Who? The corporate media
Why? Because their corporate bosses like a Republican controlled FCC that hands out exemptions for mergers and expansions.
How? Through the usual distortions and outright lies. (See
The Press v. Al Gore at
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5920188/the_press_vs_al_gore ) At the moment, we are witnessing a massive Divide and Conquer military type maneuver whose goal is to recreate Chicago 1968, when the Democratic Party was so fractured that one major candidate essentially walked out and took his delegates with him, leaving the Democrats to go down in flames---and Richard Nixon a victory that cost this country dearly.
When? Right now Where? In the land of f-ing liberty and opportunity for all (who can afford to buy a media whore).
I can not even begin to write about all the lies and distortions that are going on around us. I will just remind everyone that the nations’ Chambers of Commerce have pledged $60million dollars to influence this election, and that will buy a lot of journalists. And that is just the money we know about.
I will start with just one distortion, that surrounding Hillary’s infamous “I am LBJ, Obama is MLK Jr. It took LBJ to pass civil rights legislation” gaffe, since that is when many claim that Hillary herself introduced race into the race.
Fox News Gibson caught by Media Matters actually altering what Hillary said to make it sound worse.
On the January 14 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, while introducing a segment on "the issue of race" in the Democratic presidential primary, co-host John Gibson, purporting to quote Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton verbatim, actually misquoted her January 7 comment on the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Gibson stated: "Clinton is being attacked by Obama for recently saying that the legendary Martin Luther King's dream of equality was one only -- quote, 'only realized when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act' " . In fact, Clinton did not use the word "only"; she stated that "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
New York Times TalkingPointsMemo followed the MSM coverage of the media firestorm, revealing that the newspaper of record, the New York Times
misquoted Hillary three times in order to make it appear that she said the above. Actually, she was referring to the comparisons that are often made between Obama and JFK, the inspirational president. Hillary compared herself to the less inspirational but more experienced LBJ. Race did not enter into this equation—as Obama agreed within a few days.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2008/01/new_york_times_11.phpNYT version (printed three times, even after TPM criticized them twice about it):
“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Mrs. Clinton said in trying to make the case that her experience should mean more to voters than the uplifting words of Mr. Obama. “It took a president to get it done.”
Actual version:
"I would point to the fact that that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the President before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done. That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became a real in people's lives because we had a president who said we are going to do it, and actually got it accomplished."
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_hillarys_martin_luther_king_remark_not_racial_comment.php "I don't think it was in any way a racial comment," Obama told ABC News. "That's something that has played out in the press. That's not my view."
How many people in the Obama camp know what she actually said? How many Americans know that Obama agreed that her remarks were not racial? The press did an excellent job of distorting her statements.
And here is a point that some may have missed. The MSM also portrayed Obama’s supporters as overly sensitive. For every American who thought
Hillary should not have said that there is another who thought
What did she say that was so bad? .
This was not just an attack on Hillary. It was an attack on Obama. For the first time, the corporate media attempted to portray him and his supporters as divisive, separatists. More about why the MSM might want to create this impression later.
There is one news organization that has been the worst by far when it comes to distorting the truth, making gender and race charged statements and in general trying to arrange the Democrats into a circular firing squad. No, it isn’t Fox News. Everyone would catch on if Fox News was doing it. The station is…
MSNBC Chris Matthews aka Tweety We all know that Matthews has vilified Hillary the Woman. However, he has other talents. No one has done so much for the
It’s a race about race big lie as Tweety. Here is an interview with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in which the Congresswoman tries to encourage Democrats to all get along. Tweety ain’t having none of it.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007429&docId=l:729771380&isRss=true REP. JACKSON LEE: Touchy feely. I hope that we exude the love of Dr. King.
MR. MATTHEWS: I think you're right.
MR. JOHNSON: We're not touchy.
MR. MATTHEWS: And we've got to have guys who stop sending out dog-whistle signals, too, that have some people, the bad people here, even if the good people pretend they can't hear them. Anyway, thank you very much, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Thank you –
Bad guys who send out dog-whistle signals? You mean like
you, Tweety ? Check out who was interjecting race into the race the week before he claimed to be so concerned that bad guys were trying to bring up this uncomfortable subject. That’s right. Chris “Tweety” Matthews was among the first to insist that the reason New Hampshire went for Hillary by a few points was because the people of that state were great big fat
racists . On national TV no less.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/chris_matthews_racist_paleface_voters_in_new_hampshire_are_what_did_obama_i/ MSNBC host Chris Matthews didn’t just uncork his line on Primary Night about how New Hampshire Democrats would have displayed their racism to pollsters if they heard an “Archie Bunker voice” on the other end of the line. He repeated it on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” show on MSNBC. He was upset at anyone who thought the pollsters and pundits were wrong about the Obama victory, when white voters lied to pollsters: “Methinks Paleface speak with forked tongue.”
