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20-Year CBS News Veteran Details Massive Censorship And Propaganda In Mainstream Media

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Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Journalists should be dark, funny, mean people. It’s appropriate for their antagonistic, adversarial role.

 

– Matt Taibbi, in this New York Magazine article

 

Reporters on the ground aren’t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.

 

Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes.

 

– From the excellent New York Post article: Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Earlier this week, I published a piece titled, Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer, which I thought was incredible in its own right, yet the information in that post seems almost trite compared to the flood of information Attkisson has revealed to the New York Post’s Kyle Smith.

The following excerpts from the piece will confirm all of your worst suspicions about mainstream media:

Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman. Important people have told her so.

 

When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor replied, “I give up, Sharyl . . . I’ll work with more reasonable folks that follow up, I guess.”

 

Another White House flack, Eric Schultz, didn’t like being pressed for answers about the Fast and Furious scandal in which American agents directed guns into the arms of Mexican drug lords. “Goddammit, Sharyl!” he screamed at her. “The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You’re the only one who’s not reasonable!”

Interesting, because as Matt Taibbi notes in the quote at the top, investigative journalists are not supposed to be reasonable. I digress…

In nearly 20 years at CBS News, she has done many stories attacking Republicans and corporate America, and she points out that TV news, being reluctant to offend its advertisers, has become more and more skittish about, for instance, stories questioning pharmaceutical companies or car manufacturers.

 

Working on a piece that raised questions about the American Red Cross disaster response, she says a boss told her, “We must do nothing to upset our corporate partners . . . until the stock splits.” (Parent company Viacom and CBS split in 2006).

 

Reporters on the ground aren’t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.

 

Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes.

 

Reporting on the many green-energy firms such as Solyndra that went belly-up after burning through hundreds of millions in Washington handouts, Attkisson ran into increasing difficulty getting her stories on the air. A colleague told her about the following exchange: “[The stories] are pretty significant,” said a news exec. “Maybe we should be airing some of them on the ‘Evening News?’ ” Replied the program’s chief Pat Shevlin, “What’s the matter, don’t you support green energy?”

 

Says Attkisson: That’s like saying you’re anti-medicine if you point out pharmaceutical company fraud.

 

One of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were simply “analysts.” “And if a conservative analyst’s opinion really rubbed the supervisor the wrong way,” says Attkisson, “she might rewrite the script to label him a ‘right-wing’ analyst.”

 

In mid-October 2012, with the presidential election coming up, Attkisson says CBS suddenly lost interest in airing her reporting on the Benghazi attacks. “The light switch turns off,” she writes. “Most of my Benghazi stories from that point on would be reported not on television, but on the Web.”

 

Two expressions that became especially popular with CBS News brass, she says, were “incremental” and “piling on.” These are code for “excuses for stories they really don’t want, even as we observe that developments on stories they like are aired in the tiniest of increments.”

 

Hey, kids, we found two more Americans who say they like their ObamaCare! Let’s do a lengthy segment.

 

When the White House didn’t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News’ president — and Rhodes’s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.

I had no idea that the President of CBS News’ brother was a top national security advisor to President Obama, did you?

Attkisson, who received an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow award for her trailblazing work on the story, says she made top CBS brass “incensed” when she appeared on Laura Ingraham’s radio show and mentioned that Obama administration officials called her up to literally scream at her while she was working the story.

 

One angry CBS exec called to tell Attkisson that Ingraham is “extremely, extremely far right” and that Attkisson shouldn’t appear on her show anymore. Attkisson was puzzled, noting that CBS reporters aren’t barred from appearing on lefty MSNBC shows.

 

No interview with Holder aired but “after that weekend e-mail exchange, nothing is the same at work,” Attkisson writes. “The Evening News” began killing her stories on Fast and Furious, with one producer telling Attkisson, “You’ve reported everything. There’s really nothing left to say.”

 

Sensing the political waters had become too treacherous, Attkisson did what she thought was an easy sell on a school-lunch fraud story that “CBS This Morning” “enthusiastically accepted,” she says, and was racing to get on air, when suddenly “the light switch went off . . . we couldn’t figure out what they saw as a political angle to this story.”

 

The story had nothing to do with Michelle Obama, but Attkisson figures that the first lady’s association with school lunches, and/or her friendship with “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King, might have had something to do with execs now telling her the story “wasn’t interesting to their audience, after all.”

The who charade is completely incestuous.

Meanwhile, she says, though no one confronted her directly, a “whisper campaign” began; “If I offered a story on pretty much any legitimate controversy involving government, instead of being considered a good journalistic watchdog, I was anti-Obama.”

 

Yet it was Attkisson who broke the story that the Bush administration had once run a gun-walking program similar to Fast and Furious, called Wide Receiver. She did dozens of tough-minded stories on Bush’s FDA, the TARP program and contractors such as Halliburton. She once inspired a seven-minute segment on “The Rachel Maddow Show” with her reporting on the suspicious charity of a Republican congressman, Steve Buyer.

All I have to say is thank you CBS, or should I say SeeBS. Thank you for being so horrible at reporting that you have opened an enormous gap for myself and countless others in alternative media to fill. I genuinely couldn’t have done it without your incompetence.

 

 

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Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:01 | 5392294 Slave
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It's anything but incompetence.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:04 | 5392301 Cognitive Dissonance
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"I would rather believe in gross incompetence than know of deliberate intent."- Average Jane and Joe

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:06 | 5392307 CrazyCooter
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Disagree CogDis. Most folks really want to know, but they are content to be lied to ...

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:10 | 5392320 LetThemEatRand
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The author is a classic psy-op.  There is massive evidence that ALL mainstream media is controlled by the CIA and other similar interests.   Not to mention that corporations who own media don't like the idea of challenging the politicians they bought and paid for.  How convenient to say it is one Team doing the controlling.  Nonetheless, at least the concept is getting MSM attention.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:16 | 5392336 Oldwood
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All liberals are convinced there is no liberal bias in media. They assume if there were, there would be no republican or conservative voices left. I say, just give them time.

90% of journalists admittedly vote liberal, yet that is no indication of bias. They are simply smarter and more enlightened than conservatives. We wouldn't want to hold that against them.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:24 | 5392357 SumTing Wong
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"We're the BBC. We only report the news. It's up to the government to make it up."

