Goldwater Then, Trump now, The Grinding Sounds Of The Liberal Smear Machine
Character assassination by the liberal controlled “news” media has a long history. Its noxious stench is their odious contribution to American history. They talk about issues not to find solutions in honest debate but rather as a tool to spread lies and deceit designed to convert gullible and naive people into believing the fallacies that constitute the dogmas of their secular religion.
I remember the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater and how ugly and vicious the Democrat and GOP liberals were. They successfully sold to gullible Americans a totally fabricated image of Goldwater as a neo-Nazi. They were successful in spite of the fact that Goldwater was the grandson of a Jew and had written a book (Conscience of a Conservative) explaining his beliefs about Constitutional limitations on government power and the threat the Soviet Union’s despotism posed for the free world.
This man was as far from a Nazi as it was possible to be, yet because of coordinated character assassination by the liberal “news” media, naïve voters believed him to be a Nazi. I know this for a fact because I had a large Goldwater sign on my tiny used car and at stoplights guys would jump out of their cars and want to fight with me. For a few years after that it was considered to be an insult if someone called another person a “conservative.” Mr. O’Reilly’s nasty outburst and insults against those exposing the fallacy of birthright citizenship has aroused in me those disturbing memories of the character assassination of Barry Goldwater, a thoroughly decent man.
The “news” media’s strategy against Goldwater was simple, they reported verbatim the most vicious language of union bosses and liberals without a word of rebuttal. There were people defending Goldwater of course, but they received no news coverage. The liberal ”news” media gave a tiny amount of exposure to William F. Buckley, but very, very little, just enough to give them something to point to support their faux claim of being impartial. The illusion they created was that there was a unanimous concessions that Goldwater was a Nazi or fascists.
It was certain that Goldwater’s main campaign headquarters’ telephones were bugged so it was necessary to use a nearby telephone booth for private communication, but the “news” media had no interest in reporting that story. Remember President Nixon was driven out of office in disgrace for exactly the same type of activities. There was a potential scandal when one of Lyndon Johnson’s political confidants was arrested for homosexual behavior in a men’s public toilet. Back then it was not OK to be a homosexual, but the “news” media ignored that story also.
Of course back then there was no internet and social media to reach a lot of people quickly. But we must be vigilant to make sure the Marxists dominated “news” media does not pull a “Goldwater” on Donald Trump. We need to make certain liberal smears and distortions do not go without immediate rebuttal. Remember how ugly liberal/Marxists/Democrats can be. Never deceive your selves that we can have a civil debate with them. Be prepared for a nasty street brawl (a metaphor, or maybe not) with the fanatics obsessed with obliterating the USA and destroying anyone who opposes them.