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April 5, 2007 at 20:25:15

New Right Wing Slime Machine Approach: Fire-The-TruthTellers

by Rob Kall     Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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I started writing this almost a week ago, then had to travel out of the country, and here I am, back, five days later and it is as fresh as ever.

Across the spectrum of the right wing echo chamber, they are taking a new approach to dealing with the people who are the most effective at getting out the truth. They call them crazy, inappropriate, unethical, out of control.

Today, Matt Drudge, famed for the breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, and currently, the frequent point person for new right wing messages and talking points, reports a breaking story. Usually he links to other, legitimate news sites. But today, he throws this breaking news up on his site. It's a brutal attack on CNN reporter, Michael Ware, who has disputed John McCain and mocked his claims about the safety to walk the streets of Baghdad.

During a live press conference in Bagdad, Senators McCain and Graham were heckled by CNN reporter Michael Ware. An official at the press conference called Ware’s conduct “outrageous,” saying, “here you have two United States Senators in Bagdad giving first-hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments. I’ve never witnessed such disrespect. This guy is an activist not a reporter.”

Senators McCain and Graham flew into Iraq and drove into Bagdad, making stops at an open market and a joint Iraq/American military security outpost before appearing at the press conference.

This is not the first time Michael Ware has taken issue with Senator McCain’s comments about early progress in Iraq. Last week, after Senator McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he needed to catch up on the news coming out of Iraq, Michael Ware responded, saying:

“I don't know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad.”

Michael Ware has also publicly expressed his views on the war last year in an interview with Bill Maher, saying, “I've been given a front-row ticket to watch this slow-motion train wreck … I try to stay as drunk for as long as possible while I'm here … In fact, I'm drinking now.”


This report almost reeks of a call for firing or disciplining, or, at least, a slap on the wrist from CNN management.

And it is not alone. Joe Scarborough takes pot shots at Barbara Walters for allowing Rosie to have a voice. He asks, "How sad has Barbara Walters become. Why has she allowed Rosie O'Donnell to destroy her once great reputation?"

Scarborough asks two right wing hacks,Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) and Steve Adubato.

Now, sourcewatch says this about CMPA:
On its website, CMPA claims to be politically neutral: "The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. CMPA election studies have played a major role in the ongoing debate over improving the election process." [1]

However, as shown below, CMPA's claim to be non-partisan is incompatible with the fact that nearly all its funding comes from conservative foundations.

CMPA also runs the Statistical Assessment Service as a front organization.

There's lots more at the sourcewatch link documenting the right wing provenance of Felling's org. There's nothing non-partisan about it.

Adubato does a talk show for the comcast cable- the default channel I turn off as fast as I can when I turn on my cable service. He's a hack talk show moderator doing a hack talk show, playing a hack media expert.

But frankly, Steve Watson of infowars has said it so well;
In a vicious and vitriolic hit piece, Scarborough enlisted two of his core simpering yes men to attack Walters for "defending Rosie's radical rants" when Walters has merely stated several times on The View that Rosie O'Donnell is entitled to her opinion.

The segment, cheaply entitled "The sad demise of Barbara Walters" once again betrayed the fact that on the subject of 9/11 the establishment media, and the baseless debunkers, will not and cannot challenge the facts and choose every time to resort to child like name calling and character assassination.

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Currently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee. For those wishing to view my work you can see my latest at: nolvee.com
Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee. For those wishing to view my work you can see my latest at: nolvee.com

Insults Instead of Investigation

There are millions of people that doubt the official version of 9/11 that are starving for someone to give voice to their questions. But when someone of note does they are either ignored, which is the case with most academics, serious researchers and scholars or if notoriety ridiculed and insulted.

Instead of insulting Rosie O'Donnell, if they really want to show Rosie up for being the person they are accusing her of, they could simple prove her wrong by actually answering the questions she's raising.

But instead of serious investigation we get demeaning insults. Fine. I will switch off their programs until otherwise.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1428 comments) on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 11:42:02 PM
 


A grouchy but well-informed know-all with much experience of the low-down low-life infesting and animating 'high-finance', and what to do about it, Keith P. occasionally emerges from the obscure depths of the Youreapeon forests to eye the current world, growl a few obscenities and lurch back into the darkness whence he came.
amazinA grouchy but well-informed know-all with much experience of the low-down low-life infesting and animating 'high-finance', and what to do about it, Keith P. occasionally emerges from the obscure depths of the Youreapeon forests to eye the current world, growl a few obscenities and lurch back into the darkness whence he came.