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:01 | 5392422 philipat
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Yet the poor Brits still have to pay the License fee or risk being thrown in jail. It's sad that BBC has become so progressivley libtard and politically correct, it used to be a very impartial and balanced reporter. Now the news tends to be very narrow, liberal and reported by anyone who is not white natural-born Briton. In fact, I sometimes wonder if being of Indian extraction is a prequisite for working at the BBC? (That remark is NOT racist, my wife is Asian, but anti-PC)

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:33 | 5392470 Troll Magnet
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CBS Jews decide what we should see and hear? NOOOOOO! I don't believe it! Outrageous!

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:00 | 5392514 Anusocracy
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It's the political season and the left-right brain dead zombies are both out en masse:

Emory study lights up the political brain
When it comes to forming opinions and making judgments on hot political issues, partisans of both parties don't let facts get in the way of their decision-making, according to a new Emory University study. The research sheds light on why staunch Democrats and Republicans can hear the same information, but walk away with opposite conclusions.

The investigators used functional neuroimaging (fMRI) to study a sample of committed Democrats and Republicans during the three months prior to the U.S. Presidential election of 2004. The Democrats and Republicans were given a reasoning task in which they had to evaluate threatening information about their own candidate. During the task, the subjects underwent fMRI to see what parts of their brain were active. What the researchers found was striking.

"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," says Drew Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory who led the study. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Westen and his colleagues will present their findings at the Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Jan. 28.

Once partisans had come to completely biased conclusions -- essentially finding ways to ignore information that could not be rationally discounted -- not only did circuits that mediate negative emotions like sadness and disgust turn off, but subjects got a blast of activation in circuits involved in reward -- similar to what addicts receive when they get their fix, Westen explains.

"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," says Westen. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/euhs-esl012406.php

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:07 | 5392528 James_Cole
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"Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."

That about describes 95% of the zh audience. And probably 80% of the US. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:14 | 5392534 Slave
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So why are you here, buttfucker?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:40 | 5392563 James_Cole
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The ads, always have some lovely russian / asian ladies looking to meet up.

zh content and commentators may have gone way downhill but the ads are still AAA!

 

 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:12 | 5392593 synopsisTODAY
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Dump the Russians. Asian ladies trump Russian rump any day.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:29 | 5392605 COSMOS
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J-EWS own the N-EWS outlets, that is all you need to know. Now they also own the White House via Uncle Tobama

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:43 | 5392681 chumbawamba
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There is no liberal nor conservative bias in the media.  That is an illusion.  What there is, however, is a pro-NWO bias.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:48 | 5392708 mvsjcl
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It.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:43 | 5392743 GetZeeGold
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Shocked and appalled.....but not totally surprised.

 

I stopped listening to the MSM when Walter Cronkite offered to sit at the right hand of satan.....and that's been quite some time ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2isCEoEmN8

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:21 | 5392728 nmewn
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WTF James.

Maybe if I speak in metaphors it'll get through your thick head, Sharyl Attkisson offers you her coat because you're shivering out in the cold and you throw it down in the slush and spit in her face, is that it?

Here we have a GENUINE ATTACK ON A WOMAN, a lady of the press no less, to which most reasonable people would agree should be suspicious & antagonistic toward Big Government & Big Corporations to keep them on the straight & narrow and a benefit to the people (all people, male, female, conservative, progressive, black, white, red, yellow, gay, straight all, meaning fucking ALL) who is presenting overwhelming evidence of collusion between Big G & Big C and you, out of your general nature, want to DIVERT the issue to commenters & ads on the venue her evidence is presented?

Why don't you just come right out and identify yourself as an element of the cronyism she's exposing and get it over with?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:47 | 5393060 BigJim
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James Cole, rhymes with troll...

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 10:53 | 5393630 James_Cole
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Maybe if I speak in metaphors it'll get through your thick head, Sharyl Attkisson offers you her coat because you're shivering out in the cold and you throw it down in the slush and spit in her face, is that it?

Nope. Funny you should show up though, I came across your image in the local paper this morning!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m11edkyEdh1qcw26no1_400.jpg

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:59 | 5392685 oudinot
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Slave you are rude without any substance...

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:11 | 5392592 OldPhart
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In 2004, I'd have been the same way.

Test me in 2008 and it would have been a whole different story.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:38 | 5392701 gwar5
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Not new, that's how Behaviorism theory works. They just applied conditioning to the political arena and they got the expected results. Of course a single poor black mother with 5 kids is going to block everything else out if she's incentivized to vote for money from white people.

 

Used to call it Skinner's Black Box because we didn't know what was going on inside the brain. Now we know that when we get positive reinforcement we are really getting little endorphin rushes which perpetuates those behaviors and why habits are so hard to break. They are opiate induced. Feeding bears makes them give up self reliant behavior and associate food with nearby human sources. Works the same for humans and liberals know it. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 11:41 | 5393844 11b40
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You were doing pretty good there until you reverted to the left/right, liberal/conservative endorphin stimulation you must obviously crave ;-)

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:05 | 5392524 James_Cole
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NYPOST lol fightin' fer deh truth in deh obola wrld!!!! 

I'm sure there's truth to the general thesis (james risen etc.) but the nypost is a joke and the idea that this is some new trend from the media specific to the obama admin is political nonsense spoonfed to the braindead crowd for selling ads & votes. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:49 | 5393071 BigJim
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Seeing as the vast majority of sheep consider the MSM to be the 'reputable' source of topical information, it's clearly news to them, isn't it, moron?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:22 | 5392931 Watauga
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I never understood this connection.  Why would "CBS Jews" want to create the anti-Jewish/anti-Israel headlines the Administration appears to favor?  How is a constant attack by the White House and media on Israel in the interest of "CBS Jews"?  I admit that I may be missing something in all of this, but I just cannot see how what comes out of CBS or any other MSM sources in any way is helpful to either Jews or Israel?  If you care to enlighten me, particularly if you care to offer authority/evidence any connection, I would be grateful.  28 up arrows to 2 down arrows--clearly I am missing something nearly everyone else already knows.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:53 | 5393081 BigJim
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 Why would "CBS Jews" want to create the anti-Jewish/anti-Israel headlines the Administration appears to favor?  How is a constant attack by the White House and media on Israel in the interest of "CBS Jews"?

I admit that I may be missing something in all of this, but I just cannot see how what comes out of CBS or any other MSM sources in any way is helpful to either Jews or Israel?