This is where the issue of race really got a toe hole in the Democratic primary . When media pundits ignored New Hampshire’s strong feminist leanings and instead decided to brand the state “racist”, they made a lot of Southern Democrats hopping mad. Since Democratic voters in southern states—White and Black—tend to be anti-racist (the Republican Party being the Party of racial segregation and intolerance in the South), an accusation made shortly before the South Carolina primary could have only one effect. It would make Southern Democratic voters, typically a mix of Blacks, Hispanics, gays, liberals, union members and other alienated people hopping mad at their northern cousins and determined to correct the slight they had bestowed on Barack Obama while at the same time punishing Hillary Clinton.
Matthews was persuaded to apologize to Hillary for all of his sexist slurs,
but no one at MSNBC asked him to apologize for attempting to set up the Democrats in a circular firing squad over the issue of race. On a single program on January 10, 2008, Tweety claimed that New Hampshire voters were racists. He also suggested that since the exit polls in New Hampshire did not match the finally vote tally, someone (read Hillary supporters) must have changed the vote. And he dubbed John Edwards a spoiler who was only staying in the race to keep Obama from winning the nomination.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/120 Lawrence O’Donnell The last point Tweety made above, about Edwards relied upon Northern prejudice about Southerners. Obviously, all white southerners want to keep the Black Man down, correct? At least, that is what Matthews seemed to expect his audience to believe. He or someone else at MSNBC was able to talk Lawrence O’Donnell into believing it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/john-edwards-is-a-loser_b_81045.html If John Edwards stays in the race, he might, in the end, become nothing other than the Southern white man who stood in the way of the black man. And for that, he would deserve a lifetime of liberal condemnation.
Poor O’Donnell. Someone at MSNBC (Buchanan, Matthews?) is having a hearty chuckle at the way that they have destroyed the reputation of a liberal commentator by having him write something that is utter bs. If Edwards wanted to keep Obama down, he would be running as a Republican. With his looks and charisma, the GOP would love to have him. He could probably win the general election. No White politician joins the Democratic Party in the south because they are ambitions. They do it, because they care and because they do not mind running losing campaigns as long as they are campaigning for the side of justice.
This guy isn’t an MSNBC employee but I have to insert him here because he really messed things up for the Democrats after the New Hampshire primary:
Syndicated Columnist Robert Koehler of Tribune Media Funny, Koehler took down the link that caused so much Divide and Conquer trouble for Democrats over the New Hampshire primary. But that is ok. It is all documented through other links, like this one at Bradblog.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5532 PRIMARY CONCERNS
By Robert C. Koehler
Tribune Media Services
As the breathless sports coverage of the presidential primaries bursts around me this morning, I’m doing my best to resist surrendering to the contrived drama about “comeback kids” and the flying shrapnel of numbers and hold onto my troubled skepticism about the electoral process, or at least most of it.
First of all, before we get too enthusiastic about feminist solidarity or wax knowingly about New Hampshire Democrats’ traditional soft-heartedness toward the Clinton family, let’s ponder yet again the possibility of tainted results, which is such an unfun prospect most of the media can’t bear to remember that all the problems we’ve had with electronic voting machines — and Diebold machines in particular, which dominate New Hampshire polling places — remain unsolved.
Did the Hillary campaign really defy the pollsters? She had been trailing Barack Obama by 13 percentage points, 42 to 29, in a recent Zogby poll, as election watchdog Brad Friedman pointed out. And the weekend’s “rapturous packed rallies for Mr. Obama,” as the New York Times put it, “suggested Mrs. Clinton was in dire shape.”
So when she emerged from the Tuesday primary with an 8,000-vote and 3-percentage-point victory over Obama, perhaps — considering the notorious unreliability, not to mention hackability, of Diebold machines — the media might have hoisted a few red flags in the coverage, rather than immediately chalk the results up to Clinton’s tears and voter unpredictability. (Oh, if only more reporters considered red flags patriotic.)
We know what that got us. Kucinich called for a recount. The Obama camp was abuzz with rumors that Hillary the Witch had “stolen” the New Hampshire primary. And worst of all, Robert C. Koehler’s speculation got wide coverage on the internet (and his theory even got pushed by Tweety, see above) because he claimed that the story was going to appear in the next day’s Tribune papers---a claim that I doubted when I first heard it. See my journal from the night when Koehler’s on-line story appeared.
OK, back to
MSNBC Pat Buchanan http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/ghettoizing_barack.htmlThis document could easily be the manifesto for everything that is going on at MSNBC lately. Entitled “Ghettoizing Barack”, Buchanan’s essay makes the case that Bill and Hillary Clinton use some sort of diabolic powers to trick Obama’s supporters into losing their cool. Now, if you read the rest of this journal, you will discover that the “crimes” that Buchanan accuses Hillary of---having surrogates talk about Obama’s drug use etc.---are minor compared to the accusations that the MSM makes of racist New Hampshire voters, hacked New Hampshire primaries, twisted distorted remarks by Hillary about MLK Jr.
