Andymatic

Category: 6. Controlled Mass Media

  • Bill Moyers Says Goodbye to Karl Rove

    “It’s so easy, as Karl knew, to scapegoat people you outnumber, and if God is love, as rumor has it, Rove knew that, in politics, you better bet on fear and loathing. Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true believers you coarsen both politics and religion.” [youtube]mmwdevPRycY[/youtube]

  • New Bin Laden Tape Five Years Old?

    Try this on for size: A videotape that was heralded as “new” footage of Osama bin Laden by many quarters of the press has been conclusively proven to be more than 5 year old re-released footage, leading to questions about why the government and the media continue to act as willing propagandists for the terrorists […]

  • Nearly Half of Iraq Insurgents From Saudi Arabia

    Do you ever feel like the two taboo countries to talk about are Israel and Saudi Arabia? More media failure: The Los Angeles Times reports today that according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers, about 45% of all foreign militants “targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi […]

  • Bill Kristol is Always Wrong

    Whatever he’s smoking, I want some: We’re not in a civil war. This is just not true. American troops are attacking al Qaeda. They’re attacking some elements of the Shi’a militias. They’re doing other things, helping with reconciliation. They are not in the middle of a civil war. It’s not true. [youtube]Eo66pm4kMHU[/youtube] (via ThinkProgress)

  • Michael Moore Blasts CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Sanjay Gupta

    Goddamn. [youtube]7RfBq9P3TeM[/youtube]

  • Holocaust Survivor Leaves US: 'I've seen this before.'

    (via Reddit) “I’m going back because I’ve seen this before.” He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler’s government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones […]

  • White House Removes 'Mission Accomplished' Banner from Video

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  • Fitzgerald Was Zooming Toward Cheney's Treason

    “Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.”

  • 2004 Kaiser Study: 1 in 5 Military Families on Food Stamps

    This on Olbermann in connection with the paltry raise soldiers are receiving. The financial stress of extended deployment can be severe for military families. Fully three in 10 report that in the past year, they and their family have had trouble paying bills. For more than one in five, their current financial situation is such […]

  • Propaganda Campaign Planned 2 Months Before Invasion

    (old story I know but adding it to the queue from Reddit) The White Paper, prepared in January 2003, lays out plans to install American-friendly media with an Iraqi face and to silence local anti-US news outlets, referred to in the paper as “hate media.” Also released by the National Security Archives were a Power […]