The One World Order, the Conservative
Charade
Part 11
by Deanna
Spingola
28 June 2006
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One very key point,
repeated daily for decades, by the most vociferous voices, is that the
media is liberal. The conservatives have a giant advantage over their
appointed opponents, the liberals: a cohesive, complaining group who
monopolize air time claiming that a liberal bias exists in the media. From
rich to poor, the masses gain the majority of their information from the
media and take great pride in being well-informed, morally superior,
pro-war conservatives. One might doubt a premise from just one media source but
multiple sources gives credibility despite any lack of clear-cut evidence
on any issue. Switch
channels or stations – it is all the same news and every network conceals
the most egregious of the
government's actions.
Dissident voices are
rare and quickly disqualified as treasonous, out of touch, unpatriotic,
un-American or putting our troops in harm’s way or helping Al Qaeda - all
a subtle excuse for media
censorship and suspension of the 1st Amendment. Dissent is
never
allowed in a dictatorship, especially one that claims to promote freedom. One apparent exception is the illegal alien
invasion, however misdirected the criticism really is. Typical voter apathy has turned to
outrage over what is essentially an invasion by invitation. As usual,
Congress languishes, pretending to work on the situation while
Americans pay the price.
The purported conservative
voices include but are not limited to: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly,
Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Praeger, Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity,
Michael Reagan, Matt Drudge, Oliver North, Ann Coulter, Michael Medved,
Hugh Hewitt, Rusty Humphries, Larry Elder, Neal Boortz, Mark Davis, G.
Gordon Liddy and don’t forget the televangelists. There are also numerous
individuals who author newspaper columns and well publicized books. Who do
the liberals have? Who is
comparable
among the radio, television, and print personalities? If you can think of
anyone – how regularly is he or she verbally vanquished and vilified by
the conservatives?
So-called conservative talk show hosts do
not educate or enlighten but present a deceptive dialogue of
disinformation which promotes the theoretical global war of terror and
supports the party line, despite which party is currently running the show. They
brainwash their listeners and intimidate and insult their non compliant
callers as they glorify death and war disguised as patriotism. Howard Zinn
says that "patriotism
is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
[1]
Mark Hertzgaard said:
“The biggest
political joke in
America
is that we have a liberal press. It's a joke taken seriously by a
surprisingly large number of people. The myth of the liberal press has
served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces eager
to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power.
Americans now have the worst of both worlds: a press that, at best,
parrots the pronouncements of the powerful and, at worst, encourages
people to be stupid with pseudo-news that illuminates nothing but the
bottom line.”
[2]
In 1995 Bill Kristol confessed to the New Yorker:
“The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often
used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”
[3]
The charges of liberal bias are just maneuvers in a
cynical game explained Rich Bond, the former chairman of the Republican
National Committee. The nasty accusations hurled at the liberals by angry
wannabe victims function like the heckling of passionate sports spectators
who scream and yell “unfair” over every single penalty. “The referee will
think twice before blowing the whistle” and might “cut you a little slack
on the next one. Conservatives have learned to ‘work the ref’ so
diligently that their exclusion is one of the most widely discussed topics
in the media – with them doing most of the talking.”
[4]
The poor, pitiful highly visible and very verbal, amply paid conservatives
would have us believe that they are all “media outcasts” all the while
hosting and appearing on numerous radio and television shows.
According to Mark
Crispin Miller, the so-called liberal press was a consistent advocate for
Bush and his collaborating cronies. The mainstream media either downplayed
or suppressed the following brief list of fascistic incidences involving
an insecure but dictatorial President Bush who obviously recognized his numerous
shortcomings but could never tolerate any appearance of opposition:
·
They hid the many
evidences of Bush’s unpopularity;
·
They repressed
some of the worst news of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan;
·
The media repressed news of
war crimes repeatedly facilitated by the lies of the administration;
·
The Bush White
House withheld the October 19th CIA report on 9/11 until after
the election;
·
There was no
mainstream coverage of Bush’s true standing in his party;
·
Many well-known
Republicans were actually backing Kerry;
·
The press hid
evidence of Bush’s low repute;
·
The press was
silent on Bush’s international unpopularity;
·
In the 2004
campaign the press ignored any evidence that the president was not well
liked;
·
The press ignored
new voters and many polls which preferred Kerry;
·
The press did not
report the egregious behavior on the part of Bush and company on the
campaign trail such as barring people from events, or having others
arrested who happened to voice any opposition;
·
Hundreds, some not
even protestors, were arrested and held illegally during the Republican
convention in New York;
·
Anyone not showing
obvious enthusiasm on the convention floor was ousted;
·
The TV networks
refused to air ads for Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 911
·
A couple in
Corpus Christi were arrested for wearing
anti-Bush T-shirts at a Bush speech. After their release she was fired
from her FEMA job;
·
Admission was
denied to a Bush event for anyone wearing Kerry stickers on their
clothes;
·
The press ignored
the fact that Bush selected certain groups to speak to on the campaign trail – perfect
for photo ops.