Stunned and stung, Barack's African-American backers then rushed into the baited trap. One after another, they headed for the TV cameras to charge that the Clintons had fought dirty, forcing voters to focus on the race and gender of the candidates rather than on their records, ideas and issues.
Maybe they did. But if they did, I think it was because of what people like Tweety and O’Donnell and Koehler and the New York Times and Fox and Buchanan have been up to. Especially Buchanan. Keep in mind that this is the guy who came up with Nixon’s dirty tricks election strategy in 1972. He made Muskie cry, forcing him out of the election. He evolved the plan to make smears against Democratic candidates that would look like they were from other Democratic candidates and to stage phony demonstrations against one candidate, taking care to make sure that no one would suspect that the whole thing was orchestrated by the Republicans.
He is a master of Divide and Conquer politics, and he is in the middle of every discussion at MSNBC in which the round table trashes Bill and Hillary as a two-headed anti-Christ and Obama as the perpetual victim. The perpetual Black victim. Also, Pat Buchanan’s journal, the
American Conservative has an article about strategy that McCain can use to beat Obama in the general election. The plan? Use Obama’s church against him. Paint him as a Black supremacist. Tie him through his church to Louis Farrakhan. In other words, resort to the old tried and true “Fear the Black Man” strategy. You know, the one that Buchanan recommended two years ago on Countdown when he told Keith Olbermann that the Republicans could retain control of Congress if they reminded the voters that Democratic control meant Rangel and Conyers in control of Congressional committees.
Why is Pat Buchanan still at MSNBC after he said that? I guess they need a conservative who is anti-war. Why is he allowed to sow dissension in the ranks of Democratic primary voters? I guess NBC/GE is just like all the other corporate media giants. They would prefer to have a Republican FCC in power, so that they can have unlimited media expansions and mergers.
Oh, and not to forget the other media
Big Lies Edwards is a phony Started by John Solomon, Washington Post, one year ago. For his self devotion to the cause, Solomon just got demoted to the right wing ghetto of the Washington Times, because no one else will have him.
The Two Man Race Who is that John Edwards guy?
Hillary is a bitch Of course, she would denigrate Martin Luther King Jr and steal the election through E-vote fraud in New Hampshire and lay traps for Obama. Didn’t the corporate media tell us that she crushes the heads of kittens with her high heeled shoes?
Obama is a Black Muslim Didn’t see that one coming? I did. You will hear more of this as we near the general election. Here is a preview from conservative publications, where it is already being market tested.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=285292746454291 In short, Obama's "unashamedly black" church preaches the politics of black nationalism. And its dashiki-wearing preacher — who married Obama and his wife and now acts as his personal spiritual adviser — is militantly Afrocentric. "We are an African people," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright reminds his flock, "and remain true to our native land, the mother continent."
Wright once traveled to Libya with black supremacist Louis Farrakhan to meet with terrorist leader Muammar Qaddafi. Last year at a Chicago gala, Wright honored his old pal Farrakhan, who's fond of calling whites "blue-eyed devils," for lifetime achievement.
and here is what I blogged about it
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/124For this last lie to work, Obama must be transformed from half White half Black all American unifier to 100% African-American s-c-a-r-y. That is why the press wants you to believe that Bill and Hillary are doing something naughty. Because the press has already been caught denying Edwards coverage (with graphs and numbers and everything!) and calling Hillary a Bitch and lying and distorting. There will be all hell to pay if they are caught setting
Obama is a Black Muslim up, too.
This is why Pat Buchanan kept insisting last night that Obama got 0% of the White South Carolina vote and why, at one point Joe Scarborough told him to shut up with the 1990’s race baiting crap. Buchanan is trying to paint Obama is 100% Kenyan.
It looks like the press is trying to vilify Hillary and defend Obama, but do not be fooled. It is not a throne or a golden crown they have prepared for Obama. They are getting ready a cross and a crown of thorns, and just like the Romans who killed Jesus, they are going to try to convince you that someone else---Hillary in this case---did the dirty deed. The end result will be
“That Obama is soooo divisive. Wherever he goes, arguments just spring up around him. He is real troublemaker. Oooo, and that Hillary is such a Bitch. Can't the Democrats do any better than that? Why did they offer us only two candidates? I'm just going to stay home this fall and not vote at all.” The Democratic Candidates need to sit down and call a truce and get their acts together. They need to refuse to mud wrestle during debates—i.e. no more questions that are not about the issues. MSNBC needs to ban Pat Buchanan from any Democratic primary discussions. Someone or group within the Democratic Party which is strictly neutral needs to start monitoring the MSM—like the NYTs—when they quote candidates, and when they are misquoted or their remarks are taken out of context or misconstrued, some action needs to be taken.
And for the sake of our troops in Iraq and all the uninsured Americans and homeless veterans and children struggling to get a decent education,
please do not believe the lies you hear on TV or read in MSM publications (or even on the internet). If it sounds screwy, it probably is a distortion.
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