First up, there were a number of TV posts in the community on Friday:
John V. Walsh has a new column at Dissident Voice. It's more than worth reading. It's about how to be pro-peace. And it notes the mistakes Americans are making regarding Ukraine. I especially agreed with this point:
Moreover, keeping the focus on Russia takes the focus off the US and
allows it to escape whatever responsibility it has for the war – and it
is a rare bird in the peace community that feels the US bears no
responsibility. The focus on Russia, including the McCarthyite
insistence that everyone denounce Russia, beefs up the narrative that
makes the war possible. This focus is in and of itself a great victory
for the propagandists of war!
That leads us to the question of “condemning” Russia for the war.
Wherever one might fall in the debate, what effect does this Russia
bashing have? In terms of “making a difference” and mindful again of
the fact that it is only the US not the Russians that hears us, what
sort of a difference does the condemnation of Russia have? Clearly it
feeds the pro-war narrative and builds more support for the war. We do
not have to take the Russian side to call for an end to the Russia
bashing, and such a call should be acceptable to all those who favor
peace.
In short, stop the Russia Bashing – NOW.
I agree. I agreed with the point when C.I. made it back on February 25th:
Joe Biden is pushing a war that the US has no interest in.
Corporations have an interest in it. And their lackeys do as well. I'm
reading a pice by someone who is a big disappointment. It's all over
the net and as shameful as Amy Goodman's 'coverage' this morning. A lot
of whores have been paid off. Back to the awful column, the headline
represents one thing -- a condemnation of war. The colum itself? Putin
bad and evil -- that's what the whole point it.
I'm not into your bulls**t.
Every time you go off on Putin, you justify war against Russia. Stop pretending otherwise.
You
think you're being 'fair'? No, I don't believe that you do. You know
what you're doing. You're justifying war and you're actively making the
decision to be a tool of war. That you're a member of CODESTINK
shouldn't surprise us.
Not one bit.
Putin
is Putin. Whatever that is. An dthe region can elect how to respond.
The US has more than enough wars and shouldn't be pimping anymore.
I
don't care what Putin is or isn't. I know he's a politician and I
don't worship them. I don't think they're heroes. I think they're
crooks, I think they're rapistst -- and I mean that literally -- and I
think they destroy everything they touch.
US
President Joe Biden is not drawing a line between Putin and the Russian
people. In his blustering speech, he spoke of bringing Russia to its
knees, of punishing the Russians.
Maybe Col Ann Wright could write about that next time instead of the dopey crap that she's passed off as anti-war.
All her grabage column is? A justification for war.
That's what she wrote, that's how it will be read, "Even CODESTINK's Ann Wright says Putin is evil . . ."
She's not that stupid. She knows what she did and she meant to do it.
I have no use for these people.
War
is wong and war is unneeded. The US does not belong in what's taking
place and we have neither the bodies nor the money to send.
Do
not, Joe Biden, portray yourself as some benefactor who cares while, at
the same time, you speak of bringin the Russian people to their
knees.
Yes, this is a rushed vent in many
ways and you don't have the comfort and the safety ofmonths and months
of commentary to tell you what stand to take.
So
use your own damn common sense. We'll be paying for the Iraq War --
the finanical costs -- for generations to come. It was a weekend bender
that Daddy took and we're stupck paying the bill. Now someone wants
Daddy to go blow off some steam on another bender?
We don't have the money for it.
We
don't have universal health care, they say it costs too much. Well
then we don't have money for a war with a country that's not invaded
us. Daddy needs to go outside and walk around the blcok because that's
about all the bender we can afford him to take right now.
In
the US, we do not deal with the medical issues, we do not deal with
homelessness and we ceratinly do not deal with poverty. Stop pretending
that we have money to throw away on another war.
And
stop applauding Elderly's Joe's attempt to prove to the world that he
can still get his micro penis erect. He can't. He's an elderly fool
who really should not be in the Oval Office.
Putin's
bad? He's a politician, I'm sure he is. The corruption at that level
is immense. But he's no exception, he is the norm.
And the Russian people do not deserve to suffer so that Joe Biden can pretend he's virile.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, April 8, 2022. We're staying brief to make one key point: NYT owes NYP an apology.
Do we ever learns? Or maybe the better question is: Do they ever learn>
As
2001 drew to a close, the US press began destroying their own
reputations. It was one act of professional suicide after another.
October 2001, for those who don't know, is when THE NEW YORK TIMES ran
their first cover story linking -- falsely linking -- the 9/11 terrorist
attacks on the US to the government of Iraq.
There was no link.
Saddam
Hussein ruled Iraq at the time. He did not allow al Qaeda to operate
in Iraq. Had they operated there freely, they would have overthrown him
because he was over a secular government and because they were
sympathetic to those who were not in power in Saddam's Iraq.
But
NYT, THE WASHINGTON POST, the broadcast networks, the cable networks,
etc, etc repeated one lie after another to start that illegal war.
It's
probably hard if you weren't there when it happened and if you weren't
of an age to have grasped it as it happened -- hard to now understand
what took place. Back then, the media could talk of nothing but Iraq.
That's the same US media that ignores Iraq today that barely noted that
the war hit the 19 year mark last month, that acts as though US troops
are no longer in Iraq and that the US created (imposed) some wonderful
government there.
