Posted on 02/13/2024 6:52:10 AM PST by Red Badger
Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.
How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.
When Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin got together for that viral interview, they actually discussed how US propaganda got so incredibly strong.
Transcript via Vigilant Fox:
TUCKER ASKS PUTIN: “If you had evidence … that NATO, the US, CIA, the West, did this [Nord Stream], why wouldn’t you present it and win a propaganda victory?”
(Putin Laughs)
PUTIN: “In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media is American financial institutions. Don’t you know that? It is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost-prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information, and we will not achieve results.”
Dems have perfected the art of propaganda, so much so that their propaganda machine operates under the guise of being the arbiters of truth, with their “disinformation campaigns” and “saving democracy” pledges and whatnot, and we have Obama to thank for that.
Wall Street Apes:
The Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin Interview Highlighted American Media Tightly Controls The Propaganda Being Spewed Into The United States & Europe
Barack Obama is Responsible
“Obama repealed the 1948 Smith–Mundt Act, which then permitted propaganda to be in broadcasting. It no longer said that it had to be credible”
This was National Reporting On Barack Obama Being Responsible For The Media Being Allowed To Use Propaganda Against The American People
Watch:
What’s really interesting is how the AP tried to “fact-check” this claim about Obama “creating propaganda” in broadcasting and debunk it; instead, they ended up confirming it.
AP:
CLAIM:
Former President Barack Obama signed a law in 2012 allowing government propaganda in the U.S., and making it “perfectly legal for the media to purposely lie to the American people.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT:
False. In 2013, Obama signed legislation that changed the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act. The amendment made it possible for some materials created by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the nation’s foreign broadcasting agency, to be disseminated in the U.S.
THE FACTS:
A post circulating on Facebook with a photo of Obama falsely states he repealed a ban on government propaganda in the U.S. when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act in 2013. The amendment did not repeal the Smith-Mundt Act, but rather lifted some restrictions on the domestic dissemination of government-funded media.
The change essentially eased restrictions for Americans who want to access government-funded media content, allowing media produced by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, to be made available to Americans “upon request.”
The “upon request” tagged at the end of that “fact check” is pure comedy gold. As if the media and government ever wait around to be asked before they start pushing propaganda down our collective gullets. The root of most of the turmoil we’re facing today can be traced back to one Marxist man, who, despite leaving office with a paper-thin record of achievements, had a long-lasting impact. Back then, we didn’t see the full picture, but it’s clear now: Obama’s legacy isn’t about what he built; it’s about the chaos he left behind. And to this day, the Dems and Deep State are still running the show and using his playbook.
How does one man repeal a law?
Because “Fundamental Change”. That’s the legacy. Destruction of the Country from the inside out. Brilliant, evil and more.
I remember this action Obama took. I warned everyone here about it.
Dems had control of Congress...............
It appears Obama did whatever he wanted and Trump wasn’t allowed to do anything
The Church Commission on government control and use of the press and media, should have had a more lasting disgust among the sheeple listening to Mockingbirds nattering.
He didn’t repeal the law outright, he issued an Executive Order ordering agencies under his control to interpret the law differently.
While officially legal, it’s very sketchy, at best.
Obama (via Biden) is doing the same thing with the ATF, intending to make private firearms sales much more difficult and risky for the seller. Selling more than one firearm a year can put you in jeopardy and force you to become an FFL (which such a certification is highly discouraged by the ATF these days, anyways).
It’s basically the abuse of Executive Orders to legislate from the Executive branch.
Pelosi ran her House with an iron fist...............
. In 2013, Obama signed legislation that changed the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948,
U.S. Agency for Global Media, the nation’s foreign broadcasting agency,
source of all news? AP out of business?
USAGM’s mission of supporting freedom and democracy is defined by two overarching, long-term strategic goals: (1) expanding freedom of information and expression, and (2) sharing America’s democratic experience and values.
https://www.usagm.gov/our-work/strategy-and-results/
USAGM’s Media for Democracy Forum brings together media experts, practitioners, opinion leaders, and policymakers to explore current trends in global media and their impact on democracy, as well as to identify solutions to the biggest threats facing free media.
https://www.usagm.gov/our-work/strategy-and-results/media-for-democracy-forum/
USAGM’s Media for Democracy Forum brings together media experts, practitioners, opinion leaders, and policymakers to explore current trends in global media and their impact on democracy, as well as to identify solutions to the biggest threats facing free media.
thanx for dusting this off, red
Obama was a cipher, the figurehead placed at the top of a large deep-state marxist organization that already knew exactly what it wanted to do.
Trump was the exact opposite - a man who knew what he wanted to do, but was placed on top of a deep-state, marxist organization that could resist him at every turn.
I remember when hearin this happened after the fact. It was done in the dead of night and no fanfare. As if we don’t know why. It got almost NO media attention.
Things have gone to hell since then. All we get is propaganda and lies.
US propaganda got so incredibly strong.
It took the media to make it happen pals of the democrat party for over a 100 years.
To my observation, the media was a propaganda machine long before Obama. See Tagline.
I do remember that Obama wanted to put "observers" in the newsrooms to approve the narratives. At the time, even the NYT and WP objected. Since then, they've endorsed the censoring of "disinformation".
That was my question.
Start with Obo’s little helper:
Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Tx) sponsored the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (HR5736 - 112th Congress in 2012).
From Congress.gov:
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government’s policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)
Authorizes the Secretary and the Board to make available in the United States motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad pursuant to such Act, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit funds for the Department of State or the Board from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].)
Applies such prohibition only to programs carried out pursuant to the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
States that such provision shall: (1) not prohibit the Department or the Board from providing information about its operations, policies, programs, or program material, or making such information available to members of the media, public, or Congress; (2) not be construed to prohibit the Department from engaging in any medium of information on a presumption that a U.S. domestic audience may be exposed to program material; and (3) apply only to the Department and the Board and to no other federal department or agency.
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