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Pro-Obama media 'summit' asks U.S. subsidies for liberal journalists, new 'media infrastructure'
World Tribune ^ | Friday, May 15, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 05/15/2009 7:52:31 PM PDT by Delacon

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1 posted on 05/15/2009 7:52:32 PM PDT by Delacon
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2 posted on 05/15/2009 7:53:05 PM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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they are going to publish the Obamanation’s version of the Volkischer Beobachter..


3 posted on 05/15/2009 7:57:58 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Delacon

Obama owes it to them. There’s only so long one can rely on free agitprop.


4 posted on 05/15/2009 7:59:43 PM PDT by eclecticEel (I don't want Obama to fail, I want him to fail quickly.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Nice historical ref. Don’t we have all good things Obama all the time already?


5 posted on 05/15/2009 8:02:03 PM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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What Zero would really like is that every home has the same kind of radio that is in every North Korean household. Tuned only to the state controlled station praising “dear leader”, and can never be turned off.
Except during the power failures thanks to the new energy policies.


6 posted on 05/15/2009 8:02:31 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Minnesota - You all can go to hell. I'm going to Texas.)
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To: Delacon

Not no but H*LL NO! The bailouts have to stop somewhere and this is definately somewhere!


7 posted on 05/15/2009 8:04:24 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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...an alternative media infrastructure, one that is insulated from the commercial pressures that brought us to our current crisis...

In other words a govt. subsidized liberal propaganda machine. No G-D way!

Liberal media was "brought to its current crisis" by being, well, too liberal. Not only has the liberal MSPM alienated conservatives, they have alienated moderates. They have even managed to alienate enlightened liberals. Even liberals want news, want the facts. While it may be gratifying to see their ideological foes (us conservatives) get regularly blasted in the MSPM... Eventually they wake up to the fact that, well, they don't have any facts. The MSPM has failed them just as much as everyone else.

When all we get is spin - oriented towards either/any extreme, no-one really benefits. This kind of behaviour should-not and cannot be rewarded. The MSPM absolutely needs to fail and cease to exist in its current form. It is in everyone's best interests.

Who knows, some day a MSPM "reporter" may even be able to look in the mirror without feeling shame and failure...

8 posted on 05/15/2009 8:07:01 PM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar (I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
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To: Delacon
The group, which calls itself Free Press

This stuff just writes itself.

9 posted on 05/15/2009 8:08:25 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Delacon

We need a rewrite of spike jones’ “In Der Fuhrer’s face”..


10 posted on 05/15/2009 8:11:04 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Delacon

How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!

A TAX on NEWSPRINT!

Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and

Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and

Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and

Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,

Therefore:

Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
________________________________________
We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!


11 posted on 05/15/2009 8:18:53 PM PDT by Kansas58
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In all seriousness, our side needs to get off the bench and start competing. We need deep-pocketed conservatives (and we must have some out there) to start funding our side to do battle with this socialist BS. Right now, the Dems are awash in cash and have control of Washington. The right needs to get the deer-in-the-headlights look out of their eyes and start trading blows. The leftists are in overdrive right now. No more bailouts!
12 posted on 05/15/2009 8:19:30 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Delacon

Why can’t the liberals afford to support the liberal press without government help? I never hear any complaints from conservative people about problems with their newpapers, TV etc.? I don’t hear them asking for government assistance.

If the MSM craps out, there should be a savings at all levels of government as schools of journalism crash in the wake of it, and journalism students are forced to go into respectable professions, or entertainment industries of one sort or another, respectable or not.


13 posted on 05/15/2009 8:21:39 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: Delacon

This is the anti-Fairness Doctrine - aka state-run-anti-free-press, Pravda, etc.


14 posted on 05/15/2009 8:23:06 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Delacon

WELCOME TO THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.


15 posted on 05/15/2009 8:35:59 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Delacon
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16 posted on 05/15/2009 8:36:05 PM PDT by odin2008 (Everything in the universe is subject to change.)
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To: Delacon

Al Pacino’s speech in “The Devil’s Advocate”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGR4SFOimlk

Kevin Lomax: “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”, is that it?

John Milton: Why not? I’m here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I’ve nurtured every sensation man’s been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I’m a fan of man! I’m a humanist. Maybe the last humanist.

