Mission accomplished: We love our corporate media propagandists!

[tabasco]

The Grief-O-Thon has a purpose.

We all should love and adore our corporate propaganda celebrities!

Of course, we should believe absolutely in their objectivity and neutrality.

Anyone who says a bad word about our departed, beloved, corporate propaganda celebrities is a mean, nasty person!!

[Phred42]

1. BINGO! HOme Run! K&R

:toast:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. There is only one corporate propagandist I worship...

[tabasco]

8. 10% truth tellers, 90% bias.

Provides a veneer of credibility.

Colbert is a true hero. I will never forget how Colbert told Bush to his face what a miserable failure Bush is. He transcended the "comedian" label when he did that. Same with John Stewart. How odd that our best journalists are on the comedy channel.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. They misunderestimated the size of his balls...

[tabasco]

20. Great photo!

Look at the smirking chimp!!!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

[ColbertWatcher]

21. When they started 2006...

...they only knew Colbert was some clown on the TV.

After he gave that speech, they would know him as the man with the biggest set of balls in the entire world!

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. IN an old time, the court jester was the only one allowed to tell the truth

there you go

They are court jesters

[KharmaTrain]

3. It Shows How Provincial The Corporate Media Is...

I don't think some of these self-absorbed talking heads really understand how over-the-top this Russert thing has become. Death is a part of life...and I think most of us have experienced a similar situation...the sudden loss of a friend or co-worker and how the grieving is intense and focused. Since the media has consolidated onto personalities, this loss in their village is "the story"...since its one of the few they directly feel. These people really don't feel the flooding in the Midwest or the war in Iraq or even the financial messes going on. But they all were friends of Tim...or have to be seen as one in a show of tribal unity.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Watch this video clip on the propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Watch from -02:58 on for an explanation on the compliant, ass-kissing role played by the corporate media in selling the war to a hornswoggled public. Here's a telling quote from Dan Rather on the US media: "What you have is a miniature version of what you have in totalitarian states." I would disagree only with the concept that it is a "miniature" version. I would just rephrase it as a "more subtle version."

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/182654/1125580

[tabasco]

9. Excellent. Thank you.

9/11 Truth: How Think Tanks Took Control of U.S. Government

I recommend it to others. It's frightening how far we have traveled the wrong path.

As the video states, Eisenhower warned us about Rumsfeld, Feth, Perle, and their traitorous ilk.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/182654/1125580

[kath]

27. more from the same Dan Rather interview - very important to read:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/16/dan_rather.shtml
he admits he has held back from taking the Bush administration to task over the so-called war on terror.
Rather says: "It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tyres around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions, and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often. And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism."

Rather admits self-censorship: "What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognise it or not, or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship. It starts with a feeling of patriotism within oneself. It carries through with a certain knowledge that the country as a whole - and for all the right reasons - felt and continues to feel this surge of patriotism within themselves. And one finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it'."

He tells Newsnight: "I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend... In a constitutional republic, based on the principles of democracy such as ours, you simply cannot sustain warfare without the people at large understanding why we fight, how we fight, and have a sense of accountability to the very top."

He declares himself a patriot, but for him the essence of being American is being able to bring the government to account: "It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear - they being those who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility in a society such as ours, of sending our sons and daughters, our husbands, wives, our blood, to face death, to take death. Now, in my position my view is not to ask the tough questions in this kind of environment is the height of lack of patriotism."

Rather is also stinging about the lack of access and information the Bush administration is giving news journalists over the war: "There has never been an American war, small or large, in which access has been so limited as this one.


And more from Rather interview here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/is-truth-a-victim/

[pretzel4gore]

5. the people THINK they THINK they THINK what they're told they think

somewhere, the schemeing goes full circle, or rather 180, and black=pink, up=down, good=evil, nice= awful and so on ad nazism....even on DU it's hard to say 'they're acheming, they WANT us to think a certain way, so let's defy them' but NOOOOO!

[DireStrike]

29. ad nazism... im taking that one.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Yup.

[Echo In Light]

7. Reliance on potent, over-simplified emotional messages

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Propaganda has electrolytes. n/t

[MedleyMisty]

13. I wish I could recommend a reply, lol!

Good one.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Thank you! n/t

[slipslidingaway]

11. K&R n/t

[Lex]

14. It's so sad.

And horrifying.

And puzzling.

[jefferson_dem]

16. Tim didn't celebrate the virtues of all liberals and spew vitriol and insults at all non-liberals.

He must be a... <wait for it...> ...corporate media propagandist!

And while his family, friends, and fans are grieving and before his body is even put in the ground, we shall shout it from the rooftops!

Oooga Fucking Boooga!

Please. Get a grip.

[kath]

28. you're the one who needs to get a grip and educate yourself. Start here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3455657#3455966

[juno jones]

17. How true. n/t

[NashVegas]

18. I'm Reading a Phil Rosenthal Column That Claims Russert "was, without question, the most important,"

"influential reporter in Washington, print or broadcast," according to Chris Wallace.

That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

[slipslidingaway]

19. See this thread as well...The Military-Industrial-Media Complex

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3454384

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

22. Never met the guy.

Means very little to moi.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Put me down for one cruel inhuman monster.

[Psyop Samurai]

25. Like candy from a baby... nt

[truedelphi]

26. Mean nassty person checking in

But should Rachel Maddow, KO, Jo9n Stewart or Colbert stub a toe, I will empathise.

[ogsbee]

30. I haven't seen so much fake personal grief since Reagan died

They say a lot of newsreaders are from acting schools, but they don't seem very good at it. (I am deeply sorry for him and his family, but pleeeze . . .)

IMO, in the inevitable war crimes trials, Russert would have been tried along with the top level media propagandists: O'Reilly, Hannity, Hume, Tweety, etc. If there were a two tier system, say one series of trials in Texas and one series at The Hague, Russert would have been tried in Texas. He knowingly aided and abetted this illegal, aggressive war.