On Christmas Day the cable network VH1 re-broadcast the "Concert in New York City" in which musicians and actors performed to raise money for these heroes’ families.

But what VH1 re-aired was a perfect example of the revision of history George Orwell portrayed in his dystopian novel 1984. At the moment in that concert when now-New York Senator Hillary Clinton was booed off the stage by outraged firefighters and police, those watching this manipulated re-run heard only dubbed-in ordinary crowd noise – no boos, no shouts from the audience of "Go away! We don’t want you here!" at the Leftist politician who had courted votes by calling cops "murderers" while her husband pardoned convicted cop-killer Puerto Rican terrorists to win votes for her.

"The cable channel evidently wants to keep on Hillary’s good side," wrote Neal Travis of the New York Post.

"VH1 is owned by Viacom, parent company of Simon & Schuster, the book publisher that awarded Clinton $8 million last year for a book she won’t even have to write till next year," wrote Carl Limbacher of Newsmax.com. "Perhaps VH1 was just protecting Viacom’s investment."

Perhaps. Or maybe Viacom, a giant media conglomerate susceptible to all sorts of government regulations, wants this future Democratic presidential prospect as a friend – or at least not as an enemy. Perhaps that is why Viacom head Sumner Redstone was such a large political donor to the Clintons. Or maybe some junior editor at VH1 acted without any higher-up’s knowledge or direction, in which case Viacom should fire that editor for this falsification of events and should apologize to America.

Among Viacom’s many media holdings are MTV and, for aging Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, VH1. On cable it also owns Nickelodeon and Noggin to influence the minds of our kids, Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television, Showtime, the Movie Channel, TNN, and Country Music Television (which recently refused to air a patriotic song by the Charlie Daniels Band).

Viacom owns Paramount Studios, Blockbuster Video, Outdoor Systems billboards, the Star Trek franchise, and King World, distributors of such TV fare as Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Hollywood Squares, Martha Stewart, and Oprah. In broadcast television it owns the UPN network and, lest we forget, a little entity called CBS. The pro-Clinton, Leftist bias of the Clinton BS network is evident and outrageous. It has most recently been documented by 28-year CBS veteran Bernard Goldberg in his current bestseller Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.

Viacom also owns more than 200 radio and television stations, including many in major markets. It also controls a large chunk of talk radio (e.g., Howard Stern) via CBS-Infinity and Westwood One broadcasting.

So what should we think when part of this media behemoth edits out the boos of heroic firefighters and police aimed at one of its owner’s favorite politicians?

This columnist is even more furious than before, and far more angry than I would have been had Hillary Clinton’s appearance merely been deleted from the taped history of this event. Instead, Viacom reportedly re-aired the image of a brazen Senator Clinton talking over the crowd. By electronically gagging and silencing the heroes who were voicing their opposition to her, Viacom in the most cynical Orwellian fashion left its Christmas re-broadcast audience with the impression that these firefighters and police had greeted her with at least tacit approval and acceptance. Silenced, they were conscripted into being unwilling props and pawns in a propaganda show edited to make Hillary the star.

Viacom, in other words, perpetrated an act of terrorist hostage-taking on these heroes. It allowed Hillary to use them, to make herself appear taller by standing on them as a platform for her political ambitions – to use their muted faces as a way of stealing an undeserved portion of their honor and public approval for herself.

We, of course, are accustomed to seeing such manipulation from more than just Viacommies. We see it when university scholars falsify data to advance a Leftist agenda, as Emory University’s Michael Bellesiles reportedly did with his book Arming America, which claims that few Americans owned firearms prior to the 1860s. We are accustomed to Left-slanted news from almost all of the establishment media.

Such Leftist bias is old news. But with this New Year, more Americans than ever before are seeking out more honest information in newer media such as Fox News Channel and Front Page Magazine. Fresh perspectives are in the air, and America is escaping the Leftist Dark Ages and experiencing a renaissance as the land of the free and home of the brave.