"They want to Ruin You!"
Sean Penn as LA gov. candidate Willie Stark, stumping to Lousiana's rural poor. - "Hicks" economically subjugated and politically disenfranchised by New Orleans 1930s powerbrokers. Based on the populist rise and fall of Huey Long, derided as a "dictator" by his opponents, but the politician who may well have driven FDR to sponsor Social Security and other programs that saved America from the Depression.
Well, there they go again! What is AMAZING about this EXCELLENT Buzzflash.com editor's editorial, is that Buzzflash & its editor are die-hard, 100% Obama supporters. Buzzflash written, edited, & published, in fact, in Chicago, then Senator Barack Obama's POWER-BASE, CHICAGO, Illinois; where Buzzflash writers were such unabashed Obama supporters that they went into a financial crisis of their own when Hillary Clinton's Neo-Con "Democratic" supporters stopped funding Buzzflash for a spell, as Buzz (and other "liberal" websites & columns) documented Hillary's increasingly erratic, increasingly duplicitous (lying), increasingly RACIST attacks on then Senator Obama's campaign.) Well, Buzzflash REMAINS vocal and ardent Obama supporters today, which is what makes this editorial so amazing: Mr. Karlin detailing JUST HOW ENTITLED, CORRUPT, and SELF-SERVING Mr. Obama's Economics advisor LAWRENCE SUMMERS is, but Karlin going after WASHINGTON POST op-ed columnist RICHARD COHEN as the prime focus of this particular column!
Washington Post Columnist Richard Cohen Hearts Larry Summers: Tales of the D.C. Elite "Village People" BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG http://buzzflash.com/articles/node/8168
Those who frequent the progressive sites know that the term "villager" has come to describe D.C. insiders who protect each other’s privileged status.
A risible case in point is the April 7th column of veteran WASHINGTON POST 'journalist' [sic] Richard Cohen, who makes the LUDICROUS argument that hedge fund multi-millionaire and Wall Street protector Larry Summers is a victim of harsh attacks. Cohen’s main contention is that Summers is serving us at great sacrifice to his personal fortune....
Now here is Buzzflash's MASTERPIECE paragraph that gets to THE ROOT of Economic crisis 2008-2009:
"Now, given that Summers is the fox in the hen house, along with Geithner, it’s a little hard to swallow Cohen’s impassioned defense of Summers as a "public servant." After all, Summers made millions from the same people that he is now helping to give billions to, even though they screwed up the economy – and he benefited like a bandit from their greed."
We would love to post the column in full to give it its due, but Buzzflash's editors & publisher probably would not approve of the "SHRILL" tone we have here at Media Whores USA. (And, just to repeat, KEEPING UP with the LIARS, TRAITORS, and HATE-MONGERS of the Radical Right & their "Mainstream Media" whores, is like WORKING IN A toxic, poisonous CESS-PIT and NEVER getting a break!) Oh... speaking of "SHRILL" and "HATE-MONGERS" !! -
Today's Buzzflash.com also contains an excellent link to our other favorite (despised) theme here at MEDIA WHORES USA, #1. the LINKS between the MEDIA WHORES and their abject, craven, lying, deceitful support for the FINANCIAL LOOTING of the entire US economy; and #2. the LINKS between the "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" and the RADICAL-RIGHT-WING HATE-INCITING talkers and TV & print media personalities... in this case, Buzzflash providing a book review and purchase-link to an excellent book on exactly that critical topic; The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1552
WILL America SURVIVE the COMPLACENCY and COMPLICITY of the "Demcorat" administration & Congress, to the RIGHT-WING FINANCIAL LOOTING of the entire US Economy, and to RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERS trying to _BLAME_ that SERIAL FRAUD & economic destruction on the Democrats and on "liberal" programs??
Well, you could say that Vietnam "survived" the Vietnam war... or that Japan "survived" WWII and the nuclear bombing of two of its cities, and firebombing of dozens of its other cities.... the word "survived" in those cases just glossing over rivers of destruction, despair, and disaster.
THE TRUE TEST of good reporting: In our previous post, on April 2nd, 2009, we CONNECTED-the-DOTS between the JEWISH owned NEO-CON (warmongers & loot-the-peons) NEW YORK TIMES _whitewash_ of Right-Wing hate-monger & (former CNN and current) FOX 'news' radio & TV host GLEN BECK, and Beck's very real, very fear-mongering & hate-mongering rhetoric...
and two days later, gunman RICHARD POPLAWSKI, WHO WAS A FAN of GLEN BECK's "The are going to take your guns!" fear-mongering rhetoric that Beck spews from his microphone daily, shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers who were responding to a domestic complaint at the house where Poplawski was living with his grandmother. Here is (genuine investigative reporter) Max Blumenthal, reporting at the DailyBeast.com (good reporters must write & report from obscure web-sites like the DailyBeast.com and Alternet.org, because GOOD REPORTING is CENSORED from the "major media" WHORE 'news' papers like the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST and CNN much less Fox 'news'), CONNECTING THE VERY SIMPLE DOT that we here at MediaWhoresUSA connected last week, that a RIGHT-WING HATE-INSPIRED GUNMAN was INSPIRED TO MURDER by.... LISTENING to GLEN BECK!!
Here at MediaWHORES USA we can NOT keep up with all the ways, subtle and overt, that the NEO-CONS who DOMINATE New York Times and Washington Post PRETEND TO IGNORE the HATE-MONGERING RIGHT-WING neo-Nazi tendencies of their "MORE WAR IN MIDEAST" and "LOOT THE TREASURY" allies who provide the voting "base" or core of the Republican Party our in "Red State" rural America... But we do know that Right-Wing HATE-MONGERS are PLAYING TO the future, would-be TIMMMY McVEIGH's out in America, and those RIGHT-WING MURDER-INCITING HATE-MONGERS INCLUDE the editors & writers of the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST.
As we reported earlier (http://mediawhoresusa.blogspot.com/2009/02/bernard-goldberg-was-inspiration-for.html) Jewish HATE-MONGER & Neo-Con writer BERNARD GOLDBERG's writings were held up as _"INSPIRATION"_ by the murderous gunman who entered a "liberal" Knoxville Church (minority & gay welcoming... during a Sunday children's play, no less!) - with a shotgun, pistols, & tons of ammunition, WITH the MURDEROUS INTENTION of SHOOTING and KILLING _EVERYONE_ INSIDE the church - as PROXIES, because the murderous Jim David Adkisson COULD NOT manage to KILL any of the big names listed by Goldberg in his right-wing hate-mongering "TOP TEN WORST AMERICANS" book.
WELL, along comes the JEWISH-owned NEW YORK TIMES this week, in their chronic, treacherous, lying, and insanely greedy NEO-CONSERVATIVE ENTITLEMENT, once again MAKING NICE with the MERCHANTS OF RIGHT-WING HATE, in this case doing a PUFF-PIECE on Right-Wing Radio shill GLEN BECK, who not only uses similar "HATE LIBERALS" rhetoric as Bernard Goldberg does, but recently (long after it was documented & proven that Goldberg's book was _THE INSPIRATION FOR MURDER_, for SHOOTING UP that Knoxville Church) INVITED Goldberg on the Glen Beck show (on CNN "HATE-MONGERS ARE US" no less!) to commisserate about just HOW MUCH BETTER America would be, if, you know, the Nazi- & Jewish Right-Wings in America could just start DISPOSING of THEIR ENEMIES, Nazi style!!!
But don't take OUR word for it! - Here is Buzzflash.com's "Media Putz of the Week" filling in a few more details than we can, about the BLATANTLY HATE-BAITING agenda of GLEN BECK, and, by extension, how the JEWISH NEO-CON EDITORS and PUBLISHERS of the New York Times SUPPORT THAT AGENDA of HATE (and resulting MURDERS), BY DOING A PUFF-PIECE on Beck ! (And don't forget the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church shooting was NOT the only Right-Wing POLITICAL ASSASSINATION/murder of 2008: just two weeks later, ANOTHER Right-Wing gunman, also allegedly inspired by Right-Wing hate-mongers' "media personalities" with shows on "mainstream" TV, walked in to the Arkansas state Democratic Party Headquarters in Little Rock, the gunman walking into Chairman Bill Gwaltney's office, then shooting & murdering the UNARMED Mr. Gwaltney... - ANOTHER MURDER by RIGHT-WING ASSASSINATION in 2008!
As with the VAST TSUNAMI of FINANCIAL FRAUD which has destroyed MILLIONS of Americans savings, investments, home values (and jobs), the WHORE, CHRONICALLY LYING, murderously corrupt NEW YORK TIMES can NOT bother to CONNECT THE SIMPLE DOTS between RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERS like Glenn Beck & Bernarnd Goldmberg, and the MURDERS committed by right-wing haters INSPIRED by those "major media" Right-WIng hate-mongering shills!
