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Eye on the Media • Patrice Greanville
PARADE OF FOOLS: Completely and Shamelessly Integrated with the Deep State’s Propaganda Machine
Trevor Noah: Frequent contrived and dangerous humour.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e have often discussed the role of Anglo-American comedians in promoting the imperial agenda of constant war and international interventions—agressions, to call them what they are—a favorite word the imperial hypocrites have long used to describe their geopolitical opponents, that is, nations unwilling to do Washington’s bidding. Noah Trevor, the SA comedian who inherited Jon Stewart’s throne on The Daily Show, a Democrat shill and (inevitably) Russiagater and NeverTrumper, is clearly happy to do his job as part of the US’ gianormous “soft power” structure, just as Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, John Oliver, and others routinely do (their treacherous warmongering role is neither comprehended by the Pavlovian audiences nor criticized by anyone in the establishment media or political class).
Noah is hardly alone in this questionable practice. Colbert, now sitting on the Johnny Carson Late Show throne at CBS is notorious for this type of hacking for the imperial establishment, surely betting (as do the rest of this pack) that promoting Washington’s agenda is a ticket to more fame and wealth. So far his bet is paying off, for that’s the way it’s always been done down the ages in grotesquely unequal societies: kiss the sovereign’s butt and thou shalt be rewarded. Clearly the consequences of buttressing a system of global criminality now pushing for a likely nuclear war that could end all life on this tormented planet does not compute for any of these short-term thinking whores (all corporadoes and their billionaire chieftains are short-term thinkers, anyway). Also cavalierly ignored by all these duplicitous characters is the fact that by promoting wars of aggression they are automatically accomplices to the ultimate crime under Nuremberg statutes, and UNO laws, something for which we hanged Nazi hierarchs in 1946.
Below, some examples of Noah’s mendacity. Try to figure whose side this guy is on, whose water he’s carrying, and why he’s shedding tears for the CIA and other spook agencies. And it’s not about Trump, per se, it’s way bigger than that.
1. Defending the CIA and Pentagon/War establishment
Published on Jul 16, 2018
2. Lambasting Trump for making nice with North Korea.
Published Oct. 23, 2018
Noah is NOT happy with a long-sought reduction of war tensions in the Korean peninsula. Watch closely how he ridicules Trump for acting respectful toward Kim, clearly (in Noah’s mind and that of his controllers) a break with longstanding imperial media policy of constant and utter vilification.
• For more examples of comedians’ political role in fanning the flames of war or serving as hacks for the plutocratic status quo, please see The Joke’s on You, and Colbert: Egging Trump to destabilize Korea, again. Also see here and here.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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I can’t help but wish George Carlin or Bill Hicks were still around to intellectually skewer, slice & dice these pathetic little shills for war and empire. Comedy as blatant propaganda for empire. There really aren’t enough words to properly express my contempt for such behavior.
We all miss Carlin tremendosly, gbossa. TGP has several posts featuring his unique brand of comedy. A true rebel, and brilliant, too. This bunch I citique here are simply pathetic—as history will show if we manage to survive our own suicidal tedencies.
Knowing what these guys are selling, I won’t even click on their videos to give them a view. The mass conformity that says “only Democrats are good” while cheering for war, a new round of McCarthyism, and the security state is what comics should be fighting AGAINST, not cheering for.
A very fine summary of the situation! These bastards are traitors to their art and the ordinary citizen they drag into these horrid plans being concocted by the 0.00001%. Abject people, and hypocrites to them last man (or woman).
I could not bear to see even a minute ( I used to watch Samantha Bee, and Colbert in his old show) of these stooges. Humor needs to have some subtlety and preferably some elegance and balance, but with all these “comedians” nothing like that is seen. Democrats have moved over to the right and pushed the Repugs off the edge, but to choose to get a revenge for a well-deserved defeat in 2016 by ruining any hope of good relationship with Russia Is dangerous for the nation no matter who is in power.
Added to this is the support for the dubious “government” of Ukraine following the overthrow (largely by the US Dems) of the elected government, and the joining with the Republicans to take the word of UK Russophobe PM May about Russian involvement in the “novichok affair” leading to the expulsion of hundreds of much-needed diplomats just as conditions mean these are of value to get at the truth.
Beautifully expressed, thank you.
This is so nauseating. I live in Japan and never watch U.S. television, even on the internet. To think that this is what is “informing” the public, shaping the narrative, poisoning the well, is beyond the pale. How can I thank you, Patrice, for draining the last little droplets of pus out of my pustule of hope for turning the U.S. around? I’ve obviously been living in my own bubble of cognitive dissonance. Regardless of how self-sabotaging, irrational, and just plain stupid our citizens act, I’ve clung on to some fairy dust belief that they could be awakened, educated, galvanized to do something good for themselves and their future. But that wasn’t a laugh track. That was a live audience, chuckling and nodding and clapping as they sank deeper in the quicksand of their ignorance.
I have a nice high beam in my living room. I just need a rope.