Media whitewashes ultra-right in Arizona massacre

[Octafish]

We the People need to keep the powers-that-be from shaping and controlling this tragedy.

As gunman is arraigned

Media whitewashes ultra-right in Arizona massacre

By Patrick Martin
World Socialist Web Site
11 January 2011

As more information has emerged about the 22-year-old gunman who carried out a massacre Saturday outside a Tucson supermarket, the American media has sought to downplay the clear connection between his attempted assassination of a Democratic member of the House of Representatives and the politics of the ultra-right.

SNIP...

As the World Socialist Web Site explained yesterday (See “Arizona assassination spree tied to political right”), the political conceptions in Loughner’s Internet postings are expressed in the vocabulary of the ultra-right media and the Tea Party, including his references to gold and silver backing for US currency, the predominance of the English language, and attacks on sections of the US Constitution, like the 14th Amendment, targeted by the ultra-right. He also reportedly remarked that a young woman who had an abortion was a “terrorist for killing the baby.”

SNIP...

A long news analysis in the Times provides valuable details on the ideological connections between Loughner and several of the more bizarre factions of the far right, but it nonetheless declares that the assassin’s political motivation cannot be known with certainty: “Investigators will have to wrestle with the difficult question of whether Mr. Loughner’s parroting the views of extremist groups was somehow more a cause of the shootings or simply a symptom of a troubled life.”

This is, if anything, even more insidious than the flat denial of responsibility by the Wall Street Journal. The Times shows how close Loughner’s connections were to the ultra-right―“parroting the views of extremist groups”―and then asserts that no conclusion can be drawn.

SNIP...

By Monday, much of the media, including liberal and Democratic Party spokesmen, had repudiated Dupnik’s comments. James Carville, a longtime Democratic campaign operative and media pundit, said on CNN, “It’s unfair to smear an entire state,” adding, “There’s no evidence that links the Tea Party to this.”

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/ariz-j11.shtml

And that's the way the news business works in 2011 -- comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

PS: So what if it's the socialist perspective? It's the truth -- and that's what Democracy requires.

[MrModerate]

1. That dog won't hunt. Regardless of where Loughner gathered his wooly madness from . . .

He's (by the evidence on the table now) just too damned crazy to credibly associate with any movement, or tendency, or philosophy.

Did he dredge up more hate from the right than from anywhere else? Hard to say. But sick people with guns are not political opponents/enemies. They're just sick people with guns.

Now if we could do something about the guns . . .

[Octafish]

4. Sick people should not have access to guns.

The thing is, sick people should have access to information. When one party feels free to use the language of violence, is it any wonder, then, that sick people get the idea that it's OK to kill someone who's a "socialist" for proposing, for example, universal healthcare -- demonized as "socialized medicine" by the rightwing, since at least 1961?

PS: How are you in Queensland, my Friend? Hope you and yours are safe.

[kestrel91316]

11. Sadly, the people who write the gun laws don't seem to see it that way.

[seabeyond]

5. the reason the nonsick people dont chant KILL is so the sick people dont internalize KILL>

this is not a tough concept.

[emulatorloo]

8. the 24/7 mantra of "Democrats need to be killed" may well have given him

"permission" to buy that gun and attack Represenative Giffords.

Obviously he had a grudge against Giffords. That's what his friends have said.

[EFerrari]

14. And his profile is that of the majority of people who commit these crimes.

They are right wing white men under 30 and not active members of a group.

If you're trolling for assassins as Frank Schaeffer says, they are your men. They aren't political opponents but they do answer the call for violence.

[seabeyond]

2. every thing the man has said, points to the right. we are told... nothing points to the right.

what sense does that make. what fool is going to say.... ya, thats it, you are right, silly me looking at the facts.

makes no sense. and posters on du telling me i wont be taken "seriously" when i line out facts, adn facts only is amazing. not conclusion. simply give facts adn they give me suppositions..... crazy, no connection, would have done it anyway. that is believed? but facts ignored. truly amazing.

[Octafish]

6. We are experiencing The Big Lie in full force.

The information environment is shaped by skillful players, including secret agencies of the United States Government.

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer

EXCERPT...

OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC wasn't integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles. Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations. By mid-1953 the department was operating with 7,200 personnel and 74 percent of the CIA's total budget.