(Note: Buzzflash.com is also Jewish owned, & probably wouldn't appreciate our mentioning that the NEW YORK TIMES is Jewish-owned, and supports the ENTIRE RIGHT-WING, NEO-CON AGENDA of STOLEN ELECTIONS, LIES-to-WAR, WARS of AGGRESSION, DICTATORIAL executive war-powers, TORTURE, unlimited, no-oversight STASI-style SURVEILLANCE over Americans, Looting-the-Treasury (aka "Tax Cuts for Rich") and all the other atrocious policies that the NEW YORK TIMES has SUPPORTED over the past dozen-plus years... but we don't WRITE these awful stories, we simply CONNECT-THE-DOTS that Media Whores REFUSE to connect, just as our next point mentions:) (note #2: note too how Buzzflash does an EXCELLENT job of __CONTRASTING__ NY Times 'writer' Bill Carter's current puff-piece on Glen Beck, with Carter's earlier, more strident writing about "liberal" MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. THIS SIMPLE RESEARCH, "COMPARE & CONTRAST" quotations from the same writer about two different subjects, is something ENTIRELY BEYOND the capabilities of the NEO-CON WARMONGERING, CHRONICALLY LYING, & HATE-INCITING New York Times.... and is a TEXT-BOOK EXAMPLE of how the Times is NOT a "liberal" media organization, but a RIGHT-WING HATE-MONGERING organization playing right out of JOSEPH GOEBBEL's NAZI hate-mongering playbook.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/honors/149 < For writing a virtual press release without any context or any dimension of actually watching Glenn Beck's show, we proclaim that [NEW YORK TIMES 'reporters'] Brian Stelter and Bill Carter share this week's Media PUTZ of the Week award." >
Yep, caught in the Act: the Washington Post showing its COWARDLY, NAZI stripes: ONE STANDARD for 'evil, sub-human foreigners' who run torture prisons, KILL their prisoners (and, what the hell, throw in a few condemnations for running DEATH SQUADS, just for fun), and another standard, "ALL THE ABOVE ARE HOLY, GOD-ORDAINED cleansed & sanctified means to Assert the United States rule over the world," oops! "to fight the never-ending, always expanding 'War on Terror'!"
HuffingtonPost with today's grisly details of the NEO-CON, warmongering, TREASURY-LOOTING, ELECTION-THIEVING Washington Post's REAL "journalistic 'standards'" - Right out of Herr Goebbels' playbook! -
The prosecution described a chain of death operated by Duch. His victims -- most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families -- were tortured with electric shocks, WATERBOARDING, or beating to extract a confession..."
HuffingtonPost writer Jason Linkins does an excellent job of _compiling_ some of the Post's many GOEBBELS-esqu Washington establishment/bureaucracy DOUBLE-SPEAK terms used for describing Waterboarding, NOT so much as torture, but as some form of government conduct entirely within legal bounds:
But unless you are in possession of whatever gland produces honesty, like Dan Froomkin, you never, never, ever just come right out and say that waterboarding is torture.
------------------------- The fact that ANYONE in America could think that EITHER the RIGHT-WING, NEO-CON,stolen-election-legitimizing, Warmongering, & TREASURY-LOOTING Washington Post _or_ New York Times were actually "LIBERAL" organizations (just because Drug Addict Demagogue Rush Limbaugh, demagogue blow-hard Bill O'Reilly, or hate-crimes-and-murder inciting BERNARD GOLBERG (etc., ad infinitum, ad naseum) declare they are) - is clear proof of just how Orwellian, how Goebbels-esque, how COMPLETELY PROPAGANDIZED the people of the United States have become.
As President Reagan once said, "THERE THEY GO AGAIN"!
This time, the NEW YORK TIMES - RELENTLESS in shilling the RIGHT-WING JEWISH PNAC & GOLDMAN-SACHS "we rule the WORLD, and have a right to ECONOMICALLY ENSLAVE anyone who gets in our way" agenda, publishes an... opinion article RATIONALIZING Bernie Maddof's MASSIVE FINANCIAL FRAUD !!
We have, of course, heard this meme before: "Bernie's victims were mostly Jewish... SO WHAT RIGHT do non-Jews have to cast judgement on one of OUR own, Bernie Madoff."
Well, we here at MediaWhoresUSA had to spend MONTHS, if not YEARS, defending Clinton & apologizing for his MARC RICH PARDON, which was BOUGHT & PAID FOR via Washington "super-lawyer" I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby - (Yes, he of War-Crimes perpetrator DICK CHENEY's CHIEF OF STAFF fame, or PERJURY & OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in "CIA Outing scandal" infamy).
We are TIRED of having to DEFEND and APOLOGIZE for CORRUPT "ISRAEL FIRST" financiers and their Washington lawyers & K. St. fixers who OWN Washington DC, and THE ENTIRE US GOVERNMENT.. BOTH Bush's Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson (he of SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS of TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for his own firm & other big NY banks), AND Clinton's Treasury Secretary ROBERT RUBIN, worked as CHAIRMEN of the GOLDMAN-SACHS HEDGE FUND, Rubin NOW OBAMA's TOP ECONOMICS advisor, despite having PRESIDED OVER the BANKRUPTCY at Citi-group last year. (Resecued from BANKRUPTCY, _ONLY_ by fellow Goldman-Sachs bankster Paulson's HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars of bailouts.) Oh yeah - did we mention WHO OBAMA's #2 DONOR for 2008 was ?? http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
Well, here's the NEW YORK TIMES, at their WHITEWASHING AIPAC CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR worst:
< Well, Daphne Merkin can think what she wishes, and her extraordinarily warped take on this tragedy would hardly merit reading past her third paragraph, let alone publishing a lengthy disputation. But the real story here is not one person's slant on the largest financial swindle in history. It is the decision of the New York Times to publish it at all. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-smith/the-incestuous-merkins-pr_b_180566.html
It is hard to add to, or amplify on, the great ConsortiumNews.com exposes a TYPICAL Washington Post SMEAR, SLIME, and HATCHET JOB against a Washington official who could possibly (had he been confirmed for office in the Obama administration), been a restraint or obstruction on the Neo-Con "EXPAND WARS IN THE MIDEAST!" agenda. ConsortiumNews.com, March 15, 2009: "The WASHINGTON POST is a NEO-CON PROPAGANDA SHEET." http://consortiumnews.com/2009/031509.html
As our own title asserts, the Washington Post gives up NOT ONE TRICK to German WWII Nazi Propaganda Minister JOSEF GOEBBELS, in LYING to their readers and to the American public.... ...For an agenda & ideology that is actually quite indistinguishable from the NAZI ideology, namely that in the name of "STATE SECURITY!" the United should should & must START WARS, EMPLOY DEATH-SQUADS, tax the public to support an ever larger & growing WAR-MACHINE; and that there are ALWAYS some "evil, sub-human 'untermensch'" enemies (today's code-word of course "Terrorists!") around who justify the Washington Post's ghoulish writers fomenting & encouraging ENDLESS WARS, DEATH SQUADS, TORTURE, & other GESTAPO ruthless war-time occupation & police state tactics. (And, don't forget... when the ABU GHRAIB photos showed just how DISGUSTING, BRUTAL, & _COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE_ those GESTAPO torture tactics truly are... the POST editors & writers (and their fellow Naziesque ghouls over at the NEW YORK TIMES) pimped, primped, primed, and cheer-led the US version of NAZI/Commissar KANGAROO COURT SHOW TRIALS, for FEMALE Volunteer PRIVATES accused __ONLY__ of "ABUSE" - ...WHILE the president (Bush) and Vice President (Cheney)of the United States OPENLY BRAGGED ON and asserted their "RIGHT" to _TORTURE PRISONERS, TO DEATH, at their SOUL DISCRETION, never answering to anyone, AT ANY TIME THEY CHOSE, to ANYONE hey so desired! That is, KANGAROO Gestapo/Commissar SHOW TRIALS for FEMALE PRIVATES accused ONLY of "abuse" - WHILE the Post & Times endorse the Vice President & President openly asserting "THEIR RIGHT" to TORTURE prisoners, TO DEATH!!
The United States might not today be running overt DEATH CAMPS just yet, but the US War in Iraq has killed ONE out of TWENTY FIVE Iraqis (reliable estimates on the Post-US invasion violent death toll in Iraq starts around a million killed, and go upwards from there), and of course the Neo-Cons at the WashPOST and NY TIMES STILL DREAM of _MORE_ DEATH-SQUAD WARS - in Venezuela, in Mexico (vs drug gangs), and THROUGHOUT South America. ....And of course the Neo-Con ghouls would LOVE to unleash a NUCLEAR WAR against Iran. (The closest their fervid, malevolent, & morbid imaginations can come to finding to a WWII-scale "enemy.") AND DON'T FORGET: The TREASONOUS Neo-Cons at the POST, TIMES, & AIPAC (and SATURATED THROUGH the US Congress & media) STILL IGNORE the SAUDI FUNDING for both 9-11 hijackers, AND the WAHABI "hate the infidel" Madrases throughout the world; in an EVIL alliance of the wealthy (Arab royals and their ostesnible 'enemies' the AIPAC bankers) vs. the unwashed masses!
<< Over the last three decades, the Post has evolved into a neoconservative propaganda sheet, especially its opinion section which fronted for George W. Bush’s FALSE Iraq-WMD claims, led the long-term BASHING of Iraq War critics, and defends whatever actions the Israeli government takes, including the recent war in Gaza and apparently its desire to preemptively bomb Iran. >>
------------------------------------------------- BLAMING THE VICTIM: Right out of WWII NAZI PROPAGANDA, which blamed millions of DEATH CAMP VICIMS for "being TERRORISTS!", the NEO-CONS at the POST & TIMES, SUPPORT the RELENTLESS ETHNIC CLEANSING of any and ALL Palestinian or Arab property, citizens, or enclaves from within the state of Israel - the EXACT PROCESS which the people of Israel have spent the last 2,000+ years COMPLAINING when other nations do same to them! Further, this simple graphic - which shows a concerted effort to "WIPE" Palestinian & Arab enclaves "OFF THE MAP" - illustrates how GROTESQUE is the Neo-Con rational for PRE-EMPTIVE WAR (aggression) against Iran - the Neo-Cons quoting Iranian officials as having demanded "the wiping of Israel off the map", even as THEY TRY TO DO THE SAME to PALESTINE areas within Israel!
Bonus: NEO-CON style "DEMOCRACY" and "FREEDOM" - Georgia democracy adocates, PROTESTING SUSPENDED ELECTIONS, are BEATEN, ARRESTED, and (in case of top leaders) KILLED, BY the US & ISRAEL SUPPORTED Saakashvili regime in Georgia - November 2007. Much of the PEACEFUL PROTESTS were spurred by Georgia's STANDARD OF LIVING _DECLINING_ under Saakashvili - classic "DISASTER CAPITALISM", as Saakashvili used Georgia taxpayer funds to PURCHASE EXPENSIVE US & Israeli WEAPONS, in anticipation of his scheduled August 2008 INVASION of South Ossetia!
