Posted on 10/25/2009 12:46:47 PM PDT by thisisthetime
In the most overt ploy yet to control the media the Obama Administration attempted to prevent FOX News from interviewing Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg on Thursday. At the same time the White House granted permission to interview Feinberg to CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
This came on the heels of David Axelrod’s appearance on ABC’s This Week where he asserted that FOX was not a real news organization urging that other authentic news organizations such as ABC “ought not to treat them that way”.
This is simply a continuation of strategies derived from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in which Rule 5 of the Chapter on Tactics states “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
What the White House didn’t count on was that their perceived lap-dogs at the other networks would refuse the interview unless FOX was given the same opportunity. This of course will be swept away by other political happenings in the coming days. However, it is important to note that this administration will stop at nothing to control the outflow of information and opinion in regards to the policy they are attempting to impose. In this case the administration made a huge gaffe. Anytime CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC come to the defense of a competitor in FOX News it is clear there has been some sort of foul play...
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Because there are only... With a country of 350,000,000+ there should be more! This has direct bearing on everyone future yet only a small few are asking questions.
Also I know they have been playing with numbers on counters for videos just to make people wonder “what nobody else is paying attention”.
especially after being on Beck’s show last week I would guess the real number is 10 times at least by now.
Yeah, good point. It might be that there are other versions of the same video on youtube that have more views? I haven’t checked.
Perfect!
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