Lulz. You are missing something; planet Earth, it wants you to come home.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 13:18 | 5394455 Titus
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Watcha wanna bet that James Cole and Watauga are two sides of the same Hasabra coin?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 13:50 | 5394670 Watauga
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One thing about ZH--I can always count on empty, pointless, irrational, and silly remarks.  Neither of you has explained how this works.  How does it benefit "CBS Jews," all Jews, any Jews, the State of Israel, or any other Jewish interest to have CBS and the entirety of the MSM (with the exception of FOX, which I find to be pro-Israeli, generally) support the Obama administration's clear anti-Jewish, anti-Israel direction (some would call it anti-Semitic, but as that term has been used historically, I don't think it is anti-Semitism).  You offer only nonsensical responses.  You think they are clever, but they are pointless.  Please explain your position and provide authority and evidence to support it.  It simply makes no sense.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 22:58 | 5396711 Titus
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What makes no logical sense, Hasabara troll, is how the Obama admin could be anti-Jewish or anti-Israel when Obama himself calls Israel "America's greatest friend and ally" and the Obama admin keeps the aid money flowing to the Zionists who are actively genociding SEMETIC palestininans.

Typical Hasabra tactic, start by calling names to devlolve the conversation. Purpose: chase away legit moderate commentators so they aren't exposed to FACTS about the Zionist relationship with the media and parasitic relationship enjoyed by Israel as America's "greatest friend and ally".

Israel does not equal Jew, and Zionist does not equal Jew.

For anyone who wants to understand what the Hasabara troll Watauga is doing, read this article:

commondreams.org/hambaconeggs

A Common Dreams investigation has discovered that more than a thousand of these damaging comments over the past two years were written with a deceptive purpose by a Jewish Harvard graduate in his thirties who was irritated by the website's discussion of issues involving Israel.

His intricate campaign, which he has admitted to Common Dreams, included posting comments by a screen name, "JewishProgressive," whose purpose was to draw attention to and denounce the anti-Semitic comments that he had written under many other screen names.

The deception was many-layered. At one point he had one of his characters charge that the anti-Semitic comments and the criticism of the anti-Semitic comments must be written by "internet trolls who have been known to impersonate anti-Semites in order to then double-back and accuse others of supporting anti-Semitism"--exactly what he was doing. (Trolls are posters who foment discord.)

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 13:09 | 5398856 Watauga
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Ah, now I get it.  You are joking.  This is your idea of a sense of humor.  Amusing.  I had actually thought you were this insane.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 19:01 | 5402466 Pressfiretostart
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Get lost kike.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 22:35 | 5405526 Titus
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Titus: "Typical Hasabra tactic, start by calling names to devlolve the conversation."

Watauga: "I had actually thought you (Titus) were this insane."

I'm very curious to know how much you get paid per comment?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:53 | 5392859 RealityCheque
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It's designed to make white people angry at Asian people. Therefore directing their rage away from the white, politically aligned, often Jewish people who are actually ruining their futures.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 12:08 | 5393979 Crash Overide
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Turn the TV off... read a book.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 12:59 | 5394352 withglee
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"We're the BBC. We only report the news. It's up to the government to make it up."

Not only that, you report it before it happens ... witness WTC7 falling down.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:25 | 5392358 LetThemEatRand
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See how good these guys are?  Worked on you.  Played you like a fiddle.  Yes, giant corporations that own media are "liberal."  And Obama controls them.  Like he controls the Fed.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:46 | 5392399 Oldwood
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Silly rabbit! The liberals are being used by those interests to collectivize power. The liberals are simply enabling as they think it is power to do good, or at least force people to do good. The problem you see, is that concentrated power always leads to corruption and all the bad things we all bitch about. There is no doubt that republicans are attempting to use conservative's agenda to empower themselves. The difference is that as they accumulate power conservatives pull back, where liberals charge full speed ahead.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:10 | 5392442 The Eradicator
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You can't possibly be this naive.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:24 | 5392457 Seize Mars
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The fucking eradicator!!' One of my favorite guys ever. Fuck I miss those days.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:53 | 5392505 jeff montanye
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the near total policy overlap of bush and obama, outside of sex and drugs (policy not youthful lifestyle), puts to rest any meaningful differences between the national political parties.

it's not what they differ on that's the problem.  it's what they agree on.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:57 | 5392511 TheReplacement
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But how does that apply to liberals and conservatives?  It seems to me that the Ds are very liberal whereas the Rs are just pretty liberal.  The conservatives are extremely locked in the basement and the water is rising (been raining for a long time).

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:03 | 5392521 Slave
Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:15 | 5392538 James_Cole
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It seems to me that the Ds are very liberal whereas the Rs are just pretty liberal.  

Well, don't look back in history because the Rs were flamin' fuckin hippies compared to what they arrrr now.

And if you think the problem with us&a is it is either 'too liberal' or 'too conservative' YOU are the problem..

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:39 | 5392561 Plato's Law
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Bush doubled US debt.  You call that "pretty liberal?" 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:53 | 5392628 disabledvet
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PAYOLA.

The only reason you hear pretty much anything anywhere is because it's being paid for in advance. Of course the Internet has turned all of this upside down "cloud cuckoo-land" like. What does living mean when everyone has "the goods" on everyone else? I would say it makes We the People very susceptible to fear.

"Enter the Ebola." How can we possibly NOT FEAR THIS?

Sorry but I smell a rat here. Especially because this is more than likely real and worthy of being feared....let alone fearing that a tragedy of truly horrific proportions is unfolding in West Africa...

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:00 | 5392517 A Nanny Moose
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FFS! Will you people get a room already?!?! We are nothing more than tax livestock, regardless of which side of the Republicrat coin is in charge.

Bias is not only in the media. College students must now cite from a database of approved sources. Approved by whom?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:42 | 5392742 Refuse-Resist
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Statist is as statist does.

Whether it's a 'left' leaning statist who wants the school to check your kids' lunches for 'healthiness', or a 'right' statist who wants to see what's in the pipe you're smoking, and if it's the wrong color substance (green not brown), it's off to jail you go.

See, it's the whole mentality of "you HAVE to do what I think is right, and if you don't I'll use the guns of government to force you to do so, for your own good".