·
Hours and hours of
air time and column space was given to the “Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth,” an expensive propaganda tactic hatched by Karl Rove;
·
There was hardly a
mention of Bush’s military irregularities including the missing 1972
physical, 1970 pictures of Bush wearing medals he had not received and
unexplained lengthy absences (AWOL);
·
The press ignored the fact that Bush could not or
would not produce a valid DD214 (discharge papers).
[5]
Our current president has refused to produce
legitimate records regarding his birth, his college records or his records
at Columbia University where no one can remember him.
One glaring incident involved Dan Rather, along with
four television news producers, all formerly of
CBS News. The four were
Mary Mapes,
Betsy West,
Josh Howard, and
Mary Murphy.
[6]
Their offense: they “exposed a rich kid whose powerful daddy got him out
of the military draft during the war in Vietnam. The rich kid is the
president; the daddy was another president.”
[7]
CBS appointed an Independent Review Panel, consisting of just two people,
to determine the ethics of the five individuals. The two experts were
Dick Thornburgh, Attorney General in the
administration of George H. W. Bush and
Louis Boccardi. Thornburgh, hardly objective, is
known to have “whitewashed the investigation of the Exxon Valdez oil
spill.” With his help, Exxon escaped full culpability.
[8]
Oil and water do not mix but
oil and Bush have always been an interesting
concoction.
Viacom, the owner of CBS, is the second-largest
media company in the country and is owned by Sumner M. Redstone, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, a very
rich media mogul. Viacom also owns Nickelodeon,
MTV, Infinity Broadcasting, Paramount, Blockbuster and BET on cable, as
well the UPN broadcast network. Redstone is the mega media mogul
responsible for the ousting of Dan Rather who dared question the war
president’s military record. Out with free speech, investigative reporting
and in with political and corporate expediency.
“Reacting to the document scandal at CBS News,
Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom, CBS' parent,
vowed that the results of a recently announced probe would be
‘appropriate’ and the consequences will be appropriate.”
[9]
In December 2005, Viacom changed its name to CBS
Corporation. See a list of CBS assets
here. Viacom became a spin-off company.
Redstone
spoke at the
Forbes Global CEO Conference and
stated that he was “very concerned” about a 60 Minutes story from
September 8, 2004 by Dan Rather that suggested glaring irregularities in
President George W. Bush's military record. “CBS has since conceded that
the documents on which the story was based could not be authenticated.
Rather has apologized, and CBS News has said the story was a mistake.”
[10]
A lengthy career was over – and his name will always be associated with this
incident – an inconvenient truth jeopardizing the One World Order agenda
of a
Bush second term. If the media were truly
liberal, as frequently claimed, the exposure of the multiple
skeletons in the Bush closet would have been quickly revealed by the
so-called liberal media.
Prior to Rather's CBS demise the former CBS anchor
appeared on the BBC in June 2002. He appeared older, looked defeated and
admitted that he dared not speak on American TV. He said: "Fear keeps
journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions." Rather remarked that a deadly censorship had
seized U.S. newsrooms, especially after the September 11 attack. He said
that news on
the U.S. tube was “bound and gagged.” He continued: “Any reporter who
stepped out of line would be professionally lynched as un-American.”
Certain reporters from The New York Times are currently finding
this to be the case. Back in the U.S. Rather “smothered his professional
conscience and told his TV audience, "George Bush is the president. He
makes the decisions. If he wants me to line up, just tell me where.”
[11]
In commenting on the upcoming U.S. presidential
election, media mogul Redstone said that while Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) was a nice
guy, the re-election of President Bush would be better for Viacom's
interests, since the Administration backed deregulation and other issues
that would help the company.
[12]
Kerry, who did go to
Vietnam
compared to Bush who didn’t, was the subject of Unfit for Duty, an
explosive and very timely book allegedly exposing Kerry’s unearned medals
and lack of courage. Private, corporate ownership of the media includes an
exclusive opportunity, through firing and hiring practices, to greatly
affect elections. The neo-cons stated in their PNAC Statement of
Principles: “It is important to shape
circumstances.”
[13]
At 10:22 a.m. (EST) on the morning of November 3,
2004, the day after the election and before Kerry’s concession at 1:57
p.m., the president of the Heritage Foundation sent email to 200,000
members asking for a “generous contribution” to help the foundation do
“what we have to do right now” – help “President Bush and his allies in
Congress” to keep cutting taxes, “modernize Social Security, “weed out
terrorists and perfect the military.” Jumping the gun and speeding ahead
with one’s agenda is either arrogant overconfidence, supported by the
corporate press or sure knowledge supplied by conspiratorial vote
counters.
[14]
“For the media owners, allegations of a liberal bias
make it easier for them to impose the conservative bias they prefer. For
the pseudo liberals who work in the media system, confessing to a liberal
bias is far more comfortable than admitting that they've sold out their
beliefs for a nice salary. It's only because the mainstream media is so
conservative that all these right-wing pundits can make accusations of
liberal bias without opposition.”
