Posted on 07/07/2009 9:01:38 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K
The king of pop, Michael Jackson, was laid to rest today. Every media outlet, the Communist News Network, the All Barack Channel, the Fe aux News Network, the Couric Buffoon Series, and the Never Been Credible news channels have taken the death of this troubled man and turned it into a circus.
This particular circus has served to distract us from North Korea launching missiles in every direction, the Chinese murdering people in the streets, the Iranians crushing their people with an iron fist, our President and Vice President contradicting each other on foreign policy, cap and trade being shoved down our throats, the E.P.A. covering up scientific evidence that man made climate change is a political hoax, our men and women dying in Afghanistan, and on, and on, and on.
Our media has relentlessly analyzed the death of a tragic man and turned it into a race issue while simultaneously deifying the worst role model ever produced by the American culture. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has pressed forward by further destabilizing, and our politicians have pressed forward by further undermining our economic system. Did anyone hear about the upcoming second stimulus bill? Now, did anyone hear what drugs Michael Jackson may have been hooked on in his final days, what he was doing in his final moments, or what the wretched Al Sharpton had to say at Michael Jackson's memorial service today? HM, seems our priorities are a tad askew.
The aforementioned sickening state of the information suppressing, manure dispensing media has sparked somewhat of a backlash from those that long for something more than a lap-dog, ambulance chasing mentality from those that are supposed to be the people's watch dog. Yes, Sarah Palin, Peter King, Chip Reid, and unbelievably, Helen Thomas are striking back at our celebrity culture.
First, Chip Reid and Helen Thomas. Last week, President Obama was holding a "town hall" on the issue of health care. Chip Reid asked White House Spokesman, Robert Gibbs why the town hall forum had been turned into a staged Q&A segment for President Obama. He noted that this town hall seemed "very tightly controlled", and that town halls were supposed to be "an open public forum." Also, Chip Reed was upset by the "very tightly controlled list of questions" that were to be asked of the President and his health care plan. Chip and Robert went back and forth, almost debating what "openness" really means for a few minutes. Robert Gibbs was just about to put the Orwellian White House spin on things when the almost 90 year old, intensely liberal, Helen Thomas began to command the briefing room.
She said, "...you're trying to control (the media), we have never had that in the White House." Gibbs giggled and tried to mow over the top of Helen Thomas. She then chided, "I'm amazed, at you people who call for openness and transparency, that you control..." Then the three of them batted this thing around for awhile, and none were satisfied in the end. Oh wait, Gibbs did suggest that they have this conversation at a later date, but the ornery Helen Thomas told him, "No, we're having it now, it's a pattern. You are controlling the press." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpI4vCMTuFQ
For Helen Thomas, the same lady that often took George W. Bush to task, to attack this administration in this way, is simply the product of being sick to death of information manipulation, and the outright propaganda being perpetrated upon the people of the United States of America.
Next we have Republican Congressman from New York, Peter King and his expression of outrage at the way the media has fallen down on the job in light of the death of Michael Jackson. He said that the media has "disgraced itself" by glorifying a "pervert like Michael Jackson." He announced the idea that we should be glorifying "men and women in the armed forces, policemen, fire fighters, teachers in rough neighborhoods, people that volunteer to work with dying cancer patients.." In his announcement, he posed two interesting questions, "would you let your kids or grand kids alone with Michael Jackson?", and "what does this (hysteria over Michael Jackson) say about our country?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZfE1vV9Yg
Pete King only said what many Americans are thinking. To remember Michael Jackson for his talents is one thing, but to justify his life, eschew all other important events, and to obsess over his death for weeks is truly an American Media tragedy. We haven't heard a Republican politician get down in the dirt of it all and call the insidious mainstream press out for what it is since, why, since Sarah Palin.
The same media that is in love with Michael Jackson who systematically destroyed his own talents, altered his own appearance, and eventually killed himself through drug abuse, absolutely assassinated Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin who, rose from the PTA to Vice Presidential Candidate, all with an unscathed record and a large family to boot, was the target of more vile criticism and outright personal attacks than any public figure ever has been, and may ever be again. Upon the announcement of her Vice Presidential nomination, the press swarmed Alaska, attacked Sarah's children, mocked her less-than-ivy-league-education, impugned her intelligence, despised her accent, and deplored her decision not to abort her mentally challenged son, Trig.
Why would the supposedly tolerant left in our media set out to destroy Sarah Palin? After all, she is everything they preach. A strong, successful woman. She was the "little guy" that proved to the world that in this country, anything is possible. Sarah Palin "upset the establishment" on her meteoric rise to prominence. All the while she raised children and maintained a marriage. All these things the left claims to stand for, they despised in Sarah Palin. Aside from just claiming to connect with the American mainstream, she actually did, and does.
