Posted on 10/05/2013 2:51:32 PM PDT by moneyrunner
For reasons that go beyond reason and into the area of psychosis, the MSM still refuses to face the fact that the Obama administration is a lie from beginning to end. They willingly suspended disbelief when Obama told them that he would run, is running, has run, the most transparent administration is history. And even when they admit to each other that hes in charge of the most closed, control-freak administration Ive ever covered they still remain enthralled.
Via Hot Air
A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and the intelligence agencies that told people to freeze and retain any e-mail, and presumably phone logs, of communications with me, Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. They tell me: David, I love you, but dont e-mail me. Lets dont chat until this blows over.
Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, This is most closed, control-freak administration Ive ever covered.
Many leak investigations include lie-detector tests for government officials with access to the information at issue. Reporters are interviewing sources through intermediaries now, Barr told me, so the sources can truthfully answer on polygraphs that they didnt talk to reporters.
The investigations have been a kind of slap in the face for reporters and their sources, said Smith of the Center for Public Integrity. It means you have to use extraordinary measures for contacts with officials speaking without authorization.
Amusingly, Downie posits this question at the end of the essay:
Will Obama recognize that all this threatens his often-stated but unfulfilled goal of making government more transparent and accountable? None of the Washington news media veterans I talked to were optimistic.
Whenever Im asked what is the most manipulative and secretive administration Ive covered, I always say its the one in office now, Bob Schieffer, CBS News anchor and chief Washington correspondent, told me. Every administration learns from the previous administration. They become more secretive and put tighter clamps on information. This administration exercises more control than George W. Bushs did, and his before that.
Does it even occur to Downie that Obamas claim to deliver the most transparent administration ever (not just incrementally more transparent than before) was simply a load of hogwash? Apparently not.
At a time when Stalin was murdering the Kulaks and sending millions to the Gulag, the typical Russian was still saying to their friends if only comrade Stalin knew. The denizens of the MSM are psychologically incapable of believing that the Obama administration is doing exactly what Barack Obama wants. Administration officials are not being hooked up to lie detectors because the FBI is out of control, its what Obama wants. When the IRS audits Obama opponents, its not going rogue, its doing what Obama wants. The Park Police are not disobeying Obama when they closed the WW2 Memorial; its doing what Obama wants.
What the hell is wrong with these people? I realize that my question is rhetorical. These people are really nothing new. Like the Good Germans in the 30s and 40s, they see nothing and know nothing. Oh, there are minor inconveniences, (as there were after the Weimar Republic fell) but the country is heading in the direction they approve of. And if a few heads are broken or a few far-right nutcases like Dr. Ben Carson and members of the Tea Party get harassed by the IRS, well well say that theres no evidence that Obama gave the order so hes in the clear. Exactly. By the way, did you know that there are no documents to prove that Hitler ordered the Final Solution? I guess that clears him, right?
Lets admit it. The MSM is not on the side of the American people. They have outgrown the American people. The formerly ink stained wretches have joined the ruling class and are reaping the reward. Have you seen the salaries and perks these people get for doing an hour show on TV or writing a column for a major newspaper? Have you seen how and where they live? They have grabbed the brass ring and now they cant let go. If they came from small-town America they now laugh at the rubes, call them Joe-six-pack who lives in flyover country. As for the members-in-waiting in the hinterlands; they know what is expected of them if they want to try out for the big leagues.
Obi-wan Kenobe had it wrong when he said You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy referring to the Mos Eisley Spaceport. It was clear that he had not read the NY Times or viewed the MSM from the perspective of average Americans.
The MSM is not independent media. It is state run media of the worst sort because it pretends to be independent of the state.
They would face the fact if not for support from many in the entertainment industry, the academic left and trial lawyers.
Folks can’t handle the truth...they can’t believe that the NWO has spent decades infiltrating most human institutions of worth.
There is a one world government coming no mater what we do, as the political system is now a sham.
The media is now a propaganda arm of this organization.
Marx, spoke at length about “useful idiots” and America, who’s educational system has been deliberately dumbed down is a classic example.
So people, what do you do when there is no political solution?
Battered spouse syndrome
They're an arm of the leftwing state now, and leftwingers have a 'whatever it takes' mentality; meaning lies, corruption, and eventually murder, is A-OK if done for the right reasons.
If Repubicans win in 2016, they should put in place a fairness doctrine that emasculates the MSM and gives exemptions to administration friendly Journolistas.
Then when they complain ask them how it feels.
The MSM is getting away with murder.
Nobody is going after them for their hyperbolic racist coverage of the Zimmerman case initiated by none other than the President of the United States.
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler would be proud of the Obama administration.
“The most insidious power the corrupt media has, is the power to ignore.” - Chris PLante, WMAL
since about 94% are self-admitted democrat voters, they’re liberal and liberals hate being wrong, and hate even more having to admit they are wrong when they know they are wrong.
the msm, being almost all liberal, will never admit they are wrong about something so big to be wrong about.
as with barack, everything is about him, as with all liberals, including the lamestream media, it’s all about them, too.
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Members of the MSM, including Obama guard dog Fx News, have probably never been taught the Constitution as the Founding States had intended for it to be understood, particularly the division of federal and state government powers. So they have no standard by which to judge corrupt federal lawmakers.
It’s not ideology, it’s money. You have to pay for the slavish donkey-kissing the media gives the Democrats.
the MSM still refuses to face the fact that the Obama administration is a lie from beginning to endBirds of a feather...
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