Thought-policing in Middle America

"Certain Democratic preachers on the Missouri side of the state line, including Kansas City's congressman, the Rev. Emanuel Cleaver, have been engaging in flagrant political shenanigans for a generation without a paragraph of scrutiny from Thomas or the Star.

"Despite the lack of evidence, Johnston took a beating from the Thomas articles. To defend himself, he was forced to hire attorneys and even a public relations firm."

Pentagon official blames U.S. for al-Qaida attacks Worked for George Soros, argued for government control of media

"Last week, FoxNews.com highlighted Brook's departing column in which she argued for more 'direct government support for public media" and government licensing of the news.

"Wrote Brooks: 'Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off.'

"In response, L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, countered, 'The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy.'"

The Big Lie

"'You need us,' the Fourth Estate claims. 'Because we are professionals and we will tell you what is true.'

"Except when they don't. Except when what really happens does not fit into their predominantly east-coast understanding of what the people of this diverse country value and want. Except when reporting gets in the way of being opinion-shapers, vetters of presidential appointees, and those running for office. (For more on the media's extremely rude and virulent attacks on certain presidential candidates, see the film Media Malpractice). And this is, I believe, the main reason that many ordinary Americans find the so-called Fourth Estate increasingly irrelevant.

"Consider the stunningly incompetent reporting of CNN 'reporter' Susan Roesgen, who interrupted a man at the Chicago Tea Party who was discussing Lincoln, telling him (and her viewers) what to think: 'Do you know that the 'state of Lincoln' gets 50 billion dollars . . .' She did not let the man finish, and she ended her confrontation with Tea Party goers by saying that they were all anti-government and anti-CNN. At the end, you hear the crowd chanting at her: 'You are not a reporter.' And this is true. She moved from reporting to confronting, from telling viewers what was happening, to telling them what to think about it. She ended that particular discussion by becoming a salesperson for the 'stimulus' package.

(For a better, if not "professional" look at the Chicago Tea Party, see The Chicago Tea Party that Susan Roesgen Missed, by the guy who wants her job).

"It was clear that Ms. Roesgen went to Chicago with an agenda, and that agenda was not to report on what was actually happening (good, bad and ugly), but rather to obtain footage for a particular point of view: that the Tea Parties were 'anti-government and anti-CNN.' Whether this was her own agenda or that of her bosses, she is nevertheless responsible for her unethical behavior. She was not reporting on news, she was, rather, creating propaganda.

"This is incompetent reporting. It was also clear that Ms. Roesgen went to Chicago, the largest city in the 'Land of Lincoln' in complete ignorance of that great president's economic views. Any Illiniois school child could have educated her about this, since she failed to prepare herself for her day's work. This is stunningly incompetent.

"FYI Ms. Roesgen: The man you interviewed--the one whose child was 'already in debt'--was refering to this statement made by Abraham Lincoln:

"'Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.' Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864).

"It took this former Illiniois schoolgirl exactly 40 seconds to pull it up on the Internet. I simply googled the italicized phrase along with the word 'Lincoln.' Susan, the next time you go to Chicago, and you are dealing with real people--those who can both walk and chew gum at the same time (unlike the Pols) and who (unlike the Pols), do not tell you exactly what you want to hear--be sure to do your homework.

"I suppose one could argue that neither CNN nor Fox are real news outlets because they have to foment controversy in order to produce 24 hours of nonstop "news" every day. So, should we consider 'responsible' newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times? In an editorial in that paper, Marc Cooper had already labeled the Tea Parties this way: 'Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity.' That was before the Tea Parties had even happened.

"And then there's my hometown paper, The Albuquerque Journal. I tend to be partial to it because it is independent and published right here. But they have gotten a new breed of reporters lately, ones who are so lazy that they go out to an event for 15 minutes, quote liberally from the AP, and believe they have a story. Thus they told us that 'a few thousand'attended the Albuquerque Tea Party, even though there were official numbers that could have been obtained with one phone call to the police. From the AP, they got the idea that all of these Tea Parties were anti-Obama rallies promoted by Dick Army. With a few phone calls and some additional leg work (there's that word again, the one that the lazy reporters avoid), the reporters could have interviewed the five housewives who organized the Tea Party here, and they could have found out that none of them had even talked to Senator Army, and that all funding was local and private, and all the work was done by volunteers.

"Instead the Journal has piled on to the Big Lie: The Tea Parties were partisan, about taxes, and poorly attended. And therefore not very important. In fact, they were so unimportant that the President of the United States had a press release put out saying that he didn't know about them. (Consider the logic of that!) Because according to Janet Napolitano of DHS, Tea Party goers are all insane nutjobs that are a threat to the United States. Right up there with war veterans and those of us who understand that the Constitution limits the powers of the Federal government in the 9th and 10th amendments.

"This is the strategy of the Big Lie. It is a propaganda technique first defined in Nazi Germany, but it has been in use since Pericles. It means to keep repeating an untruth over and over again, baldly, and without evidence, until it is believed by most people."

An Interesing Comment

You have to see the video.

