By Patrice Greanville
Rachel Maddow…”deconstructed”
As the adage in old newsrooms has it, “News is not dog bites man, it’s man bites dog,” as lefties, this is “news” to us, MSNBC’s host Rachel Maddow castigating Obama. What’s the world coming to?
Rachel Maddow, like many of her liberal analogues on TV does the system’s bidding—for the most part. Her style is to do extremely well researched and argued “demolition” jobs on Republicans, who, of course, amply deserve it, if not much worse than mere tongue-lashings, while holding her fire toward Democrats—especially Obama—who, by default, become the only “White Knights” around. This is dishonest and she must be aware of it, but hell, she must rationalize it somehow, as a luminous career on TV is not something to easily discard over small matters such as principles. Assuming that she—a liberal after all— might share our principles, a kind of hopey hopey sort of thing on our part. Read more…
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Pinocchio Romney: Actually no better or worse than the rest of the prostitutes running for office on the GOP side, and no worse than the incumbents in Washington right now.
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The CBS Sunday Morning show on 3.25.12 surprised the hell out of me by including among its segments a report on the scandalous disparity between what the GOP prez candidates—Romney, Gingrich, Santorum—are saying about Europe, “socialism”, and the truth. Read more…
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By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Limbaugh: A piece of shit with few peers
There was something very telling, and even morose, about the commercial break Rush Limbaugh took deep into his third hour of broadcasting on Tuesday’s show. Still at the center of an advertising firestorm that rages around his program as corporate America turns its back on the AM talker in the wake of his ugly, invasive, three-day smear campaign against Sandra Fluke, Limbaugh boasted he had thwarted the left-wing attack and they were the ones “shell shocked” at the turn of events. Read more…
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Patrice Greanville, TGP
Rose: Putting a cultured veneer on blatant disinformation.
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CBS, which for some time now has been veering ever more acutely to the right, in some embarrassing ways seeming these days a merely more refined version of Fox News, recently gave its early show a facelift, recruiting among others the uber urbane Charlie Rose to anchor its new flagship glitzier show, CBS This Morning. The idea here was to give the show more “class”, and whack the competition in the process. Read more…
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By Danny Schechter, Author of The Crime Of Our Time
The Iowa Caucus: Another Political Circus With Little Political Significance
Romney: A pathetic “winner” for a pathetic party in a pathetic election covered by prostituted, pathetic media.
“Game On” was Rick Santorum’s first comment after his “surge” was considered successful with a mere 30,000 votes in Ioway. He inadvertently gave the game away by calling it a game–which is what it is. Read more…
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By Philip Kraske
This is a reflection on propaganda, American-style. I talk about the nature of propaganda, comparing how the North Korean anchorwoman tearfully read the death announcement on President Kim Jong Il, and the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama last May, after the raid on Osama bin Laden’s house.
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One of the intellectual pleasures of being an American living abroad — I live in Spain — is to observe the subtleties of your own country’s propaganda efforts.
I was reminded of this smarmy side of the American political game the other day when I saw that North Korean news anchorwoman crying on television as she announced the death of President Kim Jung Il. You had to wonder if she would take the death of her own father any harder. Read more…
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By editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The United States is a nation of lies: corporate media lies in the service of State Department, Pentagon and White House lies – a congealed, fictional mass that only Americans believe. The most mundane facts of economy are corrupted beyond recognition. “The court scribes who tell us that a statistical blip is proof of economic recovery or that the president had no choice but to accept the ‘Satan sandwich’ budget deal are no better than propagandists in dictatorial states.” Actual journalism is largely extinct. “The press corps in Libya, who actively assisted NATO in destroying that nation, committed international war crimes in the process.” Read more…
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