ABC brass nixed Barbara Walters' pick of Edward Snowden as year's most fascinating person
Source: NY Daily News
Its a leak Barbara Walters doesnt want you to know about.
The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the top of her list of 10 most fascinating people of the year but in the end was overruled by network brass, a source told Confidenti@l.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/walters-top-pick-edward-snowden-didn-fascinate-abc-article-1.1536685#ixzz2mVRPataX
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/walters-top-pick-edward-snowden-didn-fascinate-abc-article-1.1536685
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)It's times like these that only a bitterly sardonic chuckle will suffice.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)Talk about a credibility gap. How long will TPTB live in denial?
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)Direct correlation can be traced between prevailing currents of bullshit and the immense benefits that such a narrative brings to its dominant proponents.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Think French Revolution
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)I suppose the aforementioned believe that the gated communities and country clubs will be impregnable strongholds by the time their dubious web unfurls. Or perhaps some watched that movie Elysium in a totally different light than I did?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Shemp Howard
(889 posts).
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Citizens armed with their pitchforks and AR-15s wondering where they are going to get their TV dinners when Walmart shuts down food distribution.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and there's a whole lot of desperation in the pipeline...all it takes is one minor catastrophe, and Bob's your uncle.
txwhitedove
(3,929 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)left on green only
(1,484 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)it just proves that the media is a propaganda machine.
IMO, Mr. Snowden has secured his place in history and although TPTB want him silenced and "we" have done nothing to stop the NSA, he will be recognized as a beacon that was extinguished by TPTB and a lost chance to change American morals.
A sad footnote for a man who is a hero.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Uncle Sam wants to know!
Edit to add...our "fourth branch of government" the "Free" press is as useless and compromised as the US house of representatives and the SCOTUS. In government we can't trust or verify.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)WHO.
GIVES.
A.
FUCK??????
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)the black heart of Darth-Cheney.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Please...Barbara, have you lost your marbles?
Comrade Snowden is a traitor...period. For now, he's a puppet for Russia and after them, who knows who is next.
I can't stand ABC but this was OK.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's been an interesting, intercontinental show so far!
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fbc
(1,668 posts)Without question, the NSA has been engaged in criminal conduct. Snowden provided the proof of this.
You obviously already have strong opinions about Snowden so I won't argue with you on whether or not he should be called a whistleblower. But how do you feel about the illegal actions he exposed? Does the manner in which we learned about them affect the legality of the actions? Should there be prosecutions?
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)By way of China.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Titonwan
(785 posts)but Edward Snowden deserves the Nobel Peace Price and the U.S. Medal of Freedom.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Gossip kills.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Except help save Democracy. Other than that, he's a traitor in the eyes of Rush Limbaugh and the Secret Government.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm
PS: People need to read. Otherwise they'll never know what ABCNNBCBSFakeNoixeNutworks and Flushbobrains never mention.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)Sheesh.
Blue Owl
(50,429 posts)n/t