Friday, August 29, 2008

AP _DROPPED_ by more US papers! Keith Olbermann DEMOLISHES _LYING_ report by AP "reporter" Charles Babbington that sneered at Obama speech

A duo of fantastic news:


#1. US papers, seeing profits fall like a stone in the Bush-2 Recession, are DROPPING the right-wing propaganda 'news' wire feed from AP 'News'!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003840644

#2. Within a day or two of the story that more US papers are dropping AP, we see a textbook example of why: "Countdown" news show anchor Keith Olbermann, hosting much of MSNBC's coverage at the Democratic Primary Convention in Denver this past week, bashed AP 'news' 'reporter' CHARLES BABBINGTON's article on Senator Obama's acceptance speech as bearing no resemblence to the speech that fully FORTY MILLION AMERICANS tuned in to watch, to see IF American has a hope of digging itself out from the Bush-2 Recession and national security morass Bush, Cheney, Kark Rove, and the incompetent PNAC "WAR FIRST!" crew have gotten us in to over the past decade.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063
August 29, 2008 12:20 AM ET, NEW YORK - In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles Babington an hour after Barack Obama had concluded his speech in Denver on Thursday night.

Olbermann was outraged that the AP's Babington had written, in his analysis of the speech, just off the wire, that Obama had tried nothing new and that his speech was lacking in specifics. He read the first few paragraphs on the air, lamented that it would be printed in hundred of newspapers on Friday, and concluded, "It is analysis that strikes me as having born no resemblance to the speech you and I just watched. None whatsoever. And for it to be distributed by the lone national news organization in terms of wire copy to newspapers around the country and web sites is a remarkable failure of that news organization.

"Charles Babington, find a new line of work."

Olberman even criticized the reporter on his time-keeping, noting that the article said the speech was 35 minutes long when it was, he said, actually 44 minutes long. A few minutes later, the AP copy showing up at news sites had been corrected to "44 minutes."

Even as Babington was hitting Obama for a lack of specifics, AP was transmitting a second piece by another reporter, Jim Drinkard, that offered a detailed look at seven specific policy proposals in the speech (and expressed doubts about all of them)


click here for E&P's original report on Keith Olbermann DEMOLISHING KNOCKING-OUT of Charles Babbington's misleading, outright LYING spin on the Democratic nominee's acceptance speech last night, including Babbington's misleading article in full - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063

Saturday, August 16, 2008

AIPAC infested New York Times PROPAGANDA LIES re US military Insertion into Georgia war vs South Ossetia....

The New York Times / Joe Lieberman / AIPAC / Cheney / Bush Neo-Con WAR-MONGERING DICTATOR du jour cries... that AMERICA INSTIGATED HIM to ATTACK South Ossetia but did not back him up!








So much for the notion that America's Jewish community (much less Israel's right-wing imperialist Likudnik pro-wars hard-liners) supports peace, international cooperation, and democratic governments.

Here (reprinted bottom this post) Sean Madden examines the NEW YORK TIMES editorial agenda in WHITEWASHING America's role in INSTIGATING Georgia President Mikhel Saakashvili (a New York educated lawyer) to ATTACK SOUTH OSSETIA, in a Georgian military imperial attempt to assert control over a region it has had NO control for the past decade, because the ethnic Russians in South Ossetia REJECT Georgian dominance and rule.

Saakashvili WOULD NOT HAVE DREAMED of attacking South Ossetia - without CONSTANT and HIGH-LEVEL SUPPORT from the US government.

Saakashvili was practically crying, while standing next to US Secretary of Instigating-International-Wars Rice, that the US did NOT SUPPORT HIM as much as Rice and the Cheney-Bush administration had told him or led him to believe -

Even as Rice stood with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in a show of solidarity, he asked, "Who invited the trouble here? Who invited this arrogance here? Who invited these innocent deaths here?"

