YOU are the New Media

The dispersion of news events is no longer monopolized by three liberal networks.

Gone are the days when a Walter Cronkite told America what was newsworthy and how to think about events. Now, in this new technology of the internet (Facebook, blogs, tweets, email blasts) YOU are the news media.

These past few years have seen the rise of the power of this new technology. While all three liberal networks have towed the democratic party line of supporting health care reform, the stimulus bill and wild, out-of-control spending, a groundswell of average citizen voices has risen to defy the talking points of entrenched news organizations.

And these citizens have been using the modern news technology of Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube to get their message across. Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart are two such average citizens utilizing modern technology to present a counterpoint to the mainstream media. And many others -- just average people -- are resorting to reporting the news the "way it ought to be" -- without bias, and with truth, honesty and fairness.

You don't realize how influential your opinion can be before many in the audience of the new media.

The threat to the status quo is so real that the Federal Trade Commission is seeking to tax websites like the Drudge Report and distribute those funds to more tradional news outlets. But beware: "Once Congress has the power to fund the news, it can at any time attach 'strings' designed to promote certain viewpoints - in the name of fairness, of course." -- see article here.

Your country is looking for people who really love this nation to speak out against the injustices that they see and to not be content with being funneled with one-sided news stories that chip away at this nation's greatness; its freedoms and its Judeo-Christian heritage.

Speak up Americans. The moral and cultural direction in which this country goes is so dependent upon popular opinion. And popular opinion is so dependent on the voices speaking out. Use what modern technology there is and stand up for the truth.

Helen Thomas: No Friend of Israel

The video you are about to see should shock you into reality, as to how prejudiced elements of our news media are towards Israel.

Providentially, we were able to capture this on video. It's just indicative of the liberal news media's anti-Israel mindset, and why we have to be vigilant about citing areas of bias.

For decades, Helen Thomas has been a stalwart White House correspondent since the Kennedy Administration. But after listening to what Thomas says about Israel, would we be able to believe that she is an unbiased reporter?

In her statement, she says that the Jews should get out of Palestine. It's unfortunate that a member of the White House Press Corps doesn't know that Jews inhabited the land since before the time of Christ.

UPDATE: Here is a segment from Fox and Friends, in which the Rabbi who took the footage speaks out. Included is Thomas' apology.



Here you can voice your opinion about the incident in a poll.

The Turkish Flotilla Incident -- Behind the Scenes!

Robert Stearns of Eagles Wings hosted today a conference call with Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Israel's Minister of Public Affairs, about the recent Turkish Flotilla incident near Israeli waters. On the line were over 500 concerned Christians, of whom I was one.

The incident was simply an act of provocation to make Israel look bad before the world's stage. Therefore, be armed with these facts, despite sympathetic news stories towards those who would destroy Israel.

9 FACTS ABOUT THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT

1. A state of armed conflict exists between Israel and the Hamas regime controlling Gaza. Under international law, Israel has the right to protect the lives of its civilians and has undertaken measures to defend itself, including the imposition of a maritime blockade to curb the smuggling of weapons by Hamas.

2. Five of the six flotilla vessels offered passive resistance to the Israeli boarding parties, and the redirection of these vessels to Ashdod was accomplished in a peaceful manner. This indicates clearly that Israel had no intention of harming any flotilla protesters.

3. However, the activists on the sixth ship 'Mavi Marmara' violently attacked the Israeli landing party with knives, iron bars, hatchets, chains and other weapons. Some activists also discharged firearms and explosives, and threw an Israeli officer over the side of the ship.

4. The premeditated nature of the violence was evidenced by the clubs, knives and bullet-proof vests that were found aboard the ship, and the coordinated actions of the attackers.

5. Having expected behavior in keeping with the flotilla's numerous declarations of 'peaceful intent', the soldiers were instead confronted with a rapidly deteriorating 'lynch' situation.

6. After several Israeli personnel were wounded, some critically, the landing party was forced to act in self-defense. Regrettably, nine of the attackers were killed.

7. The organization responsible for the ship, the IHH, promotes an extreme anti-Western agenda which has been implicated in the recruitment and financing of Jihadist terrorists worldwide, including al Qaeda. Large quantities of cash were found on board, some in the pockets of the attackers and most in courier belts ready for transfer to the Hamas.

8. The flotilla's cargo is being off-loaded in Ashdod and the humanitarian items transferred overland to Gaza in accordance with standard operating procedures. On 1 June, the Israeli Cabinet decided that the participants of the flotilla are to be repatriated as expediently as possible.

9. Israel does not prevent aid from reaching Gaza via established land-based crossings and there is no lack of humanitarian aid to the Strip. Israel repeatedly proposed that the flotilla organizers land in the port of Ashdod and transfer their aid to Gaza through the existing overland crossings. Had the aid been delivered directly to Ashdod in the first place, as Israel offered, the entire tragic incident could have been avoided.

Taking Back the Culture!