"Currently, (Susan) Roesgen works for CNN. During the Tea Party protest on Tax Day April 15, 2009, Roesgen complained that a sign showing President Barack Obama dressed as Hitler was offensive.[1] However, in January 2006 at a protest, she joked about a protester who wore a George W. Bush mask with a Hitler moustache and devil horns.[2]

this is what susan is all about. "

Oldstream Media No Longer Concerned With The Anti-War Movement

"It was almost as though a switch was thrown on November 4, 2008. Suddenly, overnight, all the stories that most concerned the Oldstream Media for the past seven years ceased to have meaning. Take, for instance, the Anti-War Movement."

and

"'Many elements of the anti-war movement have stood down 'cause Obama is President, and that shows me that some elements in the anti-war movement are more concerned with the Democratic Party than really bringing true peace,' said Cindy Sheehan, the forgotten anti-war activist who camped out on President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch in protest in 2005."

Open Letter to Campbell Brown

Hello Campbell Brown:

Liars can Figure and Figures can lie, and I find it repugnant that you (and CNN) are now trying to get us to forget about the $165 Million in bonus money, trying to tell us to look at the BIG PICTURE. Big picture...

How about, for starters, $50 Billion or more of the money we gave AIG came in the front door, and went right out the back door to BANKS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES!
Big picture...lets talk about CV Starr-Starr International being set up to be the NEW AIG which has always been AIG...IE, seen how many AIG folks have been hired by Maurice Greenberg controlled companies?

Big Picture...$14 out of every $15 dollars to buy up TOXIC ASSETS is OUR MAIN STREET TAXES. You and CNN are trying to tell us, that in the long run we will or might see a return on our investment! Who are you trying to FOOL? Even if at some future date and time those investments break even or see a profit, WE WILL NEVER SEE A DIME OF IT.

Here is a CLUE...Main Street is tired of the games, and that includes the ones you people in the press are playing. IE...how come you and Rick Sanchez (as example) never do stories about the anger ON MAIN STREET at 7.5 million illegal aliens working while 12.5 million Americans are out of work. Trust me, we see Illegal Aliens as SCUM, not because they are of Latino descent, but because they are A) criminals and B) have stolen and are stealing food from our LEGAL AMERICAN FAMILIES.

How about you coming out and being honest Campbell Brown...do a story on how Obama LIED TO US about the AIG Bonus money, about how the White House wants the Senate to drop the AIG Bonus issue, and wants the press to TAMP DOWN MAIN STREET ANGER. How about doing a story about Obama and E Verify...you know, the one where he had Senator Reid kill E Verify as too many Illegal Aliens would lose their jobs before he and Congress could grant them AMNESTY!

How about a story telling Main Street Americans that we can kill the AIG Dragon by joining together and CANCELLING our business contracts with them in the form of insurance policies, by instructing our investment brokers to divest our 401 K's of anything directly or indirectly associated with AIG.

Start reporting like a reporter instead of acting as a mouth piece for the Obama Propaganda Machine. IT IS US OR THEM, and RIGHT NOW YOU ARE ACTING AND REPORTING LIKE A THEM.

Media's love affair with Obama

"I was waiting for Brokaw to lean over and kiss him. It was truly a Kodak moment between two liberals sharing their fantasy of the utopia soon to come."

Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama

Am I in another dimension?

"A Fox News host and his panel angrily proclaimed that Ralph Nader’s career was finished after the Independent Party candidate dared to criticize Barack Obama’s record of toadying up to corporate interests, as top liberal websites applauded Fox News for their aggressive defense of the president elect.

"The corporate media’s frightening obsession with maintaining Obama’s messianic complex now apparently extends to the so-called 'right-wing' Fox News, who have eagerly picked up the baton and are right behind the mindless fervor of Obamamania - acting in lock step with the establishment left."

Once upon a time, there was a novel but archaic concept called Freedom of Speech....

Joy Behar is a fat, stupid commie

"Thus, such an individual thinks nothing (literally) of reflexively babbling such inane things as 'Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.' Terrorists blow things up and kill people. Thus far, I'm not aware of Limbaugh ever having engaged in such activity, unlike a friend (Bill Ayers) of Behar's probable presidential pick (Sen. Barack Obama)."

and

"Behar is obviously coarse and somewhat repellant; whether she's just mouthy and thoroughly indoctrinated or indeed a blithering idiot, I do not know. Certainly the business she's in provides for the massive success of select dull-normals. The point is that no informed person (granted, a tall order these days) in their right mind would take to heart anything said by entertainers on weighty issues and would be doubly wary of those who are particularly vocal regarding their sociopolitical views."

On 'Loving Obama more than free speech and an independent media'

"Bernard Goldberg says something is going on here and it isn't very good."

Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

"Middle America, even when they didn't agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the little man. So much for speaking truth to power. So much for comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, and all of those other catchphrases we journalists used to believe we lived by.