They lied. They lied over and over.
Liars got rewarded.
Kevin Drum is at MOTHER JONES. No consequences. It's not just big media that rewarded liars, little media has done the same.
But they lied.
Oprah
didn't suffer. She brought Judith Miller onto her daily program to lie
and when an audience member challenged the lies Judith was spewing,
Oprah attacked the audience member.
No one ever took accountability.
And
the media suffered. In the aftermath, they wanted to pretend as though
there was no reason for so many to distrust them and even now they act
that way. Especially now. They don't mention Iraq and they hope
everyone else has forgotten.
But that was a sea change for perception of the media.
It
appears it was also a behavior shift because the media had not only
done nothing to restore trust in their own profession, they have
continued to present lies as fact and ignore reality while silencing any
questioning.
The rolly polly and disgusting
Brian Stelter of CNN was speaking this week about disinformation. No,
he wasn't finally taking responsibility for his multitude of
journalistic sins. The idiot really thought he had a soap box to stand
upon and lecture others from. A conservative student commented with a
list of the most recent appalling journalistic sins -- or some of them,
there are far too many for one person to ever list unless they're
delivering a 24 hour filibuster -- and Brian avoided the question and
wanted to instead wanted to talk about Ukraine and how others worked
with FOX NEWS there regarding a journalist and -- I'm sorry, we aren't
that stupid.
And we're not whining, "Why can't you all work together!"
In
fact, the problem has often been that you do work together -- right and
left -- such as when you sold the illegal war on Iraq.
Working together is frequently the only work you ever do.
You're certainly not working for the public good.
You 'work' to advances causes and candidates.
You're not telling the truth. You're actively suppressing the truth.
Anne
Applebaum, after disgracing herself as THE WASHINGTON POST for years
(Bob Somerby long ago dubbed her Annie Apples_ wanted to tell people
this week that there was no reason to cover Hunter Biden's laptop and
the proof of corruption it contained.
It appears that some media have a new narrative after admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop is legitimate after all.
According to Atlantic Magazine writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne
Applebaum, the story never did matter because it was just not
interesting and “totally irrelevant” to her. Strangely, however, it once
did. Applebaum pushed the false narrative as she was slamming others
for publishing “Russian disinformation” and using the Hunter Biden story
as an example. It only became uninteresting when it turned out to be
true. The one convincing assertion, however, is that it was simply not
viewed as “relevant.” What was clearly relevant for Twitter and most
media outlets was the election of Joe Biden. Otherwise, as captured by Gaston de La Touche, it is a matter of sheer boredom.
Applebaum was at my alma mater, The University of Chicago, for the Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy conference on
Wednesday. The conference appeared largely an echo-chamber, a
disappointing lineup for UChicago which is known to value a diversity of
opinion. Applebaum slammed Fox and its viewers: “Those who live outside
the Fox News bubble and intend to remain there do not, of course, need
to learn any of this stuff.” (For the record, I work as a legal analyst
at Fox).
What an idiot and what a
liar. She's at THE ATLANTIC now so she can probably lie more freely.
But the country's not better off because of it.
Hunter
Biden's laptop was a news story THE NEW YORK POST can claim credit for
having broken in October 2020. I keep waiting for their triumphant
column. If i'ts run, I haven't heard of it. To be honest I don't have
time to comb through the web for it and depend on friends to keep me up
to date.
So when one called last night and
was reading from THE POST online, I was really sad. I thought it was
Miranda Devine and I thought she was a better writer than what was being
read. She is. It was by John Stossel. I loathe John and always
have. He can argue he's been mis-portrayed by the media and that may be
the case. I loathe him because he's an off-putting ass and that's from
his on air personality when he used to be on 20/20.
Is he as big of an idiot as I've always thought?
Yes, he is.
I
was going to destroy Mrianda for the column I thought she wrote. But
it was John. Writing at THE NEW YORK POST, he wanted you to know how
bad it was with the attacks on THE POST.
I'm tired of stupidity.
Ava and I covered the most important point regarding THE NY POST and the laptop and the media's response.
Do not offer that the report was dismissed.
That's not good enough.
If you're on some basic cable show, that might pass for informed.
You're not informed.
And only John could be so stupid to write for THE POST and to leave the most important detail out.
Yes,
as we all know, the report was censored -- TWITTER and FACEBOOK. And
as we all know, opinion columns insisted it wasn't true.
That's not the worst thing.
The
worst thing? THE NEW YORK TIMES did a 'report' that they called an
investigation and the 'report' centered on how supposedly people working
at THE NEW YORK POST were furious with their paper over that story and
did not feel it was accurate or truthful or even journalism.
NYT relied on no named source and most people in the kow say that NYT did a work of fiction (I believe that they did).
So grasp that NYT did not investigate the laptop but they did make time to 'report' on a rival paper, to attack the rival paper.
That's out of bounds. I twas out of bounds when it happened.
But that was part of the attack strategy to dismiss the story.
THE
NEW YORK TIMES owes THE NEW YORK POST an apology because when they ran
that article -- unsourced -- attacking the paper's integrity, they made
it personal.
Again, they owe the paper an apology.
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