America & Israel's favorite OPPOSITION-leader-KILLING, democracy-crushing, torture & police-state Puppet Dictator: Georgia Dictator Saakashvili in Israel, as the Israel war department rolls out the red carpet for Saakashvili to TRANSFER Georgia's hard-earned currency OVER TO ISRAEL to purchase expensive US & Israeli weapons for Saakashvili's pending war against South Ossetia - (TIME magazine story here - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1834785,00.html LYNCH-MOB Gestapo/KGB kangaroo-court SHOW TRIAL PROSECUTIONS in AMERICA; ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestians (while using alleged Iranian rhetoric of same regarding Israel to JUSTIFY desired PRE-EMPTIVE WAR against Iran); the RELENTLESS SMEARING of all critics opposed to the Neo-Con agenda here in America; and ASSASSINATIONS & CRUSHING of democracy protests in Georgia - the murderous Neo-Cons who DOMINATE the WASHINGTON POST and NEW YORK TIMES are at least consistent - CONSISTENTLY Nazi-esque Liars, war-mongers, and lusting for Death-Squads & torture ghouls. .
Catch this TEXTBOOK example of the NEW YORK WHORE TIMES Neo-Con "LOOT the Village, PLUNDER the Villagers, and RAPE their Pension fund" PROPAGANDA: - the NY Times SOFT-SELLING the FINANCIAL-REGULATIONS GUTTING _GRAMM-Leach-Bliley Act_ back in 1999.
This bill, along with then Senator Gramm's equally atrocious "COMMODITY FUTURES 'MODERNIZATION' Act of 2000" #2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 - created the "ENRON LOOPHOLE" & other BULLY-BOY financial loopholes, PROHIBITING the SEC from REGULATING DERIVATIVES, and thus placing HUGE SWATHS of the ENTIRE US Financial Markets BEYOND the oversight of the SEC.
Basically, the "INVESTMENT BANKERS" & hedge-fund hoodlums could now make ANY financial transaction INTO a "DERIVATIVE security," or "instrument" - a "Derivative security" which would now be ENTIRELY beyond the supervision of the SEC. ("The SEC," that is, which the NYTimes, Republican & 'Democrat' DEREGULATION FANATICS in Congres & government turned in to a TOOTHLESS SHELL in the first place.)
We won't deconstruct the WHORE TIMES' THIEVING "DEREGULATION IS GOOD!" propaganda whitewash story (link here) line-by-line - the SOFT-SELL TITLE ALONE suffices - but we will note that just FOUR Wiki articles on the 2 Phil Gramm DEREGULATION ATROCITIES are FAR MORE INFORMATIVE than EVERYTHING the THIEVING New York Whore Times has EVER written on the subject of these DEREGULATION ATROCITIES and thus the rules making markets and unknowing investors subject to MASSIVE FRAUD & MANIPULATION - because helping their fellow NY big business (banking) institutions DEFRAUD tens of thousands, upon MILLIONS of American investors, IS WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES is ALL about!
Here's a simple sentence from the Wiki entry for Bush's "BILLIONS of dollars TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for MY BANKER FRIENDS, FOREVER!" Treasury Secretary, HANK PAULSON, which the New York Times JUST CAN'T BOTHER to inform their reader:
< "The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, however, put the parent holding company of each of the big American brokerages beyond SEC oversight." > #3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
BECAUSE ROBBING AMERICAN working families & taxpayers BLIND - in HEALTH CARE, in JOBS, in PAY & BENEFITS, and ESPECIALLY in PENSIONS and in the Financial Markets - IS the agenda of the evil, Dastardly, Neo-Con New York Slimes & their financial Loot & Plunder partners in crime.
Because during the Clinton years the NY Times & Washington Post were able to MAKE "Whitewater!" SEEM like THE BIGGEST SCANDAL of the S&L financial meltdown of the late 1980s & early 1990s, they were able to ENABLE Phil Gramm to RESUME HIS DEREGULATION Jihad even as President Clinton was _still_ paying down the BUSH-1 DEFICITS and dragging the US economy OUT of the BUSH-1 RECESSION....
- That is, EVEN after Gramm's FIRST round of DEREGULATIONS - the _Savings & Loan_ deregulations of the 1980s - COST AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ONE-TRILLION DOLLARS in 1980s money and put America smack into those Bush-1 Deficits (Bush-1 Deficits were the cost of paying off the S&L BAILOUTS) and Bush-1 RECESSION - ("$1 TRILLION in taxpayers losses in 1980's money NOT counting the money American investors, home-buyers, pensioners, & workers lost in the private side of the S&L meltdown) - leading DIRECTLY to the late 1980s US financial markets meltdown, the New YOrk Times AGAIN, in late 1990s _enabled_ Phil Gramm's __SECOND round of 1999 & 2000 DEREGULATION bills__ leading DIRECTLY to this current TEN-TRILLION-DOLLAR US financial & economic meltdown! ---------------------------------- The New York WHORE Times RELENTLESSLY WHITEWASHES the CONNECTION between _DEREGULATION_ and MARKET MELTDOWNS & economic collapse; both after the Savings & Loans were DEREGULATED in the 1980s, and AGAIN, in late 1990s, when PHIL GRAMM's SECOND ROUND of DEREGULATION INSANITY _paved the way_ for our CURRENT market meltdowns (nearly HALF of the market's theoretical value lost since October of 2007) & economic crisis: as the below NY Times SOFT SELL of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill story illustrates!
When the NEW YORK WHORES TIMES writes "EASING bank laws," they MEAN, "GUTTING ALL oversight & regulation or YOUR PENSION, SAVINGS, & MARKET INVESTMENTS" - because the NYT are PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS & THIEVES!!
and Sorkin basically never once offered any refutation to Nobel-prize winning economist (and fellow NY Times writer) Mr. Krugman's assertion, that the BAILOUTS are a monstrosity - a WASTED OPPORTUNITY that has delivered BILLIONS upon HUNDREDS-of-billions of TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO the very Banksters who RUINED America's economy and finanical markets - and that instead of GETTING CREDIT FLOWING, and making sure the TAXPAYER (bailout) funds actual stimulate consumption and production, the Big Bailout Banks have used the money to "Bolster their balance sheets" - something that, had the US Congress known, they would NEVER have approved of either Mr. Paulson or Mr. Obama's BAILOUT requests (demands).
But today Mr. Sorkin pops up at the New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/24sorkin.html in the FAR MORE TRADITIONAL NY Times role: PROPPING UP the NEO-CON TAKEOVER of the world, in this case, making the case that uber-Neo-Con "finanical institution" GOLDMAN-SACHS are the "GOOD GUYS", who are "TRYING TO PAY BACK TAXPAYER DOLLARS in advance of schedule."
Needless to say, Sorkin AND the Times miss YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY to delve into GOLDMAN-SACHS ROLE in the WIPING OUT of TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of INVESTOR VALUE in this economic meltdown.
To repeat from our previous posts - HERE is the NEW YORK TIMES, JOINING Goldman-Sachs, in GLOATING about Goldman's BILLION DOLLAR BONUS CHRISTMAS - of 2006!! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/12cnd-earn.html Back then the GHOULISH New York Times REFUSED to CONNECT-the-DOTS on Goldman-Sachs execs GLOATING about THEIR BONUSES - WHILE tens of thousands of American families were ALREADY STARTING TO FACE FORECLOSURE and EVICTION that December of 2006! Needless to say, NOT ONLY WAS THAT GHOULISH, but it was STUPID - for "MORTGAGES" were the core or base of a HUGE portion of Goldman-Sachs (and other financial firms) OVER-VALUED 'investments' and ASSETS - and when a family home was FORECLOSED on, it was a DOUBLE-WHAMMY against those "financial assets": first, a FAILED MORTGAGE sitting on a bank's books, and, second, ALL THE HOME VALUES in the neighborhood ARE DEPRESSED by the drop in value of the foreclosed home, duh!
THE NEW YORK TIMES was TOO GREEDY, COMPLICIT, and CORRUPT to make the above VERY SIMPLE CONNECTIONS between THE LOOMING FORECLOSURE CRISIS and GOLDMAN-SACHS' insanely greedy, GHOULISH "Billion-dollar" BONUSES of 2006!! (As if that wasn't bad enough, EVEN by 2006 MUCH of GoldmanSachs' "profits" WERE FAKE - dependent on "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS" of the Fed __CREATING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR__ and GIVING IT to their favorite banks, aka "LIQUIDITY INJECTIONS" that had, by March of 2008, deposited ONE TRILLION un-earned dollars in the vaults of those fortunate few banks. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/7483/Fed-Heads-Back-to-the-Well-Will-It-Run-Dry? This process has NEVER been discussed or explained in detail! (Even though of course "LIQUIDITY INJECTIONS hit the news every so often - including BEN BERNANKE dishing out ANOTHER $630 BILLION to the large banks http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9MTZEgukPLY the VERY WEEK that Hank Paulson DEMANDED of Speaker Pelosi and her 110th "Democratic" Congress the $700 BILLION dollars in "front-door" bailouts we are all more familiar with... That is, a total of OVER ONE TRILLION in Taxpayer BAILOUTS of the big banks, from the ONE WEEK of market meltdown in September 2008, alone!)
The above just the prelude or back-history to today's SNARKY NYT/Sorkin story, "If Goldman Returns Aid, Will Others?" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/24sorkin.html Sorkin DOES mention some of the (mega!) concerns about Goldman-Sachs in the first place:
"Goldman’s sudden urgency to return the money stems, in part, from the uproar over A.I.G.’s bonuses last week, and the criticism of Goldman over revelations that the firm had been the largest recipient of government money as a counterparty of bets placed with A.I.G."
