So now we see some foilks here saying "I guess Tom Friedman really ISN'T so hot" after he defended Judith Miller in the Times.
Whadda you? STUPID or something?
Listen...he works for the same people as does Ms. Miller. The same people who control the Times line from day to day and from year to year.
Who ARE these people?
They're spooks.
They're the police force of the Permanent Government.
They have agendas.
Their basic agenda...America first.
Their definition of "America"?
Corporate America.
What's best for business is best for us poor schnooks on the ground.
And what IS "American business?"
First and foremost...big oil.
Read on
This is a Blood For Oil war.
They support Israel...and it has very little if anything to do with Jewishness. Israel is the American/British attack dog in the region. Keep the ragheads busy hating Jews and they won't band together and take us down by starving out our fuel supply.
Keep the corrupt Saudis and the corrupt Shahs and the corrupt Saddams and Khaddafis in power until they get too big for their britches, and then take 'em down and start all over again.
And their MEDIA attack dogs toe the fucking party line no matter HOW it meanders through the sands. They dissemble, they tapdance, they write their clever little phrases, and when they get caught out...well, they're only servants, anyway. Use 'em 'til they're all used up, and then let them fade away into the sunset. Send them out to best-seller pasture. Promote a NEW spook hustler from the drama desk or somewhere. Someone who is subtle enough to get over for ANOTHER few years.
Why couldn't Bush remember that old "Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me" thing in his speech a while back?
BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING FALSE!!!
And deep in his little peabrain...he knows it.
These people have been fooling you for decades.
They fooled you with the assassinations of the '60s.
They fooled you with the Watergate thing in the '70s.
They fooled you with Reagan in the '80s.
They fooled you while they took down Clinton in the '90s.
And now they are fooling you with rigged elections and a media blitz that is sheerly stupendous in its reach and power.
That ANYONE with any sense whatsoever could be fooled by the NY Times and people like Friedman and Miller is just...it is simply beyond my comprehension. They are the Roves of the economic imperialist interests..."liberal" division, media subdivision.
Naked spinners, right out there in your faces.
And NOW...finally, after the rampant evil for which they have fronted starts to unravel and become visible...now it's "Oh WOW!!! I always thought he was such a nice, clever guy!!!"
He's a spook shill.
So is the Times.
Wake the fuck up.
If it suited the strategic and tactical interests of the Permanent Government, they would throw this entire administration right into the Potomac tied to a five ton truck along with all of the servants who have supported them, start over with a clean slate and two months later you fools would be right back where you are now, only with a NEW bunch of hacks and flacks out there to fool you for the thousand and FIRST time.
Wake up.
The fix is IN.
WHATEVER the corporate media say...it is in the (always relatively short-term...gotta show a profit every quarter or else the stockholder/plebes get restless) best interests of the Permanent Government.
The incredibly wealthy.
To what or whom do the aspens turn?
To their source of nourishment.
Find the money and you find the power.
Believe it.
From an interview with Gore Vidal...who knows about these things intimately, being from a family that itself belongs the the Permanent Government...and Jerry Brown.
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JB: When you talk about a ruling class, I wonder, in the United States, what kind of a ruling class there really is, because you have the stateless money, these corporate structures, that give a bureaucratic mind that looks at how to increase the return on investment. That could be anybody. Does that translate into a ruling class in any traditional sense of the word?
GV: Of course it does. We've got one of the cleverest in the world. It's so clever nobody knows it's there. But it's something like 1% have most of the wealth of the country, about 20% are doing very well, and 80% are not doing so well. The actual -- I would say there are a dozen families, like the Rockefellers, and the Mellons, and then the McHughs, the DuPonts, they've been in business a long, long time. The argument that you will get from professional liberals like Arthur Schlesinger is "Well, no DuPont has run DuPont in all these years." Well, I actually had dinner at Nelson Rockefeller's house, and I can tell you, he didn't cook the dinner. Isn't that strange, you know? You hire people to run this country, these companies, and you also hire the Congresses and indeed, finally the President. So there they are. Now, between the 1% there's the 19% that are doing very well. And that's the sort of -- at one level, it's the mandarin political class, to which you belong, and I belong and we're hereditary, that's a kind of patrician, which may be against the rulers, or it may be for the rulers, but kept on a short leash. A very short leash. And then under that are the people who control opinion. These are the colleges, the universities. Think why all of those -- the Harkness Plan at Exeter where I went to school, why all these rich people gave so much money to schools? We always thought, oh, so sentimental, they remembered their days of playing soccer on the greensward -- not at all! They want to control the teaching of American history. And of course they own the newspapers. So, it's not a conspiracy, because they all think alike. They all go to the same prep schools, they go to the same colleges, they see each other, same boards of directors, same clubs. And they stay out of the news. Now the thing tore apart when Nelson Rockefeller got the Presidential bug. Rockefellers are not supposed to run for President! You buy the Presidents! And on short term. You don't do it yourself. And it's embarassing. The family was upset. In the case of Winthrop, his brother, who was having trouble -- he was having trouble with women, and ... alcohol ... he just wouldn't shape up, so they bought him West Virginia. It came pretty cheap, the state, and ...
JB: You mean Arkansas. The other one ran in West Virginia, Jay was in West Virginia, and Winthrop ...
GV: Yes, Winthrop got Arkansas. An even cheaper state, actually, than West Virginia to buy. And he turned out to be a pretty good governor. Arkansas was happy, and he shaped up, stopped drinking, and it was very good for both of them. But by and large, the ownership stays out of it. In recent years, and it may be a sign of -- you used Henry Adams' words "the degradation of democracy" -- that the rich, instead of playing polo, and having yachts, are taking seats in the Senate. You have Heinz, in Pennsylvania, you're getting all sorts of members of these great ruling class families, are bored, and they think the Senate might be fun. I remember Jim Abaresque of South Dakota, a poor boy Senator, he told me, he was sitting in a boring committee meeting with John Heinz of the 57 Varieties, who had spent $7 million -- at that moment, it was the highest amount anybody had ever spent for a Senate seat -- he said, "Why on earth did you spend all that money to sit here, and we're bored to death, the two of us?" he said. "I'm poor, I had no place to go." And Heinz said, "Jim, you don't understand. It was just play money." (laughs) Monopoly."
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There it is, kiddies.
"Well, I actually had dinner at Nelson Rockefeller's house, and I can tell you, he didn't cook the dinner. Isn't that strange, you know? You hire people to run this country, these companies, and you also hire the Congresses and indeed, finally the President."
And you hire the public relations firms, too.
Like CBS and the NY Times.
BET on it.
And wake the fuck up.
Charles