- out of control -

"They call them crazy, inappropriate, unethical, out of control."

And they are out of control - Out of the control of the criminals now misleading the world, which is also the best place for the rest of us to be.

What we have to do is to control these criminals, and even more importantly to control the villains who are controlling our criminal leaders.

And if you don't know who those are, then just ask.

 

by amazin (34 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 400 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 2:19:10 AM
 


digital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.
meremarkdigital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.

I'm asking. Who ARE the Controlling VILLIANS?

I think I know the criminals. Their names are in the headlines. Who are the villians controlling the criminal syndicate, as you see it?

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And since I'm here, a second point as a note to Rob. I think you misoverestimate Scarbarough, Rob. Joe is evil. No redeeming 'latent' virtue. And, just to remind, whether you watch him or 'that' channel, or not watch, he and 'they' get a slice of every dollar of your cable TV payment. They don't have to mind their critics, and they don't even care if no one is watching -- as long as there are paying satellite and cable 'bundled TV' subscribers, they're cashing your check.

One remedy is to only pay for TV you watch, a la carte TV, by the channel and by the minutes you watch -- if you turn it off in the middle, (like getting out of a cab halfway to where you thought you'd go), in a la carte you only pay for as far as you actually went along for the ride. That may sound like a 'political impossibility' to technically regulate, but ... internet TV already exists almost like that.  Or, there's this: abstinence.

Beyond the specific instance of giving the benefit of doubt, and of suspending condemnation judgment of Scarbarough, give a minute's notice of the more general case.

For many people it was a grueling years-long ordeal to bring themselves to accept there actually in fact completely truly were NO WMD's, it was ALL ENTIRELY lies, and for the people who believed only a little bitty part of it, nearly intractable to admit to themselves they were totally conned.

Now, same with Nine Eleven Op. One might suppose that once people get to the point (in WMDs) that they see Big Lies contaminate all the massmind media, and they admit they themselves can be brainwashed victim and fall for believing total fiction, that then these people would be prepared, even eager, to conclude it is Big Lies to blame first in anything else that seems the least bit bogus. One might suppose.

Mostly it is the opposite. Accepting to ourselves that Big Lies fooled us once, we dig in our heels more, bracing to not accept we can be fooled again.

Instead of thinking of Big Lies in relation to ourselves, think of Big Lies as the only tool THEY use. That gets around wasting time wondering who shame is on when there is 'fool me twice.'

You fool me twice means YOU ARE an habitual LIAR, and means nothing at all about me, truly.

So, people ... 'friends, humans, decent ones' ... there were NO Hijackers on the Nine Eleven Op planes, religious fanatic or otherwise. Hijackers was a Big LIE. There are NO Terrorist (alien) Organization. Terrorists targetting us was a Big LIE.

And everything derived from the Big LIE is false -- Patriot Act especially, and too, 'immigration threat,' 'phone / email threat,' 'surveillance threat,' and on and on, you can think of many more. In broadest bogus terms, National Security is a fiction. There is NO Insecurity. (Has anyone else noticed National Securist abbreviates to nazi the same way National Socialist did.)

The thing is, for Rob, that Scarbarough has NO piece of good, to hold out hope for seeing in him, eventually. For all of us, there is NO self-validation for being partly right about a little bit of WMD liess, and NO absolution for being 'not wrong' totally in some Nine Eleven Op particulars.

Believing trust is a quantum effect, like pregnancy, and there is NO half-measure. One is either conned or one is not -- the black-or-white formulation dictated by the dictator at the time, and that's the only clue needed to tell certain what the corrective is. Be 'against' that politics, ABSOLUTELY. There is no picking and choosing convenient items to believe out of habit.

Scarbarough does NOT have some good days, some bad days. He takes your money every day he is on.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 5:11:48 PM
 


I'm a citizen and resident of Cascadia - a province of the FORMER USA.

*************

Other than that, what is there to say? I don't really matter... My vote doesn't even count. ***
And who really cares what I think! So I'm free to think anything.

***

The broader story: it's NOT about "me" or my ego or seeing my name in print... I'm a fleeting ephemeral whirlwind of energy patterns and I will soon be gone...

It IS about many m...

to see more of bio, click on member name

mrk *I'm a citizen and resident of Cascadia - a province of the FORMER USA.

*************

Other than that, what is there to say? I don't really matter... My vote doesn't even count. ***
And who really cares what I think! So I'm free to think anything.

