Required reading for many college students in the 1960s was a book called “The Media is The Massage”. It was written by Marshal McLuhan who purposefully substituted the word MASSAGE for MESSAGE. The term “Message” assumes two components. The first is content which is simply information. The second component is described as the character of […]
Trump has called the media the “enemy of the people,” but he is only half correct. The media is most certainly the enemy of those people who support freedom and liberty, but it remains a close ally of those who advocate socialism and the tyranny of big government. In recent weeks, there has been much […]
Are you “Politically Correct”? Do you have the correct politics? Can you give a definition of “politically correct”? The term “politically correct” was originally developed to promote Marxism; it is the antithesis of our First Amendment, especially the Freedom of Speech. Totalitarian enforcers of political correctness claim to be working for the betterment of society […]
Late last week Idaho Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin posed with and then removed on Facebook a brief meeting she had with two members of The Three Percenters. This group is described by Jeff Taggert in his most recent Idaho Politics Weekly post as being “wacky and extremist at best”. The group met with and posed […]
In a recent article of Natural News, it is reported that Adam Schiff, a leftist, democratic leader from California, has sent letters to both Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive of Facebook, and to the head of Google asking them to implement a campaign that would impede the free flow of information on vaccines that did not […]
“I’m a Democrat. I will always be a Democrat,” is the constant exultation of one of our closest family members. As such, there are regular challenges to us to see things like this relative understands them from the constant drumming of propaganda at MSNBC. Loyalty is a very admirable trait. But utter blind loyalty is […]
Remember the old warning from President Eisenhower about the dangerous “military industrial complex”? Eisenhower was right. But the defense industry has nothing on the DC Swamp, Deep State, Democrat Party and the group that does their bidding- “the Liberal Media Industrial Complex.” They will do anything, lie about anything, slander, manipulate, in order to make government bigger and […]
Journalists are a special breed of communicators. My mother was a small town newspaper editor, a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and a small-time poet. I grew up with a passion for the importance of language. Language is a sacred thing to me. I am one of those people who cringe when I hear someone […]
In the age of publishing anything that makes a shocking point and attributing it to a supposedly ‘relevant’ source whose identity must remain undisclosed for unexplained reasons, we here at Gem State Patriot News will not be left behind. Therefore getting on board with the extremely popular trend, I have also found just such a […]
— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — This is excerpt No. 30 (of 45) from America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America, by Richard A. Viguerie and David Franke. We looked at many explanations of why liberals have failed to succeed in talk radio, while conservatives dominate the […]
— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — Much to the amazement of the establishment media, President Trump’s job approval rating held steady despite former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s conviction on tax and bank fraud charges and ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea last week, according to the results of two polls released over the weekend. […]
We took the time this past week to attend an open Ada County Commissioners’ hearing for Priscilla Giddings, a state representative from Idaho County. What we found out was quite interesting and somewhat confusing. The lawyer for Mrs. Giddings presented a very cogent case stating all of the necessary requirements under Idaho law on what […]