 

I wish there was a way to separate the statists at birth, and ship them all to their Nirvana, north Korea before they had a chance to fuck up everything for the rest of us, who just want to work,live, eat/drink what we want, worship what we want, and most importantly, to just be LEFT THE FUCK ALONE!

 

But no, these meddling statist do-gooders have to stick their goddamn noses everywhere and use their armed thugs to enforce their ridiculous dictums.

 

FUCK THEM ALL.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:56 | 5393099 BigJim
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+1. But they're not 'do-gooders' any more than Tony Soprano's boys were 'do-gooders' when they threw that smack dealer off the bridge.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:53 | 5392406 philipat
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Does anyone still get news and information from the MSM? Fortunately, there are so many good alternative media sites on the net, which is why of course they are so intent on crushing net neutrality (Sorry, that site is anti-establishment, let's slow it down to a crawl).

It will only become intersting when they are all no longer profitable, which can't be too far away? At that point, they have two choices: give people the information they want or go under. And, you know, my bet is on the latter, I really don't think they can break the mould. Or be allowed to. So that's good news....

But even the elites need to keep the "Red team/Blue team" illusion in play so as to divide and conquer..

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:10 | 5392663 Peanut Butter E...
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This Sharyl Attkisson reporter need to start her own news site and I'll Mae sure to click on her ads eeverytime I visit.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:39 | 5392677 Ghordius
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philipat, what is being reported, discussed or propagated in the various mass media is for itself valuable information, particularly from a financial perspective

to put it simply, if you have only a vague idea what the masses are being exposed to, you are half blind, and might miss important trends

further, if financial media is completely wrong on something... well, it is more blatant

and this is the reason why financial media is often the better venue for information in general, or why for example ZH has so many pearls among the... pig shit (which you ought to know about, nevertheless)

having said that, "anti-establishment" is for itself a bias. a glaring one. see your Red/Blue Team criticism, it does not go further, for example asking yourself if the voting system the US uses for such a big country is not for itself a reason for a Red/Blue Team political confrontation

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:40 | 5392678 Bro of the Sorr...
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you forgot the third choice after they are no longer profitable. bailouts!!!!

TG@BTF

 

too good at brainwashing to fail

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:49 | 5392709 gwar5
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They already talking about billions in yearly taxpayer subsidies in 2010 for a bunch of the liberal rags to keep them up. An American BBC version for the NYT, CBS, etc. It was too grotesque to move forward. They claimed it was "Necessary for democracy" to have a functioning media, but it died quietly. It's in a drawer somewhere.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:25 | 5392361 BKbroiler
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New York Post is some bullshit though.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:08 | 5392529 FreedomGuy
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They have become Pravda-USA. That's all. If you read them like the old Soviet newspaper they suddenly make sense and you learn to read between the lines for the truth of anything.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:56 | 5392713 gwar5
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MSM is why we are always at war and why we're bankrupt.

 

Fuckers are afraid to even ask Obama if he quit smoking cigarettes, so how can they be expected to ask him if he lied about why he went to war in Libya and Syria and if he was arming ISIS?  If the American people were being told the truth we'd make better decisions about getting into wars.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:18 | 5392915 Ward cleaver
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So true. My sis, an educated 50 year old
told me there r just as many conserves as liberals
in Hollywood. Can't argue with people that r
intellectually dishonest.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 09:48 | 5393385 Moustache Rides
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Not bashing your comment Oldwood, but I'd just like to take this moment to point out how absurd it is to think that there are merely two points of view from which to to think on any topic; i.e. liberal or conservative.  Despite the fact that both parties are 99% the same on any issue, can we please jettison these two stupid ideologies and move forward into the 21st century with new and interesting ways to frame debates.

 

 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 12:58 | 5394343 midtowng
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The idea that the media is anything other than a coporate media is laughable, and just shows that they don't know how businesses work. And anyone that thinks corporations are liberal should have their head examined.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:16 | 5392337 Harbanger
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Classic Psy-0p? LOL!!  She's saying what we always knew, that the puppet masters are leftist liberal freaks.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:21 | 5392346 LetThemEatRand
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You just confirmed that it's working.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:47 | 5392398 TheMeatTrapper
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You just confirned that you voted for Obama and are too big of a pussy to admit it. 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:55 | 5392413 Bay of Pigs
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Funny, I always thought LTER blamed the Libertarians for everything?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:46 | 5392495 PT
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No.  He just doesn't hesitate to point out flaws in the libertarian ideals.  Then again, perhaps I should let him speak for himself.

What is the difference between "libertarian" and "divide and conquer"?  Take your time, it's not an easy question to answer.  I have no doubt that our govt has reached the point where it needs to be thrown into the fire but I do not believe that anarchy will be the utopia some here preach.  We solve modern problem by resurrecting ancient problems.  The cycle continues.  We wrestle with systems but regardless of the system, the evil remains.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:58 | 5392579 PT
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I wish I could find the cycle I first read about but it is easier to refer to this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes

The first one I found, written several centuries after Plato, cycled through ( if I remember rightly ) seven types of govt, including democracy being replaced by fascism.  "How do people end up voting for Fascism?", I thought.  Eventually I realised that Fascism arises because the corporations simply buy the govt.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:12 | 5392664 PT
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Dear Mr Red Arrows.

Hahahahahahhaha.
Here, let me remove my batteries from your torch.  Then you will be so much more comfortable hiding under that rock.  My apologies for turning it on.  Not.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:37 | 5392831 BeansMcGreens
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Also read Ecclesiastes in the Bible.

 There is nothing new under the Sun.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:59 | 5393124 BigJim
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 What is the difference between "libertarian" and "divide and conquer"?

I don't know. What's the differences between oranges and Thursday?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 14:20 | 5394843 PT
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I don't think the Australian aboriginals really comprehended what they were up against either.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:03 | 5392431 Oldwood
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Lots of people in denial of their support for hope and change. Lots of those are telling us there is no difference between red and blue now, telling us not to vote. Funny how perspectives change.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:26 | 5392465 PrecipiceWatching
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Interesting and concise explanation of the "no difference between red and blue" bullshit that infests this site.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:26 | 5392464 MiltonFriedmans...
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I find it hard to believe that many ZH'ers are naive enough to actually vote.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:39 | 5392484 Anusocracy
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A fish swims, a dupe votes.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:58 | 5392759 Refuse-Resist
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To: Miltonfriedmans...