John Milton: Don’t get too cocky my boy. No matter how good you are don’t ever let them see you coming. That’s the gaffe my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. You know, the nerd... the leper... shit-kickin’ surfer. Look at me. Underestimated from day one. You’d never think I was a master of the universe, now would ya?

John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He’s a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts! He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does he do, I swear for his own amusment, his own private, cosmic gag reel, he sets the rules in opposition. It’s the goof of all time. Look but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste! Taste, don’t swallow. Ahaha! And when you’re jumpin’ from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He’s laughin’ his sick, fuckin’ ass off. He’s a tight-ass! He’s a sadist! He’s an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never!

John Milton: I only set the stage. You pull your own strings.

Kevin Lomax: Who are you?
John Milton: Oh there are so many names.
Kevin Lomax: Satan?
John Milton: Call me Dad.

John Milton: Vanity, definitely my favorite sin.

John Milton: Self love, the all natural opiate.

John Milton: Who in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny that the twentieth century was mine, all of it Kevin, all of it mine?

John Milton: Freedom baby is never having to say you are sorry.

Kevin Lomax: What about love?
John Milton: Overrated. Biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

John Milton: A woman’s shoulders are the front lines of her mystique, and her neck, if she’s alive, has all the mystery of a border town. A no-man’s land in that battle between the mind and the body.

Kevin Lomax: Is this a test?
Pam: Isn’t everything?

Kevin Lomax: Are we negotiating?
John Milton: Always.

John Milton: Guilt is just a bag of fuckin’ bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down.

John Milton: The worst vice is advice.

http://www.quotegeek.com/index.php?action=viewcategory&categoryid=687

The very best admission of guilt in the English language, in my opinion:

“Act 3 Scene 3 : Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven (Spoken by Claudius)
O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,
A brother’s murder. Pray can I not,
Though inclination be as sharp as will:
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?
And what’s in prayer but this two-fold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
Or pardon’d being down? Then I’ll look up;
My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Can serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murder’?
That cannot be; since I am still possess’d
Of those effects for which I did the murder,
My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.
May one be pardon’d and retain the offence?
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft ‘tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but ‘tis not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we ourselves compell’d,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
Try what repentance can: what can it not?
Yet what can it when one can not repent?
O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
All may be well. “

“Hamlet.” Act 3 Scene 3 : Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven (Spoken by Claudius)

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/soliloquies/hamlet-offence-rank.htm


17 posted on 05/15/2009 9:30:28 PM PDT by combat_boots (When the government controls the captial, all that is left is tyranny. Tagline by Redwarning.)
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What we’ll be able to expect as unimportant storylines in this “Free Press”:

“American Pravda Asleep on the Job”
“This is outrageous! And in all fairness, President Obama is not responsible for the actions of his half-brother, and should not be judged for them. However, the depths to which the American Pravda will go to cover for their beloved president is beyond disturbing. Their lack of professionalism is a joke, and they should be avoided at all costs.

Once again, the British press covered the story that the American mainstream media kept silent until they absolutely were forced to come clean.

Read about how our own Pravda covered a story about Obama’s half-brother’s attempted molestation of a young teen in the UK:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/unreal-us-media-ignores-story-of.html

Unreal!... US Media Ignores Story Of President Obama’s Brother Molesting Young Teen Girl

“The British media is all over this story.
The US media?... Not a peep.”

http://exposingliberallies.blogspot.com/2009/04/american-pravda-asleep-on-job.html


18 posted on 05/15/2009 9:45:07 PM PDT by combat_boots (When the government controls the captial, all that is left is tyranny. Tagline by Redwarning.)
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To: Delacon

Say hello to the “shining, beckoning” Ministry of Truth.


19 posted on 05/16/2009 1:38:46 AM PDT by Tenniel2 (Memo to politicians: Don't worry about "shovel-ready." Worry about "pitchfork-ready.")
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To: Delacon
the FCC would force broadcasters to sell media properties to approved women and minority groups. He called this “equal opportunity” and “diversity.”
diversity:
consisting of groups who are more likely to be Democrats than the public at large.

20 posted on 05/16/2009 1:41:51 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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