Wisner created the first "information superhighway." But this was the age of vacuum tubes, not computers, so he called it his "Mighty Wurlitzer." The CIA's global network funded the Italian elections in 1948, sent paramilitary teams into Albania, trained Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan, and pumped money into the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the National Student Association, and the Center for International Studies at MIT. Key leaders and labor unions in western Europe received subsidies, and Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were launched. The Wurlitzer, an organ designed for film productions, could imitate sounds such as rain, thunder, or an auto horn. Wisner and Dulles were at the keyboard, directing history.

The ethos of the fight against fascism carried over into the fight against godless communism; for these warriors, the Cold War was still a war. OSS highbrows had already embraced psychological warfare as a new social science: propaganda, for example, was divided into "black" propaganda (stories that are unattributed, or attributed to nonexistent sources, or false stories attributed to a real source), "gray" propaganda (stories from the government where the source is attributed to others), and "white" propaganda (stories from the government where the source is acknowledged as such).<1>

After World War II, these psywar techniques continued. C.D. Jackson, a major figure in U.S. psywar efforts before and after the war, was simultaneously a top executive at Time-Life. Psywar was also used with success during the 1950s by Edward Lansdale, first in the Philippines and then in South Vietnam. In Guatemala, the Dulles brothers worked with their friends at United Fruit, in particular the "father of public relations," Edward Bernays, who for years had been lobbying the press on behalf of United. When CIA puppets finally took over in 1954, only applause was heard from the media, commencing forty years of CIA-approved horrors in that unlucky country.<2> Bernays' achievement apparently impressed Allen Dulles, who immediately began using U.S. public relations experts and front groups to promote the image of Ngo Dinh Diem as South Vietnam's savior.<3>

The combined forces of unaccountable covert operations and corporate public relations, each able to tap massive resources, are sufficient to make the concept of "democracy" obsolete. Fortunately for the rest of us, unchallenged power can lose perspective. With research and analysis -- the capacity to see and understand the world around them -- entrenched power must constantly anticipate and contain potential threats. But even as power seems more secure, this capacity can be blinded by hubris and isolation.

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http://www.namebase.org/news17.html

That's no lie. And I know you know that, seafan.

[bobthedrummer]

15. Including Pagans/Satanists in US military uniforms (they do have their rights and rites)

From PSYOP to Mind War: The Psychology of Victory (pdf)
by Col. Paul E. Valley
with
Maj. Michael A. Aquino
PSYOP Research and Analysis
Team Leader
1980
http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/MindWar.pdf

[Supersedeas]

3. Will anyone in the Media dare connect OK City, the Anthrax attacks, the assassination of abortion

providers and this.

Now, their assigned task is to tamp down the passions of the left who are appropriately upset about a political assassination.

[Octafish]

7. It'll have been that way for 48 years, come November 22.

Well said, Supersedeas: "Now, their assigned task is to tamp down the passions of the left who are appropriately upset about a political assassination.

And, to complete their "assignment," Corporate McPravda is working to smear a big share of the "blame" upon the victims.

Odd how the "Left" is full of peaceniks and the "Right" so full of warmongers -- and no one calls them out on it.

I never saw this highlighted in The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Washington Post or The New York Times:

"Money Trumps Peace...Sometimes."

One would think we'd prosecute a man who lied America into two illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars, but there's nary a peep on that anywhere.

[Supersedeas]

12. thanks for the link Octafish

[kctim]

9. You don't establish a "clear connection"

with opinion.

The dude is alive and, judging by his profile, he will eventually tell his story.
Seems like everybody is jockeying so that they can say "told you so" or "conspiracy," when he finally does.

[Octafish]

10. Jockeying for bragging rights has nothing to do with Corporate McPravda's spin.

They are in full-blown "let's not jump to conclusions" mode to protect their professional hatemongers.

Speaking of which, there are three things every American should know about Corporate McPravda.

No matter how things get spun, those are the facts of the matter.

BTW: For decades, communication researchers have been looking for that direct connection between "message" and "action." Who knows if it has or hasn't been found? Perhaps Sidney Gottlieb?

[bobthedrummer]

13. K&R-it's like we, the people have been hooded with that heuristic "veil of ignorance" by MSM

political thought controllers, they that live in their own world as much as Loughner

[bobthedrummer]

16. 1-12-11 WikiLeaks: Julian Assange has Rupert Murdoch "insurance files"

Founder also confirms WikiLeaks has more than 500 US diplomatic cables on one broadcasting organisation (by Josh Halliday/The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/12/wikileaks-rupert-murdoch

Only a wackjob would believe that our free press is "employing" government sanctioned political operatives conducting illegal propaganda as "news"
:sarcasm: