PJTV - Bill Whittle - The Narrative - Political Correctness

[Mastakuia]

He should have shown more lies and dirty tricks from msnbc. He showed one statement from one black king, and he is applying it to all African culture. Of course that king was in favor, he was making money. He should have shown the lies and tricks that the right uses. This man is just another semi-truth, or the truth-that-I-like seeker. Or maybe I am wrong and the man just needs more than 13 minutes to explain his point.

[cardman330]

This cat is a loon,

[16m49x3]

wait did he just say that the left side of american political thought is kommunism trying to relay racism as political correct?. .

[hcig]

Anybody else think he looks like an alien?

Maybe he is an alien, he likes scifi enough... watch the fuck out, hippies.

[prince4878]

what a mess

[requiemforatrain94]

Hell Yeah!

[MoustaphaWins]

Truly awesome

[saptemai]

GLORIOUS - will bomb this to everyone i know

[billyclub999]

What utter tosh. Whittle makes the usual mistake of seeing the left as one homogeneous mass. The left has been at war with itslef since the 1st International. He also offers a convenient 'libertarian' narrative. Tiresome and unoriginal...

[murdock283]

A news channel that bends the facts to fit its narrative? Reminds me of Fox News as well, not just MSNBC.

[JohanOlsson]

interesting thanks for the upload =) but the Truth will NOT always come out =( and if it does it doesn't matter anymore for that new generation =(

[Frebyrd1973]

I love this man. He needs more exposure. 

[joer123]

bill whittle is a genius and he's on our side,

which is nice.

[wwhit2001]

Nazi's and communist’s are just 2 groups of thugs fighting for the same group of potential slaves.

[East180thStreetYard]

AN AWESOME VIDEO !

[jaskins75]

This is the way to kick some ass!!!!! I am blown away and I will continue to follow this man's career. Why not? Whittle in 2018. If we have that long. I know he's not a pol, but when was the last time you heard someone break it down like this in 13 mins? God bless. I'll keep track on PJTV.

[imnotdavidxnsx]

just when i think this guy can't get any more awesome, he quotes Serenity

[SAOrules]

this is inspiring. The truth finally comes out about where liberalism comes from, and the ideas they draw from. Bill Whittle, you are a true patriot!

[FREEAMERICANOW69]

you people must be really stupid not to know that both sides to do this all the time...so why is he only talking about the left? oh, course, its fits his right-wing agenda.

[RBR3000]

@FREEAMERICANOW69 Thats because the left IS the problem.. the left is the enemy of America and it's founding principles. If he is wrong.. tell us where he's wrong.

[dwm1812]

Just when I thought I couldn't love Bill Whittle more...he quotes from the movie Serenity!

Awesome video!

[BraidedLily]

Most of our media is sensationalistic. I suspect that the biggest disappointment to these "news outlets" is the degree to which Obama has been accepted as President. No one has tried to kill him so far but Reagan was shot fairly early in his first administration.

[RBR3000]

@BraidedLily and almost to a man.. it's been a leftist pulling the trigger when a President has been shot.

[RooRik]

/watch?v=Mjj5_f4m8Ik&feature=f­eedu

[j1mmyZeta]

@RooRik Another liberal slandering the Tea Party. Big surprise there.

[RooRik]

@j1mmyZeta

Oh and the Tea Party dosent slander everyone agenst them?

Its human nature to try make the people they dislike look like the bad guy.

Human nature is to hate and to try gather power in one way or another.

You are doing the same as him just not shouting thats the only diffrence.

[RBR3000]

@RooRik If the TEA party has slandered anyone.. lets hear who and when.

[HaroldRehling]

@j1mmyZeta That video is actually an excellent application of Critical Theory. (not Whittle, the one linked above)

[MrDonneiDarko]

@RooRik /watch?v=3H0guC-2q4U

[dontchastop]

It is truly sickening how you right wingers eat this stuff up. These videos, and the rhetoric that Whittle spews out, are propaganda. Anyone with an education can see through his clever rhetoric.

[Countrygent100]

@dontchastop  Oh my. How scared you are.

[JohanMWallin]

I draw the line at a mixed economy, not a command-style economy. Socialism, not communism.

Universal health care does not require a huge increase in taxes (a large increase, yes, but not so much that it is troublesome), and it has not hurt anybody. On the contrary, we Europeans (or at least us Scandinavians) enjoy a quality of life far in excess of the average American.

So, Europeans aren't helping anybody because we do not have a substantial enough military? Source if you please, good Sir.

[Dondarhosen]

@JohanMWallin Regardless of where your priorities are, defense spending is essential, because if you don't defend your country, well, health care won't matter that much.

