You can catch it online if you missed it.

There was an apologist - who was badly whipped by his opposite number. Was a pleasure to watch.

Was there really any doubt though, that virtually every MSM outlet whores for this administration and the Republican party? I mean, really.

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General Vallely's statement, "You can't believe the progress" can be interpreted in more than one way. It could express great enthusiasm for "the progress," or it could mean "You can't believe the reports of progress."

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THE FAUX MEDIA goes on spewing
BU__! SH__!
The Military, Media, Banking Conglomerate
Controls every word you
Hear, See and Listen to.
And
Spy everything else.

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Rumsfeld; Pentagon. Consciously and deliberately organized number of "talking heads". And mull this phrase over carefully: "message force multipliers"

Question: was the run-up and the implementation and the operation of invading Iraq originated in the Military, with passive and tacit acceptance by the Executive Branch? "Civilian control of the Military?"

How many other 'message force multipliers' are still active and operational today - on cable, in print and in the blogosphere? Is the US Majority enclosed almost completely within a cocoon or bubble of manipulated and constructed "reality" with respect to domestic or foreign events?

It is becoming all to easy for an 'average' or 'ordinary' US citizen to conclude: "I have categorically no access to be sure of the accuracy of events surrounding me; I am FORCED to obey Authorities by the very conditions of my existence."

Propaganda can become ubiquitous and all-embracing. It can become TOTAL; even in a putatively 'free' and 'open' society which is rapidly enclosing borders and air-space in a physical and technological envelope becoming ever more hermetic. "Message Force Multipliers", Association and Repetition can within days or even less establish ANY simple ASSERTION as "Truth". It's happening.

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The letter is a good idea. However, the problems are a lot bigger than that.

Many of the so-called "alternative news outlets" in the U.S. are also looking a lot like front groups as well.

The scale of the propaganda that is being inflicted on the American public by private and government information control agencies is truly immense - and it's not just the corporate media or the mainstream media - the alternative media is up to its neck in the same game.

Alternet is doing a pretty good job, but it is also a fairly transparent organization. There appears to be a pretty close correlation between the openness and transparency of a news organization and its honesty.

That's why I now look on Democracy Now with a heavy level of suspicion - they've refused to allow public commentary on any of their stories, many of which are real stinkers, and have so far refused to publish a statement explaining why they are taking this stance.

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Retired Pentagon guys, you need a hobby. When you retire you go on vacation don't go back to the place you just retired from or go on television speaking for them,even if they asked you and gave you money for it. You are just going to be "that guy" that comes back to work after having been there for years and then retires and then all of a sudden you have wisdom above everybody else. That is not going to happen you're just going to look like a jerk and people that work there just want to do their job. So stop talking. No one is buying
your bull shit so get a hobby, PLEASE.

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I phoned msnbc, asked them, aren't they angry they were tricked into tricking us? aren't they angry an American soldier wanted his burial reported, and his family wanted that too, and the gov't restricted the ceremony, wouldn't let the media anyplace close? aren't you angry I asked? Don't you CARE! WHY AREN'T YOU ANGRY??? WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT????

Don't they CARE 1000 soldiers and vets a week are committing suicide? Why don't they spend more time reporting or talking about that? Why aren't they interviewing military families? What happened to support our troops? Don't they know that is really what patriotism is all about? NOT rev. Wright, NOT flag pins! Don't they know our troops need them and we need to know what is going on??? SEVEN YEARS!! Longer than WWI, longer than WWII, longer than the Civil War! Running up debt our great grandchildren might be paying for! soldiers burnt out from rotating tours of duty impossible to sustain. WHY DON'T THEY DO THEIR JOBS? 1000 soldiers a month are dying by their own hands unable to get mental health care, waiting 180 days to be seen! OMG! OMG!

That's when I began crying, half sobbing into the phone, I said "God help this country if you don't get your shit together."

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It is so obvious the media is not doing its job. Anyone who really cares what is happening to their society and their country can see the media is not helping. Sure, Anderson and Wolfie are out there but they repeat, repeat and repeat and mash and mash and rehash the news.

If it isn't Briteny Spears then it is a girl lost, or a cat lost, or a dog bit someone. I thought CNN was a news network with sensible current news to report and not rerun a story a hundred times. Give the people current news and do some research of what is really happening to USA and other countries.

Are you out there to sit and look pretty and giggle a lot? Surely there is something more important than rehashing the same story over and over. Please give Hillary and Obama a rest. Look around you. Things are falling apart. Don't just sit there a try to look pretty. Enough.

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When GW and DC took over the GOV they took over the MEDIA, that is it in a nut shell. Our gov has taken over what we do and what we hear. We have very little freedom, our gov under GW knows everything we do and say. What are we going to do if we can still do something about it??????????

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