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Hey, Eli! Now to read!

Eli! Very kewl to c’ya and what encouraging news! Would that someone could live blog this trial!
The gourmet popcorn is ready, and AMEN to your hopes and wishes here.
I don’t miss any of your posts, but I get to them when everyone’s left, i.e. running behind.
You’re consistently great!
pax
:)

Media ownership study ordered destroyed
Sept 14, 2006

‘Every last piece’ destroyed

Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that “every last piece” of the report be destroyed. “The whole project was just stopped – end of discussion,” he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC’s Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/

Oooh, very good Eli! I can’t wait to see this unfold as well. And where did this myth of liberal media bias originate, anyway?

Who owns CBS any ties to the GOP and which wing of the GOP? The Corporate, Religious, Anti tax, Neo Con, Paleo Con etc?

mornin Eli…nice to see you for BRUNCH ….”g”

Even if Rather doesn’t win, I expect the trial to be very damaging to CBS and the myth of liberal media bias. Which would not be such a bad thing.

this is our hope, we suspect cbs would rather settle, I am hoping rather would rather not

Viacom sorry should have read first.

Rush LimpBoughs

CBS owned by Viacom owned by Sumner Redstone

Time to resuurect Sumner Redstone saying he preferred Al Gore for president, but that he must support GWBush because he would be so much better for his corporation.

So Sumner admits his corporation’s health is more important than the nation’s health.

I wonder how many up and coming subordinates in Viacom wanted to curry Mr. Redstone’s favor in helping Bush get elected.

CBS ….Katie Curic and friends…..empty vessels….or Vassals as it were

Maybe reporters following Rather’s lead will now feel a little more free to expose the past of Mr Obama’s drug use and missing years at Columbia University.

yea another MOFO gazillionaire,selling out AMERICA …hahahahahaha
ya cant take it with you ancientMAN

Into The Buzzsaw – The Myth of s Free Press
by 60 Minutes producer
Kristina Borjesson

how are your moldy cheetos this morning pal?

Eli on a Wednesday a.m.? Provocative!

Viacom went from $44.03 a share using the 5 year google financial chart to $25,20 now. Never mind how much the Dollar has dropped in that time.
Its hard to see how Bush was better for his company.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=Viacom

Sarah Palin how many colleges did she go to in how many years:)
How many planes did John McCain crash sober? Well we think he was sober?

In the 1940’s the media was complicit in fighting fascism on the side of democracy. In these times the media is complicit in fighting against democracy on the side of fascism. Why has the media been turned upside down in the struggle of right and wrong? Let us ask this question over and over until we get some accurate responses.

All evidence in this case would point directly to Karl Rove. He’s the one who set Rather up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

I like the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr quote: “We’re the most entertained, least informed people in the world.” In this country we have the media. We do not, however, have a news media. We may have had one at some point but we certainly do not have one now.

Not only can’t Republicans do GOOD government,

they STINK at staying solvent.

Rove accused Chris Wallace of being an “Agent Of Congress”

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0819.html

One thing you can always take to the bank where Rove is concerned. He is ALWAYS guilty of that which he accuses others.

Rove is an agent of influence, to be sure.

Look who has won and who has lost as a result of Rove’s efforts.

Iraq is being depopulated and the oil pipeline to Israel is being built.

Iran will be attacked next, at Israel’s insistence.

Poppy Bush’s Opium crops in Afghanistan are producing record profits.

Weapons systems are being degraded, requiring replacement – record profits for the Defense Industry.

Oil is stair stepping its way to record highs, and will continue to do so.

The banking industry pushed through bankruptcy reform, just as the Fed had brought the cost of lending as close to zero as possible, while Greenspan insisted that everyone with a pulse buy a house they could not afford using adjustable rate credit, then borrow against it to inflate the economy, artificially.

Use of illegal labor in the US is at record highs – driving corporate profits at record highs and wages down.

The ranks of the uninsured in the US is at record highs, as are Prescription Drug prices.

The AGENT is Rove.

speaking of health:

Perhaps community organizers who are looking for something new to do since s-chip didn’t pass can hold a bake sale for those poor corporations on wall street. I hear they need some help. compassion and all that.

Seriously, if those CEOs got together with their own private funds, I’m sure they could find a buck or two to bailout their own companies.

Non-authoritarian regimes tend to rely on more sustained social engineering campaigns that create more gradual, but ultimately as far-reaching, change. Examples include the “War on Drugs” in the United States, the increasing reach of intellectual property rights and copyright, and the promotion of elections as a political tool. The campaign for promoting elections, which is by far the most successful of the three examples, has been in place for over two centuries.