- but in the VERY NEXT SENTENCE, Sorkin careens at 100 mph AWAY from that teaser his has just waved in front of our noses! With the INSANELY irrational Obama "financial" camp REFUSING to provide Americans with A SINGLE major AUDIT of a SINGLE bailed-out bank, it is EASY to see why: THE NEW YORK TIMES and GOLDMAN SACHS __DO NOT WANT__ any GOOD financial reporting - MUCH LESS AUDITS!! WHEN Mr. Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's Head-Skull-Crusher and Gate-keeper, i.e. Chief of Staff) worked with "Chicago boutique INVESTMENT BANK" Wasserstein-Perrella http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/rahm-emanuel-former-investment-banker/ to help arrange a billion-dollar LBO ("LEVEREGED Buy Out" or "MERGER" or "ACQUISTION") of a target company, you may rest assured that Mr. Emanuel and his partners EXAMINED and DISSECTED and INSPECTED and _AUDITED_ -_EVERY DIME_ of that target's company's value and accounting. (duh!) BUT! Acting as agent for AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (in his role in the US GOVERNMENT as Chief of Staff to the President) - Mr. Emanuel DOES NOT BELIEVE that we, the taxpayers, ARE ENTITLED to those same top-to-bottom Accounting or disclosures!!
The OBAMA Administration is __ROBBING American taxpayers__ of TIMELY and ACCURATE AUDITS of this "TRILLIONS OF taxpayer & investor DOLLARS LOST into the ether" Economic wreckage - and THAT is how THE NEW YORK TIMES and GOLDMAN-SACHS WANT IT!
And of course Mr. Sorkin does FLIRT with part of the above "we love secrecy" problem:
< "Goldman would also like to put an end to the whisper campaigns about ties between it and Mr. Paulson (and Timothy F. Geithner, too, for that matter)." >
"WHISPER CAMPAIGN"?? Mr. Paulson was GOLDMAN-SACHS CHAIRMAN for FIVE YEARS, up to the moment just 2 years ago that he became President Bush's TREASURY SECRETARY!! We KNOW that Mr. Paulson's portfolio at Goldman-Sachs (comprised mostly of GS stock) was at one time valued OVER $430 million! (some estimates over half-a-BILLION dollars) amassed in his 15 years there as a trader before becoming Chairman, but we DO NOT know how thoroughly Mr. Pualson DIVESTED his portfolio from GoldmanSachs when he became Bush's Treasury Secretary, and we DO know (thought he insanely corrupt NY Times refuses to discuss it), that VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY _NEVER_ completely DIVESTED his HALLIBURTON stock, even through his entire term as VP Mr. Cheney continued to hold HALLIBURTON DEFERRED STOCK OPTIONS, and Mr. Cheney CONTINUED to HAND HALLIBURTON BILLION-DOLLAR NO BID, NO OVERSIGHT, NO STRINGS ATTACHED contracts to his "former" company!! (Including of course BILLIONS of dollars of post-Katrina "rebuilding" contracts on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans - even though Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush REFUSED to commission an ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER PLAN for the region that would minimize future disaster impacts, and maximize rediness, planning & infrastructure and infrastructure improvements - and even though the INSANELY CORRUPT NEW YORK TIMES _REFUSES_ to delve into THAT NEW round of government CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, even after the New Orleans flooding exposed the Bush administration disaster response as incompetent, corrupt, bumbling, if not goulish!) By detouring into the NEW YORK TIMES (journalistic, if not) criminal COMPLICITY in the LACK OF ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER-PLANNING for post-Katrina New Orleans and Gulf Coast under the Bush administration, we have not even gotten to that OTHER Goldman-Sachs CHAIRMAN, ROBERT RUBINS, PUSHING President Clinton to sign BOTH the GRAMM-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999, AND the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act" of 2000 - both of which were the DEREGULATION MONSTROSITIES which, among other things, led DIRECTLY to the AIG and ENRON BANKKRUPTCIES, if not the Goldman-Sachs, Bear-Stearns, Fannie-Mae, Merrill-Lynch, and other MEGA-BANKRUPTCIES as well!
< "The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, however, put the parent holding company of each of the big American brokerages BEYOND S.E.C. OVERSIGHT. In order for the agreement to go ahead, the investment banks lobbied for a decision that would allow "voluntary" inspection of their parent and subsidiary holdings by the SEC." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
When you have "Democrat" Treasury Secretaris (Lawrence Summers followed Rubins as Clinton's Treasury Secretary, and ALSO supported GLBA, CFMA2000, and other "deregulation" & secrecy agenda items pushed by the big banks) SUPPORTING THE MOST RIGHT-WING of Republican Politicans, in drafting and passing THE MOST RIGHT-WING of "LOOT the village and PLUNDER the villagers" "DEREGULATION" legislation favored by the likes of uber-Right-Wing Republicans PHIL GRAMM, DICK ARMEY, TRENT LOTT, JESSE HELMS, JIM LEACH, Thomas BLILEY, and TOM DeLAY (etc, ad naseum), then those "Democrat" Treasury Secretaries ARE NOT SO "DEMOCRATIC" at all!
NO, Mr. Sorkin, the PROBLEM IS NOT, as you maintain, "that other banks would be FORCED to try to match Goldman-Sachs return of bonus billions" - the PROBLEM is that we STILL have NO IDEA of the FULL ROLE Goldman-Sachs had in creating America's ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, and, worse, THE NEW YORK TIMES has absolutely ZERO MOTIVATION to INFORM American citizens and taxpayers about HOW WE WERE SHOVED into this Crisis!
And "WHY?" would the New York Times be SO INTENTIONALLY DERELICT at explaining to their customers (readers) and America's citizens & leaders the FULL ROLE of GOLDMAN-SACHS and other "financial institutions" in LANDING AMERICA IN THIS CRISIS????
answer: The answer is neatly and tidly provided in the last sentence of Mr. Sorkin's article as it is posted on the New York Times website today:
< The latest news on mergers and acquisitions can be found at nytimes.com/dealbook. >
THE ONLY thing the New York Times cares about, is "MERGERS & ACQUISTIONS" - the ability of GOLDMAN SACHS to LEVERAGE _EVERY LITTLE ADVANTAGE_ they can possibly find - much less the advantage of having a DIRECT LINE to BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLION upon BILLIONS of government money, whether "FRONT DOOR BAILOUTS," "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS," FAVORABLE government rulings & contracts, or just plain secret "insider" tips - To BUY UP and OWN _EVERYTHING_ of value in sight, that they can possibly get their hands on!
Even if DRIVING MILLIONS of Ameicans INTO FORECLOSURE, EVICTION,and BANKRUPTCY, and then using GOVERNMENT (taxpayer) BILLIONS to - NOT rescue the economy, but ONCE AGAIN INFLATE Goldman's balance sheet, and then BUY UP DISTRESSED PROPERTIES for PENNIS ON THE DOLLAR - is part of that ghoulish process!
Mr. Sorkin may be COMPLETELY UNAWARES of the ability of Big Banksters to "PROFIT" or take advantage of "BACK-DOOR BAILOUTS" - but his fellow (but NON-FINANCIAL) writer at the Times, Ms. Maureen Dowd, is certainly aware of them: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22dowd.html
<< Goldman Sachs separately got $10 billion in bailout money last year, but recently asserted snootily that it’s doing well enough and doesn’t want our money because of the restrictions attached. Yet as Goldman sneers at the federal money at the front door, it’s taking delivery of billions in no-strings federal money through the back door. >>
(Note: Technically Mr. Sorkin does MENTION Goldman-Sachs getting an $11 BILLION dollar chunk of the AIG BAILOUT - but that, of course is only the TIP of the iceberg that Sorkin and the NEW YORK WHORE TIMES happily PRETEND not to notice. And NON-FINANICAL columnist Dowd says it FAR BETTER than anyone at the Times "news" or "financial" or (lol) "reporting" desks:
<< Virtually unnoticed amid the bonus imbroglio was A.I.G.’s grudging disclosure that it had funneled $93 billion — more than half its federal money to date — to its high-flying insurees, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a group of European banks. >>
To Repeat, the ONLY thing the NEW YORK TIMES CARES ABOUT is "The OWNERSHIP Society" - the ELITE, TOP-1% "ownership" class. Not only have they (along with President Obama's own former GOLDMAN-SACHS "advisors") HOODWINKED President Obama into ROBBING Americans of a SINGLE FINANICAL AUDIT of so much as a SINGLE, FAILED, fraudulently run, bailed out bank - even of AIG, a company 80% OWNED by taxpayers! - but the Times and Mr. Obama's GOLDMAN-SACHS Bankster team has Mr. Obama thinking about "REFORMING" Social Security too!
IF Mr. Obama were not so misled and ALOOF - bordering on INSANELY ARROGANT, he might read those wiki stories on how the "Commodity Futures 'MODERNIZATION' Act" the "Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act," and even the JOE BIDEN sponsored "Credit REFORM Act of 2005" all.. CONTRIBUTED to ECONOMIC FAILURES and, regarding Biden's "MBNA Credit Card Extortion Act of 2005" in particular, led DIRECTLY to the FORECLOSURES that are at the very HEART of this economic crisis. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/12/bankruptcy-refo.html
But of course this column is not about Mr. Obama - it is about ALAN SORKIN and the NEW YORK TIME's efforts to be PART OF THE LOOT, PLUNDER, PILLAGE and RAPE (pension plans) OLIGARCHY / KLEPTOCRACY, which 'real' agenda the NEW YORK TIMES can ONLY foist on their readers - by BEING INTENTIONALLY EVASIVE, DECEPTIVE, SECRETIVE, and CONSPIRATORIALLY LARCENOUS - that is, by being PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS!