 

Your vote = consent. Upvote from me.

The number of downvotes to your above post is surprising.

I would have thought that the awakened posters here would understand what I wrote in the first line, or what Mark Twain wrote, or what Joseph Stalin wrote about elections.

A fucking clown show for two fake parties that both support the same fiscal and administrative agendas. Social issues are just window dressing to fool the sheople.

Baaa, Baaa, gay marriageabortiongunrightswaronwomenhealthcarejobsterrissss

Baaa Baaaa

"Your country is going down the shitter Mr Sheep."  Reply:  What? Baaa Baaa gaymarriage Kim Kardashian NFL baaaa baaaa.

 

 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 03:24 | 5392639 trader1
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the puppet masters you rail against are not leftist liberal freaks.

they are power freaks who want to control the world around them to their liking.

the exact same can be said of right-wing conservatives.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:49 | 5392707 billwilson
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As a non - American I can only sit amused that anyone thinks the US has a liberal media. Even what gets called liberal in the US is center to right wing in the rest of the world. The US media is corporate, capitalist, and run for and by the 1%.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:17 | 5392725 gwar5
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We're surrounded, that's why Obama is flooding the USA with millions of needy fruit picker troops to finish us off. They're not being brought here to assimilate as Americans, they're being brought in here to assimilate us.

 

What is called liberalism is really authoritarian socialism that was given a libertarian sounding brand name to pass it off. They stole the meme of Classical Liberalism and deliberately buried the word marxism/socialism back in the day because of the Cold War.   

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 11:02 | 5393676 Captain Benny
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Bingo!!!!

 

The theft of language and hijacking of thoughts through it.  George Orwell called this Newspeak and its the year 1984!  Many foreigners just don't get that 'liberal' in America is nothing to do with freedom or liberty.  Its all statism ball sucking from weak minds.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:55 | 5392756 gwar5
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It's counter-intuitive because the serious liberals are not liberal at all. They're socialist control freaks, historically always have been. And Bankers aren't capitalists, they're monopolists.

 

Bankers finance the debt/deficits that enable the FSA promises so that the control freaks can stay in power as proxy and the resources and debt slaves can be exploited.

Bankers bankroll socialists because controlling everything is already their model of government and they create more debt slaves. The leftist liberal freaks, like the greenie army, are useful idiots.

 

 

 

 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:25 | 5392356 The_Dude
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4th Estate occupied by the 5th Column....

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:52 | 5392506 TheReplacement
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Is that true or are you the psy-op here leading us to believe that both teams are in on it when in reality, perhaps, only one team really is, in fact, in on it?

Not picking a fight.  Just found it an interesting question to ask these days. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:18 | 5392535 rainingFrogs
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duplicate post

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:18 | 5392539 rainingFrogs
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duplicate post

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:16 | 5392540 rainingFrogs
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LTER: I don't know why you got so many down votes.  There is so much evidence the CIA is all over the media, that it must be accepted as a truism.  Controlling the narrative is critical to controlling the people. The administration does it, the CIA does it, the corporatacracy does it ...

Attkisson presents herself as a shit disturber, confronting the system.  But she seems to be bleating for attention to sell her book, from within the system.  Krieger is giving her a platform, for whatever reason.  Perhaps it is a psy-op.  She is uncovering what we already know, that MSM spews the propaganda its owners want the people to hear.  The CIA plants trojan horses and spyware on her computer?  Same as everyone else.  Secret documents planted on her computer to entrap her?  Interesting ... let's see them. 

To understand what happens to investigative reporters that reveal truly dark secrets, read about Gary Webb.  He fingered the CIA for drug running in America to fund Contras in Nicaragua. Illegal, immoral, and it got Webb suicided. 

There is a great quote from Webb, where he came to realize the forces that were truly at play:

" In seventeen years of doing this, nothing bad had happened to me. I was never fired or threatened with dismissal if I kept looking under rocks I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, So how could I possibly agree with people who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? Hell, the system worked just fine, as (far as) I could tell. ... And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job. It turned out to have nothing to do with it. The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress."

I don't want to be down on Attkisson, but I don't really see the beef.  She grilled a White House spokesperson about Benghazi reinforcments, who then told her to go away.  But Seymour Hersh uncovered that the American consulate in Benghazi was actually a CIA facility running guns and heavy weapons out of Libya into Syria.  Now THAT is interesting,  challenges the official narrative, and should pose a thorny problem for Hillary Clinton in 2016. 

On a related thought, Philip Giraldi's review of Tom Engelhardt's book "Shadow Government," is worth reading, but the relevant thought is in the last paragraph:

"Furthermore, most of the public continues to get their news and analysis from the mainstream media, which is large part of the problem. Indeed, most Americans don't have a clue about what is going on anywhere in the world, such profound ignorance leading to cliched thinking about foreigners. Unless something hits Americans in their wallets or lands in their backyard they prefer not to think about issues like surveillance and war and many continue to trust the government even when it is absolutely clear that they are being lied to."

And so it goes ...

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:44 | 5392619 Solon the Destroyer
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Americans are getting the news?

Is that before or after watching NFL Football, reading about Kim Kardashian, and browsing leaked selfies?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 10:18 | 5393323 psychobilly
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"LTER: I don't know why you got so many down votes.  There is so much evidence the CIA is all over the media, that it must be accepted as a truism."

Sure it's true.  What you and LTER are missing is that in many cases elite goals are leftoid in nature.  There is an unmistakable leftoid media bias when it comes to topics such as open borders/immigration, feminism (I'm sure most here are aware of the CIA's role in the feminist movement), gun control, welfare, socioeconomics, race, sexuality, and war on all things traditional, Anglo-Americana.  Many of the wealthy foundations that CIA money flows through (e.g., Ford Foundation) have missions that are leftoid in nature.

What is it... some 60% of the mainstream media's most powerful positions are held by Jews?  As an ethnic group they also tend to have strong biases on average when it comes to the aforementioned topics, and overwhelmingly vote Democrat.  So it's not just the mainstream reporters and journalists who have an overwhelming leftoid bias - many of the most powerful media owners and executives do as well.  

LTER is in many respects a useful idiot, or tool if you will, with respect to elite goals.  Being a water-carrier for the elite can be a painful thing to come to grips with for someone who is a self-styled social justice warrior. It must create a lot of cognitive dissonance, which may help explain his disposition.

