THE MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 7, ISSUE 8
JINGO ALL THE WAY
by Malik Isasis
How is it that Fox News is the standard bearer of truth? As Incurious George and his playmates push blame on Iran for their failures in Iraq, and is heightening their threats against Iran, Fox News and the corporate meat puppets are parroting Fox’s propaganda so that the Incurious One can start another catastrophe in hopes that Americans will shut up and sing, as they did after September 11, 2001.
Barack Obama has been in Fox News’ cross hairs for months now. They have removed the veneer from their fascistic, white supremacist, and contemptuous ways and are outwardly spewing bile to destroy Barack Obama. So far nothing has stuck, but with the help of the rest of the corporate media, it just may.
The latest Operation Kill Coon campaign involves an out-of-context quote involving the comment “bitter” concerning the lower middle class voters’ economic situation by Obama that was published in the Huffington Post in full context. Fox News gleefully is conflating that with Reverend Wright, Michelle Obama’s comment, and the “bitter” comment a pattern of Obama’s lack of patriotism is beginning to form. Coincidently, here is Obama in 2004, saying the same thing.
The neocons over at Fox have set the tenor of jingoism and any note out of sync with the ideology of America’s greatness, will face the full financial and political resources of Rupert Murdoch who will set out to discredit and destroy you. The allegations of “Blame America First ” is one tactic used by Fox News. Please, don’t trust me, see for yourself:
McClinton
What a disappointment Hillary has turned out to be, blinded by her sense of entitlement and gassed on her on ego, she floats high above reality. Her attacks on Obama have been beta tests for the Republicans in the fall if Obama should win the nomination. She immediately jumped on Obama for the “Bitter” remark saying:
“Now, like some of you may have been, I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Sen. Obama made about people in small town America. Sen. Obama's remarks are elitist, and they are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know — not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York. You know, Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it¹s a matter of Constitutional rights. Americans who believe in God believe it is a matter of personal faith. Americans who believe in protecting good American jobs believe it is a matter of the American Dream. When my dad grew up it was in a working class family in Scranton. I grew up in a churchgoing family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith. The people of faith I know don't "cling to" religion because they're bitter…”
Hopefully, the people of Pennsylvania will see the kowtowing, and her very own condescension toward people’s intellect.
Hillary has teamed up with Fox News and McCain in attacking Obama. Her strange bedfellows are going to cut her throat once Obama is out of the picture. She has argued experience and patriotism, both which McCain supposedly has in spades. If that's her argument, then she loses…right? Well if Fox has their way, they will use her arguments against her ad naseum, which Fox News is so apt at doing.
Bush Will Not Go Quietly into the Night
For nearly 8 years Bush has literally, gotten away with murder, corruption, torture, domestic spying, blunting science and the fall of the economy. Yet, Fox has gotten the rest of the media to follow their lead in pumping “America Greatness” propaganda in spite of the reality of the economy, the state of the occupations and that greatness is the exact opposite of these things.
As with every election since the new millennium, the neocons and Incurious George will use war and the threat of war as a way to shut down opposition and to shut the American people up. Iran will be the next star of the new horror story, and John “The Maverick” “American Hero” McCain will be its protagonist. They will be betting, Would you vote for someone named Barack Obama, with questionable patriotism in the time of “war”?
The Small Town Mythology
Neocons, Republicans and the rest of the right wing cabal use lower and underclass people and their “small-town values” like a condom, once they are done fucking the lower, and underclass people they are tossed into an empty receptacle until the next election cycle. It is they, the Republicans who when in office, send their jobs over seas; it is they who send their children, father and mothers off to wars; it is they who stagnate their wages; it is they who destroy unions which protects wages, and healthcare.
The right wing cabal hide behind plain talk, and anti-intellectuality, but they are closeted elitists—making billions in the corridors of Washington D.C. Here is how you measure a Republican: whatever they say about the Democrats believe the inverse. When they say that Democrats believe in big government, it is they who need a bigger government to protect the assets and wealth of corporations.
In October of 2007 I wrote an essay, The 33% in which I addressed the media’s use of the lower-class value system:
"The neocons’ propaganda machine has created a simple narrative, not simple in the pejorative sense, but simple in a brilliant way. The neocons’ fictional narrative folds neatly into America’s white supremacy values. It is in this brilliant strategy that the Republicans are able to get people to vote against their own interests.
The neocon narrative tells Southerners that their moral and religious values are superior, beyond reproach—they are the moral compass of America, the corporate media coddles this folklore by persistently referring to this voting block as “Values Voters” (see here) If they are Value Voters what does that make the rest of us?”
The Fight Within the Homeland
Questioning of America’s greatness or fallibility has been met with contempt by the corporate media. The questioning of America’s ally Israel is also met with contempt and charges of anti-Semitism. These two countries can drop bombs, rob treasury, take land, occupy countries, displace millions and when questioned, the corporate media will lash out. These two countries may not have thousands of troops goose-steeping in public squares, but what they do have are media, which creates parallel realities. These realities are much more effective than a heavy handed dictator. Unlike a dictator, the corporate media creates the illusion that we are in control of our political system, that we have political choices.
Advocacy journalism has been marginalized, or distorted into journalists doing undercover reporting on sexual predators, while leaving the most obvious of predators free to prey on the country.
The corporate media’s only objective these days is selling us products, whether that product is soap or a war, there is very little difference. The result is the same: America's citizenry's main duty has been transformed into blind consumerism.
