American Media, Blaming the ‘Right’: From Duranty and the KGB to Reuters
After defecting to the West, Bezmenov told his story in lectures and gave interviews to clue the free world in on the dangers of Soviet ideological subversion. He also recounts stories of interactions with American media after his defection:
Bezmenov: Time magazine, for example, is very critical of [the] South African, racist regime. [A] … whole article was dedicated to the shameful internal passport system where blacks are not allowed to leave with whites. For some strange reason, for the last fourteen years since my defection, nobody wanted to pay attention to my passport. This is my passport [video time 47:56]; it also shows my nationality and it has a police rubber stamp which is called prapiska in the Russian language which assigns me to a certain area of residence. I cannot leave that area, the same way this black man cannot leave the area in South Africa. Yet, we call the South African government, a racist regime. Not a single Jane … Fonda is brave enough, courageous enough to come to the media and say, “look, this is what happens in the USSR.” I sent a copy of my passport to many American liberals and civil rights defenders and all the other useful idiots. They never bothered to answer me back. This shows what kind of integrity these people [have]. They are a bunch of hypocrites.
To further corroborate Mr. Bezmenov’s claims that the media is biased in reporting truth about communist dictatorships, here is a partial transcript from Glenn Beck’s The Revolutionary Holocaust:
The New York Times now acknowledges their role in the propping up of Stalin’s regime by their reporter Walter Duranty. He called the forced famine in the Ukraine mostly bunk and viciously justified the millions dead by saying: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” … Because of this information, many people in the West reacted quite passively to what happened in the Ukraine. Duranty was there and his position was pro-Soviet. I think he did a lot of harm to the truth at that time. … He reported, no, there is no famine in Ukraine. But there is widespread mortality due to diseases of malnutrition.
In case you’re still not convinced that the famine was intentional, during our exclusive interview for this documentary with President Viktor Yushchenko of the Ukraine, he said during the famine of the Ukrainian people, they needed 10 million tons of grain to avoid hunger. They produced 12.2 million tons.
The most recent attempt on the alteration of history was perpetuated by Time magazine in its “The Year in Pictures” 2009 photo essay. One of the largest citizen marches on Washington, D.C., was conducted by the tea party movement on September 12, 2009. Estimates varied wildly from 60,000 to a whopping 2 million participants. A picture from this march was omitted from the essay. In fact, no reference at all was made to the massive grassroots phenomenon.
CarolineGlick.com & debka.com are good eye opening sources of de-brainwash or ignorance is blis: abcbsnbcbbcapfoxy…(bow to the oil G-d); whichever you prefer… (read their 2-8 year old material and see who told you the truth)
What’s come over THIS self-pitiful sweet puppy, Dr. Bones?
Why should it (or its Party, or its AEIdeology) care what anybody says about Chancellor Hitler, who did, after all, die before either you or I was born? And in another country, too.
Healthy days.
Those on the Left; progressives, Marxists, socialists, begin with obfuscation and then, flat out lies. It’s what they do. And when the light of truth is shown on them, they blame others by trying to damage or destroy their credibility; it’s the process all over again, because the Left’s MO is deceit.
“Progressive” like “Gay” and “Discrimination” are examples of words that have been politicized, and therefore in the end have less cachet than they did before they were politicized.
Guess who did the politicizing.
A good thing there is an internet. It serves as the antidote to the poison in the MSM. Thus, I don’t think Duranty could ever have gotten away with his lies, were there an internet back then. (And BTW – the NY Fishwrap, aka Times, still won’t give back his Pulitzer.) I think, too, (or is it hope) that the MSM will go the way of the dinosaurs. They do seem to be getting there fairly quickly as they bleed money due to lost ad revenues.
Still the technology of the propagandist is pretty impressive.
Not only is the liberal leader of a labor union party, Herr Hitler, considered “Right-wing” but after a hundred years of fighting to free the slaves and achieve equal rights the Republicans are considered “Racist.” With their dying breath the Progressives will probably claim the tea partiers to be dirty freeloading hippies. Any bets?
Liberal is just a synonym for Stalinist. If you doubt it, just look at the liberal lickspittling of Fidel Castro by the media,hollywood, and “intellectual” elites.
The United States is going through a classic internal communist type takeover right now. Obama’s whole background, his family, his friends and his mentors point to one very obvious thing, he is a Marxist and detests Capitalism. His history is/was buried like the 10 million starved to death in the Ukraine in the 1920′s and 30′s by the communists, hidden by the same newspapers but led by Walter Duranty’s New York Times. Remember this, as detestable as Hitler might be, Josep Stalin has murdered 10 times as many, communists have murdered more than 200 million of their own citizens.
A superb article.
Dont forget-even in the 1930s the media LOVED Mussolini, Hitler ,and Stalin. Remember where the words “potemkin village” came from? Those were DURANTYS OWN WORDS describing Soviet communism like it was some sort of Disneyland while ignoring the mass murders going on under the eyes of Yagoda and Beriya. Same with Joe McCarthy. McCarthy was CORRECT about communists in our own midst(see today-Obama and his whole admin r commies. NBC and MSNBC its a job requirement you be a useful idiot. Look at what happens to non-conformists like Stuart Varney, John Stoessel,Glenn Beck,Bernard Goldberg,Lou Dobbs and John Gibson-all basically pushed out because they werent ideologically driven. LAW ACADEMIA MEDIA AND POLTICS-taken over by COMMUNISTS in the 1950s/1960s. Even now-MOVE ON.ORG is running most all news orgs not named Fox. Well Move on commies, I have some news for you. Better check and see who your commie pals kill first. Its the useful idiots like you, dolts.
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Communism is actually a conservative invention.
NBC and MSNBC its a job requirement you be a useful idiot. Look at what happens to non-conformists like Stuart Varney, John Stoessel,Glenn Beck,Bernard Goldberg,Lou Dobbs and John Gibson-all basically pushed out because they werent ideologically driven. LAW ACADEMIA MEDIA AND POLTICS-taken over by COMMUNISTS in the 1950s/1960s. Even now-MOVE ON.ORG is running most all news orgs not named Fox. Well Move on commies, I have some news for you. Better check and see who your commie pals kill first. Its the useful idiots like you, dolts.