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"Experts" & the Decline of the American News Media

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They're all still around. And some of the GOP hypocrite sexual deviants who voted to impeach Clinton and conducted his prosecution wound up being media heroes and professional "experts" or news network journalists themselves. What a pathetic testament to the state of today's mainstream news media.

FOX News Network, the love-child of Tabloid King Rupert Murdoch has led the way. If you think I'm full of it, just flip on FOX News and wait a couple minutes....an "expert" is guaranteed to show up before you can get the pop-corn popped. I swear, last year, there must have been at least 2,000 "experts" who appeared on FOX News network...(maybe I'm being conservative?) ...and that's besides their in-house experts like "the judge". Jeeezus!! They've got a goddamned mercenary army of "experts"!

While there is no doubt some of these people actually do know what they're talking about, its 90% utter balderdash.

For example, Bill O-Reilly's "body-language expert" Tonya Reiman asserted that Hillary Clinton exhibited "evil laughter" during her recent Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace. This is an "expert" paid by FOX News to "take out of context", by their physical actions, what people who are speaking are actually saying....serious people like Presidential candidates and Senators. And BTW, the victims of this "body-language expert's" observations(?) are always...always..liberal Democrats, feminists etc.; people toward whom FOX News is hostile. And Reiman's conclusions are always negative.

The funniest thing about these "experts" is how pointedly rare it is that one of them has a goddamned clue what they're talking about. One such commonly hired "expert" is Steve Emmerson, an "expert on terrorism"; stopterror@aol.com. He wrote and article in the NY Post about the upcoming visit of Iran's President..saying he had "chutzbah" and is a "monster"...well here's my email to this turd which explains things.

Hi Steve:

Read your interesting NY Post article on Ahmadinejad's proposal to visit "ground zero".

Do you imagine that using a derogatory Jewish phrase and the word "monster" to describe him is somehow helpful to the tense situation with Iran? In what way?

Why don't you friggin "terrorism experts" who want to "stop terror" address things like:

Junior Bush has armed Islamic Pakistan, birthplace of the Taliban and Islamic Jihad, to the teeth, with billion$ in state-of-the-art weapons including jets capable of delivering "nucular" weapons which they already count in their arsenal. Only the tenuous regime of Masharraf stands between those weapons and this fantastic arsenal falling into Islamic Jihad's hands. And his relationship with Bush/USA is growing more strained and uncertain daily besides.

Is it because you "experts" forgot that Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr, Ollie North and the GOP corporate cartel aided, financed and armed the "terrorist states" of Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq?

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