Well, it has aired - the 1st Julian Assange Television show on Russian Times (RT) and the banter has begun. Calling him a sellout (I wonder of who[m]). Being that we all know the main stream media is propaganda for veiled agenda's - it is really ironic that the NY Times (here) spurns Assange as a "nut job". What I believe is nuts, is the fact that WE give the NYT any time of day. Here is what NYT reporter Alessandra Stanley has to say about Mr. JA as she equates him to a "Rocky & Bullwinkle" version of Boris/ Natasha;
His reputation has taken a deep plunge since he shook the world in 2010 by releasing, in cooperation with The New York Times and several other news organizations, masses of secret government documents, including battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most news organizations edited and redacted the papers to protect lives. Mr. Assange put everything on his Web site. To some he was a hero, to others a spy, but nowadays he is most often portrayed as a nut job.
Being snide, the NYT reporte (Stanley) ends her story with the facts that Assange had Hezbollah leader Hazan Nasrallah as his first guest. Alessandra remarks that Assange appeared stiff, but did the work of a "
standard network interviewer". A job so good - Stanley remarks - that the "Kardashians" might be next.
Thus, the NY Times and its reporter either misses or obfuscates the whole point. There's no such thing as bad publicity - There's Only Publicity! Julian Assange is reportedly being hunted down by Karl Rove (as you can see in the Washington DC independent - (controversial) - journalist's [Andrew Kreig's Justice Integrity Project]) who provided a Huffington Post story
"Rove Suspected In Swedish-U.S. Political Prosecution of WikiLeaks".
The real question is - Who/ what is - the Red Herring?
What is a Red Herring?
Many argue that Julian Assange himself is a Red Herring. A plant by our government to obfuscate many issues and reveal the bad acts of our military - but not being a real admission of anything. Thus a diffusion.
Wikipedia (here) defines Red Herring as a fish - a fish story - a smelly fish (literal sense of the word). Also, it is a coined phrase from 500 years ago. It also denotes that it was coined as a phrase as much as centuries ago - on how dogs would be trained to hunt with a fur ("red herring skin") being held under their noses. Wikipedia also notes that it one should go to "disambiguation" for the other sense of the word. Where it states that;
red herring is a figurative expression in which a clue or piece of information is or is intended to be misleading, or distracting from the actual question.
I, for one, simply state that Newt Gingrich's movie "King of Bain" is a Red Herring. That is to say, it is a dupe of us all. It was provided by a former Mitt Romney advisor and is attempt to make Bain, Kay Bee Toys and Stage Stores an "old News" issue. The real issues of Mitt the pitts are Sankaty, eToys, Liquidity Solutions, Bermuda and Paul Traub. Thus, my most often use of "Red Herring" is best stated (as Wiki does) by this;
Red herring may refer to:
Red herring (fallacy),
the informal fallacy of presenting an argument
that may in itself be valid,
but does not address the issue in question.
Is Julian Assange's TV Show "World Tomorrow" - a Real TV Deal?
We don't know what any reader thinks (until the comments speaketh). As for me, I quantify and qualify the validity of a person or issue based upon the facts. As far as the facts goes - Julian Assange is NOT an American. Thus, the NYT reporting that he is guilty of assaulting America by a "veiled" Russian agenda - is a Red Herring. Assange is loyal to who he wants to be and (currently) appears to be much less hypocritical on his true nature - than that of the New York Times (funded in part by Goldman Sachs).
It is a fact that Sweden is going after a person who had consensual sex that the ladies claim became a form of sex by surprise. This claim was only made after Assange became infamous and Karl Rove - as the American Advisor to Sweden - joined the campaign to seek the arrest of Assange.
One of the persons making the allegations against Assange is Anna Ardin. Ms Ardin had a Blog titled "The Seven Steps to Legal Revenge". A Blog detailing how to get "back" at a lover. Once that was discovered, Ardin yanked the Blog down. If that is not enough of a reason to doubt the validity of this issue, I would ask you to look at who wants Kill Assange - Karl Rove - Fox News etc.
Here's a view into Assange's show;
Olbermann and Michael Moore discuss Moore's backing Julian Assange
We need an new age version of main stream media. Wikileaks is that. Julian Assange is the founder. His TV Show must come from another country's funding. No main stream media in the United States is going to do it.
Michael Moore on his website (www.MichaelMoore.com) has come out for and even Bailed Out Julian Assange. On Keith Olbermann's show, Michael Moore stated that ;
"We really owe a debt to Mr. Assange and to WikiLeaks for turning on a big spotlight on those people who brought about, first of all, this war that we've been in for the better part of this decade -- these people concocted lies and they committed crimes in order to send our young men and women off to war. And it has cost us not only the lives of our own people but the lives of literally now tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghan citizens.
... What if we had a WikiLeaks in August of 1964 when we were told that the North Vietnamese fired on a U.S. ship, which in fact was a lie. It was a concocted lie at the Pentagon and we didn't find out about that until Daniel Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' some six, seven years later. What if there had been a WikiLeaks?" -- Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
YouTube video of the Olbermann's show on Michael Moore discussing Assange
Olbermann with former MN FBI Agent turned Whistle Blower Coleen Rowley
Coleen
Rowley worked for the Minnesota office of the FBI. A copy of her letter to FBI Director Mueller was "leaked" and it turns out it saved her. They would have destroyed her like they tried to do with
Susan Landauer - had it not been for proof of the facts.
She states, on Keith Olbermann's show, that - if we had someone like Julian Assange and Wikileaks in 2000/ 2001 - perhaps we could have been saved from the 9/11 attacks.
This is the YouTube video of Olbermann with Coleen Rowley and has the Wikileaks released video of an Apache helicopter opening fire on civilians and killing 2 local Reuters reporters;
CONCLUSION
We are in need of all the Michael Moore's, Coleen Rowley's, Susan Landauer's and Julian Assanges we can get. Our main stream mediums canNOT be trusted. There's no unvarnished news out there; except for a rare few like Matt Taibbi and Keith Olbermann. We, ourselves, have several major stories noteworthy, that no MSM will tell; because Mitt Romney, Bain and Goldman Sachs would be investigated the moment the story "Breaks".
How the war on terror began is the True RED HERRING. None of us believe anything George Bush and Cheney said - anymore. With police clamping down on the Occupy camps, we are losing all hope to stop the tyranny, cronyism and corruption - which has become our norm. In no small part because all honorable journalists are terrified (rightfully so) - for their safety and freedom.
Michael Moore says;
"Leaks Don't Kill People - Secrets Do!"
Julian Assange may be rude/ crued - and you may not like him. But he is what we need - and I hope his TV show demonstrates it. We have so few chances to get the truth these days - we must hold onto each and every one of these journalists who show the temerity and tenacity to tell the Truth; lest we lose all of them.
By the Way - Where is Keith Olbermann - today?
They got him too