There is that old saying: “Figures can’t lie, but liars can figure.”
Numbers can certainly be used as weapons coming out of people’s mouths, and if not “weapons,” then numbers from a liar’s mouth can be the spark that sets off a great conflagration, greater even than the liar(s) intended.
How can this happen?
Just this past Sunday a few people recognized July 14 as Bastille Day – the great symbolic myth that sparked the uber violent phase of the French Revolution. As the Revolutionaries would tell it, and as later history books would repeat it, the Bastille was a horrible dungeon-like prison in Paris that housed hundreds, thousands! of oppressed poor people where they were held in terrible conditions and starved and tortured . . .
Storming the Bastille
And finally the good people of Paris had enough and on July 14, 1789, an angry group of Citizens “stormed” the gates of the prison, overpowering the guards and releasing the wretches inside.
Once the French people heard this, the Revolution could begin!!!!!!
And Lady Liberty could at last be set free!
Except there weren’t thousands of prisoners released. There weren’t even hundreds set free. Or a hundred. Or even a dozen. There were seven people inside the Bastille on that day. Two of them were mentally ill, but were locked away because they were a menace to others . The others had a falling out with one political faction or another or had committed some financial crime.
Although the Bastille had been a dark place long before in its history, King Louis XVI had released nearly all the prisoners — because he was a good king, and he wanted to reform many of the laws and unjust practices that had developed. What he wanted to do was new and unprecedented; there was no roadmap and he had much opposition. His reforms were taking a long time.
Under King Louis the Bastille had become what we would call today a “white collar holding area” complete with servants, a chef, and a library available for the prisoners.
Seven released by the angry crowd? Or thousands released by the angry crowd?
The Radical Leftists of the French Revolution needed a cause the get their Revolution into full swing. They kept trying, but nothing succeeded like the lies broadcast throughout France about the “Storming of the Bastille.”
As you know, history tends to repeat itself, or at least give us strong echoes of the past. There are those today who’d like to continue to make Progress with this Revolution. They are the Leftists of the world; the Progressives.
They use numbers like weapons, and although there are many stories that can be told about their methods, I have room for only one.
It’s the story of CNN and the stories told by CNN. It starts with a very big number:
90,000,000
Every month 90,000,000 people have to pay for CNN, even though they have less than a million viewers per month. * That money keeps CNN on televisions in homes and in public places and airports in spite of having a viewership of only tens of thousands for their shows, a very small audience indeed.
1,100
CNN — and other cable “news” channels have to force their way into public attention because Americans know the content of these “news” programs is biased toward one radical political viewpoint. They do it with vocabulary that isn’t fit to hear:
And they do it by repeating falsehoods from the Far Left over and over again. “If you tell a lie big enough and often enough . . .” (you know how that saying ends!)
So, that number, 1,100. Someone actually counted the number of times CNN and MSNBC said the word “racist in three days this week. They are saying, in no uncertain terms, that President Trump is a racist based on a recent speech and on a tweet or two.
Well, okay. Another cartoon:
I heard that speech this weekend, and I read the tweets that were so offending to the Leftists. There was no racism intended or implied, other than in the imagination of the president’s enemies.
Anyone dare say that to friends?
Why do we, the taxpayers, subsidize a little-watched cable channel? Because the Progressives, Leftists, of today use it as their mouthpiece to further their own causes, such as their righteous Revolution in which everyone receives the same material goods from the government: free housing, free medicine, free schooling, (oh, yes –free cell phones) . . . and it’s free and fair for everyone.
But we don’t have a hot and violent Revolution yet. We don’t have a shooting kind of civil war yet. It’s just . . . after having studied history for so many years . . . no one can be sure what the flames fanned by the entertainment-news media will produce.
Sometimes the house just burns down.
And that would be a horrible tragedy.
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.* https: // http://www. breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/13/nolte-90-million-pay-money-cnn-fewer-1-million-watch/
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IF YOU HAVE A MOMENT:
Some examples of CNN’s attempt to promote violence:
Antifa fights for a “good cause.”
Antifa’s fight “is right.”
Antifa’s punches are more “equal morally” than others.
Antifa is “on the side of right.”
Antifa is right because “sometimes you can’t fight by praising them or being nice to them. You gotta fight fire with fire…”
Antifa is as heroic as the America soldiers who stormed the beaches on D-Day.
Antifa harassing Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant is “what he signed up for.”
…any criticism Antifa is “racist” (even though Antifa is predominantly white).
CNN lied to turn the Trayvon Martin story into a black vs. white narrative, CNN falsely identified George Zimmerman (the man who shot and killed Martin in self-defense) as white. Zimmerman is Hispanic.
CNN fabricated evidence against Zimmerman with the false claim he used a racial slur while calling 9-1-1.
CNN’s Jake Tapper stood in the middle of the Ferguson, Missouri, tinderbox and poured gasoline all over it with a hysterical anti-police rant.
Just after the riots in Ferguson finally ceased, to gin things back up, CNN released unverified audio of what they claimed was the shooting of Michael Brown. The audio has still not been verified and there is one gunshot missing.
No other news outlets pushed the incendiary Ferguson lie about “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” more than CNN.
CNN openly called for rioting in Baltimore.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Marc Lamont Hill, and Miguel Martinez, openly attacked and sewed seeds of mistrust against those police officers trying to bring calm to Baltimore.
CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin suggested Baltimore cops were staffed with unstable war veterans.
CNN attempted to turn the man who tried to assault then-candidate Donald Trump into a folk hero.
CNN regularly encourages the idea that Trump is another George Wallace (who was shot in an assassination attempt); that violence against Trump and his supporters is legitimate and Trump’s fault; that he is mentally unstable — or in the words of Jake Tapper “unmoored, unhinged, and un-American.”
CNN compares Trump to Hitler; claims that he is Putin’s Manchurian candidate; that he is an illegitimate president.
After presenting the president as a unique threat and danger to the country, CNN points what looks like a sniper scope at Trump’s Oval Office window.
And then there’s this media reminder that some rifles have red dot laser pointers:
Oh, my goodness, they’ve left out a lot on this list!
Another Short Note for the Fourth of July holiday. 
Symbol of a quiet inner place.
A blog of random observations and thoughts after quiet times in the Tunnel.
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HERE IS ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS: My Great-Grandmother, Hilda. I admire her qualities of strength, endurance, duty, and hospitality towards all, for which she was known.
"HILDA"
