Confessions a 20th century ne'er do well: Drinking, fighting, stealing and other things one generally ought not do

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Take THAT, Main Stream Media!

Tavis Smiley (on Bill Mahar 3/28): How much time is the mainstream media going to spend castigating, disecting, digging into, taking to task Pat Buchanan for being the kind of racial arsonist that he is for stoking the fire? Only on this show have I heard any in depth conversation, the kind we're having now, about what Buchannan said that is so far beyond the pale that it's nonsense.

See below. Ha!

2 Comments:

Blogger Walt said...

My mother's mother was a Iroquois Indian. I would like to have the state of New York back please. Ok, so we all know the past was bad for many people, but times have gotten better, and there is still hope fore the future. Do the Blacks really care what Pat Buchanan said? I think not. It is just the unscrupulous press looking for Dirty Laundry! No not you Caren.

6:02 PM, March 29, 2008

 
Blogger Walt said...

Mainstream Media | The Vocabulary of Fascism

Propaganda

“We don’t lie. We don’t need to lie. We do empower our operational commanders with the ability to inform the Iraqi public, but everything we do is based on fact, not based on fiction.”

– Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for the Multinational Force in Iraq, on the U.S. military’s practice, with Bush administration approval, of planting news stories in Iraqi newspapers that are written by U.S. soldiers posing as freelance journalists.

“Its [propaganda’s] task is the highest creative art of putting sometimes complicated events and facts in a way simple enough to be understood by the man on the street . . . . Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie.”

– Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, 1934

I have been in government, for most of my working life. How can I ever trust it?

3:10 PM, April 09, 2008

 

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