"I learned a long time ago that when people or institutions begin to behave in a matter that seems to be entirely against their own interests, it's because we don't understand what their motives really are. It would seem that by so exposing their biases and betting everything on one candidate over another, the traditional media is trying to commit suicide -- especially when, given our currently volatile world and economy, the chances of a successful Obama presidency, indeed any presidency, is probably less than 50/50. "

Obama and the conspiratorial media

"I am sincerely worried that if Obama

wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties, because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change.

"These factors are: a shockingly unknown candidate whose mysterious past and numerous shady alliances are deliberately left unexplored by a corrupt, supportive media; the candidate's charismatic qualities that inspire a cultish loyalty; his intellectual trappings that create a fascination and allure among the intellectual elite, including some hypnotized conservatives; a major financial crisis that exacerbates the people's fears and uncertainties; a largely manufactured cloud of negativity placed over America by the media and a grossly partisan Democratic Party that places its self-interest above the national interest; and an apparently discredited Republican Party and conservative movement that have been blamed for our actual and perceived problems."

"All of these could lead to entrusting this man with unprecedented power, giving him a license to operate with minimum scrutiny and an opposition party effectively impotent to oppose his radical blueprint for America."

and

"Would Obama win if people believed he might well nationalize health care, unilaterally disarm our nuclear weapons, push the Global Poverty Act, appoint judges to the left of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pass legislation

banning handguns, greatly increase federal spending by euphemistically disguising it as a stimulus package, increase taxes on producers and expand 'redistribution,' impose limitations on private executive salaries, empower labor unions, further nationalize public education with the leftist indoctrination agenda of the National Education Association, further open our borders, ratify the Kyoto climate change treaty, abandon Israel, retreat and surrender in Iraq, dramatically reduce the defense budget, possibly reinstate the draft in the name of racial equity, nationalize our private 401(k) funds, abuse governmental power to target and investigate dissent from ordinary 'Joes,' and implement the Fairness Doctrine to shut down political dissent from his talk-radio critics?

Hollywood insiders rip MSNBC, defend Palin

"Bloodworth-Thomason and others seemed especially critical of the way MSNBC -- and other media -- has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.

"'We should stop the demonizing,' she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. 'It diminishes us,' she said of her fellow Democrats."

Biden Lets It All Hang Out

"I thought they were espousing Hope and Change and here they are doing what a good socialist does in order to win...lie, cheat and steal."

Obama's 'authoritarian media practices' slammed

"All freedom-loving Americans and independent-minded journalists must be concerned about the authoritarian actions practiced in recent days by Sen. Barack Obama's campaign, which cut off future interviews to a local news network after its anchor dared to ask legitimate but pressing questions to Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden.

"The boycott move is a direct threat to what little is left of America's free press, highlighting to reporters the ramifications of questioning the Obama campaign on issues it doesn't want to talk about.

"As a Mideast reporter, I've seen this kind of action before. It's routinely practiced by Middle East dictators and has resulted in an intimidated press corps which toes the jihadist line, in part out of fear of having their contacts cut off."

Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden

"'This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,' wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign."

You couldn't stand the heat, could you?

TRAINING A SOCIALIST ARMY OF WORLD SERVERS PART 2

"The simple answer is that Obama's revolutionary values match those of the mainstream media and the power brokers behind it. Contrary voices are ignored or ridiculed. Perceptions are swayed by suggestions and exciting images, while facts become increasingly irrelevant. And as discernment drowns in this postmodern muddle, illusion reigns -- and few even care!

"Without facts we'll lose our freedom! A sobering 1970 prediction by Professor Raymond Houghton, a spokesman for 'progressive education,' may soon be reality:

"'...absolute behavior control is imminent.... The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will... never self-consciously know that it has happened.'"

SCARY.

"This is spiritual war! Unthinkable lies are now accepted by blinded masses who have forgotten the foundations of our freedom! Dialectic groups (led by trained facilitators) -- no matter how nice or 'Christian' they sound -- are prompting people to shift their trust from God to the group. In that context, even the Bible is conformed to the group's changing visions.

"In contrast, our sovereign God calls each of us to take a stand, resist compromise, and follow His unchanging Truth. Those who choose His way will walk together with Him. He will strengthen us for the battle and enable us to stand firm on the solid rock of His Word -- no matter how fierce the battle."

Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?

"The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating.

"They end up worse off than before."

and

"These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.

"Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!

"What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?"

and

"If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.

"If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis."

Lies by omission: Media and Obama withhold truth from voters

"So ladies and gentlemen, Obama is trying to get into the Oval Office by stealth tactics, manipulation, and intimidation. Is he the sort of president you want to see come November 5th?"

This election is really a referendum on the stupidity of the American voter

"After watching the mainstream media sink to new lows of blatant favoritism, absurd bias and an almost unimaginable level of spin, I have come to the conclusion that this election will really be a measure on just how stupid the average American voter truly is."

and

"The group that bugs me the most are those people who are so stupid, so utterly devoid of any cerebral capacity, as to bounce around oblivious to the fact that most of the news they hear is false, twisted and outright propaganda for one side. How idiotic do you have to be to need a primer on the fact that what we call most journalists should be on the Democratic Party's payroll?"