Sarah Palin is not much appreciated in good ole' Republican circles either. John McCain was next in line for the Republican nomination, and he secured that bid as every other contender was undercut and undermined by the party leadership. His campaign was floundering and he knew he needed to make a big splash, so he turned to Alaska and found Sarah Palin. Much to McCain's chagrin, Sarah Palin exposed him for the limp wrist-ed, blue fisted, country club Republican that he really is. She became the people's choice for President, while John McCain and his spineless political career faded to the background, and he lost to some slogan heavy candidate from a law school in Chicago.
Now, Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor of Alaska and she will no doubt take her establishment rocking, elitist mocking agenda to the national stage. She needs to raise money to pay for the not less than 15 erroneous and outright frivolous and baseless ethics investigations she has had to endure since becoming America's bastion of reality. The personal cost to her and her family has been not less than half a million dollars, and that's just the financial aspect of it all. The media has manipulated and edited her public perception into that of uneducated, backward, and stupid.
The media had better find something that actually sticks, or they are in for a world of hurt. As more people catch on to their game of attempting to keep us ignorant and misinformed, they will continue to lose credibility. If this media loses credibility, so does the entire liberal agenda.
The double standard in the media is hideous. Barack Obama does dealings with a felon (Tony Rezko), is politically mentored by a proud terrorist (Bill Ayers), is steeped in 20 years of the racist preachings of Jeremiah Wright, and the media pursues nothing. Sarah Palin is edited to sound like a fool in an interview with Katie Couric, and the media pounces. Barney Frank can run a homosexual prostitution ring out of his apartment, while railroading our housing market through felonious dealings with government agencies, and his credibility is never questioned. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has to defend her accent and her proclivity toward sports analogies.
The disgusting coverage of the death of Michael Jackson, and the pathetic fawning over a President that is bypassing our constitution and overrunning our ideals has indeed sparked a backlash against the American media. The media's credibility is wavering, and therefore the liberal agenda is also on the ropes. This nation may be on the cusp of something wonderful. Perhaps a return to conservative values, conservative philosophy, and the American way of life (reason and enlightenment), is just around the corner.
It’s not going to stop until it’s made to stop, The lunatics are running the asylum.
This country is on the fast track to becoming a nation of degenerate reprobates with no integrity, honor, pride or shame.
Can’t add a thing to that, and well said.
Helen Thomas really surprised me tho. I know she often ‘got’ W, but she really is starting to awaken to what’s happening.
They will just shrug it off as “she’s old”, maybe ‘force’ her to retire, or God forbid we’ll hear about the ‘passing’ of such a legend.
These are interesting times.
Gibbs proved her accusation.
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I believe popular media and popular culture are rather symbiotic, and feed off each other--they almost mirror each other and energize each other. It is also a simple issue of 需要と供給 (supply and demand). US TV Networks in the 1970s dropped extensive, educative moon mission coverage/pre-empts/live remotes sometime around or after Apollo 14, because (even though the missions were getting so much more exciting and into science), Joe Sixpack had had enough and was bored and simply wanted to turn the channel. America wants to turn the channel. They want to turn it from one of being an informed, active, patriotic, sober citizenry, engaged and intelligent on matters of wide importance and variety--and turn "Beavis and Butthead". They want to turn it from reponsibility and depth to the sweet mental opium of insular, carefree fantasy where thinking is unecessary. It is probably going to get a lot worse than this. Our enemies abroad, many of them with 2,000, or 3,000 years of history to their own names, will be able to predictively read us and our inner, rotting core better than many of us can.
As always, the Americans may well be the last on the block to know. And how appropriate for us to have this Barack Hussein Obama, and pied piper, to lead us all as a nation over this cliff and into the abyss?
And these MSM elitists can’t understand why their ratings are plummeting and their circulations are falling.
Exihibit A: The coverage of Michael Jackson
You’re right my FRiend. We’re past the tipping point. People better wake up.
I’d be willing to bet the Michael Jackson thing got great ratings..
Right on.
They don’t REPORT the news, they CONTROL and DISTORT the news.
Yup, “we distort, fabricate, and ignore, you decide.”
I’m fed up with the broadcast and paper media in this country.
For the past several weeks my local paper The Montgomery Advertiser has been pushing a far left agenda.
They’ve had op-eds calling for reductions in military spending to which the money could be “better served” bailing out people trapped in adjustable rate mortgages, and providing healthcare, etc.
Then on July 3rd they had one that slammed the right and it’s extremist factions.
Today they had one telling people to ignore the fearmongering of the right when it comes to healthcare.
It’s been non-stop and those few conservatives who are lucky enough to get their short letter to the editor published find that at least a third of what they said was cut out.
