CNN…The Most Twisted Name in News

Thanks to the complete nervous breakdown of the US media, it’s been a long, hard six years for those of us who believe that journalism exists for one reason only — to hold those in power to account, and to speak truth to that power.

Today, Paul Wolfowitz is embroiled in a really slimy, immoral sex scandal at the World Bank ... Rove/Bush/Cheney "ordered" the RNC not to release to the House Judiciary Committee any emails related to their involvement in the attorney firings that have not been cleared by the White House ... little Alberto Gonzales has painted himself into a corner and "can't recall" how he got there ... and the White House has admitted our flag-wavin', foot-stompin' commander-in-chief was "unaware of defense plans to immediately extend Army combat tours when he criticized Democrats’ budget plans as potentially forcing troops to spend more time in Iraq."

But, perhaps the most explosive news not covered this week is the announcement of Ohio Democratic Rep Dennis Kucinich that he would file articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. Here is a copy of his letter to members of Congress that was leaked to the Washington Post's "Sleuth," Mary Ann Akers...



However, Kucinich’s action appears to have been quickly shot down, as Akers reported that, “Sources tell the Sleuth that in light of the mass killings at Virginia Tech Monday, Kucinich’s impeachment plans have been put on hold. There will be no action this week, they say.”

Akers writes that Kucinich shouldn’t hold his breath on getting anywhere with his impeachment plan because a Democratic aide quipped, “We’ll see a Kucinich Administration before we’ll see a Cheney impeachment.”

Looks like Cheney has low friends in high places, doesn’t it? Kucinich’s office had no comment…

ALL media, print and electronic, are obscenely obsessed with the shooting at Virginia Tech — none more so than CNN, the most “twisted” name in news. CNN anchors are on the scene in full investigation mode, mercilessly interrogating university officials, police officials and friends of those murdered — “how did it feel?…how will this affect your life?…should someone have seen Cho Seung-Hui’s “break” coming?…Who’s responsible?…tell us — tell us how you feel…What is it like — to see your friends in the hospital?…What are you going to do next? How are you going to move on?

CNN then went on to go down a list of victims, giving their names and airing interviews with family members who were asked how it felt to lose their children…

Meanwhile, the 40 faceless, nameless, family-less American soldiers and marines killed last week — the 10 killed on Monday of this week — were not important enough to get CNN’s attention. The 157 (reported briefly by the NYT — or 127 reported just as briefly by the WaPo) human beings killed in Bathdad today as a result of four car bombings weren’t even a blip on CNN’s TV screen. There were also at least 150 injured in those blasts.

Maybe CNN should ask these survivors how they “feel…”

Boycott.

In the "democratic" AND republican parties as they are now, the big money ..Guess what THEY are...They ARE the SAME PARTY.SAme kind of corrupted vile pigs,.Hillary has ties with neocons with her third way crap ,Clinton had a follower of LEO STRAUSS(a neocon"darling" "philosopher") A corrupted shit head who said shit like elitism and distinct classes is necessary to dominate the people and lying to the people is good statesmanship in his cabinet.Why? Because Clinton was a closet NEOCON. How else could he rub elbows with those vile people on the right without getting physically ill?


"Indeed, author Shadia B. Drury, in her 1997 book, Leo Strauss and the American Right, named the following prominent Washington players as among Strauss' protégés: Paul Wolfowitz; Supreme Court Justic Clarence Thomas; Judge Robert Bork; neo-con propagandist and former Dan Quayle chief of staff, William Kristol; former Secretary of Education William Bennett; the National Review publisher William F. Buckley; former Reagan Administration official Alan Keyes; current White House bio-ethics advisor Francis Fukuyama; Attorney General John Ashcroft; and William Galston, former Clinton Administration domestic policy advisor, and co-author, with Elaine Kamark, of the Joe Lieberman-led Democratic Leadership Council's policy blueprint.

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In Strauss-ian thought, a degree of public deception is considered absolutely necessary. "That people in government have to be discreet in what they say publicly is so obvious--'If I tell you the truth I can't but help the enemy.'"
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041025/alterman

Get with it folks... the ONLY choice IF we want to break the back of the same old pro corporate corrupted party with two heads pretending they are separate factions,is to support Kucinich the last true progressive.
They hate Kucinich because Kucinich has a CONSCIENCE.Kucinich would expose the crimes,clean out the corruption, deny the greedy their perks, and he would restore america to sanity. And that's what all the red and blue pigs on the hill fear most of all, the end of the money games and war mongering "free market" scam military industrial gravy train of lies and scandal cloak and dagger screw the people,that has kept these few parasitic elitist evil families and their kin and associates untouchable and unaccountable for a long, long time.

Kucinich has had NO airplay on TV yet.

This disgusting culture in politics has GOT TO CHANGE.
Vote Kucinich recommend his site to everyone,IF you want something besides the same old shit on the hill that has been on the hill.

I couldn't agree with you more. As a Wellstone Democrat, I break out in a cold sweat every time Kucinich gets on an airplane..

the words don't matter - just watch the pictures.

and never, never forget to be afraid. Be very afraid (just don't ask of what...)

has blipped this bombing in Iraq, that's where I first learned of it.

It was yesterday on CNN when they were going to announce the identity of the shooter, an anchor said something about all the CNN staff there and investigating all the angles. Where have these investigators been for the last 6 years?

