I was about to write about Joe the Plumber’s bizarre comments at the Media Research Center’s Gala last night. And they’re worth noting.
But while scanning through their website I came across these rather revealing remarks by Brit Hume, who received MRC’s "William F. Buckley Award for Wingnut Propaganda Media Excellence."
Said Hume:
"I want to say a word of thanks to Brent [Bozell] and to the team at the Media Research Center…not only just for this wonderfully fine award… but also for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Reseach Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring "Special Report" — I don’t know what I would’ve done without them. It was a daily buffet of material to work from and we certainly made tremendous use of it."
So Faux News’ prime-time anchor for 12 years was a sockpuppet of the same wingnut welfare slush fund that runs Newsbusters.
We distort. You decide.



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LOL. Sorta.
And I bet they don’t see the least thing wrong with that.
One lady I know said the news should be more balanced. I said no, it should be more factual.
This reminds me of David Rockefellers admission to the complicity of the media,YEARS back.
Here’s an excerpt:
Changing Images of Man predicts an American economic collapse and a “garrison” (police) state,” if the overwhelming inequities of our economic system are not corrected by powerful multinationals making more humane decisions……
Instead of charging the people who are responsible for our situation (such as men like David Rockefeller), for manipulating our economy and our democracy to maximize their profits, the multi-national corporations and their owners were exalted as the potential saviors of mankind. Rockefeller and the elite have consistently taken steps to dominate the world by controlling people through “humanitarian” projects which, in the end, turn out to be profit mechanisms
Here David Rockefeller admits media collusion with his one world plans:
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”_______________________Excerpt,”The Changing Images of Man”…….Stanford Research Institute document….Online Journal
Maybe Brit Hume can investigate the why’s and how’s of Joe The Plumber’s randy mood.
Ha! Joe the PR Campaign is really comical. I like how they have him wear the wrinkled plaid working shirt and jeans to everything now, even a black tie dinner. He’s so average, just like me!!1!111! What a spontaneous rebel!
It’s so hysterical, yet disturbing, how obvious this whole scam is and how the trained seals clap.
He’s “Old Shoe”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4ZLwevXAI
They distort. We deride.
Here’s another link in the Faux mesh of deceit: the guy running Palin 2012 is also Greta Van Susteren’s husband (and a high-level Scientologist, which makes for the headline, but is collateral to this story):
Discuss….
This alone had me “ROFLMA”
William F. Buckley Award for Wingnut Propaganda Media
scribe @7:
Von Susteran’s husband was also involved in the Bhopal,India explosion litigaton,years back.
Remember that incident?
Olbermann will have a fine time with this, I expect. The faux-integrity of Brit Hume has long been a source of angst. This certainly pops Brit’s bubble, I’d say.
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Thank you for making me choke with laughter when I read that post,I was just drinking my water and choked.
Media Transparency describes[5] L. Brent Bozell III as “a zealot of impeccable right-wing pedigree. He is the NEPHEW of columnist William F. Buckley and the son of L. Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative.
He was the chief fund-raiser behind Pat Buchanan’s unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1992.”——————
Sourcewatch
link?
Brent Bozell – SourceWatch L. Brent Bozell III is the founder and President of the Media Research Center, which calls itself a conservative media watchdog organization; …
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brent_Bozell – 36k – Cached – Similar pages
Here’s his personal web site where he brags on it.
At least he was on the right side on Bhopal. Now, not so much.
Floridian: High profile couple never pairs church and state Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, rub shoulders with notables … Known as ”Bhopal Coale” for swooping into India after the 1984 Union Carbide …
http://www.sptimes.com/Floridian/1213…..ple_n.html – 20k – Cached – Similar pages
Manas: History and Politics, Constitution of India … and two days later John Coale, a Washington attorney, became the first American … While Union Carbide denied that its Bhopal plant had been been built to less … the court of Judge John F. Keenan in New York that the case was first heard. … of subservience and subjugation from which India has emerged” (p. …
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/…..india.html – 40k – Cached – Similar pages
by L Snakes – Related articles
In 1984 he acquired the nickname ”Bhopal Coale” by being the first lawyer to hop on a plane to India to sign … The Washington Times recently reported the curious appointment by Governor Martin O’Malley of John P. Coale …
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php?topic=6392.0 – 61k – Cached – Similar pages
Hmmm. That was a surreal experience reading about the spouse of a Faux News anchor litigating on the right side of corporate cases.
Well, the leopard apparently has changed his spots!
OT the FDIC lost $10.7 billion in its tying up and selling off of IndyMac. This was considerably more than previously thought (~$8 billion).
http://www.calculatedriskblog……s-107.html
Wonder how many rich celebrity corporate news readers use the resources of Media Matters?
So Faux News’ prime-time anchor for 12 years was a sockpuppet of the same wingnut welfare slush fund that runs Newsbusters.
No one ever could have known.
I have to admit, even as much as I study these wingnuts, I didn’t think Brit Hume was cribbing stories from Newsbustards.
Media Matters? Did you ever see O’Liely when that anme is mentioned?? LOL. He freaks.
I mentioned here the other day that Faux cut away from the president’s town meeting in Costa Mesa to air Laura Ingraham’s talking points segment, where she spent something like a quarter of an hour taunting Meghan McCain (this was after the presumptive almost-first-daughter told Ingraham off on the View). The most powerful man in the world talking about the economy or Ingraham ranting, and they went for the rant. That says everything one needs to know about Hume’s network. They live in their own world, and its basically a treasonous one.
That was just bizarre. She admitted that she used the “plus sized model” phrase and then said “I never called her fat” Wha?????? What does she think “plus sized model” means?
And then of course she said the liberal media made the whole thing up.
I think Obama should make a point to ask for blocks of time from Fox, and then just watch the fireworks when they refuse to air the president for an official speech.
Pretty much blamed the liberal press. Totally cheap shot. I don’t think the girl is fat. Dumb as dogshit, yes. Fat, no. And even if she is, it’s inexcusable. Obama makes a stupid remark on Leno last night and FOX is raking him over the coals.
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Would be funny if someone called her a scrofulous disease-ridden unattractive shrew.
“But I never called her ugly!”
Evangelicals and Scientologists? How ecumenical!
It’s OK to lie and call it news.
From the Akre/Wilson lawsuit in Florida.
Phoenix Woman: Wilkerson Revelations + ICRC Report = Torturing the Innocent
No surprise that Brit “I love my dead gay son” Hume shows such fealty to L. Brent “all gays are dangerous psychopaths” Bozell.
Thank you, Brit Hume! I can finally prove to my brother that Faux News isn’t a news outlet at all, but pure propaganda!
The only thing I enjoyed more about that event was Joe the Plumber saying when he came out to speak that there was so much love, he was horny. What an idiot.