during the Clinton impeachment fiasco.
Tweety and many others became household names stoking the media feeding frenzy for the GOP, and made their pay daily by giving validity to a string of sleazy Scaife-funded crooks.
I guess a lot of people don't remember those days. It was the result of Rush and others going after Hillary's attempt to expand healthcare. The daily mantra was Death Panels, Nazi eugenics with a national health service to kill off the elderly and disabled. It was very effective in scaring people to vote GOP to stop Hillary killing their loved ones.
Because the groundwork had already been done to set up the atmosphere by media through Whitewater, Travel Office Gate, Trooper Gate, anything to destroy the charismatic POTUS and his wife, to make it easier to mock all progressive ideas.
Thus the Gingrich majority was voted in. Then the GOP, with full media support, kept his administration in hot water to distract from his agenda with a government shut down. They put to work the Death Panels on the elderly and disabled themselves in closed sessions where they gutted Medicare, which had been as good as the best of the private insurers. And went after Medicaid and every other thing that had been accomplished since the New Deal. The process has been gradual, destroying those ideas and not wanting to get rid of everything after the Tenth Amendment. But I digress.
The Donahue censorship was like a knife to the heart, but we'd already seen Dan Rather gone after for telling the truth - not just about the Shrub, but simply the fact of the change in who the owners were. It was a warning of the end. Now such information is scrubbed from the net, edited out or distorted or only spoken of from the complete opposite POV without any attempt at balance by the networks having created an alternate reality.
And it's gotten geometrically worse since Obama got in office. There is a reason Thom and others who believe as we do are shut out of mainstream media.
KO was shut out because he was giving Democrats support and hope and expounding on the morality of our causes very well. He was becoming dangerous so they needled him until he blew up and then they did a complete character assassination on him as they have done so many times before (Rather) to silence us.
We are being driven over the cliff by the big money. Thom sees it and endorses the move to amend to let the people get out of the back seat and only allowed to vent and not change the big things that effect us, at least, not with media's help.
He made an excellent apology and analysis here. Thanks for posting it.
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