...needs to come to an agreement:

Anytime any one of us is involved in some sort of tragic event that gets coverage, when some ghoul comes around and sticks a camera and microphone in our face, we each need to look directly into the lens and say,

"Why don't you go fuck yourself, you two-bit whore?"

and flip them the bird high enough so that they can't crop it out of the shot.

Or some such.

Three days of everybody in the country giving the "media" the finger on camera, and they will change their business model!

f you haven't called Kucinich and your own Representative yet, consider holding off for a few days...

I have an insider update. I just got off the phone with the National Coordinator for Congressional District Impeachment Committees and we are being asked to wait for just a bit before calling in support of efforts to impeach VP Cheney.

Kucinich is definitely taking articles of impeachment of Cheney to the floor - most likely sometime next week. He and his staff are building consensus and support in Congress and are preparing strategy to have it be as successful as possible once initiated.

Part of that strategy is to coordinate phone calling and lobbying of Congress based upon who is "on the fence" or hesitant for whatever reason and needs the most encouragement to support this.

We are being encouraged to wait until next week and to work in a coordinated effort with them to direct calls to specific members of Congress at the appointed time.

We should honor and respect Congressman Kucinich for his courageous action and to trust that the timing of our lobbying should be as directed by those best positioned to know. He is going to act. We can get into our starter blocks and be ready to sprint, but the starter's gun hasn't sounded quite yet.

If you have already called, as I did, good for you. If you haven't, then consider waiting with the (hundreds of?) thousands nationally ready to go when directed.

Stay tuned.

~ As a personal aside, I think that the strategy to go after Cheney first is brilliant. With Rumsfeld already gone - or least minimized, Rove and Rice about to be subpoenaed, Gonzales on the ropes, Cheney and his 18% approval rating is the logical next step. Perhaps Bush will serve out his entire term, even if each and every one of the above-named are removed or resign, but he will be left looking like "The Great Oz" after Toto pulled back the curtain. More likely however, is that an impeachment investigation of Cheney will put so much evidence into the Congressional Record of Bush's involvement in each and every criminal action by Cheney that they will both go down together.

It is a beautiful spring. I can't wait for Impeachment Summer!!!

~ Mikael



~ Mikael Rudolph

Organizer - Minneapolis Chapter of World Can't Wait
www.worldcantwait.org
Co-founder: Impeach for Peace
www.impeachforpeace.org

The AMerican press has covered up but which has the WOrld Bank crowd fuming is that despite her job duties at the Bank she also received monies from a contracting firm out of Iraq.

"Money for nothin" as Dire Straits once put it.

Hard to believe anyone still takes them seriously.

Or will they never find out? Seems hard to believe, because this is the real deal.

CNN for about 20 minutes while eating dinner tonight in a pizza shop. Everyone was glued to the TV. I was interested myself for about the first 5 minutes, until they started showing pictures of the kid with guns and a hammer, along with some bullshit videos of him blaming the world for his problems ect.

This murderer WANTED the media to cover all of this shit. He sent this package of photos, videos, and writings to NBC. And they go ahead and spew this shit all over the airwaves giving him exactly what he wanted. FAME. I'm not saying he killed all these people because he wanted to be famous. I'm saying he MAILED THIS INFORMATION TO NBC SPECIFICALLY TO GET THE EXACT TYPE OF COVERAGE THAT THEY ARE GIVING IT.

What must the family and friends of those who died think of all this? Do the networks care about them at all? Of course not. I find it unbelievably DISRESPECTFUL toward those who died to show this killer's self-important bullshit on the "news".

I'm sorry if I'm rambling. I haven't been this angry in a while. CNN :thumbsdown: :puke:

to take the heat off the REAL tragedy -- the crime-ridden BushCo conspiracy . . .

the MEDIA thinks we're stupid -- or at least that they can MAKE us stupid through lying, repitition, and straight-up propaganda . . .

the CONGRESS also thinks we're stupid -- or at least that we can be MADE stupid by the complaint corporate media . . . they know BushCo's crimes as well as we do, and yet refuse to act . . .they figure that if THEY, our supposed representatives, simply do not acknowledge BushCo's illegalities (and they are legion), then they don't exist in the realm of public discussion . . . ignore it, and it will go away, they reason . . .

well we're NOT stupid . . . we KNOW as much about BushCo as you do -- maybe more -- and we KNOW that your failure to act in the face of the most heinous criminal enterprise in our history is nothing short of despicable . . .

and we're NOT going away . . . we will keep the pressure on you building until you either do the right thing or consume yourself in guilt . . .

by talking about how people 'feel', rather than actually reporting real news.

How someone 'feels' is entirely subjective, and really not at all relevant to the who/what/when/where/why core questions of journalism. In fact, it's not really journalism at all, but mere tabloid fluff.

Such is the state of our 'news'.

badgering the family members and friends of the shooting victims with inane, stupid and insensitive questions instead of actually reporting the hard news and informing the American People of the vital issues of the day.

Thanks for the thread Sheila

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They simply disappeared. Their lawyers advised them to be invisible. More Americans should give corporate media the grand "No comment!" Then they could continue to interview each other.

Keith Olbermann also commented on the fact that at least 30+ Americans of the same age as those who perished in Virginia, were killed in Iraq over the past 10 days. There was no major administrative or media outpouring of sympathy or revulsion or horror at the loss of those lives. Why not??!!!

the corporatemediawhores WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE cause it can't go on like this FOR-EVER. More and More people are starting to sit up and take notice.

I was a novice and I noticed in 2000.