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Mainstream Media Propaganda Hardly Changes from One Decade to Another

James Taranto, in Tuesday’s Best of the Web Today, dug up 15-year-old propaganda in the New York Times — that looks like it could have been published this week:

…. Not since the nomination of Barry Goldwater in 1964 sent many Republicans scurrying to rally around Lyndon B. Johnson have so many prominent party members bitterly turned on the party’s candidates. And that was in a Presidential contest. Just as in 1964, they are shifting in one direction: away from conservative Republicans.

“They’re frightened about the movement of their party to a more right-wing conservative agenda,” said Fred Steeper, a Republican pollster in Detroit.

Although most experts agree that one person’s endorsement does not usually sway voters in numbers large enough to turn around an election immediately, candidates can seize on such events to show that things are turning their way. That seems to be happening in the closing days of the campaign, with Democrats using the endorsements as a sign of movement for their candidates.

While there are different explanations and rationalizations offered for each outburst of party disloyalty, there is a common thread: The candidates being rejected are very conservative Republicans with minimal ties to party organizations. And most of the Republican defectors are from the moderate wing of the party, opposed to the candidates’ positions on fiscal issues like taxation or on social issues like abortion….

Note this especially: that article was published exactly one week before the Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.

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“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” (Lincoln)

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