With assaults upon our culture coming upon us with increased regularity, it's a wonderful sign to see people of integrity banding together to fight the onslaught of anti-Christian bigotry.

I reported on my facebook wall some weeks ago that Comedy Central was preparing an animated series on Jesus Christ. And I stated that we Christians need to band together to push back the anti-Christian, culture-bashing bastions of evildoers that have taken control of our culture.

I have said that Christians have been silent for far too long and have let circumstances (ie, Satan) run roughshod over this nation.

Enter a group of concerned Christians, Jews and Catholics to form the Coalition Against Religious Bigotry (CARB): Brent Bozell (president, Media Research Center), Tony Perkins (president, Family Research Council), Michael Medved (talk radio host), Bill Donohue (president, Catholic League), Rabbi Daniel Lapin (American Alliance of Jews and Christians) and Tim Winter (president, Parents Television Council).

Quoting from the internet article here: Comedy Central's "JC" is currently in development, which means it's still a couple steps away from becoming a Go project. The show is about Jesus trying to live as a regular guy in New York City and wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father." With Comedy Central having recently censored "South Park" for trying to portray the Prophet Muhammad, some Christian leaders see the development of a Jesus cartoon as exhibiting an offensive double standard.

CARB will hold its first press conference on Thursday to urge advertisers not to support the project, should it ever hit the air.

“After we reveal the vile and offensive nature of Comedy Central’s previous characterizations of Jesus Christ and God the Father, we expect these advertisers to agree wholeheartedly to end their advertising on Comedy Central and discontinue their support for unabashed, anti-Christian discrimination," Bozell said in a statement. "Why should they be supporting a business that makes a habit of attacking Christianity and yet has a formal policy to censor anything considered offensive to followers of Islam? This double standard is pure bigotry, one from which advertisers should quickly shy away.”

("Taking Back the Culture!" will regularly feature news items on "taking back the culture.")

Memorial Day Remembrance!

There is such an anointing on the song, GOD BLESS THE USA, by Lee Greenwood. My friends and I were celebrating July 4th in Florida one year and, when this song came on, there was not a dry eye in the house, nor did the song not pierce each heart.

This was the best video I found that merges Memorial Day weekend with the struggle against the Ground Zero Mosque.

Come to the rally at Ground Zero, June 6th, noon, at Zuccotti Park, formerly named and generally known as Liberty Plaza Park, in Lower Manhattan. It is located between Broadway and Church streets and Liberty and Cedar streets. Its northwest corner is across the street from the World Trade Center site.

BE THERE!

JUNE 6th GROUND ZERO MOSQUE RALLY -- BE THERE!

GROUND ZERO MOSQUE RALLY, set for June 6, 2010, 12 noon, at Zuccotti Park at Ground Zero. Zuccotti Park, formerly named and generally known as Liberty Plaza Park, is a 33,000-square-foot park in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. It is located between Broadway and Church streets and Liberty and Cedar streets. Its northwest corner is across the street from the World Trade Center site.

BE THERE for the sake of the America you love!

Breaking News with Lou

I think it's appropriate that CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) incorporated my soundbite into their news story about the inappropriate mosque at Ground Zero.

Wendy Griffith

CBN News Anchor/Reporter

Wendy Griffith co-anchors CBN Newswatch, a daily 30-minute newscast seen throughout the United States. She also co-anchors Christian World News, which is seen weekly around the world on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. She often anchors the news on The 700 Club.

A New York City community panel has given a stamp of approval to build a mosque near Ground Zero.

The city board voted 29-1 in favor of the Cordoba Mosque, despite a very contentious debate over the building.

New Yorkers are furious over the idea of building a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

"The greatest terrorist act against this nation was Pearl Harbor. The second one was the World Trade Center bombing," mosque opponent Lou Comunale said. "Now we wouldn't normally have a Japanese center in Pearl Harbor... this is like pouring salt in the wound of America."

The mosque will also house a Muslim cultural center. Before the vote Tuesday, opponents lined up to voice their outrage.

"This is an insult. This is demeaning," one protestor said. "This is humiliating that you would build a shrine to the very ideology that inspired the attacks of 9/11."

"This house of evil will be the birthplace of the next terrorist event," another in the audience claimed.

Several family members of those killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks attended the meeting. Their voices went unheard, however, and the board overwhelming approved the mosque.

"We feel 9/11 very, very much," said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the Cordoba House, one of the group's behind the mosque project. "We belong in this area."

Rauf has promised the mosque won't be a recruiting ground for terrorists. Muslims have been praying at the site of the future 13-story mosque since fall 2009.

The recent vote, however, may not be the final approval given.

City officials argue that the building being torn down to build the mosque is a historically landmark. Another hearing is set to decide whether to preserve the building -- which used to house a Burlington Coat Factory.

If the building is deemed a historical landmark, the Cordoba Mosque will have to be built elsewhere. Otherwise, construction of the mosque will begin later this year at the current location.