***

The broader story: it's NOT about "me" or my ego or seeing my name in print... I'm a fleeting ephemeral whirlwind of energy patterns and I will soon be gone...

It IS about many m...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Oh, Wait - Want Slime? Check Melanie Morgan's Email Message

Check Melanie Morgan's Email Message to anti-war activists

Check the recent activities of extreme right fascist 'Public Relations' firm Musso Marsh Rogers of Sacramento who operate a faux 'grass roots' organization called: "Move America Forward" who
earlier this week sent out an 'in yer face' email to anti-war activists across the country worded like this:

 

Those of you in the anti-war movement have helped the pro-troop organization Move America Forward to go up on the television airwaves today with a new ad that takes on those who are undermining our heroic troops and their missions.

At YouTube the patriotic Move America Forward television ad that takes the anti-war crowd (including Cindy Sheehan and Martin Sheen) to task has become a hit - earning a 4.5 star rating out of 5 stars.

(The email then Linked readers to link to this YouTube link)

 

 

You've become so despicable in your actions that America is now turning against you. You are failing.

You promised 100,000 marchers for the "March on the Pentagon" but your march was a total bust with only a few thousand protestors turning out to show solidarity with the terrorists, and speaking out against the fight for freedom.

Leading anti-war senator, Barack Obama, announced this weekend that Congress will not insist on a timetable for withdrawal and surrender in Iraq after all. You've even turned off the more moderate members of your community who have helped me to be able to get this message sent out to you.

We will no longer tolerate the anti-war crowd subjecting America to more terrorist attacks as a result of the defeat-retreat-surrender policies you advocate.

You already have blood on your hands for emboldening the terrorists to kill our troops, we won't let you endanger innocent American citizens here at home.

When you burn American soldiers in effigy you show us which side in the war on terror you stand on, and it's obviously not with America and our military men and women.

We won't back down as you try to appease the forces of Islamic terrorism. We won't allow you to dishonor our troops as you try to reignite a Vietnamized-culture in America.

Sincerely Yours,

 

Melanie Morgan
Chairman, Move America Forward
www.MoveAmericaForward.org

 

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Seig HEIL!

 

 

by mrk * (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 295 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 2:24:03 AM
 


American who wants to be proud of this country. Who wants to be able to enjoy life again. Who wants to feel something other than pain, heartache, and total sadness for the atrocities that 'we' as a country have perpetrated on others and on our own. If it smells like shit, it must be shit!We must insist on a new investigation into 9/11.  So far, everything this administration has said has been lies......now we need some truth. 
joyceAmerican who wants to be proud of this country. Who wants to be able to enjoy life again. Who wants to feel something other than pain, heartache, and total sadness for the atrocities that 'we' as a country have perpetrated on others and on our own. If it smells like shit, it must be shit!We must insist on a new investigation into 9/11.  So far, everything this administration has said has been lies......now we need some truth. 

Fire the truth tellers

I am so disgusted with all the blatant lies and bushit that you see on TV anymore. I just finished writing to MSNBC regarding Scarboro's lies about Rosie. You notice how they do not show the clips of her saying.. The Gov did 911, or the video of bldg. 7 coming down, because there are NO videos of her saying that!   they only call her unpatriotic, crazy , loony tune, etc.......when it is they who are lying, crazy, and helping to cover-up the worst thing to ever happen to our country. It leaves me shocked to wonder why even 'they' do not want the truth out. at least debate it, and have both sides of a story covered. I personally think they are all scared shitless because Americans have been awakened by the millions and are finally catching up to the other countries that know 911 was an inside job and deserves a new investigation. and all these news media who lie and call names, are just as responcible for 911 as the scum suckers who did it. What the heck can we do......I hope everyone writes to MSNBC and lets em' have it. They are no different than fox. They should all be fired!!! And Rosie deserves a raise!

by joyce (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 73 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 8:31:30 AM
 


I am a 63 year old semi retired citizen who has always believed that we live in the greatest country in the world.  I am now deeply concerned about the direction our country is headed.  I pray for the future of our young ones.
Ron McCallieI am a 63 year old semi retired citizen who has always believed that we live in the greatest country in the world.  I am now deeply concerned about the direction our country is headed.  I pray for the future of our young ones.

