Ailes: I Know Why America Is Great

Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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I was going along pretty well there until I got to the punch line-
"I’ve watched even some Americans systematically try to dismantle the greatest country on earth and yet we are still strong. We’re strong, because of three words I believe, God, country, family."
There are many nations whose people worship God, who love their country and are patriotic, and stand firmly with family values. The head of Fox New misses the point
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/06/12/fox-news-chairman-ailes-remarks-on-winning-bradley-prize/


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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 5 months ago
    I agree with him that no one is teaching our youth about the American heritage. From the article:

    "Back to the hole in the boat: America is losing its historic literacy. Recently some 556 seniors surveyed at 55 of the nation’s top colleges -- only 60 percent placed the American Civil War in the correct half of the 19th century. Only 34 percent identified George Washington as the American general at the Battle of Yorktown. Thirty-four percent thought it was Ulysses S. Grant. At 78 percent of the institutions polled, no history whatsoever was required in the undergraduate program. Historian David McCullough said, “We are raising a generation of young Americans who are historically illiterate.”

    When I was in high school we had a course called 'civics'. We learned about the three branches of government, the balance of power, the Supreme Court, etc. When did this basic introduction to our government get dropped?

    Don't answer...I know.
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    • Posted by 12 years, 5 months ago
      all good points. But history also shows, our country flourished on a basis of natural rights, free market, laws of reason. NOT God, Country, and family.
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      • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 5 months ago
        Why not 'all of the above'?
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        • Posted by 12 years, 5 months ago
          America is founded on "principles." it's like I said before-say here in Mexico? these people stronly believe in God. The love their country (even if they go to the US for work, they really want to be mexicans, not norte americanos)so they send much of their wages home, they are fierce about family. I can give examples of this all over the world. Foundations have to do with natural rights(freedom), Constitution protecting property rights, limited govt, capitalist economic structure. NOW, you can love your country, find the time to be with family, and worship or not as you see fit.
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          • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 5 months ago
            Wasn't that my point?

            Don't be so rigid...people are a lot more complicated than Rand's characters.

            Norman Rockwell's world can exist just fine alongside Rand's world...maybe both would benefit?
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            • Posted by 12 years, 5 months ago
              galt's speech
              "When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil."
              We cannot afford to confuse cause and effect.
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              • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 5 months ago
                In khalling English please?

                Talk down to me....
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                • Posted by 12 years, 5 months ago
                  Those who believe the US is or was great due to God, country, family will prescribe policies that are destructive to freedom. German nationalism for example.
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                  • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 5 months ago
                    You just reamed the Founding Fathers, since they include these sentiments in their Great Experiment.

                    They don't have to be excluded for the exercise of freedom. Nor does their inclusion sign the death warrant for freedom. There is a wonderful marriage that can be had, albeit with the occasional 'spats', but nothing terminal.
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