THE BROKEN MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 108, ISSUE 134
MASS EFFECT
by Malik Isasis
The problem with throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks is that, shit actually sticks. For twenty-five years the corporate media’s Jackson Pollack strategy of perpetuating Republican fear, folklore, and paranoia has painted the American political canvas with piles of poo, and the stench is something awful.
It is fashionable for newsreaders and pundits across cable news to over use the phrase Broken Government, while the government is broken, it is the corporate media who are the saboteurs, keeping American citizens schizophrenically uninformed.
When the Democratic Party was in the minority for over six years (four years under President Bush) the corporate media helped the neocons to portray the Democratic Party as obstructionists? Remember that? Of course not, because when Democrats were filibustering President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, the media bashed the Democrats over the head with the obstructionist title. Here’s Katie Couric for example in April 2005, interviewing President Clinton:
COURIC: Let me ask you one political question, if I could, President Clinton. As you know, Howard Dean is now head of the DNC [Democratic National Committee]. Right now it seems the most effective thing that Democrats are doing on Capitol Hill is blocking various nominations, at least from their perspective. Like, you know, John Bolton, or -- U.S. ambassador to the U.N. -- or head of the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], or the head of the FDA [Food and Drug Administration]. How can the Democratic Party retool itself so they're not simply seen as obstructionist in terms of the president's agenda?
CLINTON: Well, first of all, I don't think that's fair. I don't think Mr. [John] Negroponte [nominee for national intelligence director] will be blocked. I'm not sure Mr. Bolton will be blocked. There are policy reasons on the environment and food safety for debates on the others. And on judges, that's just a hoax. I mean, the Democrats blocked 10 out of over 200 judges. The Republicans wouldn't even give a vote to 40 of my Court of Appeals judges -- four times as many, just on the Court of Appeals, never mind all the others that they wouldn't have voted. So, this image that, I'm sad to say, you know, you just perpetrated it, it's ridiculous. The Democratic Senate has been nowhere near as obstructionist to President Bush on judges as the Republican Senate was to me. Not even close.
Since the Democratic Party retook the majority in the Congress in the November 2006 mid-term elections, the partisan label of obstructionists, has not been used once to describe the Republican Party who’ve since the Democratic Party has taken over, held their breaths, crossed their arms and stumped their feet like two year olds at every opportunity.
The corporate media is in cahoots with the right-wing hate machine to create mass delusion among the American population. Back in 2007, even with the loss of Republican Congressional power, the media continued to treat the Democratic Party as a nuisance for challenging Bush's destructive foreign policy.
The corporate media didn’t challenge Bush when he was in office, instead they spoke around him as if he had nothing to do with sending troops to Iraq without proper intelligence, training, protective equipment, most importantly, a plan for the occupation of a sovereign country, yet it is the Democratic Party who received the brunt of the criticism. Although the corporate media failed, they tried linking the Democrats to the failures in Iraq, per right-wing guidance. In the world of politics, perception is everything; the Bush Administration had based its whole administration on deceiving the public by pretending to be doing something, without really doing anything. The corporate media took the nothing and spun it into gold on his War on Terror.
Now that Bush has faded into the background, it’s like his presidency never existed. He has left the country in a financial mess, and yet, amazingly, the corporate media has pinned the tail on the wrong donkey. The media talks about the unemployment rates, Iraq, and the economy without mentioning a word about the Bush legacy. It is amazing.
The collusion between the politicians and the corporate media to short change us of ideas, imagination, and creativity has resulted in elected officials who lack ideas, imagination, and creativity.
The corporate whores who sponsor our politicians have trained them to see us as consumers, and if we are seen as consumers then we are seen as fools. Take’em to the woodshed Rachel:
MASS EFFECT
by Malik Isasis
The problem with throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks is that, shit actually sticks. For twenty-five years the corporate media’s Jackson Pollack strategy of perpetuating Republican fear, folklore, and paranoia has painted the American political canvas with piles of poo, and the stench is something awful.
It is fashionable for newsreaders and pundits across cable news to over use the phrase Broken Government, while the government is broken, it is the corporate media who are the saboteurs, keeping American citizens schizophrenically uninformed.
When the Democratic Party was in the minority for over six years (four years under President Bush) the corporate media helped the neocons to portray the Democratic Party as obstructionists? Remember that? Of course not, because when Democrats were filibustering President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, the media bashed the Democrats over the head with the obstructionist title. Here’s Katie Couric for example in April 2005, interviewing President Clinton:
COURIC: Let me ask you one political question, if I could, President Clinton. As you know, Howard Dean is now head of the DNC [Democratic National Committee]. Right now it seems the most effective thing that Democrats are doing on Capitol Hill is blocking various nominations, at least from their perspective. Like, you know, John Bolton, or -- U.S. ambassador to the U.N. -- or head of the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], or the head of the FDA [Food and Drug Administration]. How can the Democratic Party retool itself so they're not simply seen as obstructionist in terms of the president's agenda?
CLINTON: Well, first of all, I don't think that's fair. I don't think Mr. [John] Negroponte [nominee for national intelligence director] will be blocked. I'm not sure Mr. Bolton will be blocked. There are policy reasons on the environment and food safety for debates on the others. And on judges, that's just a hoax. I mean, the Democrats blocked 10 out of over 200 judges. The Republicans wouldn't even give a vote to 40 of my Court of Appeals judges -- four times as many, just on the Court of Appeals, never mind all the others that they wouldn't have voted. So, this image that, I'm sad to say, you know, you just perpetrated it, it's ridiculous. The Democratic Senate has been nowhere near as obstructionist to President Bush on judges as the Republican Senate was to me. Not even close.
Since the Democratic Party retook the majority in the Congress in the November 2006 mid-term elections, the partisan label of obstructionists, has not been used once to describe the Republican Party who’ve since the Democratic Party has taken over, held their breaths, crossed their arms and stumped their feet like two year olds at every opportunity.
The corporate media is in cahoots with the right-wing hate machine to create mass delusion among the American population. Back in 2007, even with the loss of Republican Congressional power, the media continued to treat the Democratic Party as a nuisance for challenging Bush's destructive foreign policy.
The corporate media didn’t challenge Bush when he was in office, instead they spoke around him as if he had nothing to do with sending troops to Iraq without proper intelligence, training, protective equipment, most importantly, a plan for the occupation of a sovereign country, yet it is the Democratic Party who received the brunt of the criticism. Although the corporate media failed, they tried linking the Democrats to the failures in Iraq, per right-wing guidance. In the world of politics, perception is everything; the Bush Administration had based its whole administration on deceiving the public by pretending to be doing something, without really doing anything. The corporate media took the nothing and spun it into gold on his War on Terror.
Now that Bush has faded into the background, it’s like his presidency never existed. He has left the country in a financial mess, and yet, amazingly, the corporate media has pinned the tail on the wrong donkey. The media talks about the unemployment rates, Iraq, and the economy without mentioning a word about the Bush legacy. It is amazing.
The collusion between the politicians and the corporate media to short change us of ideas, imagination, and creativity has resulted in elected officials who lack ideas, imagination, and creativity.
The corporate whores who sponsor our politicians have trained them to see us as consumers, and if we are seen as consumers then we are seen as fools. Take’em to the woodshed Rachel:
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