Scarboraugh

I wonder if Joe really should be questioning Barbara Walters and Rosies motives and opinions. Someone should be asking Joe about why he resigned from congress shortly after being re-elected and a 28 year old female staffer was found dead in one of his Florida offices.

by Ron McCallie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 10:35:24 AM
 


Alan Miller is author of the website http://www.PatriotsQuestion911.com
Alan MillerAlan Miller is author of the website http://www.PatriotsQuestion911.com

Neocon Propaganda

If the on-air neocon propagandists like Scarborough, O'Reilly, Beck, etc. had even a shred of integrity or honesty, in their "reporting" or "analysis" about Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen they would mention that hundreds of other credible, newsworthy people have similarly questioned the official account of 9/11.

Proof that they are merely paid propagandists is that they do not mention that retired four-star General Wesley Clark, two-star General Al Stubblebine, former senior CIA officials Bill Christison and Ray McGovern, former White House Deputy Director of the Task Force on Terrorism Ed Peck, and many, many others have asked the same kinds of questions and have asked for further investigation of 9/11. And in fact many senior military officers and intelligence veterans have made much more damning accusations about the events of 9/11 than O'Donnell or Sheen ever have.

Instead of relating the full truth of the matter, these talking heads attempt to manipulate and mislead people into believing the gross lie that O'Donnell and Sheen are alone in their views.

This is a blatant example of an organized effort to propagandize the American people.

You've got to ask yourself, "What are they so feverishly trying to hide?" and "Who organized this?"

Check out http://PatriotsQuestion911.com for statements from over 350 credible individuals that question or contradict the official account of 9/11.

by Alan Miller (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 6 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 12:48:56 PM
 


Aging bleeding heart liberal who continues to believe in justice and the goodness of some people. I always have hope in a better fairer tomorrow. I do not understand the greed motivation,but I know it is seductive and pervasive.
cluelessflAging bleeding heart liberal who continues to believe in justice and the goodness of some people. I always have hope in a better fairer tomorrow. I do not understand the greed motivation,but I know it is seductive and pervasive.

People in Glass Houses

Yes Joe Scarborough has lots to hide. It is a well known fact that the woman who died in his campaign office died of a blow to the head ,from falling against the desk.At least that is what the coroner said.He also said she fainted from an undiagnosed heart ailment End of Story. About that time ole fearless Joe got his divorce, resigned from Congress and went on MSNBC as a commentator ,even though he has no journalistic abilites. He qualified for Congress because no one ran against him ,the first time.He was the only candidate.It all happened very fast and the lady was buried and forgotten. Now I do not know that Joe had anything to do with her death. Rumors abound but why shut it up and scram out of the limelight so fast. If we had an inquiring mind in the MSM someone could check it out. He also had some problems regarding his campagin deductions for office space he cliamed he paid to use of his father garage.The resaon Joe is a kool aide drinker is becaue he had it mixed for him by Jeb for his help in 2000. He is in lock step with the neocons. Many of us here in Pensacola remember what a slime bag he was and he has not changed.People in glass houses should not throw stones.

by cluelessfl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 184 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 4:47:50 PM
 


Ed Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida and author of the upcoming "A Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy".  
Ed EnchoEd Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida and author of the upcoming "A Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy".  

Rosie Aside The Official Story Is A Joke

I typically try to stay away from writing too much about 9/11 for obvious reasons and with the plethora of disinformation that is out there but I find it good that someone like Rosie O'Donnell (incidentally I have never been a fan of hers) is speaking out. It is very damaging to the rogue elements of the secret government for the simple reason that in a society infatuated with celebrity hers is a very loud voice indeed.

It's slowly coming apart for them being the criminal junta and if they don't quash it NOW and hard then the thread is only going to keep being pulled and the entire curtain of lies that has been woven over the last forty or fifty years is unravelling. 

There are many exotic theories out there some of them so laughable that they are obvious COINTELPRO style propaganda but I always prefer to concentrate on the alleged hijackers themselves, there is NO fucking way those guys could have been who they are supposed to be and to make those precision military maneuvers, they don't provide that kind of training at those dipshit puddle jumper schools - especially if one of the schools was used in the past by the CIA.

In this dumbass nation suspension of disbelief is easy, hell if Bruce Willis and his gang can learn to be astronauts to destroy a killer asteroid and save the planet in a week then anything is possible.

9-11 is the cornerstone on which all of their fascist lies are built.

And a legitimate investigation by a committee not rife with conflicts of interest has yet to be done....

Just my two cents

 

EE

by Ed Encho (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 391 comments) on Friday, April 6, 2007 at 5:50:44 PM
 

 

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