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    What the McCain Eulogies Tell Us About the Media and the Regime

    26th August 2018 -Tom Woods

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    John McCain is dead.

    People tell me I should not criticize him right now.

    I do think some people are behaving in bad taste. But I do not think I am prohibited from making sober remarks at a moment when so many Americans, and the opinion molders who tell them what to think, are getting ludicrously carried away.

    The phenomenon we are witnessing is so Orwellian that I can’t resist exploring it. I am less concerned with criticizing McCain — there will be ample time for that — than I am with trying to understand the regime under which we live, and the media lackeys that glorify it.

    The tributes to McCain from the major newspapers are so over the top that there’s something more going on here than the perfunctory respect the media shows for most deceased politicians.

    They will not be speaking this way about Pat Buchanan — a real maverick, who was the first conservative I ever saw who broke with both parties (that’s what a maverick does) to point out that the sanctions on Iraq were creating a humanitarian catastrophe that no moral person could support (that’s what an actual conservative says).

    As if to show that she has every Establishment ritual already down to a science, even democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to say this:

    John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.

    As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.

    He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.
    “But she had to say something!” some say.

    She had to say “an unparalleled example of human decency and American service”?

    McCain’s bellicosity in foreign policy knew no bounds. A discussion of all the interventions he favored — every one of which would have intensified the problems it was allegedly to solve — would take all week.

    To a conservative movement that knows nothing of its history, this makes McCain a great conservative statesman.

    And to the American Establishment, bellicosity is not and has never been a deal breaker.

    McCain’s preferred foreign policy has yielded death, displacement, and regional chaos on a massive scale, not to mention a huge shot in the arm to the very Islamic radicalism he assured us he was fighting against.

    (McCain’s insistence on being involved in every Middle East conflict under the sun made him some hideous bedfellows, I might add, as when he met with members of the Northern Storm Brigade, which had handed American journalist Steven Sotloff over to ISIS for $25,000.)

    We are to believe that McCain was a “maverick.”

    This is because from time to time he joined forces with the Democrats, the left-wing side of the Establishment, in order to support a measure that just happened to win him media applause.

    That’s our definition of a maverick now?

    Ron Paul was a maverick.

    He stood up to the entire Establishment, not just its left-wing incarnation, and its beloved institutions.

    He cast the sole “no” vote in the House more than all other congressmen put together.

    He opposed the Fed when no one else so much as mentioned it, much less criticized it.

    He stood up to the empire — the whole rotten system, not just one particular intervention. He even got it through the thick heads of some conservatives that the bipartisan foreign policy consensus represented the very opposite of conservatism.

    Will our gatekeepers of approved opinion have such kind words for Ron Paul? The question answers itself.

    The last thing the regime and its kept media want is a genuine maverick, a true dissident who asks the questions we are supposed to keep to ourselves.

    continued.. https://tomwoods.com/what-the-mccain...nd-the-regime/
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    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Origanalist again.

    McCain loved the regime and the empire. At no time did he adopt a position that the New York Times or the Washington Post would consider a fundamental attack on the state.

    And that is why they love him. He played by their rules.

    They were thrilled to call him a “conservative,” all the better to police opinion in America: why, if you’re a conservative, we have this John McCain fellow for you!

    McCain’s legacy lives on in every politician and journalist who jumps on every propaganda report to justify another round of bombing and destruction.

    It lives on in every politician who, 15 years after another idiotic military intervention, finally admits it was a “mistake,” never apologizing to the people he smeared at the time who tried telling him it was a mistake and who predicted every obvious consequence that any damn fool should have known.

    It lives on in a media that craves bipartisanship — but bipartisanship in the service of the state, and bipartisanship in which the left gets what it wants and the right gets a nice photo-op.

    It lives on in the families who are missing children because of a war that McCain finally admitted had been a hideous mistake and a ludicrous expenditure of scarce resources.

    McCain was a man of the state, in every fiber of his being. That is why they cheer him.

    And that is why we must tell unpopular truths — about McCain, and the corrupt empire he served.

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    But I do not think I am prohibited from making sober remarks at a moment when so many Americans, and the opinion molders who tell them what to think, are getting ludicrously carried away.
    “Ludicrous” barely describes what is going on with the media and the left wing. It gets more exagerated by the hour.

    What this does make crystal clear is that McCain was the embodiment of leftist, socialist, globalism (neoconservatism). This is the common thread that unites all who are jumping in front of each other to heap the most praise upon McCain’s legacy.
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  5. #4
    McCain’s preferred foreign policy has yielded death, displacement, and regional chaos on a massive scale
    Yup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Origanalist again.
    Covered.
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    Media is celeberating him as American Treasure and Hero. They are somewhat diminishing his stature, he was in fact a treasure for the whole world given his foot prints in service of freedom from Syria to Libya to Iraq and other parts of the world.

    Many Americans as well as millions of Iraqi civilians are probaby praying for him to RIP & get a place in heaven thanks to his tireless efforts in defending freedoms at home and spreading it to Iraqi civilians. He was a key player alongwith Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham during Iraqi freedom war among other wars.

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    Now everyone who comes out as say they don't like McCain will be treated as the enemy.
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    As if to show that she has every Establishment ritual already down to a science, even democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to say this:

    John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.

    As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.