Social theorists of the Frankfurt School in Weimar Germany like Theodor Adorno had also observed the new phenomenon of mass culture and commented on its new manipulative power, when the rise of the Nazis drove them out of the country around 1930 (many of them became connected with the Institute for Social Research in the United States). The Nazis themselves were no strangers to the idea of influencing political attitudes and re-defining personal relationships. The Nazi propaganda machine under Joseph Goebbels was a synchronized, sophisticated and effective tool for creating public opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…..science%29

A number of techniques which are based on social psychological research are used to generate propaganda. Many of these same techniques can be found under logical fallacies, since propagandists use arguments that, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid. A few examples are: Flag-waving, Glittering generalities, Intentional vagueness, Oversimplification, Rationalization, Red herring, Slogans, Stereotyping, Testimonial, Unstated assumption.

In the West, the term propaganda now overlaps with distinct terms like indoctrination (ideological views established by repetition rather than verification) and mass suggestion (broader strategic methods).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

VP hopeful Palin attended 5 colleges in 6 years

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS – Sep 4, 2008

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.

Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign.

http://ap.google.com/article/A…..wD9304JE80

Obama was Harvard Law Review

Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for president.[1] A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

So a drug using Obama is smarter than a sober Sarah ever was? McCain as a POW who was tortured has every reason to use pain killers even today however I’m not sure we want that as a President.

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.” (The US dictionary definition has gotten somewhat squishier since then, as all the larger dictionary companies have been bought up by multinational corporations.)

Mussolini was quite straightforward about all this. In a 1923 pamphlet titled “The Doctrine of Fascism” he wrote, “If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.” But not a government of, by, and for We The People – instead, it would be a government of, by, and for the most powerful corporate interests in the nation.

“You can’t tell any more the difference between what’s propaganda and what’s news.”

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
15 August, 2006

…money…power…

we suspect cbs would rather settle, I am hoping rather would rather not

No way is Rather gonna settle.

They wouldn’t do that in a million years.

These are animals who pee in their communal pools, and think they are smarter than those who don’t.

Did I mention they also stink ??

Maybe reporters following Rather’s lead will now feel a little more free to expose the past of Mr Obama’s drug use and missing years at Columbia University.

And maybe we can have more about McCain’s womanizing, past and present, his drunken bashes, being up to his eyelids in lobbyists, oh and lots more about the Keating 5. Let’s see and then there is temper tantrums and senility. Lots of good stuff. Thanks for a great idea.

You have to keep reminding yourself this is not fantasy: that truly dangerous men, such as Perle and Rumsfeld and Cheney, have power. The thread running through their ruminations is the importance of the media: “the prioritized task of bringing on board journalists of repute to accept our position”.

“Our position” is code for lying. Certainly, as a journalist, I have never known official lying to be more pervasive than today. We may laugh at the vacuities in Tony Blair’s “Iraq dossier” and Jack Straw’s inept lie that Iraq has developed a nuclear bomb (which his minions rushed to “explain”). But the more insidious lies, justifying an unprovoked attack on Iraq and linking it to would-be terrorists who are said to lurk in every Tube station, are routinely channeled as news. They are not news; they are black propaganda.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160005

“Television is altering the meaning of “being informed” by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation… Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.”

Neil Postman

Don’t forget mixing his pain killer pills with booze the two of which combined might explain John’s success with women. People have been dousing girl’s drinks for a long time.
And somebody introduced Cindy to pain killers.

Question What is Rove likely to be charged with in the Rather case?

bom dia pups
I hope all had peaceful rest
(now off to read)

hello sweets…busy here too

In 1974, there were only the grossest hints as to the CIA’s involvement in assassinations, torture, mind-control experiments, and the manipulation of the media. It was to be the job of Rockefeller, as well as Rumsfeld and Cheney, to cover all tracks and to stop any House or Senate investigation, or at least throw it off the track .

For example, there is only a brief mention of “Operation Stay Behind” within the Church reports (Pike’s report being suppressed). Operation Stay
Behind was a CIA terrorist operation aimed at the citizens and politicians of European countries and their democratically elected leaders.

According to the 1976 Senate report on the CIA by the Church Committee, this program was first conceived by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff was staffed and funded by the CIA, and put into operation in 1948 by the National Security Council.

Essentially, the CIA was using Nazis, Neo-Nazis, SS-officers, and CIA-trained terrorists to indiscriminately murder European men, women and children, and to assassinate or otherwise remove or eliminate communist, socialist, and left-wing politicians.

In Italy, this program was referred to as “Operation Gladio. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents. Gladio carried out the 1980 bomb attack on Bologna Railway station in which 85 people were killed and hundreds injured. Subsequent investigation led to the exposure of much of the conspiracy and in consequence, the CIA arranged for P2’s Grandmaster, fascist Lucio Gelli to escape to Argentina.