[15]
Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter, just two
outraged conservatives bravely battling the liberal dragon press, have
successfully scammed the public with their big money-making, insubstantial
accusations. Goldberg, a former correspondent, was associated with the
same network CBS that career-crunched Dan Rather. His very biased book
Bias was published on February 25, 2001 and propped up the
conservative charade.
In addition to those issues mentioned
above, I would like to see the following imperative issues covered in the
so-called liberal mainstream media and the professed conservative news:
·
Locations of the American concentration camps built
by
Kellogg, Brown and Root;
·
Bush’s
plan to
merge
Canada, Mexico and the United States;
·
More news on the
inland ports;
·
Media reviews of Aaron Russo’s new movie:
America: From Freedom to Fascism;
·
An expose on the use of
depleted uranium;
·
Information about
privatized military industry (PMI)
·
An objective investigation of the
irregularities of 9/11;
·
Voting irregularities in
2000 and
2004;
·
Bush’s regard for
human rights and the Bill of Rights
·
An expose of the
Federal Reserve fraud;
·
Why is the government
selling off big chunks of
America;
·
Information on the
Six-Point Agenda for Department of Homeland
Security
·
Tell the American citizens about the
amero, the dollar replacement;
·
How about all of those stories that
Project Censored defines in their books;
·
The real truth
about job growth, not the jobs the government is creating;
What about those jobs? What are those employees
manufacturing? Or are they being trained to implant ID chips, spy on their
neighbors, and work as camp guards or perhaps work on that secret
super highway?
We are not any freer than the controlled,
contentious cover-up media.
[16]
Rush Limbaugh is the acclaimed original “right wing” radio talk jock who
continues to successfully lambaste liberals and the purported liberal
media bias even though he admitted in 2002 that liberal bias was non
existent.
[17]
Several more have joined him in this crusade. They bash the allegedly
morally decadent liberal left as compared to the “righteous” right who
claim moral superiority despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Thousands of clueless disciples, in what
propagandist Michael Medved calls “the greatest nation on God’s green
earth,” tune in daily to get conservative views as opposed to the big,
bad, ugly, deceitful ‘liberal’ lies. Folks, it is orchestrated opposition
– owned by the same entities. Whether you read the Twinkie Times, listen
to tough fluff, pro-war Laura Ingraham, or watch any of the Fox “fair and
balanced” shows, including the king of castigation – Bill O’Reilly, it is
the same.
[18]
Devotees are daily rewarded and energized by the vicious attacks and
criticism directed at the evil enemy – the liberal opposition. We are so
distracted we fail to recognize the synthesized Republican/Democratic
party.
[19]
The genuine
dissenters supporting such things as anti-tax,
pro-2nd Amendment rights, pro-Constitution, anti-big
government, and anti-war can anticipate being lumped with the terrorists –
“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
[20]
How can conservatives claim to prefer less government and in the same
breath ask, among other things, the government to seize the church’s authority over marriage?
“Neo-con” talk radio has lent legitimacy
to the Bush administration plus phony patriotic propaganda for continual
preemptive war. War means the killing, the maiming, and the devastating
illnesses of thousands of Middle-Eastern citizens because their leader
was/is non-compliant to One World Order demands. And with the Bushs – like
father, like son, nuclear air strikes are preferable to diplomacy for
establishing power, instilling fear and furthering the work of death.
Christians should be
the first to recognize the probability of secret societies or secret
combinations and money interests intent on depriving others of their
liberty or life. The death of Christ was the result of a conspiracy
associated with currency. There were plots to kill Paul and numerous
others. There were also those early day “public relations” groups who
deliberately influenced the masses to perpetuate their covert agenda –
remember, the admirers who bowed before Christ upon his entry into
Jerusalem were the same people who, a mere few days, later clamored for
his death. What changed?
Before citizens
jump on that political war machine that promotes continual conflict, we
must evaluate and scrutinize the sources of our perceptions – is it
orchestrated opposition, propaganda or real information?
Part 12
[1]
Samuel Johnson
[2]
Media Quotes
[3] Big Lies by Joe
Conason, page 34
[4] Ibid, p. 35
[5] Fooled Again by
Mark Crispin Miller, p. 270-271
[6]
CBS Ousts 4 For Bush Guard Story
[7] Censored 2006,
Chapter 15,
Cowardice and Conflicts: The Lynching of Dan Rather
[8]
The True Price of Oil By Ashley Shelby, AlterNet. Posted June 24, 2005
[9]
Redstone Vows 'Appropriate' Consequences For CBS News
[10] Ibid
[11] Censored 2006,
Chapter 15, p. 401,
Cowardice and Conflicts: The Lynching of Dan Rather
[12]
Redstone Vows 'Appropriate' Consequences For CBS News
[13]
PNAC Statement of Principles
[14] Fooled Again by
Mark Crispin Miller, p. 259-260
[15]
How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People
by John K. Wilson, p. 108
[16]
Media Cover-up See also:
Project Censored
[17] Big Lies by Joe
Conason, page 34
[18]
O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with
"a little visit" from "Fox security".
[19]
Michael Medved Continues To Name-Call, Smear Constitution Party
Revealing His Own Godless, Failed Vision
[20]
Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People
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