Not that LTER doesn't have plenty of counterparts on the political right, who are also pawns in the whole scheme of things.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:44 | 5392620 ebear
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"The author is a classic psy-op."

How do we know you're not a psy-op?

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:48 | 5392680 nightwish
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You see the infighting on this thread, with suspicions and accusations lodged both ways but nothing definitive able to be proven? 

THAT is what they're really after.

it starts as a legitimate issue, and then all variety of obfuscation enters the picture. After everyone burns out with the issue, the move on and handle the next one the same way.

We can never ascertain the truth with mainstream media anymore unless it's a topic they sanction. Those kinds of content are easy enough to identify. The liberal media occasionally gets critical with Obama. Why? If they remain entirely one sided and unrealistic about his performance, everyone will know they are completely full of shit. Just the right amount of criticism in measured doses to maintain the illusion of objectivity, until such time that the establishment is done with him. Then they bail on him like he's a cheap whore.

Want to know the truth behind issues these days? Read lots of various sources and employ your life experience and intuition. It's the only way to get close. Young people are fucked because some may be smart, but they don't have the school of hard knocks driving them toward the real truths.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:10 | 5392691 LULZBank
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Well said.

I will not advocate spending time gathering news and information from various sources (unless your livelihood depends on it, otherwise would prefer to spend time doing enjoyable and wholesome things), but if one can sense propaganda intuitively then one has no chance.

The amount of resources and time these fuckers have to churn propaganda and then counter-propaganda (which is also part of propaganda) among other wholesale confusion, its just waste of time and emotion even indulging in it.

Afterall an event could just be some bored fuck somewhere at a position of importance instigating things for personal benefit without any greater conspiracy etc. Taylor of Panama is a good movie to watch on that subject.

Simple principle: One should always look after one's own interest and stop with celebrity/idol worship of any sort.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:23 | 5392695 nightwish
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They have the money , resources, reach and scope to turn the general population into slaves, robots incapable of thinking for themselves. And, they can utterly confuse issues for the more capable out there

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:23 | 5392696 LULZBank
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*Correction

but if one canNOT sense propaganda intuitively then one has no chance.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:10 | 5392720 Ghordius
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thought so. good point about counter-propaganda. if you control the propaganda against your goals, you have a better return-for-prop

one blatant example in the US arena is the endless chagrin versus imminent plans of "UN black helicopter domination" coupled with a "global currency"

how many Americans have realized that all governments of world, not only the BRICS, ask for a reform of the IMF, for example? or that only the US Congress is against it?

how many Americans have realized that Russia and China are protesting against the abandonment of UN principles and procedures?

cue in the "globalist agenda" and the "the rest of the world is socialist" memes

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 06:23 | 5392729 LULZBank
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all governments of world, not only the BRICS, ask for a reform of the IMF, for example? or that only the US Congress is against it?

 

Maybe US Congress dont like their share of the loot being reduced?

Who formed and benefits from the IMF?

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:14 | 5392328 strannick
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Shithead news for the dumbfuck world, to deliberately conceal their malevolent intent.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:52 | 5392345 Cognitive Dissonance
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"Not knowing allows me to do nothing. Knowledge compells action, (feigned) ignorance excuses inaction." - Average Jane and Joe

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:13 | 5392724 LULZBank
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Willful ignorance is a bliss.

People can be divided into 3 classes, in intellectual terms.

Rhetorical class, dialectical class and demonstrative class.

Rheorical class is pacified via propaganda and this requires constant action and they form the bulk of the population. This is done via the MSM

Dialectical class is pacified via alternative media and feeding conflicting perspectives to fuel their intelligent speculation and informed arguments till the cows come home. This is where ZH and other alternative media fits in.

Dialectical class is like the swing vote, this is where all the action is and this is where you cause all the confusion.

Demonstrative class stands no chance. It is silenced via trotting around experts and knobs in suits with letters next to their name from the designated institutions, demonstrating what they say is verified.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 11:47 | 5393871 disgruntled hou...
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In part I of the book, Vital Lies, Simple Truths, the author, Daniel Goleman, explores the relationship between pain and attention.  His premise is that the mind is designed to handle psychological stressors, from perception to reaction, with the same type of system that the brain employs to deal with physical pain.  He highlights two of the neurochemicals released in the reaction to pain, and explains how attention is heightened and then diminished by these agents of the pain coping system.  The brain, by design, reduces pain by withdrawing attention.  He suggests that the patterns of these processes are at work with psychological stressors.  Goleman contends by employing the pain coping system responses it facilitates the reduction of anxiety by withdrawing attention.  The author concludes that it is this trade-off that promotes self-deceit.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 02:14 | 5392595 All Risk No Reward
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You don't get out much...  or your community is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different than my community.

My guess is *maybe* 1 in 50, more like 1 in 100, can handle the truth.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:06 | 5392305 CrazyCooter
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Which is why there is ZeroHedge and other blogs ....

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:38 | 5392387 LetThemEatRand
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ZH has its own bias.  But at least it's different.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:23 | 5392454 Bunga Bunga
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Galileo had his own bias too.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:13 | 5392537 strannick
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Intelligence isnt (necessarily) bias

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:06 | 5392526 Ariadne
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Yes it does. But at least its competent and relevant. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:40 | 5392694 LULZBank
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ZH is also a part of the system.

Its not against the system, just wants to see some changes where the likes of them would have greater significance.

ZH Vs MSM is same as Red team Vs Blue team bullshit.

Did ZH ever highlighted the wholesale looting and plunder of countries to supplant the USD, the commodity markets and the financial market that sits on top of it in their charts and analysis?

People started using USDs becuase it was the best currency ever or they saw what happened in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and also Dresden to lesser extent?

Funny the 2 nations that got beaten down in WW2 emerged as the most industrious, hardworking and fastest growing economies and snug fitted nicely into the global currency ponzi scheme? Wheres the one chart says all for that?

Japan was chosen for its role, not because they are special people but because of the time zone to get money to make money 24 hours. Between New York, London and Tokyo, you have the full 24 hours covered, money markets never sleep.

If war machine and its loot is that derives the wealth and strength of the said market, then what exactly is ZH analysing and reporting?