Media Reform Information Center

http://www.corporations.org/media/

plunger..you are saying all the correct things, if only there were more listeners.

The case has no chance of moving forward to the point that Rove will be called to testify. The justice system is not available to those with a case against the fascists.

“Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.”

Michael Rivera

Marvelous quote. Where did you get it, please?

You never know after all Bush will need a fall guy to blame for all the bad stuff during his term Rove fits the bill as a fall guy.

The love of money and power..that is why newspapers don’t tell the truth anymore…

“That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result,” he wrote. “It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, it’s task is to lead to success.” Joseph Goebbels…http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Joeseph_Goebbels

And success is money and power gained from lying to promote and protect the Republicans who are in power.

I find David Leonhardt a really annoying writer at the Times. He says we should only be focusing on how to minimize taxpayer losses in the financial meltdown. Well duh, of course that’s important but seeing that it doesn’t happen again is kind of important too, don’t you think. He says that Congresspeople don’t know anything about what they are supposed to make decisions on. But he sort of forgets that Paulson’s drive to de-regulate markets is what got us here so maybe he doesn’t know that much about what to do either. Leonhardt also doesn’t say anything about who will be administering this program. I guess that is too much of a distraction too, but Paulson’s plan is to leave it to Wall Street to fix Wall Street’s problems Wall Street’s way but with taxpayers’ money. Gosh darn details, better not look at them and just move along. What a hopeless sap.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09…..ref=slogin

drivin’ by with a little o/t

an anecdotal observation about the toxicity of the NYT/Davis story

total blackout in Right Stoopidistan – not even the obligatory railing about librul media

after watching these klowns for 5 years, I take it as a very good sign :D

Christy has a bright, shiny new post up entitled “McCain’s Cronies: More Hinky Questions About Rick Davis And John McCain” for our enlightenment.

These are animals who pee in their communal pools, and think they are smarter than those who don’t.

Um, yeah!

the contempt is pretty much in my grill. It’s all about who’s schl*ng is bigger and who can take the government for more free money than the other guy. competition vs cooperation. I mean, are you kidding me, Paulson?????

McCain is the poster boy for government freebies and no accountability. his contempt not only for political opponents but for the american voter is becoming more plain with every passing day.

This whole bailout is just another business negotiation to Wall Street. Buy now! This offer to buy my trash expires at midnight! Don’t wait!

Quotations on terrorism

I repeat it often.

Thanks

I think that Sarah was a drug user in college. It would make sense because she smoked marijuana in Alaska.

Palin said she has smoked marijuana..remember, it was legal under state law, she said, even if illegal under U.S. Law..but says she didn’t like it and doesn’t smoke it now. Palin adds, “I can’t claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled.”…source: Anchorage Daily News Aug 6,2006

http://onthe008/Sarah_Palin_issues.org/2

How much of McCain’s “pain” is the result of torture; and how much can be placed on his own shoulders for failure to maintain proper procedures when ejecting from his (last) crashing plane? I recognize that lack of proper medical attention when he was captured may be considered torture (though not under OUR current definitions) . . . but was he partially responsible for his own misfortune?

Did you notice Barney Frank’s offer of legislation to legalize?

While privacy laws prevent revealing Palin’s grades, I’m pretty certain that I saw her (or read about it on another blog) that she sailed through her economics class with a grade of D.

try the link again…http://ontheissues.org/2008/Sarah_Palin_Drugs.htm

Yes, I did…It would make sense, but I doubt that it will happen unless the gov’t decides to tax it. Too much money at stake…the drug lobbyists would fight that ’til their last breath!
Besides, prisons make too much money off of the people who are there for drug related reasons..don’t think ‘they’ want to kill that cash cow!
The CIA would not want to give up any of their profits…but then, I guess they would just take over pot growing, too. Assuming of course that they haven’t already, of course.

…oops…I forgot to hit reply…I answered you at 58…

google: Dan Rather 911. A reminder that he and fellow reporter Barry Peterson were digging up the truth quickly.

I think that is why he was ‘dumped’. He remained under contract and they stuck him behind a desk. Between exposing Bush’s awol and 911..he did his job and paid the price.

Why does the media suck?

Go read Carl Bernstein’s Rolling Stone piece about how after Watergate the CIA decided it was time to completely devote propaganda time to the people in the US by infiltrating assets into the various media outlets in the US.

We are on the verge of transferring more wealth to the capitalists in this country than was transferred to the railroad barons in the form of land grants during the administration in history that held the title for “Most corrupt in history” until this cabal came along, the Grant administration, in the earliest days of the Republicans. Interesting that at that time it was his Treasury secretary who was shoveling money out the door.