bought with 2 stamps, 2 pennies, and a dime

"I mean, who DOESN'T think that, as far as super-market condiments are concerned, Heinz is at the top? I've had better home-made ketchup, but who bothers to routinely make ketchup? And I start with Heinz when making a seafood sauce."

madisonian, I have always admired the way you see the ketchup bottle as being half-full.

I have to disagree we're losing the war with the MSM.

If that were true, would 2010 midterms be possible?

Would Obama be sinking like a stone?

Would 70% of the polity consistently say that they favor a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution?

Would 60% oppose a debt limit increase?

Would 40%+ identify as conservative, amid all the efforts of the MSM to paint conservatives as monsters?

Would that previous # be DOUBLE the # of identified liberals?

Would the MSM be bleeding viewers and readers?

Would Fox News be the #1 king of cable news?

Would Chris Christie and Scott Walker win elections in such blue states?

To those of us who pay constant attention, it seems the influence of the MSM is everywhere, because the public is slow to accept conservative policy.

Let's remember a couple things.

First: Conservatism takes more thought, and less emotion, and sometimes, its conclusions are counter intuitive. So we cannot interpret that reluctance as the MSM's continued dominance over people's minds.

Second: Their influence is heaviest over pop-culture, because there currently is no antidote to their product offerings -- be it Hollywood or TV or Broadway.

But notice that family-friendly news and TV are the biggest money-makers, because they have the most viewers.

Third: the public is turning them off on news-related items. The thoroughly non-ideological American sitting down to watch the news notices instantly that their reporting drips of bias.

And BTW, the # of purely non-ideological Americans is dwindling. If Pew is accurate, then 40% of us are conservative, and 20% are liberal. So, 60% of society has an ideology.

And I think those #s are both low, because people prefer to tell strangers with microphones or tape recorders that they are "sensible" and non-ideological.

I am willing to admit: It will take more time than I have patience for to defeat the socialists once and for all.

God, I'm only less than one-half century old, and it feels like Star Wars, Episode I is just gettin' started, when we should be at "Return of the Jedi" by now. I should be hugging my moderate dad on some field on Tatueen by now.

But, the MSM is doing its cause no service anymore. THEY are NOT the portion of the socialist Klan I'm worried about.

It's the educators. The people who run those Labour Party Youth camps in Norway. That's our public and our higher educational system in a nutshell.

The resisters, at least, come out more conservative for the experience. :) :) :)

I would clarify that I'm not necessarily saying we're losing, but I am saying the the MSM is certainly taking their pound of flesh, with some frequency.

Having said that, I still think you've made some good points, but I would respond to a couple things:

I'm not entirely sold on the idea that 2010 was a HUGE win for conservatism. Yes, the results were perhaps without precident. But, do those results reflect a sea change in voter attitude, undoing some of the ill will that had been generated during Bush's tenure? I'm not so sure.

Barely 2M more people voted in 2010 than voted just for Obama in 2008. There was a large block of voters missing from that election. I'm afraid that they'll return in 2012, and most of them are going to be voting for Obama, still.

My former profession of infantry officer conditioned me to be a natural-state pessimist; I always expect the worst, so perhaps I am here as well. If 2012 is huge for the GOP on all levels, no one will be happier - and probably more surprised - than me.

I think the point about family-friendly movies doing so much better than everything else is a good. Perhaps there are some demographics reasons for this, but still, it's nice to see fairly neutral movies so much better than the more partisan and adult themed movies, like Fair Game for instance.

I still think though, that the lack of objectivity that inhabits every single news-oriented show on broadcast television, as well as the bias in most big-city newspapers, accounts for perhaps as much as 20-pts for the Democrats.

Obama seems to have a built-in floor of roughly 40% for his approval/disapproval and I have to think the less-than-subtle bias of the media has a lot to do with it. If a Republican was president during this economic disaster, I don't believe their approval rating would be much above 20% whereas Obama's is still above 43%.