Besides, even if universal health care does insure every citizen, there's nothing particularly wrong with private health care. Nobody sensibly changes a system just for the sake of changing it.

[JohanMWallin]

@Dondarhosen Curious line of reasoning. Defense and health care are not mutually exclusive, and a country actually can have a modern defense and universal health care. It's all about progressive taxation. ;) Besides, if you spend too much on defense, there isn't that much money left to spend on health care.

And that's what's wrong with private health care: It doesn't perform its main function, which is to tend to people's health, regardless of whether or not they can pay for it individually.

[Dondarhosen]

@JohanMWallin Truth be told, we would need two systems, one run by the government and another run by the market, in a side-by-side comparison to fully evaluate the pros and cons of each system. And by the way, Kudos to you for being the first person I've conflicted with on a partisan issue that hasn't immediately started insulting me.

[ArrogantAmerican333]

@JohanMWallin

Source, what do you mean? How much of the European military was in Pakistan for flood releif, or in Hiati for Earthquake releif? The US also provides the vast majority of muscle for multi-lateral (ie, missions done under the UN flag) military operations, like Somalia.

The US is right smack in the middle of the Western world in the Human Development Index, meaning despite the fact that we have huge amounts of military spending and a hideously (cont.)

[ArrogantAmerican333]

@ArrogantAmerican333

dysfunctional country South of our border from which criminals pour into our land, we still have a better quality of life than half of those who do provide "free" healthcare. Having no military (and, implicitly, a very small military) makes things much easier on the countries people (take Costa Rica for example, or Japan), so that's why Europe is able to provide a US-quality life for their people even with socialism.

[ArrogantAmerican333]

BTW, countries who are constantly "paying higher taxes to help their fellow man" can't afford any substantial military. That's why Europeans weren't the ones pulling Hiatians out of the rubble and helping flood victims in Pakistan. Our capitalism allows us the strength to do those things, THAT is truely helping your fellow man.

[JohanMWallin]

While I agree that 'the narrative' is highly biased and racist/sexist/what have you all in itself, I'm not sure what some Americans, conservatives in particular, have against universal health care. Paying higher taxes in order to help one's fellow human beings is NOT too much to ask!

[ArrogantAmerican333]

@JohanMWallin

But where do you draw the line? A society where all your earnings go towards helping your fellow man (unless, by a one in a million chance, you just happen to pay for your own meal) is called Communism.

Universal health care would require a HUGE increase in taxes and might hurt people more than it would help them, because only the super rich would be able to pay for free market healthcare, since everyone would already be paying the bill for the universal system.

[akompsupport]

Bill nails CNN and their propaganda in a way that is succinct. 

[Covermeporkins11]

Critical theory = "drive by media", and sound bites.

This is why I can't stand watching any of the major media news outlets. All they have is sound bites, "experts", and sexy anchorwomen. This goes for both the left and right.

[The31YearOldVirgin]

@Covermeporkins11

And Hollywood is even worse.

[Anekantavad]

I am very much afraid that this fellow really doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.

No, strike that.

I think he doesn't believe his own words.

[Anekantavad]

The people who beat up Gladney weren't officers of the state.

[jhc1971]

Hence the phase I'm trying to popularize.. "LIBERALISM EQUALS RACISM!"

[3cl3c71k0r]

There are some darn good quotes in Firefly and Serenity. Good reference.

[shagdrum]

What is and it not "critical theory" is conveniently vague and the definition can be selectively narrowed or widened to deflect criticism. For example, saying that critical theory is "discourse analysis" and therefore is what Whittle is practicing...

[6Churches]

@shagdrum That's a good argument - but I will qualify my reading by saying that Bill could walk into to any socialist media 101 college course and submit his discourse analysis of NBC and racial narratives and likely get a good grade. I think his argument is self-defeating.

Bill says critical theory is just "criticism". Bill uses "criticism". Does that mean that Bill uses critical theroy?

Do feminists only "criticise" or is allowing women to vote an actual good for society?

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: As if modern feminists had anything to do suffragists. You have about as much understanding of the linements of real history as an actual description of human anatomy can be found in a Picasso painting.

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto I'm also glad that you can tell the difference between today's feminists and suffragettes. Can you also tell the difference between WWI cultural theorists and the postfeminist, postcolonial and queer theorists of today? The only difference Bill indicates is that there are more of them now than before.

There is a world outside of ideological constructs - let me guess, that world is ruled by men, huh?

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: Oh heavens no! & as I trust in the eternal truth the God is gracious & He loves man kind, I hope & I pray that He will be kind to an unworthy sinner like & allow me to pass from this Earth w/o my mind ever my mind being polluted by the corruption of such ideas.