    He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.
    the power of humanity in government...
    Chain government down because humanity is obviously flawed and not to be trusted with power over others? Nah!
    Embrace and excuse your aggression using an unaccountable third party!

    Mankind is a hoot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    Now everyone who comes out as say they don't like McCain will be treated as the enemy.
    I will gladly head the list.

    Rebel Scum and proud of it.
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    Nearly every senator praising John McCain may talk themselves into voting against
    DJT if there is a very political & polarized Senate Trial, so there can be bipartisan unity.
    Last edited by Aratus; 08-26-2018 at 10:30 PM. Reason: They did something similar nine years ago...

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    The man was just not right.

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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    The man did not think clearly. It was almost as if he had brain cancer of something.

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    These gushing and glowing eulogies are really sickening. At what point can we tell the truth? It didn't happen during his life and now won't happen even after death.
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Media is celeberating him as American Treasure and Hero. They are somewhat diminishing his stature, he was in fact a treasure for the whole world given his foot prints in service of freedom from Syria to Libya to Iraq and other parts of the world.
    True , I am a National Treasure where John wanted to be a Middle Eastern Treasure .
    Do something Danke

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    Some "expert" on CNN just said that John McCain was a libertarian.
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    Lmao at the CNN whores who are upset that the flag at the White House was not flown at half staff for a long enough period.
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    Following backlash from veterans' groups, President Trump on Monday issued an official proclamation and statement regarding the death of Sen. John McCain.
    Trump was criticized for being uncharacteristically quiet following a brief tweet Saturday. While Trump's tweet offered sympathies to McCain's family, it offered no praise for the longtime Arizona senator, nor did an official statement follow to recognize his death. The White House flags were lowered to half-staff for a day and a half, though protocol dictated that they remain lowered until McCain's interment Sunday.
    The controversy worsened after Trump ignored question after question about McCain on Monday. The American Legion, a major veterans' organization, urged the White House to recognize McCain more thoroughly, though Trump was frequently at odds with the senator over the years.
    "Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country," read the official statement from Trump. Trump said that he had asked Vice President Mike Pence to speak at McCain's ceremony at the Capitol on Friday and for other top officials to attend his services, to which Trump was not invited.
    In a proclamation, Trump officially directed that the White House flags be lowered once again, "as a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service" of McCain. He also instructed U.S. embassies and military posts to lower the flags.

    http://theweek.com/speedreads/792703...ut-john-mccain
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Good news @TheTexan, the flag at the WH is back down at half-mast!!
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    The State canonization is a little bit creepy.

    At this point, Anderson Cooper sacrificing a goat to John McCain's image would be about as creepy as the eulogizing echo chamber that is public discourse these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Good news @TheTexan, the flag at the WH is back down at half-mast!!
    As it should be, the country is in grief.

    But shame on the McCain family for not inviting Trump to the services. They are doing a disservice to McCain's memory by not inviting someone of Trump's status and significance to the funeral.
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    I do think some people are behaving in bad taste.



    My bad taste is far less offensive than the things McCain did.
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    Highlights:

    John McCain is dead. …

    The phenomenon we are witnessing is so Orwellian that I can’t resist exploring it. … I am with trying to understand the regime under which we live, and the media lackeys that glorify it.

    The tributes to McCain from the major newspapers are so over the top that there’s something more going on here

    McCain’s bellicosity in foreign policy knew no bounds. A discussion of all the interventions he favored — every one of which would have intensified the problems it was allegedly to solve — would take all week. …

    McCain’s preferred foreign policy has yielded death, displacement, and regional chaos on a massive scale, not to mention a huge shot in the arm to the very Islamic radicalism he assured us he was fighting against. (McCain’s insistence on being involved in every Middle East conflict under the sun made him some hideous bedfellows, … as when he met with members of the Northern Storm Brigade, which had handed American journalist Steven Sotloff over to ISIS …

    We are to believe that McCain was a “maverick.” … because from time to time he joined forces with the Democrats … That’s our definition of a maverick now?

    Ron Paul was a maverick. He stood up to the entire Establishment, … He cast the sole “no” vote in the House more than all other congressmen put together. He opposed the Fed when no one else so much as mentioned it, much less criticized it. He stood up to the empire — the whole rotten system, … Will our gatekeepers of approved opinion have such kind words for Ron Paul? … The last thing the regime and its kept media want is a genuine maverick, a true dissident …

    McCain loved the regime and the empire. … And that is why they love him. … McCain’s legacy lives on in every politician and journalist who jumps on every propaganda report to justify another round of bombing and destruction.
    It lives on in a media that craves bipartisanship … in the service of the state …
    It lives on in the families who are missing children because of a war that McCain finally admitted had been a hideous mistake …
    McCain was a man of the state, in every fiber of his being. That is why they cheer him. …
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

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    Eric Peters nails the Mainstream Moron blathering production spot on: "A North Korean-style Dear Leader funeral is now on deck."
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
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    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Some "expert" on CNN just said that John McCain was a libertarian.
    Wait!? What!? He was secretly a Hobbit?
    "The Patriarch"

  31. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by Aratus View Post
    Nearly every senator praising John McCain may talk themselves into voting against
    DJT if there is a very political & polarized Senate Trial, so there can be bipartisan unity.
    The Senate is an exclusive often elderly "boy's club" where one's
    power accumulates over time if one begins with an M at birth. They
    can act like a herd animal when not going at each other. Duckies.



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