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Alex Jones talks to World Net Daily reporter Jerome Corsi about his latest report in which he lays out how Barack Obama has funded Al-Qaeda. http://www.infowars.com/generals-conc…
(Thanks, Minty)
The Eloi wanted to live in harmony, without discomfort or fear. So, in HG Well’s Time Machine, they did…until they were eaten by the Morlocks. See, people need to be confronted with things so their amygdala knows how to handle unpleasant things in the future. Now, some universities are requesting there be trigger warnings on impolitically correct books, etc.
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Hear Bill Whittle explain how this is going to deliver us to the Morlocks.
Realize, first of all, that the normal attention span of elite media is about three days. If you can jam your version of data down their throats for that length of time, you’re golden.
Then you’re facing another three days. You start all over again.
You being the White House PR flack machine.
The overall effect you’re looking for is: here today, gone tomorrow (or in three days). Nothing sticks.
Therefore, the public, or that part of it that can still think and reflect at all, is yanked from one fragmentary story to another. Sooner or later, surrender comes.
“Do me. Give me your stories. I’ll buy them. Then I’ll forget them. Then I’ll buy the new ones.”
In this climate, there is no process that can be called reasoning. It doesn’t exist. It’s all about What’s New.
Fast&Furious? Old hat. Benghazi? He said-he said. Who cares? The Feds spying on AP reporters? A yawner.
No traction. That’s the goal of every modern White House press corps.
Of course, along come stories that can’t be slid out of the pan and tossed in the garbage. A war. A mass shooting in a school or a theater.
In that case, the White House quickly develops a message. The theme. The takeaway.
“What’s our agenda here? What do we want to leave people with?”
“Mental health. This Lanza kid was a nutjob. Therefore, America needs a better mental health system. The president will announce a new program to install community mental-health centers across the land.”
“And guns. The kid had access to his mother’s guns. Feeds into taking all the guns away. From everybody.”
White House PR flacks spread these messages to the press and enlist the help of Congresspeople to make supporting statements.
They invent reality for the masses.
Opinion ~ One of the most chilling realities of the contemporary age in the United States and other Western nations is the demise of the Fourth Estate. The death of a vigorous and free press came when mainstream media and other vital components of the information establishment became propaganda organs for the government.
“If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without a free press or a free press without a government, I would prefer the latter,” said Thomas Jefferson.
Edmund Burke, an 18th century British political philosopher, seeded the concept of the Fourth Estate. The “three estates” present in the Parliament were the king, the lords, and the commons. But, said Burke, there was a “fourth estate” that trumped them all –
the press.
The contemporary co-opting of journalists and journalism by politicians and their regimes has led to a polarization of media. As mainstream print and broadcast journalists have veered increasingly to the left, the right has responded with its own conservative media establishment.
This was a necessary development, vital for countering leftist propaganda. But the demise of the Fourth Estate means there’s not much left in the middle to probe for the truth buried somewhere beneath the shrills and shills of left and right. Who can the people trust to give them the plain, unspun facts?
No matter how you slice it, the September 11, 2012 attacks on the American embassy and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya that caused the deaths of four Americans, including US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three State Department officials, was an inside job.
Appearing on Denver’s KUSA Saturday for the purposes of reaching out to a heavily contested battleground state that appears to be leaning toward Mitt Romney less than two weeks away from the general election, Barack Obama was grilled about the fairness of waiting until after the election to give Americans, hungry for answers, any information about the attack, yet continued to duck legitimate questions regarding the burnt out Libyan consulate and nearby CIA annex outpost.
Despite the obvious political expedience of wanting to wait until after the election to publicly deal with the tragic situation, Obama denied that the election had anything to do with not wanting to answer America’s questions and continued to repeat the same response given since deciding to finally admit the attacks were not a spontaneous act of an unruly mob. “The situation is still under investigation” and the administration wants to “get it right,” prior to answering any questions, the president repeated.