Shaky and near tears following a difficult, nearly five-hour meeting with her, Saakashvili answered his own question: "Not only those people who perpetrate them are responsible, but also those people who failed to stop it. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/15/georgia-signs-cease-fire_n_119174.html

This behind-the-scenes WAR-MONGERING by the Cheney-Bush administration has the OVERT SUPPORT of the Jewish-owned New York Times, which is LEADING the entire US national media/press corps, in LYING to the American people, in a constant PROPAGANDA DRUMBEAT towards ever expanding wars and US military operations overseas.


More links documenting the US government WAR MONGERING INSTIGATION of Saakashvili's dictatorial, skull-crushing government.... and the NAZI-esque NEW YORK TIMES WHITEWASHING of same....
#1. "Georgia REFORMS Judiciary" - sheer US propaganda-speak, for "American press/media SUPPORTS Saakashvili's CHARGES OF TREASON against opposition candidates, and CLOSED DOOR, secret, Soviet-esque trials for those in opposition to the regime that furthers America's war-mongering on Russia's doorstep...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0917/p07s02-woeu.html
(Note: this is a CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR _WHITEWASH_ of Saakashvili's SOVIET, KANGAROO, DICTATOR COURTS! (Masquerading as an article on "judicial reform"!)

#2. The Real Aggressor
Georgian invasion of South Ossetia sets the stage for a wider war
By AntiWar.com writer Justin Raimondo
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13285
#3. Raimondo repeats his "Georgia INVASION was UNPROVOKED" - specifically calling Saakashvili A WAR CRIMINAL - A politician's hubris causes untold human suffering
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13304

The Nazi-esque Times' LOVE for MURDEROURS, CORRUPT, but pro-American dictators is also suggested in this Harper's article on President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, which illustrates Bush administration glaring HYPOCRISY re corrupt, opposition killing dictators (and the Times' quiescent, tacit complicity in BushCo's Machiavellian Real-Politik.)
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/07/sb-a-corrupt-brutal-dictator-1152915051
Indeed, that former PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON personally befriended Nazarbayev, and negotiated a BILLION DOLLAR URANIUM CONTRACT for Clinton billionaire Canadian mining "donor" Frank Guistra - for which Clinton WAS PAID $31 MILLION
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html
as a DOWN-PAYMENT on a total $100 MILLION "donation" to Clinton's "charitable foundation" - is symptomatic of the inside-Washington DEMOCRAT's tendency towards BIG MONEY CORRUPTION.


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All the Propaganda LIES That they Can Get Away with Printing:
The New York Times, Again, LIES THEIR WAR-MONGERING, ELECTION STEALING, TREASURY LOOTING Way to Journalistic INFAMY!

By Sean M. Madden
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20523.htm


The New York Times’ top story Thursday morning -- entitled "Bush, Sending Aid, Demands That Moscow Withdraw" -- leads with the following three propaganda-packed paragraphs:

President Bush sent American troops to Georgia on Wednesday to oversee a “vigorous and ongoing” humanitarian mission, in a direct challenge to Russia’s display of military dominance over the region. His action came after Russian soldiers moved into two strategic Georgian cities in what he and Georgian officials called a violation of the cease-fire Russia agreed to earlier in the day.

Mr. Bush demanded that Russia abide by the cease-fire and withdraw its forces or risk its place in “the diplomatic, political, economic and security structures of the 21st century.” It was his strongest warning yet of potential retaliation against Russia over the conflict.

The decision to send the American military, even on a humanitarian mission, deepened the United States’ commitment to Georgia and America’s allies in the former Soviet sphere, just as Russia has been determined to reassert its control in the area.
But the propaganda is already at work, before we even get to these lead paragraphs, within the headline itself, splashed as it is across the front page of America’s oft-called “newspaper of record,” along with the Gray Lady’s hundred-plus-year-old motto “All the News That’s Fit to Print”. The headline is accompanied, or vice versa, by a photograph of a “humanitarian aid” shipment being unloaded, we’re told, from a U.S. military cargo plane at an airport in Tbilisi, Georgia.

But to be sure that all concerned -- that is, we historical-fact-deprived Americans, you god-help-you Georgians, and the rest of “the free world” -- get the point at a glance, the U.S. State Department seal, apparently color-coordinated for the occasion, graces the side of the shipment.

