The Enemy Media

I have made, and am now announcing, an editorial decision here at HS. No longer will the term "Extreme" Media be used. The reason? It no longer sufficiently captures the true loathsomeness of the American establishment press.

We used "Big" Media for a while, on the model of "Big Oil" and another derisive references to politically incorrect industrial sectors. But that came to seem too tame after a while. We escalated to "Extreme" because the media is, collectively, a bunch of, well, extremists. The Clintonoid left hurled that epithet at us center-righties in the '90s, and I thought it appropriate to hurl it right back at them. But they've gone beyond even that. And "drive-by" is a little too cute for my tastes.

All of this has been more rebellion against the oxymoronic expression "mainstream media" or "MSM" that continually gets bounced around the rest of the blogosphere. A more ironic term could not be conjured for the press, as they are manifestly NOT in the "mainstream" and are so far away from it and have been for so long that they wouldn't recognize it if they saw it. That is proven by the fact of what they write and say about the true mainstream - and the secrets they expose that make its damage or destruction more likely. As our masthead tagline says, WE are the mainstream, THEY are the extreme.

Now they've become part of the enemy that is trying to destroy America. And that is how we, at least, are going to henceforth refer to them.

Here are some redundant examples of why.

Like, for instance, the New York Times' gift to the terrorists of maps and specific street names and photographs of the private (not anymore) homes where Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and their families spend their vacations. And if something bad should happen to Big Time or Big Dog, as a result I'm sure Bill Keller would be profuse with his condolances, right? Oh, wait, I know, the terrorists already knew where the Veep and SecDef spent their downtime, so no harm done and can't blame them. Uh-huh.

Of course, the Times had help from the WaPo on that one. The latter is also aghast that the Republicans are allowed to "seek political advantage" from the SCOTUS' outrageous Hamden power grab. Because, of course, it's only the GOP that EVER "seeks political advantage," while it's only the Democrats - and their five robed oligarchists - that "do the right thing."

The NYT marks the nation's 230th birthday by crapping all over the Founding Fathers as "nothing special, just the creation of 18th-Century spinmeisters." A level of snide Ameriphobia that makes their self-appointed role as al Qaeda moles as natural as fish in water.

All in an Independence Day's dishonorable work for the Enemy Media.