Back when I was a mere lad, I thought it was a bad
thing to be on the receiving end of an MSM attack.
And in early 2005, was I ever getting bombarded. I had a bestselling book that told forbidden truths, so I was to be destroyed.
Some things they said were outright lies. Other things were just plain name-calling -- but career-destroying names, so
still pretty serious.
Other things had a grain of truth to them, but explaining myself would have taken time, looked contrived, and kept the controversy going. My defense would have had to be: yes, X is true, but here's why X isn't really what they say it is. That wasn't going to help.
Around that
time I had dinner with Pat and Shelley Buchanan in Washington, D.C. Pat had been friendly, singling out my book on The McLaughlin Group and featuring me on MSNBC when he was filling in for Joe Scarborough.
I told him what was going on.
His response: "Where there is no solution, there is no
problem."
He told me that at public lectures of his, there would be people in the back distributing some column he'd written in 1977. There ain't nothing you can do about people like that.
What can you do?
You can keep writing bestselling books. Keep making public appearances. Keep
fighting.
And in my case: get all over YouTube.
Video, more than anything else, was the mechanism I used to fight these SOBs. It's how most of my current followers found out about me.
It works in cases
like mine. It works to build audiences. And it also works to sell things -- video has done wonders for my bottom line.
You're leaving a killer weapon sheathed if you don't use it.
And the learning curve for excellent video and audio just got seriously shortened (price jumps tomorrow night,
though):
Tom Woods