Posted on 02/23/2024 8:40:08 AM PST by george76
Secretary to CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews to her boss: “Ms. Ciprian-Matthews, there’s a Mister Obama on line 3...shall I ask him to hold?”
Hopefully, she made backups
if she was an investigative reporter, and even HALF as smart as they claim, she surely had a backup somewhere safe.
Lets see if F-troop raids her house now.
It would be interesting to go back into the grooveyard of forgotten hits, and review some of the over-the-top things that were said about Bernstein and Woodward, and about the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and how anyone who would go after the Courageous Journalists who’s Work to Protect Our Nation was Protected by the Saaacred Fiiirst Aammendment to the Cooonnnsstituutionn, and was Necessary to Protect Us All From Tyranny!
That was a huge theme in post WWII movies. The war in the Pacific was flat out racist and hate-filled to a degree Europe never imagined. The Japanese were still a fanatic medieval monarchy and took things to a level of brutality and cruelty unimaginable in the ETO. Beheadings of prisoners, rape, murder, torture, etc. In Nanking the German Nazi Ambassador was sickened by what he was seeing. That’s right, even actual nazis were shocked by them.
When we hit islands the common lingo was that the island was infested with vermin, monkeys, lice, etc.... and the battles were fought to the last Jap with maybe 10 or 15 survivors standing there shell shocked. And we only took them alive for intel value. Guys sent home ashtrays made out of Jap skulls, gold teeth, you name it. They our men watched as Japs even committed suicide to get at them.
That was the most bitter war we have ever fought when it come to outright hate.
So after the war we had quite a pickle on how to turn it all off. We wanted to have a cooperative Japan and the USSR was looming.
Right about then you see Hollywood churn out a raft of “Japanese are actually kinda nice now” kind of films.
Bad Day at Black Rock, Teahouse of the August moon, Bridges of Toko Ri and many others.
BTW, interesting aside about Bad Day at Black Rock. Lee Marvin was the leading bully in the film. In WWII he was a Marine PFC and was wounded on Saipan.
“So after the war we had quite a pickle on how to turn it all off. We wanted to have a cooperative Japan and the USSR was looming.”
Interesting take on how to “turn it all off.” That definitely was a huge quandary.
I’ve got a bit of a personal parallel. My dad’s family immigrated from Germany in 1927 (dad was three), just 9 years after the WW 1 Armistice (about the same amount of time that “Bad Day at Black Rock” took place after WW 2). The hatred toward Germans because of the ferocity of long drawn-out vicious trench warfare, the new use of machine guns, the use of gas against troops, etc was close to the hatred of the Japanese. It was tough living in The Bronx nine years after the close of WW 1. On the plus side, my dad learned some good street fighting skills and went on to box in the Marine Corps.
Sanders believed the party line that Project Mockingbird no longer existed.
Some lessons can only be learned the hard way.
The files were then given by CBS to the FBI to fulfill a subpoena.
Yeah, the WWI propaganda really got some serious German hate going in that era.
Hamburger became Salisbury Steak and Liberty Sandwiches. Sauerkraut was liberty cabbage. People killed dachshunds. German Shepherds were suddenly “police dogs”. The list was long. I know of one place in Fort Madison Iowa, the German-American bank building is still there. In the stone on top, “German” is chiseled away.
My Grandma had a German accent and left New York when she married grandpa who was a WWI sailor. He took her down to East Texas, heart of KKK thinking in the early 20s. She had a rough adjustment too. A German accented Catholic woman in the heart of east Texas in the 20s.
I had previously wondered whether she was the only one whose papers were confiscated, but Turley says here that this is NOT SOP, but is unheard of otherwise.
Herridge didn’t keep a backup of her own, refreshed periodically, and another dead-lady copy somewhere else?
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This may be a brilliant move by CBS.
My first thought was no source will talk to CBS. My second was that no investigative reporters will work there.
However, if CBS doesn’t want info or reporting, this saves them time and trouble. They don’t have to screen reporters or sources. Deep Throat can still go to them and be secure. Dan Rather’s kids can work there. People that want to hear CBS type news can go there and not have to worry about icky stories.
They’re looking for a way to put her in jail.
She isn’t a stupid person. What did she think would happen if she decided to report news truthfully at CBS?
They went after Daniel Ellsberg for the Pentagon Papers. This is the same sort of alphabet agency tyranny the CIA is known for.
Walter Cronkite cost us the Vietnam war. His pronouncement that, because of the Tet Offensive (which WE WON!!!!!) America could no longer win the war, and any further attempts to win would be useless, emboldened the anti-war efforts in our country into surrendering to the communists.
From that point onwards we just spent priceless American blood in a futile attempt to enrich the defense contractors, while not winning a damned thing.
The blood of so many American soldiers rides on his shoulders...I despise that man, as I despise Hanoi Jane Fonda and so many others.
Because Buckhead DESTROYED that slimy goon forever in the eyes of legitimate followers of the media!
So I’d guess...
Whomever handles CBS from the IC community pressured them to seize Catherine’s records so they could find and disappear her sources.
Catherine Herridge is no rookie. Wonder what surprises she left for them?
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