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CBS goes to ground over claims it buried anti-Obama stories
NY Post ^ | October 28, 2014 | By Sophia Rosenbaum

Posted on 10/28/2014 6:51:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CBS honchos stuck their heads in the sand Monday rather than address a former veteran reporter’s memoir that revealed how the network routinely canned stories it perceived as anti-Obama.

Everyone from network CEO Les Moonves to “Evening News’’ anchor Scott Pelley to former “Evening News’’ Executive Producer Patricia Shevlin ignored repeated phone calls and e-mails from The Post seeking comment on the bombshell claim by ex-CBS investigative ace Sharyl Attkisson.

A secretary for David Rhodes, president of CBS News, immediately volleyed a Post reporter’s phone call to company spokeswoman Sonya McNail. Before the reporter could even ask a question, McNair curtly said, “We decline to comment. Thank you. Bye.”

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To: diogenes ghost

How old are you? 12?


61 posted on 10/28/2014 3:17:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: zeugma

If you want I can mail you a copy.

This is what the doc says

“It is obvious that the media war in this century is one of the strongest methods: in fact, it’s ratio may reach 90% of the total preparation for the battles.”

When you first read it, it doesn’t appear to have a whole lot of meaning.

With a small scale attack you can carry out the attack based on what is in the news, a large scale attack like 9/11 you can’t.

Because of the timing you have to orchestrate the news for the attack then follow up with the spin of the news after the attack to achieve your objective.

The terrorist don’t have the ability to orchestrate the news over an extended period of time for the preparation much less follow up with the right spin of the news after the attack.

Only people in this country can do it and it’s only the left.

Since 1991-1992 it’s been the Clintons and their minions that have controlled the content of the news. Hillary even help start Media Matters to control the content of the news as she wanted it presented.

This is where the “spontaneous” lie came from. The terrorist are simply picking up on the news and “spontaneously” planning an attack around what is in the news instead of the news being orchestrated for the attacks.

If the terrorist were simply picking up on news stories and planning the attacks around the news you would have different type of news stories because there wouldn’t be a guarantee of a specific type of news story.

Right now, prior to each and every major terrorist attack, the left has always ginned up civil unrest, attempted to gin up civil unrest or had a plan to gin up civil unrest.

In the cases where the left has ginned up civil unrest with blacks, the left has drug up the R King case, police misconduct, and racism as a way to gin up civil unrest.

The number of times the left has drug out R King case before a terrorist attack is somewhere around 7 or 8 times, maybe more, and claims of “republican racism” is 100% of the time.

You will also find quite a few of the orchestrated news stories before the attacks have also something else in common.

What the left is using to accuse the republicans of racism is the same things Bill Clinton was sued for when he was Governor of Arkansas.

Racial profiling and Voter disenfranchisement.

Both were used before 9/11.

What you end up with is multiple patterns of the orchestrated news stories before the attacks which simply can’t be random, in fact in one case the orchestrated “news” story didn’t appear in the news until after OBL had made a terrorist threat but the left wing operatives and Al Jazeera had tried to make it appear as if OBL had made the threat immediately after the “news” story.


62 posted on 10/28/2014 3:18:16 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: left that other site

NBC blew up the trucks. And remember the “Food Lion” scandal about them putting “tainted food” onto shelves and in the meat counter? That was ABC that used employees to LIE on job applications, get jobs at Food Lion and THEY dinted cans and put them back and THEY tainted meat and put it back. They got fired from Food Lion but ABC still ran the report.


63 posted on 10/28/2014 3:19:43 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

See? BS.


64 posted on 10/28/2014 4:54:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
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65 posted on 10/28/2014 5:04:44 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: justiceseeker93

To #31: The attacks in the US claiming that Barry Goldwater was a closet Nazi was the product of one of Obama’ political “friends”, David S. Canter, a Soviet asset, secret member of the Communist Party USA (Chicago. His father, Henry Canter, was a CPUSA labor leader in the Chicago/Illinois region as early as 1939, and a reported founder of the CPUSA).

In House Committee on Un-American Activities concerning communist operations in Chicago, Canter was identified as the above and details were provided about his covert anti-Goldwater propaganda publication which the KGB gave worldwide attention to.

According to David Canter’s son, Marc, his father “knew” Obama, logically because he was a key CPUSA political operative in Chicago, helping to get Marxist Harold Washington elected as their first black mayor.