All part of the system and the system is the real evil.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:43 | 5392392 Tsunami Wave
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It is getting PRETTY DIM out there.  There aren't many trustworthy news sources to look up to anymore.. it makes me feel very sad.

What's even worse is when you talk to most people out in the real world.. and if you say that much of the news (MSM) has a liberal bias (neofacism, anti-freedom, protecting the 'groupthink'), they literally scream at you, call you a bunch of horrible names, and try to discredit you personally.

 

The press is trying to dismantle American's belief in christianity (and other religions subtely), create hostility towards people whom are pro-liberty or defending the constitution, and hurt anyone that doesn't fit the new narrative of accepting complete loss of morality & trusting in only the state.

 

It is just too sad.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:47 | 5392497 forexskin
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seems strange to argue about whether the news has a liberal or conservative bias, when in fact it is really just a statist bias.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:07 | 5392766 Refuse-Resist
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I always notice that when I do watch MSM news. Whether it's fox or msnbc.

 

Last summer during the runup to bombing Syria (chem weapons FF).

 

On FOX, they were telling me that 'we hvae to stop Assad' because he is a tyrant and for freedom.

On MSNBC, they too supported intervention in Syria, only their reasoning "because of the innocent children being gassed by Assad".

 

See how it works?

They package the same bullshit, but with differen spin to appeal to the emotional lean of their audience.

But in watching both of these supposedly different news channels, the message, when stripped of emotive bullshit, was exactly the same:

 

:We Have to Do Something -- IE THe MIC needs to start bombing for justice, for freedom, and by God (Coexist), we have to bomb them for the children.

 

The cognitive dissonance amongst the TVNEWS viewing set is massive. I've had them tell me to my face how different those two channels are and they seem to lack the insight to notice the constant pro-government message.

 

Dipshits. Deserver what's coming and I'm sure will get the full measure before they figure it out.

 

Because the Democrats really are different from the Republicans.  /sarc

 

If you ignore currency, foreign policy, growth of government, and of course the creamy nougat center of free trade globalism.

 

WE ARE FUCKED.

 

GEt it?

 

 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:31 | 5392554 401K of Dooom
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Whoa, that's the best analysis of America and the Media that I have seen in a long time.  Thank you for the comments, Tsunami Wave.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 04:13 | 5392666 ebear
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"The press is trying to dismantle American's belief in christianity"

You don't need the press to dismantle christianity - just a lick of common sense will do the trick.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 05:05 | 5392689 nightwish
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Those beholden Israel control media, and as such, expect them to work their anti Christian brainwashing for decades until it's not politically correct, indeed outright frowned upon, to even mention Christian religious beliefs in public. If they have their way, you will be shushed and chastised if heard audibly in public discussing it.

they've already accomplished a lot in other areas. Look at Hollywood. FilM hero's always have dark hair, dark eyes and look modified Jewish. Many of those actors are Jewish. Goy are always the bad guys. Gone are leads and heroes with blond hair and blue eyes - with the exception of Chris hemsworth playing Thor.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:13 | 5392329 Harbanger
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So the MSM and ruling elite are Nazi Liberals.  That's no surprize to me.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:28 | 5392467 Bunga Bunga
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Right, no surprise here.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-...

He sold 60,000 books in less than two months, but German mainstream media is completely ignoring him.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:17 | 5392341 motor_angel
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my roomate's half-sister makes $68 every hour on the laptop . She has been fired for five months but last month her pay was $19864 just working on the laptop for a few hours. pop over here... www.Yelptrade.com

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:22 | 5392350 Slave
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I fucked your roomate's half-sister and didn't call her the next day.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:37 | 5392381 OW My Balls
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"working on the laptop"

 

PRICELESS!!! ~ lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_dance

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:28 | 5392466 you maniacs
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According to the math, that's around 292 hours of laptoppin' last month. The roomie's half-sis seems to be a real "go-getter".

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:11 | 5392776 Refuse-Resist
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She could make that sucking 7 dicks per hour, at $10 per dick.

In fact, I think that's exactly what you're selling.  That's the only way she could make that kind of money/

Aren't you proud of your sister, who can suck 56 dicks per day and make bank?

After all, it not the way you got rich. it's just that you're rich. It's the new American Dream bitch.

Signed Parishiltonkimkardashiannicolericheysextapewhore.

 

 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:37 | 5392382 Seek_Truth
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Edward Bernays' influence lives on...

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:42 | 5392395 drendebe10
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Wutta shocker, i had no idea.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:01 | 5392877 Shizzmoney
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incompetence in execution, but competence in result.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 08:37 | 5393017 Pig Circus
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Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer

So if she got to close to the truth they were going to what? Charge her with treason? Outrageous.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:00 | 5392295 kliguy38
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Queue the nail gun

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:08 | 5392311 BudFox2012
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That's only bankers I believe.  Reporters have car "accidents".  See Hastings, Michael.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:15 | 5392335 The_Prisoner
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or kill themselves with two gunshots to the head, a-la Gary Webb

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 09:54 | 5393421 gallistic
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Or those airplane engines that fall off mid-flight...

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:07 | 5392312 NoDebt
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<---- I'm on it.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:07 | 5392313 Doubleguns
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SeeBS is BS. 

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 07:11 | 5392777 Refuse-Resist
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GayBC agrees.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:09 | 5392317 TulsaTime
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Yet somehow the conservative politcs are the only ones on the Sunday morning news programs. I wonder how that happens?  I guess the media must be a little more complex that Mr Krieger or Ms Attkisson want to spin them for.

Boy, it sure sucks to live in a complex world, where nothing is as simple as the mouthy folks want you to believe.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:21 | 5392348 Oldwood
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????

conservative politics???

I guess if NBC allows a token "conservative" to present their views, it is conservative politics. Heaven forbid!

Liberals hear a conservative voice and scream like it will hurt their little heads.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:41 | 5392394 livefreediefree
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Yea, Tulsa Time, just like the 4 conservative women on The View.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:25 | 5392462 Silver Bullet
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No conservative bent? Ha
Please explain the conduct of Judith Miller of the "liberal" New York Times in the run up to the Iraq war.

Or you could enlighten me on MSNBC's TOTAL lack of questioning of that same war in the run up to it.

Get it through your heads, giant companies DO NOT support actual liberal causes...god I can't believe I even have to say this.

Do not confuse supporting the Democratic Party (the party of Blankfein and Dimon) with liberal causes.