As part of an all-out Western media campaign to bury the simple fact that Georgia invaded South Ossetia a week ago -- an act of aggression which led, subsequently, to Russia’s response -- Thursday’s NYT’s top headline helps to further instill the lie, at home and abroad, that Bush and the U.S government are truly concerned about the welfare of Georgians and human beings generally.

American and international readers are spoon-fed their daily dose of sanctioned thought within the very first sentence of the article. Bush, and by extension, the U.S. government and its military are not in Georgia to further U.S. (or the global elite’s) geopolitical interests.

Don‘t you dare think such a forbidden thought, the NYT goads its readers (of whom, on the whole, it can be said could do with a fair bit of goading to wake them from their psyop slumber).

Bush, the U.S. government and its military -- who, lest we forget, are guilty of murdering more than a million Iraqi civilians by way of their very own and very indisputable act of overt aggression, to say nothing of atrocities in Afghanistan or the ceaseless drumbeat toward a prefabricated war with Iran -- are in Georgia on a “humanitarian mission”.

A “vigorous and ongoing” one at that, should we have considered that it could be otherwise.

Gee whiz, what swell folk they are, off on a sticky humanitarian venture, risking life and limb for liberty and justice for all, when they could be vacationing during the final throes of summer. Worse yet, some of the American men and women deployed to Georgia may actually believe that they’re doing just that, risking life and limb (as they most certainly are) for liberty and justice for all.

Mike Whitney wrote the following in an article which headlined Wednesday’s Information Clearing House newsletter:

The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even ONE Russian soldier set foot in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Americans still believe that the Russian army invaded Georgian territory first. The BBC, AP, NPR, the New York Times and the rest of the establishment media has consistently and deliberately misled its readers into believing that the violence in South Ossetia was initiated by the Kremlin. Let's be clear, it wasn't. In truth, there is NO dispute about the facts except among the people who rely the western press for their information. Despite its steady loss of credibility, the corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon.
Whitney’s article popped into my inbox at 1:35 BST (British Summer Time) Thursday morning. The New York Times daily headlines email arrived at 9:31, giving me time, first, to read, share and comment on (in correspondence) Whitney’s ICH article before coming upon the NYT’s daily dose.

But let’s return to those first three paragraphs and see if we can’t sift through the propaganda that the New York Times has the never-ending gall to heap upon its readers, despite or in continuation of its deep complicity in smoothing the way within the hearts and minds of the American people for the U.S. to wage its criminal war in Iraq, as it did in the lead up to the invasion of Afghanistan, as it has been doing with feverish abandon concerning Iran, and is doing now within the article at hand in order to provide pseudo-intellectual cover for U.S. aggression-by-proxy in the Caucasus.

President Bush sent American troops to Georgia on Wednesday to oversee a “vigorous and ongoing” humanitarian mission, in a direct challenge to Russia’s display of military dominance over the region.
The U.S. already had troops in Georgia, reportedly to train the Georgian military. Considered in this light, the first sentence of this NYT article is, at best, a half-truth, at worst, a lie of omission.

On July 15, Reuters reported (and MSNBC.com published, though the page has since “expired“) that “one thousand U.S. troops began a military training exercise in Georgia on Tuesday against a backdrop of growing friction between Georgia and neighbouring Russia.” The report continues: "The main purpose of these exercises is to increase the cooperation and partnership between U.S. and Georgian forces," Brigadier General William B. Garrett, commander of the U.S. military's Southern European Task Force, told reporters. This was reported on July 15, one month ago.

But this fact must be relegated to the memory hole. We are meant only to remember that U.S. forces are on a humanitarian mission and that Georgia was attacked, unprovoked, by Russia in a “display of military dominance over the region.” Never mind that U.S. forces did, in fact, invade and presently occupy both Iraq and Afghanistan in a display of military dominance. Russia, on the other hand, was meant to stand by as their citizens were being attacked and killed by Georgia military forces which General Garrett has told us were working in cooperation and partnership with U.S. forces in July.

Given this fine example of international cooperation and partnership, are even Americans and other gullible New York Times readers meant to swallow the obvious conclusion that Georgia would never have attacked South Ossetia without prior U.S. knowledge and approval?