[shagdrum]

@6Churches So, critical theory NOW means simply....criticism? People have been practicing critical theory for all of human history then, eh? ;)

Defining down an idea until it becomes meaningless is a great way to nullify it as a criticism...

Can you give some proof that all these definitions of critical theory you run with are accurate and not simply opportunistic?

[j1mmyZeta]

@6Churches Critical Theory almost always relies upon a certain interpretation of things.

Being critical of critical theory merely requires pointing out the facts.

That is why 'the narrative' will ignore or exclude any facts or events that do not fit with the cultural marxist interpretation of society.

Criticising leftist critical theory in the style of critical theory can be immensely enjoyable though.

- I'd love to see a Michael Moore-style film criticising Michael Moore. lol.

[6Churches]

@j1mmyZeta I agree with you, Jimmy. And I agree with Bill that MSNBC has made a grevious error of bias.

You say that true critical theory requires interpretation that is seperate from facts - that is not a bad critique. I would just add that Bill also injects an interpretation that implies a direct (even causal) relationship between MSNBC, the Frankurt school and communism that is not factual but completely interpretive in substance.

Alas, Michael Moore has quite the bulwark.

[6Churches]

@shagdrum It is not my opinion that critical theory = just being critical, that is Whittle's idea. "Now the theory of critical theory is just to criticise".

Critical theory says that "hegemony" or power will "naturalise" its power through "ideology" and that this ideology will be expressed through "discourse". The discourse will express all positions of "subjectivity" or "identity" that are available to the subject through "semiotics".

[6Churches]

@shagdrum So, Whittle uses critical theory when he says that communist power seeks to normalise itself through a set of old Marxist beliefs about class/race warfare that are now expressed in a "narrative". MSNBC limits the readings of race and poltics that are available to the viewer to ones that incite conflict and cement socialist identities. MSNBC controls a visual language of shot selection, iconography and keywords to make this conclusion seem effortless. (This is critical theory in action)

[VictorLepanto]

It all makes sense if you analyze history, properly. Socialism is an outgrowth of feudalism. It is all about a narrow political elite having the power to control most people's lives. The nature of feudalism was that a small group of land owners controlled the peasantry to cultivate cash crops. In socialism, feudal estates are simply replaced by state controlled industries. Often the very descendents of the old aristocracy promote the new feudalism.

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto That's nice. But the same criticism can be levelled at capitalism, which produces neo-feudalist monarchs. These are the people who have amassed so much wealth and power that when their too-big-to-fail enterprises do fail it is the peasantry that must pay. There are examples where the toll of these capitalist monarchs is in excess of what the Queen of England costs the average English person.

According to Whittle, should we - or should we not criticise power like this?

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: There is no moral parity b/t what you choose to call "capitalism" & the delusions of socialist politics. Socialism is simply a political scheme to concentrate power in the hands of few who will effecttvely enslave most people in the name of "fairness." Capitalism is simply the epithet of abuse Marxists invented to abuse those who wished to defend they basic, fundamental, natural human right to engage in free enterprise. In this respect it is no different the Lenin's "kulaks."

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto I think I hear you. It would be a delusion to say "Capitalism is simply a political scheme to concentrate power in the hands of few who'll enslave most people in the name of 'profits'"? I agree, such a viewpoint would be too limiting to be of any use.

I just think Bill would say that my education was socialist - but all it ever taught me was how to stop being a pawn and to unmask power where it operates implicitly or invisibly. I was not taught to hate or destroy society.

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: Your making about as much sense as a Pentacostal revival meeting. You are hearing nothing but the echo of your ideological preconceptions in your own head. There is no "capitalism," the concept of the capitalist is about as meaningful as the anti-semites notion of the Jewish conspiracy as embodied in "Elders of Zion" fraud. In fact, if one reads Marx's "Judenfrage" essay, the capitalist is just a deraciated version of the greedy Shylock. Basically he created the word capitalist.

[6Churches]

Whittle is wrong, but he does try. I went through about six years of tertiary study influenced by critical theory and I didn't develop rage, sepratism or victimology. I got smarter, I felt more empathy towards others, I became less influenced by others, I was angry less, hated less and marginalised other far far less.

Whittle is playing a game with you. He is raising your anxiety at the same time as obscuring any access to real contemporary thought within critical theory. Bless.

[GermanConquistador08]

@6Churches Arent you assuming that your study of critical theory, lead to a development of those positives? And if it is true that you developed these ideals because of your studies, then the question needs to be asked why does it matter what you feel? Its what you advocate thats important. A public policy can make you feel as good about yourself as ever, but it doesnt mean that its good in of itself judged solely on the fact that it makes you feel good.

[6Churches]

@GermanConquistador08 Yes, that is what I am assuming. The reason I state it that way is because prior to my education I could pass off bias, prejudice and mistrust with the same ease as Whittle.