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 12:08 | 5393964 livefreediefree
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Seriously, dude/tte, trying to argue Corporatism is like being Jeffrey Dahmer's defense attorney.

Get it through your heads, giant companies DO NOT support actual liberal causes.

Counterexamples: Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Wikipedia. They're fucking Progressives.

You disagree? Google "Voter Fraud" and then tell me that Google is fair and balanced in its treatment of said subject. At the end of the 1st page of hits are 3 "in-depth" articles, all claiming that voter fraud doesn't exist. Does voter fraud exist? There are numerous contemporaneous articles objectively detailing massive cases of actual or potential voter fraud; any reasonable person would conclude after reading these article that massive voter fraud probably exists, all to the benefit of Democrats. My point is not to argue voter fraud, but to argue that Google as a corporation has adopted the Progressive POV on voter fraud.

... Iraq war ...

There you go again, referencing the distant past. Meanwhile, the Progressive MSM has done everything it can to not report on these contemporaneous scandals: Fast and Furious, illegal NSA spying, Benghazi, IRS targeting of conservative groups, death of hundreds of VA patients, and the attempt suppression of the press (eg, Attkinsson), just to mention a few. All of these scandals -- all of these scandals -- are worse than Watergate.

But what have the MSM corporations reported about these scandals? Next to nothing. Why not? Because these MSM corporations, like Google, are Progressive, and need to protect the prime Progressive, Obama, from criticism.

I do empathize with you, though. You've got a hand of 2 of hearts, 3 of clubs, 4 of hearts, 5 or spades, and 7 of clitoris envy, and, by declaring that the MSM is Progressive. I've got a Royal Straight Flush in Spades. btw, we're not playing low-ball.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:52 | 5392401 Tsunami Wave
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Let that hate flow like a river... let that head of yours explode, and feel good about it. 

 

There's nearly no sunday morning programs that have a conservative perspective, except for Fox News Sunday.  But that is (and pretty awful at that) controlled opposition.  I still leave just as I would have left from watching Meet the Press or Face the Nation.. saying I want lower/higher taxes.. the absolutely meaningless crap in which there was also no mention of our other serious problems.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:10 | 5392321 Karaio
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Want to conceal that Ireland will be added to the BRICS. 

hehe.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:10 | 5392322 NoDebt
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OK, so the MSM is the propoganada arm of the Democratic party.  This is my shocked face.

'Fer cryin' out loud, this is surprising to anybody?  (Anybody who frequents ZH or has half a brain in their head)

Confronting me with the details of how it actually happens doesn't move the needle for me.  I'm surprise they didn't simply have her killed.  Or at least fired.  She still has a job, yes?

 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:14 | 5392330 The_Prisoner
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I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Stop buying, stop watching, stop socialising with anyone who's in banking, media, law, government.

No quarter.

 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:14 | 5392331 Duc888
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John Fogerty "I saw it on the TV."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwhxeaVfk3s

 

"I know it's true.....oh so true....'cause I saw it on the TV".

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:52 | 5392354 OW My Balls
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"Rayciss" & "Homophobic" will be supplanted by "Sexiss" in the coming years [now that it's Hillary's turn to bat], whilst "Anti Ceramic" will likely endure

 

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4rgiZJ6vj669KjAAgkRcnSQrI9GE0C...

 

Let's see, they have

 

Couric ~ the token 'career' woman

The token Black

The token cop worship show actress

The token Jew [Messing], who, oh by the way, happens to play a butch cop in the latest TV drama

& the Hispanic looking Metrosexual, who spends too much time in front of the mirror, gets manicures, & is probably gay

 

all lined up with stern looks on their faces with the "O" looking logo.

 

Does it get any more obvious?

 

If you're a white dude, you're fucked. Just crawl into a hole & die already [but not until after they cut your dick off]

 

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:24 | 5392360 tony bonn
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it is worse than kreiger lets on.....all major news organizations and stories MUST be approved in washington by a consortium of cia, nsa, and white house thugs. there is absolutely no free press or honest reporting. none whatsoever.

paul irey reports his encounters with new producers, a handful of whom are otherwise decent people. everyone of them has told him that all stories must be approved in washington before publication.

and if you look into the true nationality of the owners of the media, you will understand.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:49 | 5392403 livefreediefree
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Certainly wasn't the case during the Bush administration. The MSM ran with every incipient scandal, no matter how sketchy & implausible. If gov't approval of all stories is the case during an administration headed by a radical Progessive, hmmmm. Wonder what the difference is? Could it be that Progressives are the real Authoritarians?

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:34 | 5392372 dukofhazzard
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Don't worry, be happy

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 00:05 | 5392376 franciscopendergrass
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This article does not compute with Americans because it has nothing to do with reality TV.  This is ironic because news was the original reality TV.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:36 | 5392380 exartizo
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ummm...please tell me that you're not just now figuring out that the MSM assholes run all The Propaganda That's Fit To Print?

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:39 | 5392389 AdvancingTime
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If the news seems me be more skewed lately it may be the government is more involved it writing it. For decades a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.

On July 2, 2013 that taboo came silently to an end with the implementation of a new law passed in January. This unleashes thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption. This "reform" was criticized by many human rights activist as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts.  More on the implications of this new law in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-propaganda-and-surveillance.html

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:40 | 5392390 ebworthen
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Report liberal news for the .gov believers.

Make the conservatives feel as though they are a minority and get them stirred up.

This will make it seem as if voting and political parties matter! 

Ignore Libertarians and 3rd party candidates.

Label anyone questioning the FED and the the Markets as a complete nut job.

In this way they can continue:  the Ponzi, the growth of the Kleptoligarchy, the rampant trampling of the rule-of-law, the destruction of the middle class, the strength of the Police State, and the swelling wealth of the Elysium (Elite) class.

BOHICA!  (Bend Over Here It Comes Again).

The U.S.A is dead, welcome to New Rome.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:46 | 5392397 livefreediefree
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Remember, Progressives control the MSM, and Progressivism is Authoritarianism. All other conspiracy theories (ie, corporatism, one-worldism, clitoris envyism) suck hind tit.

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 23:57 | 5392415 Oldwood
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Remember, on a long enough timeline, if we continue to "progress", none of us will survive. Progress seems only an accelerant to the funeral fires.

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