PS: in yet another example of the New York Times "reporters" NOT reading Mr. Krugman or some of the other NON-Neo-Con editorials right inside the NY Times, FRANK RICH lays out the GROTESQUE FRAUD and double-standards at the heart of the GOLDMAN-SACHS PREDATION of US financial markets - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html And here is the fellow Neo-Con PROPAGANDA RAG WASHINGTON POST, admitting "RUBIN, PAULSON, and GEITHNER have a 'shared history' leading to the $300 billion BAILOUTS of CITI bank - the bank that Mr. Rubins went to work for after leaving first leaving Goldman-Sachs to go to Treasury, and then departing Treasury to go to Citi to try to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the VERY Phil Gramm DEREGULATION legislation HE HAD PUSHED so relentlessly for - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112401118_pf.html THAT IS, PRESIDENT OBAMA's CURRENT lead Economics advisor, was DIRECTLY at the HEART of BOTH DEREGULATION bills, AND the FINANCIAL MELTDOWN of Citi-group - which HAD been "Citi-bank" until Mr. Rubin helped turn it into an OUT OF CONTROL, NO OVERSIGHT, no audits, DERIVATIVES-TRADING financial NIGHTMARE! ----------------------------------------------- Note: President Obama ADMITS that there is at least SOME _FINANCIAL FRAUD_ in the BAILOUT BILLIONS - but he can NOT be bothered to look for it, he treats FINANICAL COLLAPSE of MILLIONS of American's savings & pensions and investments and home-values as a THROW-AWAY LAUGH on the Jay Leno show! -
(at 2 minutes, Mr. Obama admits that "MOST of what happened is legal" - "MOST" does NOT mean "ALL", and he exhibits NO, Zero interest in PROTECTING AMERICANS from POTENTIAL (what everyone else in America but he knows is MASSIVE) fraud!
WHY does KEITH OLBERMANN, in a SEVEN MINUTE VIDEO, explain AMERICA's ECONONOMIC CRISIS _BETTER_ than 10,000 "financial" articles coming out of America's corporate press/media?
WHY do New York Times' columnists MAUREEN DOWD's _FOUR SENTENCES_ explain the BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS that _GOLDMAN-SACHS_ has TAKEN from AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, better than ANYTHING you will read in the "FINANCIAL press"?
The answer is because GOLDMAN SACHS _OWNS_ BOTH political parties: PRESIDENT BUSH's TREASURY SECRETARY, HANK PAULSON, was from GOLDMAN SACHS, as was PRESIDENT CLINTON's _Treasury Secretary_, ROBERT RUBINS, who is also NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA's TOP eocnomic advisor!
ROBERT RUBIN, LAWRENCE SUMMERS, HANK PAULSON, and JIM CRAMER - ALL are either Goldman-Sachs alumni, or in Summers' case, a "consultant" to the firm that WOULD BE BANKRUPT were it not for BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of TAXPAYER BAILOUT dollars. And the above "Four Mousketeers of Goldman-Sachs ENTITLEMENT, BAILOUT FRAUD" doesn't even include MARK PATTERSON, the guy Obama's hapless & INCOMPETENT current "Treasury Secretary," TIM GEITHNER, selected to be his #2 man at Treasury: MARK PATTERSON, a _FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS LOBBYIST!" http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-27-lobbyist_N.htm (Dowd's commentary does mention Patterson - one of the rare few media mentions of his name, anywhere!)
And Maureen Dowd is THE FIRST commentator we have read, ANYWHERE, who mentions the __"BACK DOOR"__ methods the big banks use to SUCK UP TAXPAYER DOLLARS, while PRETENDING that they don't.
Because GIVING BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS to FRAUDULENT BANKSTERS, is what BOTH DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICAN politicians do!
Maureen Dowd's FOUR SENTENCES, plus one addressing US TAXPAYER BAILOUT BILLIONS going to FOREIGN banks... including UBS, which has a SERIAL, CHRONIC reputation for DEFRAUDING American taxpayers by HARBORING American TAX CHEATS! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22dowd.html At the New York Fed, Geithner helped preside over the A.I.G. bailout in September. But in October, it was Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, who had to threaten to sue unless A.I.G. canceled $160 million in planned expenses for conferences and a $600 million bonus pool.
Virtually unnoticed amid the bonus imbroglio was A.I.G.’s grudging disclosure that it had funneled $93 billion — more than half its federal money to date — to its high-flying insurees, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a group of European banks.
Goldman Sachs separately got $10 billion in bailout money last year, but recently asserted snootily that it’s doing well enough and doesn’t want our money because of the restrictions attached. Yet as Goldman sneers at the federal money at the front door, it’s taking delivery of billions in no-strings federal money through the back door. Can we taxpayers deduct the difference?
Our gift to Goldman demonstrates why the government’s headless and heedless bailout of A.I.G. is so wrong.
And why are we bailing out foreign banks, including a couple of French ones and UBS, a Swiss bank currently tussling with the I.R.S. because it refuses to hand over the names of thousands of U.S. tax-dodgers?
Note how at today's Jewish-owned NEW YORK TIMES, both print-copy & web-site, they will mention "IRANIAN BLOGGER DIES IN PRISON" but they will NOT mention what the USA Today notes: that today marks the start of the SEVENTH YEAR of the US invasion in Iraq, today the six-year anniversary of George W. Bush repeating the "trick" of his father bombing Panama, Bush Jr. unleashing the United States military on a nation that was entirely powerless to stop an international WAR of AGRESSION that had been laid out and planned by the Jewish-dominated "PNAC" think tank, "Project for a New American Century" (or NewAmericanCentury.org) which Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Don Rusmfeld, Steve Forbes, and a few other gentiles signed in mid-1997 and early 1998 along with the 50% AIPAC (Jewish) PNAC neo-cons, including PNAC founding co-chairman BILL KRISTOL and ROBERT KAGAN. http://newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm http://newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm The JEWISH NEO-CON DOMINATED war-lusting WASHINGTON IMPERIAL POST has a similar "we didn't know!" attitude towards today's anniversary of PAUL WOLFOWITZ's "the ARCHITECT of the IRAQ WAR" murderous brainstorm, either....
The Comedy Channel's JON STEWART - host of the comedy talk-show "The Daily Show" which usually mimicks "real" news broadcasts - in yet another example of how throughly corrupted America has become, is, yet again, MORE INFORMATIVE, in a "comedy" format, THAN network and "Major Media" "NEWS" shows are!
Good Odds that Rupert Murdoch Will be Responsible for the Next Timothy McVeigh or Assassination Attempt Buzzflash.com editor Mark Karlin Fri, 02/27/2009 http://buzzflash.com/articles/node/7828
Yes, with the civil war talk on the program of the recently acquired FOX News demagogue, Glenn Beck, inflammatory talk by Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh's nativist rants that equate Obama to something akin to an amalgamation of Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler, the right-wing media is stirring up the dangerous angry white male resentment to a dangerous frenzied pitch.
And we all know where that ended up with Timothy McVeigh and the militia movement of the '90s, which was enabled by the right-wing media barons -- such as Rupert Murdoch -- to create a literal armed militia movement against the government of the United States.
Call it treasonous, call it demagoguery, call it treachery: it is what comes down the pike when the wealthy Democratic elites are more content to fund organizations that criticize the apocalyptic, brown-shirted Murdoch media barons rather than buying up media and delivering an alternative message that emphasizes loyalty to the truth, Constitution and democracy.
Sure, we love Media Matters, but they are just a fly on a donkey's butt as far as Rupert Murdoch and the gang are concerned. Media Matters will get an occasional correction of factual errors -- if they pull out all their guns for one, but it's too little a compensation for the energy put into the effort. And the people who take in the corporate media remember the misleading assertion, not the rare convoluted retraction.
The reality is that the only thing that matters in media is owning it. Murdoch knows that and couldn't give a horse's fart for what Media Matters has to say, nor does CBS which just hired a Democratic-hating Republican stalwart as their senior communications executive.
Nor do any of the mainstream corporate media: including radio, television and print. They will just keep on doing what they are doing because they own it and they know what they want: an oligarchy.
The troops for this formidable army of images, mistruths, and emotional manipulation are the angry white males, the guys who have felt displaced by minorities and women and immigrants ever since the Civil Rights and Feminist upheaval began in the '60s.
And these displaced white guys are armed to the teeth, courtesy of the NRA and the senators and representatives who lie down like doormats for the gun lobby in Congress.
And bristling with guns -- including the .50 caliber sniper rifle that is legal in all but California -- they feel enabled and patriotic in rising up against the legitimate Constitutional government of the United States.
As rabid as Hannity and Beck and Limbaugh may seem, their ratings have actually gone up since Obama's election. The white male who has been shafted by the wealthy elite, pickpocketed and left in humiliation, falls prey yet again to the siren song of the Murdoch/Ailes stable of Goebbels disciples and their cohorts such as Limbaugh and Savage.
This is no exaggeration. Glenn Greenwald discusses it as do the superlative FOX trackers at FOX Newshounds.
And its impact is seen drilling down to discussions on Sean Hannity's website of armed rebellion, military coup, and secession.
Those Obama supporters who think I am being hyperbolic have a short sense of history. This is what we saw in the Clinton administration that led to the domestic terrorist Oklahoma bombing and trumped up impeachment.
And before the right-wing media was as consolidated as it is today, we saw our liberal leaders gunned down one by one in the '60s, resutling in the election of Richard Nixon -- and the beginning of the well-funded corporate mainstream media consolidation owned by people beholden only to the oligarchy, not the American public.
Yes, there are exceptions, but they are few in number, far too few.
And Murdoch may do his own non-apology about his New York Post's thinly veiled racist incitement cartoon of two white police officers shooting a chimp representing -- in full bigoted Murdoch fashion -- Obama.
