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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:37 AM Jun 2014

On Iraq and the despicable U.S. media asking "Who is to blame" and running to those who were

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to blame for comment about who is to blame.

Jeezus. What a bunch of despicable moronic lackeys. Yeah, run to McCain for comment. Run to Douglas Feith for comment. Ask those war mongering fuckwads "who is to blame". The lack of historically accurate memory among members of the mainstream media is astonishing. No, this isn't parody, it's real life.

McCain and Feith and all those asswipes who declared in no uncertain terms that the U.S. would be greeted as liberators in Iraq. McCain and Feith and all those shitheels who ran around hysterically in the months and days proceeding the invasion, caterwauling about how Saddam Hussein (yes a tyrannical bastard who used poison gas on the Kurds) a secularist, was in cahoots with bin Laden. Jeezus. My disgust knows no bounds.

Fuck you Mainstream Media with a rusty farm tool. Fuck you for ginning things up. Again. Fuck you for running to McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bill Kristal with your respectful questions and granting them credibility they could only dream of regaining on their own.

You lot should all be ashamed of yourself in your spurious attempt at "balance".

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On Iraq and the despicable U.S. media asking "Who is to blame" and running to those who were (Original Post) cali Jun 2014 OP
As has been mentioned elsewhere, huge GOP money pours into media buys for campaigning. djean111 Jun 2014 #1
About $22 million sulphurdunn Jun 2014 #8
You mean we couldn't resolve the 1,000 year conflict between the Sunni's and Shiites with bombs ? Trust Buster Jun 2014 #2
Their balance = ananda Jun 2014 #3
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Jun 2014 #4
When unchallenged lies The Wizard Jun 2014 #5
exactly. balanced it is not. cali Jun 2014 #6
There is no ctsnowman Jun 2014 #7
What's wrong with Iraq? There's a limited government presence in people's lives, there is a strong, Katashi_itto Jun 2014 #9
Paradise! It must be where all the virgins are too. postulater Jun 2014 #11
:) Katashi_itto Jun 2014 #15
they have no shame. news for profit. it's entertainment nothing more. spanone Jun 2014 #10
Well, McCain ran out of information meetings and went running to them, but your point is the Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #12
right on, cali noiretextatique Jun 2014 #13
K & R malaise Jun 2014 #14
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. As has been mentioned elsewhere, huge GOP money pours into media buys for campaigning.
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 06:38 AM
Jun 2014

The media is going to fawn, lick, slobber, and kiss the hand that feeds them.
We have accepted with the smallest of whimpers that politicians both need and will be beholden to the big money that backs them - the money then flows to the media, and the media is beholden and has a huge vested interest, of course, as well.

Pretty neat closed system; I don't see Citizens United going away any time soon.
To me, it seems better to just make all campaigning federally funded, to allot blocks of air time equally, and to do away with the huge PACS. One of my fucking unicorns, I know.

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
8. About $22 million
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:40 AM
Jun 2014

worth of billionaire money went into advertising sponsorships last year for right wing rant radio programs to people like Ingraham, Levine, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. They then catapult the propaganda as GW Bush once said.

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
2. You mean we couldn't resolve the 1,000 year conflict between the Sunni's and Shiites with bombs ?
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:03 AM
Jun 2014

Who would have thunk it ?

The Wizard

(12,536 posts)
5. When unchallenged lies
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:28 AM
Jun 2014

are given equal weight with facts, the media has failed. What's being billed as news is propaganda and a disgrace to journalism. Our demise is nigh.

ctsnowman

(1,903 posts)
7. There is no
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:36 AM
Jun 2014

greater example of how far right all of our mass media has become than on foreign affairs. I told my daughters that everyone who opposed and pointed out how messed up Iraq was during and before the war is now out of a job (in the big league) while the supporters have high paying jobs in think tanks and media. Even most of the politicians who opposed it from the start are gone!

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
9. What's wrong with Iraq? There's a limited government presence in people's lives, there is a strong,
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:51 AM
Jun 2014

faith-based group emerging there, and there is easy access to firearms. Isn't that what the far-right wants?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
12. Well, McCain ran out of information meetings and went running to them, but your point is the
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 12:26 PM
Jun 2014

absolute truth. The immorality of the general media is bursting out all over.

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