Andrew Breitbart famously stated the real threat to our Republic is not from the politicians, the president, congress, or power players in Washington DC. No, he said the REAL substantive threat was actually from the Media, the institutional legacy media.
The media formulates messaging and public opinion. The media, in all its forms, presents the framing and thereby controls the psyche of the electorate with how they present the narrative. Seemingly because it is inherent and always present we become numb to it. Breitbart’s brilliance was knowing how it works and exposing it. He made us pause and rethink what we were ‘accepting’. Sometimes this manipulation is subtle and difficult to notice, other times it is as subtle as a brick through your window.
This example below was like a brick through my internet window.
Yesterday, I read the article, and watched the video, by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit about an incident he witnessed and taped on a trip through an airport. Embarrassingly I’ll admit, I chose not to present it, because it really is just the new normal and given the extent of prior TSA expose’s we have outlined it represented ‘just’ another example of government, via TSA, intrusion into our liberty.
More diminished freedom…. blah, blah, blah…. Next?
C’mon, admit it; Be Honest; We’re numb to it now. Much like we are numb to “ordinary” murder, rape, abuse, brutality etc. Now we need really SHOCKING examples to warrant our attention; mere ordinary brutality just doesn’t cut the mustard of posting value no more. I’m guilty, just like everyone else, of this mindset.
But then, like a Thunderbolt, while cruising the internet for stories of such “brutal interest” I stumbled upon the on AOL headlines, which are provided by The Huffington Post, a notably progressive media outlet:
Notice what the prog Huffington Post is doing here. The Headline reads:
New attention is being cast on airport security today after video has surfaced showing a woman’s disturbing reaction to TSA procedure.
So it is the woman’s response to being patted down that is the problem, or in their words “disturbing”. Her reaction to having a TSA agent touching her breasts and private areas is the issue, not the touching itself, but her reaction to it. I mean c’mon this groping is the new normal, who does she think she is to take such exception to it.
Damn them all for creating this New Normal….
And shame on me for becoming numb to it.