But when the armed angry white males decide to act because of the Murdoch/Limbaugh et al. incitement to rise up ringing in their ears, the blood will be on the hands of Rupert and his fellow right-wing corporate media barons -- and he won't be sorry for it.
The WASHINGTON POST is NOTHING but a PAID MEDIA PROPAGANDA organization - a private institution or business of PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS.
We applaud Chris Mooney of ScienceProgress.com for calling Will out - and thereby calling out the ENTIRE COWARDLY, LYING POST - for YET ANOTHER episode of George Will's LYING, devoid of truth-or-substance "Global Warming is a Myth" tripe:
<< On February 15, as he has done many times in the past, George Will of The Washington Post wrote a HOWLER-FILLED COLUMN about global warming. The gist echoed a point Will has often made: Environmentalist doomsayers like to scare us, but they’re often flat wrong. To this end, the article contained a head-scratchingly long and pseudo-referenced paragraph, making the-oft refuted claim that during the 1970s, the scientific community was convinced that “global cooling” had arrived. In reality, while a few scientists were indeed worried about cooling at the time, and some journalists wrote alarmist stories about the subject, there was no consensus like there is today about human caused global warming.
...In essence, then, a number of Will’s claims—about “global cooling,” sea ice, and the WMO—were EITHER FLATLY FALSE, or extraordinarily MISLEADING, whether due to DISHONESTY, IGNORANCE, or some combination of both. This wasn’t necessarily new for Will, any more than it is new for a number of other conservative columnists or pundits who write about global warming.
...IF the Post editorial page CAN'T even print CORRECT facts about global warming (or correct already printed errors), then how to make the case that we still need these hallowed gray newspapers to police our society and discourse? >>
------------------------------------------------ Unlike Mr. Mooney, we here at MediaWhoresSUSA do not hold a SHRED of respect for the Washington Post (or their partners in journalistic atrocities and national misinformation crimes, the New York Slimes). They have been AT THE CENTER of EVERY right-wing ATROCITY of the past two decades, from #1. BETRAYING America's promise to Eastern Europe to "DEFEND FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY" after the collapse of the Cold War (America's "conservative" foreign policy establishment sat on their hands as Yugoslavia devolved into a grisly ethnic cleansing bloodbath. By contrast, Germany helped Slovenia secede bloodlessly in 3 weeks flat); to - #2. Helping Neo-Cons GUT International Law and especially NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATIES; to - #3. helping Republicans MAKE LIES UP to hound the Clinton administration, including turning the Clinton's overnight guest list into the so-called "LINCOLN BEDROOM 'SCANDAL'" (fast foward half-a-decade, the TREACHEROUS right-wing WaPost could NOT even BOTHER to find out HOW MANY TIMES CONVICTED BRIBER-of-CONGRESS JACK ABRAMOFF.. VISITED THE BUSH-CHENEY White House!! ...much less what the HELL they talked about; much less what male gay prostitute JEFF GANON was doing in the White House those late nights after the "regular" DC press corps whores had departed); #4. The Washington Post HELPED REPUBLICANS make "the WHITEWATER SCANDAL" look like the BIGGEST PART of the SAVINGS & LOAN HUNDREDS-of-BILLIONS of scandals (halpess Jim McDougal's Madison Guarantee S&L lost $22 million, and he died in prison for it) - thereby, by PUSHING A REAL ACCOUNTING of the S&L crisis OUT of the news, the WASHINGTON POST _ENABLED_ the NEXT ROUND of PHIL GRAMM DEREGULATION - which, sure enough, the Washington ESTABLISHMENT supported GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY bill has led DIRECTLY to THIS, Bush-TWO RECESSION!! #5. LEGITIMIZING STOLEN ELECTION 2000; #6. ENABLING the Karl Rove/Ari Fleischer/Bush-Cheney public LYNCHING of Clinton-Gore White House Staffers ACCUSED of "TRASHING" (VANDALIZING) White House Property - for WEEKS ON END, WITHOUT ONE PHOTOGRAPH of Evidence!!! #7. We haven't even gotten to 9-11 and the COVER-UP of DERELICTION OF DUTY, or #8. the TREASONOUS ANTHRAX ATTACKS, #9. or LIES-to-WAR, or #10. the treasonous OUTING of an ENTIRE CIA Undercover operation as means of RETRIBUTION against an outspoken war-critic whistleblower; #11. the MISSING BILLIONS from Iraq war occupation, #12. the LOOTED Al Qaaqa massive munitions dump - AS IAEA inspectors, in BOTH Iraq AND Washington, WERE BEGGING the US DoD to CONTROL the KNOWN ammunition complex; which explosives went STRAIGHT TO American-GI killing insurgents; #13. the LOOTING OF BAGHDAD; #14. the ABU GHRAIB TORTURE scandal WHITEWASH, and WORSE! #15. Nazi/Soviet style KANGAROO COURTS for FEMALE volunteer PRIVATES - accused ONLY of "Abuse" - WHILE the Post & Times SUPPORTED & APPROVED the Cheney-Bush administration's assertions of UNLIMITED, OPEN-ENDED "right" to TORTURE PRISONERS TO DEATH, at their sole discretion, and with NO OVERSIGHT FROM ANYONE (except for the public spectacle of FEMALE PRIVATES Convicted in a PUBLIC kangaroo-court LYNCHING, AS IF those women would have had a PRAYER had they REFUSED ORDERS); #16. the LOOTING of the US TREASURY and the FRAUDULENT "PUMP and DUMP", using Fed Reserve "liquidity injections" to ARTIFICIALLY BOOST STOCK PRICES, SUCKING UNWARY victims, investors, and pensioners into the VASTLY OVER-INFLATED MARKETS; #17. the CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE to OVERSEE SECURITIES FRAUD, #18. the FAILURE to do ANYTHING to bolster America's drowning mortgage holders; #19. the FAILURE to INVESTIGATE Vice President CHENEY'S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST in HALLIBURTON CONTRACTS, #20. the FAILURE to INVESTIGATE Bush Treasury Secretary HANK PAULSON's CONFLICTS OF INTEREST BAILING OUT his "FORMER" company, GOLDMAN-SACHS, with BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars; #21. the FAILURE to INVESTIGATE Dick Cheney's PURCHASE of ANOTHER WAR in GEORGIA (with BILLIONS of US taxpayer dollars given to democracy-protest-crushing dictator Saakashvili, no strings or oversight allowed) -
Clearly, at EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, the ATROCIOUS EDITORS, writers, & Publisher of the Washington Post have been at GROUND ZERO of EVERY RIGHT-WING ATROCITY of the past two decades... and under the Post & Times MALIGNANT "oversight" - AMERICA CAN'T EVEN RUN A SENATE ELECTION in Minnesota, TENS of MILLIONS of dollars of Republican "HEVA" "help America Vote" BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING not-with-standing!
GOT THAT?! Under the HORRIFIC Washington Post's RIGHT-WING AGENDA, not only can their LYING EDITOR not even find a picture of a MELTING GLACIER, but America CAN'T EVEN RUN COMPETENT ELECTIONS anymore!
The Washington Post is a JOURNALISTIC DISGRACE, and a clear and present THREAT to world peace, freedom, and economic vitality.
(note: JUST KEEPING UP with the Post's COWARLDY TRIPE and SERIAL LIES, is like being assigned a job to SCRUB A CESSPIT, while it is STILL FULL OF s***!)
YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu8tHs17iTc COUNTDOWN's Keith Olbermann goes where "major media" idiots fear to tread: in last night's show, Mr. Olbermann documents & details how the Tennessee gunman who shot-up a Knoxville church - DURING A CHILD'S PLAY - in July of 2008 WAS MOTIVATED by RIGHT-WING JEWISH author & media HATE-BAITING DEMAGOGUE BERNARD GOLDBERG. As Mr. Olbermann detailed:
Just this week, the letter left by murderer Jim David Adkisson, intended as a suicide note, was released by the authorities. Adkisson is the man who burst into a Tennessee CHURCH last year during a CHILDREN's musical, and STARTED SHOOTING. He killed a 60 year old man, and a 61 year old woman [and critically wounded others]. He explained that he was there to KILL LIBERALS. In a previously unrevealed note, Adkisson had written, in part,
"THIS was A SYMBOLIC KILLING. Who I WANTED TO KILL was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE in BERNARD GOLDBERG's BOOK."
[Olbermann continues:] The book came out four years ago, and was called "The 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America." Goldberg included Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Anna Nicole Smith and Ken Lay, Michael Savage and Phil Donahue. And this hateful man READ WHAT GOLDBERG WROTE, and decided to KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE AS PROXIES, because HE COULDN'T KILL, quote, "The 100 people in BERNARD GOLBERG's BOOK."
....THIS SAME WEEK it is revealed that THIS TERRORIST was [at least] partially inspired by BERNARD GOLDBERG, maybe Mr. Goldberg could SKIP the lines about "SCREW THEM" or the references to DEAD ROSES, or the one last week where he said, "I would probably have gotten a baseball bat, and gone down to the New York Times with it and found the person who had written the editorial, but that's just me."
Lithium is a vital mineral & element necessary for the new generation of modern, high-tech, high energy batteries that power everything from i-Pods to computers to remote sensors to energy-gluttonous RC flying aircraft... and to, most importantly, the newest generation of all-electric and electric-hybrid cars. The world wide demand for lithium batteries in the coming years will be tremendous, making Bolivian Lithium the new 'Forty-Niners' boom town for the world's energy pirates, claim-jumpers, and "Economic Hit Men" international finance credit extortionists. (Who, as we speak, have funded kleptocrat attempted coups in Bolivia and Venezuela, the Bolivia SECESSIONIST movement almost entirely funded by Washington... which is to say, the Likudnik war-mongers and financiers in Tel Aviv via their Neo-Con minions in DC.)