I will tell you why Whittle is disingenuous here - he is practicing critical theory right in front of your face, but he calls it a "narrative" instead of what it really is "discourse analysis". Why does Whittle get to criticize narratives and not expect his own to be fair game? Its illogical, irrational

[GermanConquistador08]

@6Churches "Why does Whittle get to criticize narratives and not expect his own to be fair game?" - Probably because he does so in several other videos. THat kind of ruins your arguement right there. And I dont think he's railing so much against the ACTUAL critical theory so much as the usage of it by the liberals in the modern times.

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: He is practicing nothing of the sort. He describing a group actually academicians, there real history, there real writings, their real intentions. He is talking about FACTS, reality. not theories or practicing methods. There is real world divorced from & preceeding ideological contructs. Wake up from leftist intellectual sleep & look at the bright shining real world.

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto There is only so much I can say in 400+ characters.

Do you agree with Bill that the mainstream media are directly connected to Jewish communists who are hell-bent on destroying the fabric of society because they follow the teachings of a set of dead white men who disagree with the teachings of another set of dead white men? That's the kind of ludicrous hypothesis one gets when cherry-picking from 100 years of critical thought.

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: What a filthy racist you are. Why do you mention Jews? Why do you mention white men? What kind of a sick twisted modern academician are you? Newton was also a white man & he is also dead. Are we to quit teaching calculus & physics because of this. Here we see a supreme illustration of the modern corruption of academic intellectualism as Thomas Sowell has so aptly described it. I might note, he neither dead nor white, so I guess your allowed to think about his ideas.

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto I'm sorry Victor, I thought we were having a discussion - but you have lapsed into trolling territory. Did you watch this video? Whittle pinpoints Jews and dead white men - if it is racist to cite him, then how much more racist is he?

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: You are the typical modern academic philistines who dismisses the great minds of the past as dead white men. Your obviously incapable of a serious discussion b/c you've been trained in this very PC "critical theory" nonsense your intellecti is too adled w/ corrupt sophistry. It is you who insist on going one about dead white men & Whittle only mentioned that the radical Marxist @ Frankfurt were often Jewish by way of historical fact to explain their fleeing Germany for the U.S.

[6Churches]

@VictorLepanto Hi, Victor. You're great at name calling. But I ask again if you have actually watched this whole video? 08:29 Whittle references "dead white men" twice when he talks about the philosophical foundation of America, so does that make him a philistine? This is Bill's argument, not mine. I haven't dismissed any of these "greatest minds" that you speak of.

[VictorLepanto]

@6Churches: It has become all to obvious that your mind has been trained in critical theory & are incapable of respecting the views of your interlocaturs. It is all too obvious that you are trying to take a passing comment on why these Frankfurt school people had to flea Germany & inflate into a slander of antisemitism. You are an obvious slanderer, then you cynically whine about "name calling."

[2ravens2wolves]

good job. 13 minutes of genius. marxism can suck the shit out of my ass.

[AtheistSweden]

Bill Whittle is a hero and a true intellectual.

[kesselster]

"...has been drowned in a sea of blood and tears." That is both true and brilliant in surmising the history of radical leftism.

[kesselster]

"...has been drowned in a sea of blood and tears." That is both true and brilliant in surmising the history of leftism.

[Countrygent100]

And only 832 viewers at the time I am writing this! (June 28th 2011)

But like the proverbial "grain of mustard seed" ....

[sunshine4274]

This is one of my all time favorites. It's Bill Whittle at his very best. Don't know why it's so hard to find on pjtv. Thanks for posting.

[j1mmyZeta]

@sunshine4274 Thanks for you comment. I think the original video might only be accessible to PJTV subscribers. I'm just mirroring it because I think it's a great video. It's short and explains a lot about today's media bias.

I reccommend checking out Bill's new video 'WALKING INTO MORDOR' on BillWhittleChannel for another great explanation similar in spirit to this one.

[Luwinkle]

@j1mmyZeta If it was even available to subscribers it would still show up on their website..just with (MEMBERS ONLY) next to it. I'm guessing they got too many death threats from liberals over it.

[j1mmyZeta]

@Luwinkle I suspect it is the episode titled

'MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness'

- which is in fact on pjtv, but is locked to non-susbscribers. Makes you wonder what other hidden goodies they have there.

I think this particular episode was definately worth making public. ... I wonder why they didn't.

[Luwinkle]

@j1mmyZeta Yeah that does sound like it might be the one.

[sunshine4274]

This is one of my all time favorites. It's Bill Whittle at his very best. Don't know why it's so hard to find on pjtv. Thanks for posting.

[bob32818]

WOW!