Journalists, or what passes for journalists in mass media, have to pay for food and shelter. Most often, that means not pissing off the people who pay you.

Besides, journalists grew up in the same country we did and, since at least the first Russian Revolution (1904, was it?), the drill has been that the real threat to the "American way of life" comes from the left, not from the jingoistic, right lovers of private wealth and its owners.

And that meme was begun, nurtured and perpetuated by both of the two largest political parties, and still is. As is hippie flogging, liberal bashing, and even bashing of traditional Democrats.

Because, their are No Black/Brown or other color folks to demonize, at least too few in number in the RW! And that's no fun...

Is right on POINT. Call it the Caucasian Domestic Terrorist Murder Tea Party excuse clause. Yet, if the subject who murdered two cops was African-American, he or her face would have been blasted on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Abc, CBS and NBC IMMEDIATELY as minorities are not excluded.

Will have to put in play a nation wide series of attacks that do severe damage in order forthe MSM to tell America the truth. They have to happen all at the same time and the same day with pretty much the same type of target.

These sucker punch attacks here and there aren't adding up for a lot of folks - including people that want us to pat them on the heads and dismiss it as mental illness.

Extremism is extremism - if it walks and talks like a duck - damn it all - its a duck.

Randall Terry - Terrorist. Cliven Bundy is just as bad. And the people that follow these types of people are the REAL authoritarians. They have been isolated and blinded by a vision of America that is Dystopic and we have to be vigilant and say - it CAN happen here.

As long as 'baggers keep barking up the wrong tree and blame everybody else but the plutocrats, the powers that be will tolerate them. Long term, after everybody else is thoroughly disenfranchised and it becomes obvious to even the baggers who the real enemy is, they'll get wise. But in the short term, the transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top continues...and the PTB like it. They like it a lot; and they don't want to rock the boat.

of the police officers and I haven't seen one television report mention where these flags come from and are used. It is like the news is afraid to report who uses the flags and just letting viewers know it happened is enough for everyone to put 1+1 together and let viewers figure it out.

They are corporately owned and have an agenda.

They've given them a pass any time they could - because many of them also hate that black man in the WH

Wouldn't be good business to piss off a good portion of their viewership on top of that.

Scary as it sounds, believe that there are a lot of loonies out there who cheered at this news.

Please don't ask me what I mean by "a lot." Some networks undoubtedly have more than others, but they all take this question into account in morning meetings, memos from management, corporate directives, etc.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/homegrown-terrorists/

This shit has been going on for decades but the MSM seems loathe to discuss these RW, homegrown terrorists. Why? Maybe it's because so many power brokers in Washington were associated with Southern Partisan.
See: http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/southern-partisan-quotsetting-the-record-straightquot/

Just do a search for "Southern Partisan" and "Council of Conservative Citizens" and you'll discover that what this country should truly fear are the homegrown terrorists and the neo-confederate legislators who inspire them.

They even ignored this connection when McVeigh committed the OKC bombing.
http://www.accuracy.org/release/752-southern-partisan-t-shirt-identical-to-one-worn-by-timothy-mcveigh-at-time-of-arrest/
Southern Partisan T-Shirt Identical to One Worn by Timothy McVeigh at Time of Arrest
January 15, 2001

Factual Background:

Mid-1990s
Southern Partisan sells T-shirts celebrating the Lincoln assassination with a quote from John Wilkes Booth (“Sic Semper Tyrannis”) on the front, and Jefferson’s quote about liberty requiring “the blood of patriots and tyrants” on the back.

April 19, 1995
Timothy McVeigh is arrested after bombing the Oklahoma City federal building, wearing a T-shirt identical to the one sold by Southern Partisan. (Front and back views of the Southern Partisan shirt can be seen at FAIR’s website.)

December 1995
Southern Partisan General Store sends out form letter stating: “Due to a surprising demand for our anti-Lincoln T-shirt, our stock has been reduced to odd sizes. If the enclosed shirt will not suffice, we will be glad to refund your money or immediately ship you another equally militant shirt from our catalog.”

April 24, 1997
In his opening statement on day one of McVeigh’s murder and conspiracy trial, the prosecutor described the T-shirt worn by McVeigh at the time of his arrest, as reported by the New York Times (4/25/97): It “showed the tree of liberty, with droplets of bright red blood where the fruit should be, and the slogan ‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.’ [The quotation is from a 1787 letter by Thomas Jefferson to Williams Stevens Smith.] On the front was a picture of Lincoln, emblazoned with the Latin slogan ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ [thus always to tyrants], shouted by his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.”