According to the hypocrite editors and publisher of the NY Times, it is quite OK for ISRAEL to be FIERCELY NATIONALISTIC in any and every way possible: about its technology, about its 'cultural superiority' over its Arab neighbors, about its ECONOMIC and POLITICAL DOMINANCE over the United States, and most certainly about its MILITARY DOMINANCE over any and all countries in the region, from Gaza to Lebanon to Iraq to Iran, all the way clear to Georgia and the far reaches of Russia. Jewish-state BRIBERY of GEORGIA DICTATOR Saakashvili: "buy $300-million of our weapons, and use them in your little invasion of South Ossetia, we'll make Sure that US (defacto) President Dick Cheney GIVES YOU ONE-BILLION US Taxpayer dollars." http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1834785,00.html Cheney proceeds to make good on exactly that Jewish-state Neo-Con promise: ONE BILLION US taxpayers dollars delivered to prop-up the Georgia's US puppet dictator, soothing the wounds of his DISASTROUS, murderous attack on South Ossetia. - Money that the ghoulish US Vice President and his neo-con meida whores NEVER saw get to NEW ORLEANS Hurricane Katrina disaster/flooding vicitms, much less HEALTH CARE CRISIS victims, much less JOB-OUTSOURCED, MORTGAGE-FORECLOSED, and other economic-crisis unemployment victims (etc.) here in America - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/world/europe/04cheney.html US VP Dick Cheney, on behalf of the Jewish-State neo-cons who helped him steal the White House in 2000, arrives in Azerbaijan, during his victory-lap after instigating the Saakashvili-Georgia INVASION of South Ossetia, just shortly before he arrives in Georgia to personally deliver his puppet war-mongering dictator there (Saakashvili) $1 BILLION in US taxpayer dollars - PLENTY of money to turn Saakashvili's humiliating failure into a police-state triumph.
(The rabid right-wing leaders of the Jewish state would love nothing better than to see Russia's neighbors - Czech Republic, Poland, Georgia, the Baltic states - bleed Russia dry in a hot- or cold- arms race, just as the Afghan Mujaheddin bled the Soviet Red Army dry leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of "the Cold War", only to be replaced of course, first by the US-Israel-NATO "war on terra," and now, using the "war on terra" (and Iran) as an excuse, ringing Russia with hair-trigger ABM "anti-ballistic-missile" sites in Poland, Czech Republic, and elsewhere. Hair-trigger missile systems which any competent rocket team could modify for ballistic, ground targets with at most a year or two's worth of tweaking, a missile system which CERTAINLY VIOLATES the TERMS and SPIRIT of the REAGAN-GORBACHEV NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT TREATIES that led to the end of the Cold War.)
And of course the New York Slimes thinks it is quite OK for the Jewish Army to POUR FIRE FROM THE SKY: PHOSPHOROUS rounds, flechettes, 2,000 pound bombs, and god-only-knows what other diabolical munitions the war-engineers in Israel (and US) weapons industry dream up, for use against combatants and civilians alike in Gaza and Lebanon, as the Jewish state furiously looks for an excuse to wipe Palestinian enclaves and Arab citizens off the map and entirely out of Israel's borders. (While, mind you, the Jewish state claims Iran's use of similar rhetoric about the Jewish state is a defacto, manifest war crime - you know, the whole Bush/cheney/AIPAC/PNAC/neo-con"PREEMPTIVE WAR!" thing, of which the Cheney/Likud "RENT A DICTATOR, BRIBE the police & army, and START A WAR!" in Georgia vs South Ossetia is a textbook example.)
Well, anyways, here is one of the ghoulish writers for the NEW YORK SLIMES unloading all that Racist, Jewish supremacist, NYT kleptocratic BILE on the people of BOLIVIA, for DARING to try to get top-dollar, much less NATIONAL benefits, from Bolivia's new mineral treasure -
Needless to say, AIPAC FRAUDSTERS BERNIE MADOFF, JACK ABRAMOFF, and GOLDMAN-SACHS have cost the American public and taxpayers TENS of BILLIONS of dollars over the past 8 years (here's the New York Times and Goldman-Sachs practically GLOATING about their BILLION DOLLAR BONUSES the Christmas of 2006 - AS the FORECLOSURE crisis was starting to EVICT tens of thousands of American families from their homes, G-S and NYT employees were GLOATING about all the things a big bonus could buy in New York... while doing NOTHING to AMELIORATE that foreclosure/eviction crisis!) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/12cnd-earn.html (And as if THAT wasn't bad enough... although it is well known that America's Wall Street banks and Fannie Mae had to seek MASSIVE, BILLION-DOLLAR TAXPAYER BAILOUTS in August and September 2008, what is much less well known is that the Wall Street banking fraudsters had been DIPPING INTO the TAXPAYER TILL... for BILLIONS upon ONE TRILLION dollars of "liquidity INJECTIONS", LONG before the summer of 2008!) That is, Goldman-Sachs and other NY banks were DEPENDENT on TAXPAYER TRILLIONS of "socialized bailout" dollars - EVEN as they were GLOATING about their BONUS BILLIONS, and doing NOTHING to slow down the EVICTION of American families from FORECLOSURE crisis homes!
While as Bernie Madoff STILL ROAMS FREE in his palatial 5th Avenue condo - despite DEFRAUDING American investors of FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS - the NY Times SNEERS that Bolivians are ALL BUT CRIMINAL SCUM for DARING to try to exert some control, and national ___democratic___ benefit, over their mineral riches!
In Bolivia, Untapped Bounty Meets Nationalism http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/americas/03lithium.html In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: almost half of the world’s lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found here in Bolivia — a country that may not be willing to surrender it so easily.
WHY THE HELL should Bolivia "SURRENDER" its mineral treasure??!! SO BERNIE MADDOFF, JACK ABRAMOFF, GOLDMAN-SACHS, JPMorgan-Chase, Citi, BoA, other fraud-larded New York banks, the Bank of England, and the "investor class" owners of the NEW YORK SLIMES, can EXTORT THE PROFITS _OUT_ of Bolivia, and insert them into those fraud-larded New York Banks, and tax-thieving OFF SHORE ACCOUNTS, as they bleed the American economy dry with BAILOUTS for FRAUDULENT, ruthless, EVICTION-HAPPY BANKERS, too?
The engineers, financiers, military, and politicians of the Jewish state lust after another light metal as well: PHOSPHOROUS rounds, manufactured in America and fired from Jewish canons, impact IN GAZA, indiscriminately killing anyone they touch, and incinerating entire city blocks. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0114/p07s01-wome.html A Jewish soldier lovingly prepares American manufactured PHOSPHORUS incendiary rounds for firing on Gaza civilians... The "other end" of the afore-mentioned US manufactured PHOSPHORUS shells fired from Jewish canons - impacting in the ghetto the Jewish state has made of Gaza:
Frank Rich, former "lifestyle" columnist and now editor of the New York Times, lays out an editorial MASTERPIECE: a swift review of the past decade, how government and business 'leaders', both Democrat and Republican, paved the way for America's current TRILLIONS-of-dollars economic meltdown, with BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING, vastly overstated assets, suppression of open reporting and transparency - with DOZENS of banks, business executives, and government officials ECHOING and REPEATING the basic template of ENRON massive ACCOUNTING FRAUD, and Bush-Cheney co's. LIES-to-WAR.
IN particular, Rich details FORMER CLINTON/Democrat TREASURY SECRETARY ROBERT RUBIN as being in on the Wall Street con game:
================================== Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich [i.e. a small-time, comparatively honest hoodlum compared to the predatory sharks, parasitic bankers, and massive fraudsters of Wall St., Washington, and corporate America.] By FRANK RICH Published: December 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14rich.html << Regulators had failed to see the iceberg in Enron’s path and so had Enron’s own accountants at Arthur Andersen, a corporate giant whose parallel implosion had its own casualty list of some 80,000 jobs. Despite Bush’s post-Enron call for “a new ethic of personal responsibility in the business community,” the exact opposite has happened in the six years since. Warren Buffett’s warning in 2003 that derivatives were “financial weapons of mass destruction” was politely ignored. Much larger companies than Enron figured out how to place even bigger and more impenetrable gambles on derivatives, all the while piling up unseen debt. They built castles of air on a far grander scale than Kenny Boy could have imagined, doing so with sheer stupidity and cavalier, greed-fueled carelessness rather than fraud. >>
<< The most stupendous example as measured in dollars is Citigroup, now the recipient of potentially the biggest taxpayer bailout to date. The price tag could be some $300 billion — 20 times the proposed first installment of the scuttled Detroit bailout. Citigroup’s toxic derivatives, often tied to subprime mortgages, metastasized without appearing on the balance sheet. Both the company’s former chief executive, Charles O. Prince III, and his senior adviser, Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, have said they didn’t know the size of the worthless holdings until they’d spiraled into the tens of billions of dollars. >>
<< It’s a sad snapshot of our century’s establishment that Rubin has been an economic adviser to Barack Obama and [Phil] Gramm to John McCain. And that both captains of finance remain unapologetic, unaccountable and still at their banks, which have each lost more than 70 percent of their shareholders’ value this year and have collectively announced more than 90,000 layoffs so far. >> -------------------------------------------------- THE STUPID, media-sedated American public TOLERATES MASSIVE THEFT of both the US taxpayer Treasury AND THEIR OWN SAVINGS, INVESTMENTS, (home-values, etc.) and PENSION funds!!
