TIME magazine doing what they do best: LYING and DISTORTING the 'news', trying to rob millions of Americans of their votes, their Social Security, their health care, their affordable prescription drugs, their children's educations and futures... Indeed, TIME and the "major media" are even undercutting the security of our nation, and our nation's good name, in order to promote their amoral big-business/Carlyle/military industrial complex/corporate greed/"major media" agenda. - The media which ran the Clinton-Gore Democratic staffers out of Washington DC in early 2001 with the HOAX "White House TRASHING!" story; the media which mocked at the DISENFRANCHISEMENT of thousands of American voters, the intervention of the callow Supreme Court, and sneered at any calls for a verifibable recount in Florida (and elsewhere) in 2000; the media which CHEERED ON the LIES TO WAR and glossed over the government's incompetence preceding 9-11; the media which BURIES the story of the 9-11 Commission recommendations for post- 9-11 security improvements; the media which CHEERED ON TAX CUTS for CORPORATIONS and CENSORS the true extent of those huge Bush-Republican budget-deficits (or tries to distort the reasons for those trillion-dollar deficits as being because of the $500 billion spent on the Iraq war).... TIME magazine RELENTLESSLY LIES and DISTORTS _ALL_ of these stories, for one reason only: for sheer, abject greed, a bowing-before-Mamon lust for the money that flows into corporate media coffers every year from tax cuts, from selling Americans our "consumer uber alles" lifestyle, and from holding a monopoly position in America's bi-annual election process, which forces even those who oppose some corporate policies to ENRICH the very corporations they seek to restrain and provide oversight for.
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Another TERRIFIC article by the good folks at MediaMatters.org; the same folks who in our previous post researched the campaign news and policy statements of 27 Democratic winners from Election 2006 to DISPROVE the notion that those candidates won espousing a "centrist" or even 'conservative' agenda. (In review, Media Matters found that all 27 winning Dem. candidates FAVORED such "liberal" issues as raising the minimum wage, saving Social Security, changing course in Iraq, and using federal funds for stem cell research. Only 5 of the 27 opposed the reproductive rights associated with abortion.)
THIS MediaMatters story catches Time magazine WHORING the conservative narrative that 2006 was somehow a "muddled middle" (or even "conservative") election. In their cover story after the 1994 Newt Gingrich "contract on America" election, TIME portrays a rampaging elephant stomping towards the reader, taking up the entire cover of the magazine - quite a graphic image! Indeed, in TIME's cover illustration for that first post-election 1994 issue, the giant elephant has completely crushed and killed a (Democratic) donkey under one of it's monstrous feet. Yet in this election, with the Democrats seeing gains and wins comparable to the '94 Republican takeover of Congress, TIME opts to present as wishy-washy and muddled a cover image as possible: two EQUAL overlapping circles, one red and one blue, representing "conservative" and "liberal" respectively, with the central, overlapping portion being the focus of the cover and of Time's take on the election - the purple of "MUDDLED MIDDLE."
"MUDDLED MIDDLE" our dierierres, TIME! THERE YOU GO AGAIN, WHORING the right-wing "miltiary industrial compllex and big-money uber-alles" agenda that President Eisenhower warned us about in his final (farewell) presidential speech.
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