News88 Blog Of The Day 02/05/2005: Heres what Truman said at the 1952 Democratic National Convention about the press and the media

Now this is a fighter against the press and media. Lets all take these words if anyone here ever has intentions to run for federal, state, or local office.

Truman, in his own words, in quotes:
"Now, these Republicans have nearly all of the newspapers and magazines on their side. They may have, and probably will have, public opinion polls --- as in 1948. Well, the pollsters and the press in 1948 acted like Kipleys monkey convention in his famous jungle book. You know, the monkeys had a convention, and the head of the whole simians made a statement, and made a statement, and made a statement. And he kept on making that statement. Finally, the concourse said, "It must be so. We all say so. It must be so, We all say so. It turned out a little differently in 1948. You know, those pollsters and pressmen should have conferred with the people, instead of holding monkey meetings among themselves.

They had control of big business. Look at the advertising figures, if you dont believe it. It has always been against President Roosevelt. It has always been against me. And if it was for me, I'd knew i was wrong! We have gone ahead in spite of it, because the people, in five elections in a row, have shown they dont pay any attention to what the newspapers tell them. And smart writers--the smart writers cant fool the hardheaded voters of the United States Of America.

For the source on this for reading of it entirely yourself, go to this link:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=2350&st=&st1=

AND NOW FOLKS, THATS HOW YOU FIGHT THE PRESS AND MEDIA, TRUMAN STYLE!

fpotusahuss20321979/mister1979 Blogger Scot A Huss online at News88.