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It's a lie to say it's a mis-statement
by Amber Perez
| Apr. 21, 2008 |
I think it is time to do some dot-connecting. Begin with Fox News ... I happened across their cable channel with a lead-in -- for after the break -- about the outrage of "9/11 comedies". Comedies about 9/11?
So I sat through the commercials, and when they came back, it turns out that next week, the new movie Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay premieres nationally. I look forward to the year 2010 when it is shown on cable TV... should be a few
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Basically, anyone making actual, real-life decisions involving money, property, liberty or happiness would be well advised to ignore television news completely.
Even when they are right, they're wrong because their information is so dated that it is nearly impossible to use -- when they say buy houses that means that the richies are selling houses and short-selling banks! |
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yuks. And, there is documentary specialist Morgan Spurlock's new movie, Where In the World Is Osama bin Laden?
That sounds like a real winner to me because it challenges the common "wisdom" of the media Lie Factories, such as Fox News. Spurlock says in an interview:| |
Q: How would you summarize the effect of the war on terror on the world's view of America?
A: There's a war on terror here in the United States to keep Americans safe, and there hasn't been another attack since 9/11. And that's a positive thing. But what's happening outside the country is that we've lost the PR war on terror. The world looks at the United States not as a beacon of democracy anymore, not as a peacekeeper. The United States is viewed as an aggressor, as a country that wants to dominate others. People see us as the country that wants to eradicate Islam. This is not a positive thing. And, believe me, as you're sitting there hearing people say this, it's really hard to hear, as an American.
Q: Sometimes people say this kind of documentary is just preaching to the converted.
A: I don't agree with that assumption. (Some) people who went to see Super Size Me had never seen a documentary in their lives. The goal with this movie is to try to reach a broad audience, an audience that doesn't read the newspapers every day. And even for people who do, I think there's something new here, in terms of the people we interview -- I don't get to see those people on the news; I don't get to hear their stories. There's no bent to this (film), no political viewpoint. It's not a film about red states and blue states. It's a film that looks ahead. It's about what's next. |
Sooooo... those are the movies that Fox is attempting to smear, without having seen them of course...
Jon Stewart's Daily Show exposes the media lie factories almost every night of the week. A popular mechanism for doing so is showing clips from the different news channels with different spokespersons all parroting the same propaganda using the exact same words (which pretty much proves that there is no coincidence and that the "news" is prepared for the news channels by TPTB (The Powers That Be) in "The System". Lots of yuks, har har.
Speaking of Faux News, yesterday I happened to see a little bit of their propaganda in which they attempted to portray the Democratic plans to somewhat increase tax rates on the rich (because the rich pay lower tax rates than the poor do.) The way Faux News runs their propaganda is to use the classic techniques of Straw Man and Non-Sequitur. First they bring out a well-fed black man who states that he is adamantly opposed to stifling innovation and creativity -- this is the Straw Man argument, that fair taxes will crush Capitalism. Then the news anchor states the Non-Sequitur that after the tax cuts of 2003, federal tax revenues of 2004 to 2007 increased to record levels. He implies that cutting taxes was the cause of tax revenue increases but offers no evidence to support that conclusion. More likely, the housing boom and credit bubble were involved, along with massive increases in government spending. Or a combination.
Basically, anyone making actual, real-life decisions involving money, property, liberty or happiness would be well advised to ignore television news completely. Even when they are right, they're wrong because their information is so dated that it is nearly impossible to use -- when they say buy houses that means that the richies are selling houses and short-selling banks!
Propaganda isn't limited to Repugs and Faux News. Here is a gem from the Rude Pundit:| |
Excerpt: You gotta think that Obama wished he had his answer back on whether Clinton had been "truthful about her past" and that he had said, "For seven and a half years, we've had a motherfucker in the White House who has used every word under the sun to avoid the word 'lie.' The Bush administration has said that things were 'misstatements' or were the fault of someone other than the speaker or just outright denying they had said something they had said. What Senator Clinton said was a lie. It wasn't just a lie she told once. It was a lie she told repeatedly, a lie her husband re-told just the other day. If I said to you, 'I can shoot rainbows out of my ass,' and then you said to me, 'Senator Obama, fire my way,' and all you got was a face full of shit with no pot of gold at the end, well, then I'd be a liar, wouldn't I? Oh, but, fuck, I could just say, 'Did I say "rainbows"? I meant "turds." I must need some sleep.'
And Senator Clinton wants to keep talking about how untested I am, how un-vetted, how people are gonna dig up shit on me, that somehow it's good that there's all this shit out there about her already, that it gives the Republican fuckbags nothing to talk about. Are you fuckin' serious? Every year corporate America sells us the same shit in a different package, tellin' us it's better, shinier shit, and we Americans, we go out and buy that same old shit in the new package and convince ourselves it's something new. The GOP ain't gonna not bring up Travelgate or other sh*t just because they've done it before.
Instead, they're gonna say, 'Hey, Hillary Clinton said she was shot at when she wasn't. Oh, and, fuck, remember when she said she couldn't find files and then she did? John McCain was a POW. Who you gonna vote for?' So, yeah, yeah, keep on, Hillary, with that bullshit about people-I-know, keep tryin' to call me a San Francisco faggot liberal or an America-hating nigger churchgoer. Man, the right wing wants you so bad that they've been sharpening their knives and cleaning their guns and those motherfuckers are jonesing for you like a junkie's arm holes start to bleed when he sees a needle. |
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Amber Perez
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