And how this homegrown terrorist movement was seeded in Washington.
from 2003:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/theHandpuppet/21

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Perhaps some folks are beginning to see the light. I can only hope the MSM picks up this ball and runs with it, if they aren't too afraid.

Wouldn't want to be accused of "liberal bias" now, would we?

because network television "is" right wing, including msnbc. Yes, msnbc puts a liberal slant to the narrative, but the narrative is controlled there too. Rachel and Chris Hayes stray from the right wing narrative at times, they better be careful, they will end up like Phil Donahue, Keith Olbermann, Cenk Uygar, Martin Brashear, Dylan Ratigan.

She allows MSNBC to market themselves an an alternative for a liberal audience, even when 80% of their content is barely distinguishable from the "mainstream" networks, while Morning Joe is a Fox News show that happens to be broadcast on MSNBC.

"Rachel and Chris Hayes stray from the right wing narrative at times, they better be careful, they will end up like Phil Donahue, Keith Olbermann, Cenk Uygar, Martin Brashear, Dylan Ratigan."

Exactly. What amaze me is how EASY the Public at Large are FOOLED into believing what is said by Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow is not approved by the Corporate Comcast Masters that be. This network is owned 51% by COMCAST. When will folks wrap their brain behind this FACT, I don't know.

Why else is Keith Olbermann, Martin Bashir and Dylan Ratigan gone? They did not play the game correctly.....thus they had to fall at the sword of their Corporate Comcast Masters.... #SMH.

They are afraid because most media outlets in this country are owned by right wingers, and right wing corporations

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It's as though they want us to divide up and eat our own.

I wonder why ....

Besides, your job is not to be informed, it's to STFU and get back to shopping, Citizen Consumer!

Media Matters, US Uncut, Democracy Now, there are hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of posts cheering these guys on. They're loving it, and can't wait for the opportunity to start shooting up 'Murka. After all, what good are these guns if ya' ain't gonna use 'em?

Many of these posts rail on against the evil police, and tell stories about how the fuzz (yes, I actually ran across that a couple of times) have roughed them up every time they've been arrested. "Every time?" Something tells me if you refer to getting arrested as a regular occurrence you're not exactly a model citizen in the first place.

It's some scary shit. They're afraid of the police getting all armored up, but don't understand how their own actions are giving police plenty of reason to be concerned. It's self-fulfilling. They're going to make it happen because they want it to happen.

"Let's not jump to conclusions about the intent of the violent...." it means: "this was a RW attack fueled by RW media and MSM false equivalencies."

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When it started it cropping up, here and there, yesterday, I noticed the headlines for (politically opinionated) blogs and so forth put that fact up front. Networks not only kept it out of the headlines, but barely mentioned it all.

I'm not much for bashing the reliability of "main stream media" in general -- blogs and so forth can be even worse -- but the fact that a the signature symbol for a public, vocal, U.S. political faction was invoked by terroristic spree killers targeting cops seems worth mentioning to me.

Can you imagine if they'd left an anarchy symbol or a peace sign or a rainbow flag on the bodies of their victims?

At what point does the automatic conservative entitlement to the benefit of the doubt fail? When do we get to talk about the problem with their entire point of view, not with a few "lone nuts?"

Not when they talk about "Second Amendment remedies, or when they bring guns to rallies, apparently. Not when they aim rifles at federal officials. Not when they claim the right to waltz into the Gas 'n Sip with rifles and laugh at anyone who feels "uncomfortable with that."

And now, not when they drape their f'ing FLAG over people murdered in cold blood?

It was ridiculous hearing some reporters (do ya hear me, Wolf?) trying to come up with any descriptor imaginable to avoid saying "the Gadsden flag".

... is one careful choice I noticed somewhere. "Aaaand ...?"

As well as "a flag with some kind of symbol on it".

If some of these folks had any integrity they'd be ashamed. But since they don't, they aren't.

Yet that BS "study" that "proved" a liberal bias in the media is taken as gospel. The brainwashing is nearly complete.

focusing mainly on the militia movement and anti-Obama hatred among many gun nuts. This was a few years ago.

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20101011,00.html

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022636,00.html


Print news is a little bit better than broadcast media, but not by much.