His [Bush’s] action came after Russian soldiers moved into two strategic Georgian cities in what he and Georgian officials called a violation of the cease-fire Russia agreed to earlier in the day.
We’re meant to believe that Russian soldiers just decided, devoid of any cause whatsoever, to move into two Georgian cities. Russia, not Georgia, must be seen to be the aggressor. Not a hint of reality must be allowed to seep in and cause good ol’ American patriotic resolve to waver.

All must be black and white, even if what passes for black is, indeed, white or vice versa.

Mr. Bush demanded that Russia abide by the cease-fire and withdraw its forces or risk its place in “the diplomatic, political, economic and security structures of the 21st century.” It was his strongest warning yet of potential retaliation against Russia over the conflict.
Can even the New York Times, propaganda-arm-extraordinaire, print this with a straight face? Bush -- the million-plus-mass-murderer from Connecticut, I mean Crawford -- is pointing out to Russia that it is risking its place in the “the diplomatic, political, economic and security structures of the 21st century,” by which he can only mean the New World Order, the very nature of which the world’s citizens have observed throughout the Bush years (I and II) is nothing if not diabolical.

In closing, and in brief, let us take a look at the third paragraph in this New York Times piece:

The decision to send the American military, even on a humanitarian mission, deepened the United States’ commitment to Georgia and America’s allies in the former Soviet sphere, just as Russia has been determined to reassert its control in the area.

The New York Times now asserts -- in case we missed it being gently shoved down our throats the first time -- that only in retrospect did the U.S. decide to deepen its “commitment to Georgia and America’s allies in the former Soviet sphere”. A bald-faced lie if ever there was one.

But, note, this isn’t a U.S. official lying to the American public via the New York Times. No, this is the New York Times, itself, lying directly to its readers, worldwide, as it does day in and day out.

And, finally, the spoonful of sugar, to either help it go down or to make you regurgitate the whole:

“Even on a humanitarian mission.”

Sunday, August 03, 2008

CBS publishes NRO screed praising Rush Limbaugh - a perfect distillation of Right-Wing media Lies & propaganda...

For centuries and millennia, the Right-Wing agenda has been a simple one: relentless, ruthless, remorseless CONCENTRATION of Wealth & Power in the hands of the few, at the expense of the many.

For much of history, the ages of ancient god-kings, empires, and the more modern state-based kings whose "Divine Right" rule was confronted by the Declaration of Independence, the argument could be made that what was good for the ruler was good for the people, for without a strong army, a people, tribe or nation would be swept into submission (or even annhilation) by maurading armies of stronger, conquering empires. But WWI showed up the folly of huge nation-states being led into ever more murderous wars by hereditary rulers (the Kaiser and Czar's awful leadership led to deaths of millions of their men-at-arms, and at least the wester world embraced the notions of democratically elected goverments.

Unfortunately, deliberative democracy in Germany after WWI fell victim to the rise of modern media techniques of demagogue propaganda, radio, newsreels, and state run media of the Nazi party.

But in America we held to the belief that democracy worked, and that the media's #1. job was to INFORM American citizens, by holding the powerful accountable, so citizens could perform their duties of oversight over the government.

This NRO article by Rush Limbaugh flunkie (Limbaugh's official show global warming denier) Roy Spencer is a textbook example of how the Right-Wing media sees itself.

The administration and policies Limbaugh have supported have resulted in enormous TRILLION DOLLAR US DEFICITS, but Spence glosses over all that glibly, claiming Limbaugh has... "generated much more in new wealth for us all"!



20 Years Of Rush Limbaugh
National Review: The Mainstream Media Still Doesn't Get His Appeal
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By Roy Spencer
Reprinted with permission from National Review Online.
Aug. 1, 2008
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/01/opinion/main4313723.shtml

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(National Review Online) This column was written by By Roy Spencer.
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Rush Limbaugh’s 20 years of masterminding a wildly successful syndicated radio talk show proves many things about America that the mainstream media just doesn’t seem to get.