(note: ONe thing that Frank Rich doesn't quite get to in this information packed commentary, is the role his own employer, the SULZBERGER OWNED New York Times, played in all this massive, gigantic, titanic accounting fraud and economic meltdown. That is, in the early-mid 1990s the new Clinton administration was only just starting to drag America out of the BUSH-1 RECESSION, brought about by the Phil Gramm led DEREGULATION of the entire US Savings & Loan financial industry, when the New York Times started perpetrating journalistic fraud with their shoddy, misleading, and often times outright LYING reporting about the hapless Jim McDougal's role in "WHITEWATER", i.e. the routine real-estate flops of McDougal's Madison Guarantee Savings & Loan in Little Rock, Arksansas. The Times' RELENTLESSLY BAD reporting on "WHITEWATER" led millions of American "news" consumers to believe that McDougal's rural Arkansas "Whitewater" real-estate flop was THE CENTER of the nation's entire $500 billion (in 1980s money) S&L debacle; when, even by the Times' most hysterical accounts, McDougal's Madison Guarantee was bailed out by government/taxpayers for no more than $22 million. By comparison, Neil Bush's Colorado-based SILVERADO S&L cost taxpayers $1 BILLION in losses; and President Bush Sr., in FIRING the fed criminal banking auditor fo CHARLES KEATING's "LINCOLN Savings & Loan", allowed Keating to dodge a criminal audit, and continue Lincoln's operations for another year.... Costing taxpayers ANOTHER BILLION DOLLARS in losses, for TWO BILLION DOLLARS in losses for Keating's Lincoln S&L, ALONE! In relentlessly putting McDougal's hapless "WHITEWATER!" flop on the front pages of the NY Times for five or more years in a row, the TIMES publisher and editors HELPED AMERICANS FORGET about the far larger, far more systematic S&L debacle - thereby paving the way for good ol' PHIL GRAMM and his Democrat/Republican financial fraud enablers to REPEAT the ECONOMIC "DEREGULATION" tsunami all over again in the late 1990s! (Authors Lyons & Conasons document the Times' relentlessly atrocious "Whitewater" reporting in their encylcopedic accounting of "THE HUNTING of the PRESIDENT" http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-President-Ten-Year-Campaign-Destroy/dp/0312273193 (The contents, index, and several hundred of the authors' _25 pages_ of citations are included in the free GoogleBooks preview of the book.)
Fortunately MSNBC now has both Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow to provide a SANE discussion of the issues, but this comedic clip by "236.com" video (a play on "news 24/7") captures what Mathews critics have known ever since he came to America's attention (along with Tim Russert) - spouting off "MONICA!" "MONICA!" MONICA!" 24/7 during the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton for __"lying"__ about his affair with Monica: THAT CHRIS MATHEWS TALKS OVER ALL Of his guests, usually so much that there is nothing intelligible on his show!"
NY Times Co. follows Tribune co. in cash crisis: forced to borrow $225-million against its New York office building to stave off an immediate "cash flow squeeze."
We must note here teh delicious irony of the New York Times ATROCIOUS "reporting" standards (not to say "journalistic" standards) coming home to roost; for NO ONE in America is MORE RESPONSIBLE for the NIGHTMARE of this nation's current economic crisis than the LYING New York Whore Times, and the Cowardly, lying Washington Post.
AS an example, this NY Times own report, where the Times' editors, writers, and publisher (Mr. Arthur Sulzberger and family) practically JOINED Wall Street bank executives at GOLDMAN SACHS co., in PRACTICALLY GLOATING about the G-S __BILLION DOLLAR CHRISTMAS BONUS__...... in December of ___2006____, EVEN AS THOUSANDS of American families were BEING FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES, by the building FORECLOSURE CRISIS, the EXACT SAME CRISIS that would send FORMER GOLDAMN-SACHS _CHAIRMAN & CEO._ HANK PAULSON - currently President Bush's SECRETARY OF TREASURY - litterally BEGGING to Congress for $700 billion (ONE TRILLION DOLLARS+ in real costs!) in SOCIALIZED TAXPAYER BAILOUTS of the very banks and brokerage houses that less than two-dozen months previously had been GLOATING about their ill-gotten BONUSES, even as families were being EVICTED from their homes due to PREDATORY loans, credit cards, and health-care tragedy bankruptcies!
AND AT NO TIME did the god-damned NEW YORK TIMES or WASHINGTON POST _EVER_ try to make a CONNECTION between those Wall Street billion-dollar gloating "BONUSES", and the THOUSANDS of Americans VICTIMIZED by credit extortion, bullying, fraud, and greed.
Nor did the Post and Times speak our for MILLIONS of voters (_NOT!_ Mr. Gore) ROBBED of their votes by the Republican VOTE-STEALING EFFORTS of Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, and Supreme Court Inquisitor Antonin Scalia in the Florida NON-RECOUNT of December 2000.
NOR did the Lying Times and Cowardly Post STAND UP FOR US Army FEMALE VOLUNTEER PRIVATES accused ONLY of "ABUSE" at Abu Ghraib prison and put on trial in the Cheney-Rumsfeld military's KANGAROO TRIALS, WHILE the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld administration DEMANDED THE 'right' to TORTURE PRISONERS TO DEATH, at THEIR SOLE DISCRETION, with NO OVERSIGHT or accountability TO ANYONE, EVER!
These are THREE MASSIVE, GLARING BETRAYALS that will show up 100 years later in American history, just like the dismal DRED SCOTT decision, and for these treacherous betrayals, ALONE (not to mention being party to and/or complicity with lies-to-war leading up to the Iraq war), BOTH the New York Times and Washington Post deserve to face bankruptcy and failure.
The New York Times Company plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building, to ease a potential cash flow squeeze as the company grapples with tighter credit and shrinking profits.
ALL OVER AMERICA, America's "news" companies ARE FACING MASSIVE financial losses... WHICH OF COURSE SERVES THEM RIGHT, as they have been COMPLICIT in the ECONOMIC LOOTING of America, at the very least since Antonin Scalia and the US Supreme Court STOLE the 2000 presidential election away (NOT from the hapless, pathetic Al Gore, but) from tens of millions of Democratic-candidate voting voters.
As JUST ONE EXAMPLE of how America's "major media" "news" companies HAVE BEEN COMPLICIT in the FINANCIAL LOOTING of America, is the fact that NONE OF THEM have EVER SOUGHT TO _LINK_ President Bush and his corrupt White House with.... THE MASSIVE FINANCIAL FRAUD of ENRON corporation, Enron Chairman and CEO _only_ being BUSH's #1 CAREER CAMPAIGN DONOR through his entire political career!" (Enron, for example, providing the Bush campaign FREE corporate air travel during the Florida (non-) Recount battle.)
As a SECOND example of how COMPLICITLY CORRUPT the US corporate "media" has been is that NONE OF THEM, have EVER _DEMANDED_ answers for the the NINE BILLION DOLLARS CASH that "went MISSING" in Iraq, within 2-3 weeks of that cash being handed to Bush's "VICEROY" in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer. (Nor have the stupid American media whores pointed out that "VICEROY" was the designation of the Spanish crown's demigod authorities DURING THE GENOCIDAL Spanish conquistador CONQUESTS of the New World - which DEPOPULATED and ENSLAVED ENTIRE REGIONS of Central- and South America, duh. GREAT, REVEALING job title for a Bush admin. flunky allegedly trying to bring "freedom and democracy" to Iraq... NOT!)
So now, the US corporate media, 8 year partners-in-crime to the Bush-GOP administration's desire to TURN AMERICA BACK into an IGNORANT, ENSLAVED plantation wage-slave population, finds readership down so severely, that those businesses are facing drastic financial losses.
Tribune has hired bankruptcy advisers as the ailing newspaper company faces a potential bankruptcy filing, people briefed on the matter said.
The newspaper, which was taken private last year by billionaire investor Samuel Zell, has hired advisers including Lazard and Sidley Austin, one of its longtime law firms, these people said. Tribune has been hobbled by debt related to that sale last year, which has been compounded by the growing drought of advertising for newspapers.
It is only the latest — and biggest — sign of duress for the newspaper industry yet. Several newspaper companies have struggled to cope with declining revenues and mounting debt woes. Tribune has pared back the newsrooms of many of its papers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun, and it sold off Newsday to Cablevision’s Dolan family earlier this year.
Just how sad, sordid, and vile the WASHINGTON COWARDLY POST has become as an institution is illustrated in today's editorial by PM Carpenter.
PM explaining that when Washington Post writers and editors write _any_ article on a Bush administration agenda or policy execution, you can just PARACHUTE IN THE WORDS "FAILURE," "INADEQUACY," "LACK OF OVERSIGHT" - and the god-damned Washington Post will PRETEND that there IS NOTHING seriously wrong about such a story reporting that the Bush administration is MISHANDLING YET ANOTHER trillion dollars (sigh) of taxpayer money! - EVEN AS EIGHT YEARS of the Bush administrations relentless, continual support for _ENRON ACCOUNTING_ financial and corporate standards, making American DEPENDENT on FOREIGN OIL _and_ FOREIGN CREDIT, & DEFICIT ECONOMICS, are THE ROOT of this current FAMILY CRUSHING, JOB KILLING, ECONOMY GUTTING America- and world economic crisis! (ONE MILLION LAYOFFS in America this year, alone!) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/03/BUDA14GTA9.DTL
"As the Washington Post reports, WHILE REVEALING _NO_ SHOCK OR even DISMAY: 'The Bush administration has failed to adequately oversee its $700 billion bailout program'....
...Failure, inadequacy, lack of oversight -- three commonly referenced subjects in any story on the Bush regime, which parachute into the same inclusive sentence with almost perfunctory regularity and, after eight years, have devolved to the reportorial level of a yawning S.N.A.F.U." http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/252
Washington Post, THY NAME is VILE, nation-killing COMPLICITY in KLEPTOCRACY (what Paul Craig Roberts calls "ECONOMIC TREASON") - SERVILE COURTIERS to POWER, & SYCHOPHANTS to RAW GREED & ABJECT LIES.