The paper has blocked me from submitting letters to the editor online, and they flat out ignore all of the other submissions I’ve sent in They refused to post my counterpoint (which is at the bottom of my profile BTW) to Steven Cobbel’s Op-Ed “GOP, Blue Dogs hypocritical on defense” (May 21, 2009). Yet they allow anyone to post an Op-Ed as long as it suits their agenda.
Even Dennis Miller (a relatively mainstream and middle of the road figure) is now calling out CNN as being on par with Pravda when it comes to truthfulness and objectivity (imagine what he might say if he viewed CNN Internationale, the farther Left incarnation of CNN).
The mention of Streicher reminds me of something I read today that's just incredible. According to Debbie Schlussel's blog, MJ's kids are Jews. Apparently their (alleged?) mother is Jewish as is the (alleged?) actual sperm donor, Dr. Arnold Klein.
Didja get that, Jermaine?
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I can’t figure how they put up with Lou Dobbs over there at CNN.. He does a good job on the amnesty sham.
Excellent article, thanks.
I sure hope you are not advertising in that rag or paying them for a subscription! STARVE THE BEAST!
You left out the Honduras! That's the one that drives me to distraction. Quo vadis?
Wait until the autopsy comes back and that will be another circus of their own making! Will they turn on him again and blame Michael because of his own drug use or will they blame someone else for Michael's demise.
Let's not forget the 'unbiased' reporting by Larry King (he and his wife sat with the family at the funeral). What a bunch of whores.
The state rum media is a propaganda tool of the left. Why are they devoting so much time to Jackson? That way they do not have to be critical of Obama for the lies. He is never challenged, or honestly reported about in the news. The guy is corrupt, and they will not report. I find you have to dig for information now, because it sure is not being reported accurately.
The media is just like every other business in that they are trying to make money, first and foremost. They do that by trying to give the public what they want. If they’re not doing that very well, usually someone comes along and does it better and gets more of the business and more of the money. In short, I blame most of the media’s shortcomings on the public. They are giving the American people what they want.
“The media is dying, this is a fact. Apparently they, like you, don’t know their real audience.”
Unlike you, I believe in capitalism. If the media (all of them?) are incompetent, then there are others out there who are as smart as you and know the “real audience” and will start their own media company that gives America what they really want. That’s what capitalism is all about, isn’t it? Have some faith in America, my friend.
To their fans, MJ’s their #1 idol.
*APPLAUSE*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpI4vCMTuFQ
it is actually interesting. Helen Thomas actively taking WH gibbs person to task on a pattern of controlling the press?
Take confort, 2010 is coming, look for it to be the second 1994.
Sorry, but I disagree. If the mainstream media were “giving the American people what they want”, they would not be suffering such a precipitous viewership decline year after year. The fact that they have done nothing to stem the losses strongly suggests that there is another agenda in play here, quite separate and distinct from economics.
No wonder conservative talkradio and the internet is going through a new golden age.
The truth is that the old msm is dying as proven by this media circus surrounding the MJ memorial service. Both the conservative talkradio shows and the internet is going through a new golden age.
Jackson died?
Great article, if a tad optimistic. Celebrity doesnt show much sign of diminishing, nor will it, unless definite moves are made against the cult.
Thats the way the media works - build ‘em up, and then knock ‘em down. It’s disgusting. I could never work for a mainstream newspaper - I just couldn’t live with myself.
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
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....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
The Ministsry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconsicious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
Undeniably true, BG. But, if I can share a secret, I’m going to miss people like Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel. When they’re gone, we will have lost some of the best live prime-time reality comedy ever broadcast over American airwaves.
I consider the MSM to be little more then vermin.
Things like burying the questions about Obama's birthplace or Clintons rape charges as well as the deliberate attempts to subvert presidential elections, makes me believe that its going to come to hanging some of them.exspecialy if it turns out they knew that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia and deliberately kept that knowledge from the American people
CWII is coming it's just a matter of when
Maybe the biggest issue is the challenges the Obama cult has from the insiders of his own party. Obama is a complete zero a manufactured man propped up by people who could ditch him and turn his presidency into as laughable as Marion Barry’s mayorality.
I’m confused. If their (alleged?) mother is Jewish as is the (alleged?) actual sperm donor, Dr. Arnold Klein, how does that make the MJ’s kids? Did they go through adoption?
Unlike me, you believe in capitalism? What are you talking about? Where did my assumed (and erroneous) position on economics come into this discussion?
Yep.
I get 100% of my news from online sources now.
Funny how the paper claims that they strive for “balance” when they’ve been pushing a far left, anti-American agenda for the past several weeks.
I just sent the editor an E-mail stating that the “news” paper is nothing more than a kennel liner now and that tabloids such as the National Inquirer and The Sun have proven themselves as being more credible.
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