JINGO ALL THE WAY
by Malik Isasis
How is it that Fox News is the standard bearer of truth? As Incurious George and his playmates push blame on Iran for their failures in Iraq, and is heightening their threats against Iran, Fox News and the corporate meat puppets are parroting Fox’s propaganda so that the Incurious One can start another catastrophe in hopes that Americans will shut up and sing, as they did after September 11, 2001.
Barack Obama has been in Fox News’ cross hairs for months now. They have removed the veneer from their fascistic, white supremacist, and contemptuous ways and are outwardly spewing bile to destroy Barack Obama. So far nothing has stuck, but with the help of the rest of the corporate media, it just may.
The latest Operation Kill Coon campaign involves an out-of-context quote involving the comment “bitter” concerning the lower middle class voters’ economic situation by Obama that was published in the Huffington Post in full context. Fox News gleefully is conflating that with Reverend Wright, Michelle Obama’s comment, and the “bitter” comment a pattern of Obama’s lack of patriotism is beginning to form. Coincidently, here is Obama in 2004, saying the same thing.
The neocons over at Fox have set the tenor of jingoism and any note out of sync with the ideology of America’s greatness, will face the full financial and political resources of Rupert Murdoch who will set out to discredit and destroy you. The allegations of “Blame America First ” is one tactic used by Fox News. Please, don’t trust me, see for yourself:
McClinton
What a disappointment Hillary has turned out to be, blinded by her sense of entitlement and gassed on her on ego, she floats high above reality. Her attacks on Obama have been beta tests for the Republicans in the fall if Obama should win the nomination. She immediately jumped on Obama for the “Bitter” remark saying:
“Now, like some of you may have been, I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Sen. Obama made about people in small town America. Sen. Obama's remarks are elitist, and they are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know — not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York. You know, Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it¹s a matter of Constitutional rights. Americans who believe in God believe it is a matter of personal faith. Americans who believe in protecting good American jobs believe it is a matter of the American Dream. When my dad grew up it was in a working class family in Scranton. I grew up in a churchgoing family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith. The people of faith I know don't "cling to" religion because they're bitter…”
Hopefully, the people of Pennsylvania will see the kowtowing, and her very own condescension toward people’s intellect.
Hillary has teamed up with Fox News and McCain in attacking Obama. Her strange bedfellows are going to cut her throat once Obama is out of the picture. She has argued experience and patriotism, both which McCain supposedly has in spades. If that's her argument, then she loses…right? Well if Fox has their way, they will use her arguments against her ad naseum, which Fox News is so apt at doing.
Bush Will Not Go Quietly into the Night
For nearly 8 years Bush has literally, gotten away with murder, corruption, torture, domestic spying, blunting science and the fall of the economy. Yet, Fox has gotten the rest of the media to follow their lead in pumping “America Greatness” propaganda in spite of the reality of the economy, the state of the occupations and that greatness is the exact opposite of these things.
As with every election since the new millennium, the neocons and Incurious George will use war and the threat of war as a way to shut down opposition and to shut the American people up. Iran will be the next star of the new horror story, and John “The Maverick” “American Hero” McCain will be its protagonist. They will be betting, Would you vote for someone named Barack Obama, with questionable patriotism in the time of “war”?
The Small Town Mythology
Neocons, Republicans and the rest of the right wing cabal use lower and underclass people and their “small-town values” like a condom, once they are done fucking the lower, and underclass people they are tossed into an empty receptacle until the next election cycle. It is they, the Republicans who when in office, send their jobs over seas; it is they who send their children, father and mothers off to wars; it is they who stagnate their wages; it is they who destroy unions which protects wages, and healthcare.
The right wing cabal hide behind plain talk, and anti-intellectuality, but they are closeted elitists—making billions in the corridors of Washington D.C. Here is how you measure a Republican: whatever they say about the Democrats believe the inverse. When they say that Democrats believe in big government, it is they who need a bigger government to protect the assets and wealth of corporations.
In October of 2007 I wrote an essay, The 33% in which I addressed the media’s use of the lower-class value system:
"The neocons’ propaganda machine has created a simple narrative, not simple in the pejorative sense, but simple in a brilliant way. The neocons’ fictional narrative folds neatly into America’s white supremacy values. It is in this brilliant strategy that the Republicans are able to get people to vote against their own interests.
The neocon narrative tells Southerners that their moral and religious values are superior, beyond reproach—they are the moral compass of America, the corporate media coddles this folklore by persistently referring to this voting block as “Values Voters” (see here) If they are Value Voters what does that make the rest of us?”
The Fight Within the Homeland
Questioning of America’s greatness or fallibility has been met with contempt by the corporate media. The questioning of America’s ally Israel is also met with contempt and charges of anti-Semitism. These two countries can drop bombs, rob treasury, take land, occupy countries, displace millions and when questioned, the corporate media will lash out. These two countries may not have thousands of troops goose-steeping in public squares, but what they do have are media, which creates parallel realities. These realities are much more effective than a heavy handed dictator. Unlike a dictator, the corporate media creates the illusion that we are in control of our political system, that we have political choices.
Advocacy journalism has been marginalized, or distorted into journalists doing undercover reporting on sexual predators, while leaving the most obvious of predators free to prey on the country.
The corporate media’s only objective these days is selling us products, whether that product is soap or a war, there is very little difference. The result is the same: America's citizenry's main duty has been transformed into blind consumerism.
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