He was also one of two far-leftists who “mentored” Obama top political advisor David Axelrod. The other red was Don Rose (who is reportedly still alive).

You can find their names and backgrounds at the political database website www.keywiki.org. Just type in the name of the person you are looking for and if there is a page or reference to them, it will appear. Click on it and read.

Just a little background information from the “wonderful world of subversion”.

And, yes, Obama is a Marxist. He was trained to be one from his early youth and they did a great job on molding him into their most successful political operative.


66 posted on 10/28/2014 5:06:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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67 posted on 10/28/2014 5:06:53 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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68 posted on 10/28/2014 5:08:24 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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69 posted on 10/28/2014 5:19:43 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Fledermaus

NBC, CBS, ABC...all propaganda arms of the left.


70 posted on 10/28/2014 5:52:04 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; All
The attacks in the US claiming that Barry Goldwater was a closet Nazi was the product of one of Obama’ political “friends”, David S. Canter, a Soviet asset, secret member of the Communist Party USA.

Do you know of any more specific connection between this Canter character and CBS News in 1964, where Canter could have concocted the "Nazis like Goldwater" lie and CBS bought it and aired it, apparently without checking it out? Who specifically at CBS News was close to Canter the Commie?

Again, as I pointed out before, it sounded completely unbelievable. Even I, as a teenager back then, couldn't believe at the time that Nazis would be celebrating the accomplishments of a man - Goldwater - who had half Jewish ancestry.

71 posted on 10/28/2014 8:36:16 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: IMR 4350
For later. OBL doc media is 90% of battle.

Thanks.

72 posted on 10/29/2014 5:05:52 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Scoutmaster

You might recall the program called “Able Danger” Bill Clinton got rid of in 2000 as soon as he found out how it worked.

It worked by looking for “patterns” in open source information and working it down to who was creating the pattern.

With 90% of the preparation in the news, the people controlling the content of the news is on the left and the Clintons in particular.

The “Bush stole the election” nonsense before the 9/11 attack was created by the Clintons.

The spin of the news after the attack was also Hillary’s doing with her holding up a newspaper proclaiming “Bush Knew”.

The Clintons had what they called a “20 year plan”.

Bill Clinton would serve as president 8 years, 4 years for another president, then Hillary would be president for 8 years.

Not only did the Clintons have to make sure Gore didn’t get elected (Bush stole the election) but they had to have a plan to bring down a sitting president (Bush Knew).

When the 2 were put together we had “First Bush stole the election then he allowed 9/11, he’s becoming a dictator”.

After the 2004 election OBL released a statement or tape in which it’s clear the objective of the 9/11 attack was to bring down the president.

If it was the terrorist that had the objective of the 9/11 attack, why would OBL begin planning an attack in 1999 whose objective is to bring down the president when the president he planned on bringing down hasn’t been elected?

He wouldn’t.


73 posted on 10/29/2014 6:03:24 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: circlecity
"Dan Rather did that...."

No, he did not do that.

He reported it, then continued to push the story as "fake but accurate" after it was discovered to be fake.

But neither Rather nor CBS manufactured the document.

So, again, do you know of ANY published source that says otherwise?

74 posted on 10/29/2014 4:10:15 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: Fledermaus
"How old are you? 12?"

Well, I was born one week after D-Day.

But what does my age have to do with the price of tea in China?

Or my questioning the accuracy of a post?

75 posted on 10/29/2014 4:25:51 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: diogenes ghost

Yes, I’m questioning your accruacy. You are a fool. Dan’s braindead producer got some idiot in TX to give them fake crap knowingly.

Let me guess, that fact is a matter of degree on whether or not Rather “faked it”.

Go sell your matters of degree on DU with CEWrong.


76 posted on 10/29/2014 11:05:14 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: diogenes ghost
I know what you are saying is technically correct, but it misses the rest of the story.

CBS also ignored expert doubts about the authenticity of the document, as well as put the creator Bill Burkett in touch with the Kerry campaign to coordinate with their "Fortunate Son" hit piece on Bush.

CBS was not a passive bystander here.

-PJ

77 posted on 10/29/2014 11:18:08 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Thanks justiceseeker93.


78 posted on 10/31/2014 8:53:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: timestax

bump


79 posted on 11/03/2014 11:57:25 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax

bump to the top


80 posted on 11/13/2014 11:14:25 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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