We don’t want a steady stream of bad news all the time. We don’t need a daily dose of new crises to wring our hands over. And in a country with abundant opportunities for success - where your creativity and ambition not only benefit you, but benefit everyone else - we sure don’t need our politicians telling us that we need them in order to be successful in life.

What Rush Limbaugh has provided this country far exceeds his lucrative income, the result of what Rush calls “confiscatory advertising rates.” For every dollar he has earned over the years, his encouragement to millions of loyal Dittoheads has surely generated much more in new wealth for us all.

And, yes, that even means more wealth for those humorless do-gooders who are so concerned about humanity’s unsolved problems that they generously throw as much of your money at those problems as they can get their hands on. While they try to give away your fish to others so that they might have purpose in life, Rush encourages everyone to learn to fish for themselves.

Rush’s on-air talents are numerous, combining to provide a wonderful vibe three hours a day, five days a week, that we will probably never again experience in talk radio. He articulates those underlying truths of life of which we are only dimly aware, bringing them out in the open and discussing them in the context of the news of the day.

Many of us remember the first time we heard Rush as the moment when we finally found someone who was able to express the things that we were thinking. His humor is subtle, devious, cutting, clever.

Despite 15 hours of material each week, Rush’s enemies still have trouble finding anything he’s said to damage him on the public stage. And then, they only do so at their peril. When Harry Reid and 41 Democrat senators sent a letter of complaint to Clear Channel last October lambasting Limbaugh’s use of the term “phony soldiers,” Rush auctioned the letter on eBay for $2.1 million, personally matched that amount, and then sent the proceeds to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.

Later, on the floor of the senate, Reid surrendered and offered that he would have gotten even more signatures if he had known the good cause the letter would be used for. Rush wins again. Trying to claim that Rush does not support our troops is a little like calling Al Gore a global warming denier.

Rush’s knowledge is encyclopedic. His memory is nothing short of amazing - the secret of which he once confided in me . . . but which I dare not disclose.

A dinner and house guest of presidents, honorary member of the House of Representatives, friend to countless celebrities and CEOs, and now a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, one would think Rush’s ego would have long ago outrun his good sense. And to be sure, those whose knowledge of Rush only comes from rumors consider him a pompous blowhard.

But a couple of weeks of listening to The Rush Limbaugh Show will reveal Rush to be a gracious host. If callers do not clearly express themselves, he takes the time to understand what they are trying to say.

He makes even the worst phone calls work to advance the show. That’s how good he is. Rush suffers the most irritating of callers, and seldom loses his temper even though thousands of impatient listeners are likely yelling and throwing their lunches at their radios and computer speakers.

As someone who occasionally provides Rush with “late arriving show prep” during commercial breaks, I have been amazed at how quickly Rush can assimilate new material. In a matter of seconds he can change gears and launch into an impromptu ten-minute dissertation on some issue he had not planned on addressing that day.

Some on the Left think Rush needs to be balanced by one or more voices on the other end of the political spectrum. A few politicians are even floating the idea of resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine. While conservatives consider most of the news media in America as decidedly liberal, those working in the media believe that they are the ones who really represent mainstream America, and they want equal time.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? How can anyone determine the truth in such a matter of personal perception? The question is easily answered. In the free market of ideas, a widespread demand for views that have little or no supply will result in a huge market for anyone who steps up to meet that demand. Rush’s show remains popular partly because he meets a need that is not being met elsewhere.

When Air America Radio tried to counter Rush’s conservative views on-air, they failed simply because the market was already saturated with liberal views - from the mainstream media. When supply exceeds demand, the value of those views plummets. In stark contrast, Rush just signed a new $400 million contract. This is clear evidence of a continuing demand for something that still does not have a sufficient supply.

And this is what most in the mainstream media do not get. Rush is America. Its ideals and aspirations, work ethic and patriotism. A people who would rather focus on all that is right with our country rather than complain about what is wrong.

And as long the old media continues to deny that reality, Rush will continue to rally the hearts and minds of the people who make this nation work.

Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is author of the new book, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor. He serves as official climatologist for The Rush Limbaugh Show.



By Roy Spencer
Reprinted with permission from National Review Online.