Remember this doozy from August 2008 during the campaign?
In this west side location that is not far from the Pepsi Center yet out of sight from Democratic delegates and protesters walking downtown, Republicans will be crafting anti-Barack Obama messages nearly round the clock this week.
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the team of nearly two dozen staffers at the opposition headquarters will be "fact-checking" statements made by the Obama campaign and by speakers during the convention.
"Just consider this the Ministry of Truth," quipped Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.
From politicswest.com
Dick Wadhams has been called Karl Rove's heir-apparent by some. When you flat out admit you are running a deceitful propaganda campaign on the air, you do see because you fear no repercussions or you are that stupid.
We see the pattern beginning to develop.
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We do not have a free press. We have a pay as you go press. This should be obvious to us all. The closest thing to a free press can be found here, on the blogosphere, and on the internet. Why do I bring this up when it is widely held knowledge? We know this, they (the right, the uninformed) do not. If we are to win the battle of ideas we must call a spade a spade and let the world know that all Corporate news is, in fact, just propaganda.
Here is a clip from HANNITY and colmes back in January 7 2007
Enemy of the State was also used by Stalin and every other tyrant before him. Of all the people who have damaged our Nation, Sean Penn should be one no one's list. Hannity changed it to Enemy of the Week right after someone mentioned this, I am sure it was not due to Hannity's personal interest in history. It is like The Crucible by Arthur Miller, who wrote during the days of McCarthyism. We live in the age of Bachmannism, where anything can be said and called news, when it sure feels like olds.
How about The Pentagon's Department of Mis - Information that went fail before it could be launched, thanks to investigative citizen's journalism.
The Pentagon may eliminate a new office intended to influence public opinion and policy makers overseas, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. Proposals from the new agency, the Office of Strategic Influence, have caused an uproar in Congress and elsewhere in the government.
Its director, Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of the Air Force, has proposed that the office coordinate activities ranging from public press releases to secret ''information warfare'' in friendly as well as unfriendly countries, military officials said. In the past, such secret operations included the spreading of inaccurate or misleading information.
Mr. Rumsfeld today reiterated comments he made last week after The New York Times reported the office's existence and proposed activities: he said the military would not be permitted to tell lies to promote American policies or views. But he said today that the disclosures about the office's potential activities may have doomed its credibility.
NY Times Feb 25, 2002
Rumsfeld even joked when asked afterwards about it, "The person who's in charge is debating whether it should even exist in its current form, given all the misinformation and adverse publicity that it's received."
Good thing they shut that down, which, officially, they did. Heckuva job, too.
The attention span has shrunk in this country to a hey, wait, look over here for a second, thought I was losing you.
Joking aside, I can never respect any publication again after watching some Ann Culter, Rick Sataneli, or their type of manipulative propaganda goes on a misinformation sermon about the imaginary fear or foolishness they are trying to induce in me. I can not ever believe you again when you bring the B girl on stage, or monkey cartoons, or claims of weapons of mass destruction. I see it for what it is. I encourage others to do the same.
Recently the Reagan/Bush Catastrofuck has made me change my economic activity. Among consumer choices available to me, I had to substitute goods I could afford for goods I could no longer afford. The beauty that George Will sees in our glorious system looks like this . . .
Shareholders should be pleased. The value of their stock has more than doubled during his three-year tenure. McDonald's stock will have either the best or second-best (if second, only to Merck & Co.) gain among the Dow industrials this year.
The food fascists are not pleased.
washingtonpost.com
Citizen journalism sees it like this
George Will argues that the rising consumption of cheap fast food during the Bush Recession shows the market works, saying the boost in quarterly profits at McDonald’s is a perfect example of "the market sorting this out."
jed lewison in a dkos diary titled George Will: Let Them Eat McDonald's
I am very grateful for this site and others like it. Without other citizens to help decipher this bullshit, no one ever knows. We all see the right-wing of American politics and what they are doing burying their heads up Limbaugh's ass, while the Corporate controlled MSM sicks it's Hannity's and O'Reilly's on us.
Read diaries here or elsewhere on the net. Citizen journalism can fill the intellectual void that Corporate journalism has left in sanity.
Good examples of citizen journalism exposing Corporate hacks and crooks.
TocqueDeville calls fraud what it is Jim Cramer uses CNBC To Manipulate Stocks
MouseOfSuburbia puts the heat on the big parasite banks in A Dirty, Crime Infested Citi
mcjoan calls out the Obama administration on hypocrisy in Obama's DOJ Attempting to Hide Bush Crimes
We do not have a free press, nor do we have freedom of speech. Our founding fathers knew that a free press was vital to maintaining a free society. We could not have gotten where we are today without the misleading propaganda we are sold everyday. We do not have a free press, we have a Ministry of Truth.
The Ministry of Truth is involved with news media, entertainment, the fine arts and educational books. Its purpose is to rewrite history and change the facts to fit party doctrine, for propaganda effect. For example, if Big Brother makes a prediction that turns out to be wrong, the employees of the Ministry of Truth go back and rewrite history so that any prediction Big Brother previously made is accurate. This is the "how" of the Ministry of Truth's existence. Within the novel Orwell elaborates that the deeper reason for its existence is to maintain the illusion that the party is absolute. It cannot ever seem to change its mind (if, for instance, they perform one of their constant changes regarding enemies during war) or make a mistake (firing an official or making a grossly misjudged supply prediction), for that would imply weakness and to maintain power the party must seem eternally right and strong.
Wikipedia
In NYC today the main newspapers have no front page news on the wars or the bailouts, but lots to see about A-Rod and Rihanna. The New York Post is the lone warrior for today, where they quote Warren Buffet as saying that this economy is like a "Pearl Harbor."
Except that, instead of American troops dying or America's Navy being destroyed, in this instance he feels they are equivalent because rich people are losing their money. If this is the Pearl Harbor of our lives every day since Regan was elected has been the 30 year war for the middle and working class. How dare you, Warren Buffet.
Now we hear cries of Chicago tea parties and so on. We hear calls for nonsense like Sedition, or worse. Do you know what would end that problem tomorrow. More education and less MSM.
My experiences as a consumer of Corporate advertising and politics breaks down to this. I call it the Jim Cramer rule.
If they spent money to tell you it is good, it is bad. If it sounds too good to be true that's because it is, and, if you think they are telling you the truth, you are wrong.
Three easy rules to live by. Stay objective. It keeps you from becoming an object.
So when you advertise yourself as "Fair and Balanced" my first thought is, "Aren't you supposed to be?" It is like advertising Chicken McNuggets as "Made with real chicken". What was it made of before?
When I had to chose from one product or another, it came down to food or cable television. So I bought an internet adapter for my TV and ran it to my computer. The connection cable cost me $75 as a one time purchase. Cable costs $75 a month.
And so we learn.
I have been liberated since then, and I am never going back.
My advise to you, my fellow thinkers, is to unplug yourself and wake up to the world around you, and if you have already done so, to tell others.
Here's how to kill the beast
Make your own freedom. Be the free press you wish there was. They have been bought and paid for. You can not be, if you stay true to yourself, and the truth.