False Flags
In order to protect the public from the influence of people like Rupert Murdoch, the British Labour Party has proposed licensing journalists. According to the Guardian a Labour shadow minister issued this dire warning. “Your newspapers and Sky TV are popular with millions of British people … However – and yes conference we should have said this a long time ago – never again think you can assert political power or seek political influence in the pursuit of your commercial goals or ideological beliefs. We’re not having it. This is Britain, Mr Murdoch. The integrity of our media and our politics is not for sale.” The BBC reported that Labour proposed to have reporters guilty of what was termed ‘gross malpractice’ “struck off” a register.
One would think that Murdoch was the devil himself. But more on that later. For now the proposals to establish journalistic registers were met with derision even from Left wing opinion writers. For one thing journalists have always had to deal with “registers” of different kinds which determined whether or not they could work in a particular area. That register is called access. Access is fame. Access is money. Unless the working journalist has magic access he might as well go blog.
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post says: “The White House has practically been overrun by journalists pumping top officials for behind-the-scenes details for a growing roster of behind-the-scenes books.” Greg Greenwald argues that Washington officials already control a journalist’s level of prestige and income by simply deciding whether or not to grant them interviews for what he calls “books about royal court intrigue and gossip”. Kurtz writes that based on past book sales what the audience wants is the soap-opera stuff.
For the most part, the works in progress are not dispassionate policy analyses. What makes political books sell — the backstage struggles, the fiery memos, the angry retorts in meetings — can be gleaned only from the likes of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and, perhaps, Obama and Vice President Biden.
So if you want to know what dressing President Obama uses on his salad or whether anyone on the staff wears droopy socks you have to have access. No access, no nothing.
But it isn’t just individual journalists who must fight for inclusion on the registry of access. Entire newspapers struggle to remain in good standing. The Knight Center for Journalism described how the Boston Herald got taken off the Presidential press pool because the White House didn’t like where they printed an op-ed about Romney.
Citing the newspaper’s perceived lack of fairness, the White House limited the Boston Herald’s access during a Wednesday, May 18, Boston fundraiser for President Barack Obama, according to the Boston Globe.
While the Herald still would be considered for the pool in future visits, and the pool participants were selected by the White House Correspondents Association and not the Obama administration, White House spokesman Matt Lehrich linked the Herald’s ban to its bias, citing the newspaper’s front-page placement of an op-ed written by former Massachusetts governor and potential 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney, explained Mediaite. …
Caren Bohan, vice president of the White House Correspondents Association, said journalists are “fighting” for more access to the president, according to the Boston Herald. “We’re constantly reminding the White House that we would like to see more press conferences and more opportunities for reporters to ask questions of the president,” she said, as quoted by the Herald. “That’s a big concern for us.”
The exclusion of the Herald follows an April incident when the White House banned a San Francisco Chronicle pool reporter who used her phone to shoot video at an Obama fundraiser in California.
Whoever described politics as Hollywood for ugly people forgot to add that like tinseltown, the Beltway also had its equivalent of the saying, “you’ll never work in this town again”. Whether anyone likes it or not, access journalism eventually leads to a kind of self-censorship, “in which the journalists voluntarily ceases to speak of issues that might embarrass their hosts.”
What is overlooked is that this potentially makes journalists a perfect channel for “disinformation”. Disinformation is the art not of denying that a set of events took place, but to color or twist the accounts in such a way as to manipulate perception. Unlike overtly totalitarian societies where the current “political line” is directly written into the media accounts of events, media manipulation in the West is attained by “disinformation” and even the Soviets knew this.
According to senior SVR officer Sergei Tretyakov, the KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles. Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying the missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they distributed disinformation, based on a faked “doomsday report” by the Soviet Academy of Sciences about the effect of nuclear war on climate, to peace groups, the environmental movement and the journal AMBIO.
That is the way things work to this day. There are preferred narratives which are started and reinforced by a variety of means. The audience is dimly aware that they exist — the talking points on Global Warming for example — but put cannot put their finger directly on them. They are like shadowy things — “serials” — which are suggestive but have no shape.
In order for disinformation to work well it needed two channels: an information delivery channel and a feedback loop. Once a narrative is pushed out the disinformationist must look to see how well it was accepted and then modified it based on the loop until the fish were swallowing things hook, line and sinker.
James J. Angleton, one of the pioneers in understanding disinformation techniques, realized that that Western intelligence had completely misunderstood the architecture of Soviet intelligence operations against them. They believed the KGB had designed their system to “steal secrets” — when in fact what it was designed to do was send instructions to Western policymakers in such a way they could not be recognized as instructions.
Angleton spent the better part of the next decade attempting to unravel the design of his arch
rival, the KGB. … When he interviewed the CIA executives involved, he came to the conclusion that part of the problem was an institutional arrogance: a belief they could not be duped. As he formulated the problem to
Dulles, the success of a deception over time depended on constant fine tuning to keep it credible. . … was able to succeed because its deception planners had a constant stream of feedback from Philby. So when even parts of the WIN story did not ring true to the CIA or MI-6, they could be adjusted by supplying another false defector or piece of disinformation. This real-time information from inside the CIA was what sustained the deception.
Similarly, it is wrong to think that that the primary role of the media is to investigate the powers that be; to “speak truth to power”. What they are for is to serve as a disinformation channel. The real power of the media “access system” is that it plays to the journalist’s vanity. Like the CIA, most journalists cling to the idea that they cannot be duped which in turn makes them vulnerable to serving as conduits for whatever “messaging” (ie ‘disinformation’) campaign the White House is running today.
Viewed in this light, why would the British Labour Party want to propose a “register” of journalists? What one suspects they really wanted to do, but had not the wit to find a means to accomplish, was to seal off a hostile penetration. Using phone-hacking and paying sources, Murdoch was on the brink of achieving something that very few other media organizations had achieved. He was in a position to “turn” officialdoms sources on themselves. Murdoch was about to convert Whitehall’s disinformation channel into a two way street. The worry over the phone-hacking scandal went way beyond the idea that some privacy walls had been the breached. The real issue was “who controls messaging process”.
A Labour MP has alleged that phone hacking at News International has gone “far beyond the News of the World” as he claimed that the Sun newspaper is also implicated in illegal practices. … Watson warned Labour activists that the scale of phone hacking at the now closed News of the World could be the tip of the iceberg.
“Do you really think that hacking only happened on the News of the World?” he said. “Ask Dominic Mohan, the current editor of the Sun. He used to joke about lax security at Vodafone when he attended celebrity parties. Ask the editor of the Sun if he thinks Rupert Murdoch’s contagion has spread to other newspapers. If he gives you an honest answer, he’ll tell you it’s only a matter of time before we find the Sun in the evidence file of the convicted private investigator that hacked Milly Dowler’s phone.
“This month we learn that journalists at the Times are affected by this scandal. The paper is shutting down its BlackBerry phone network – I hope they aren’t deleting the records.”
The emergency motion called for trade unions to have a role on the press watchdog and for the rules governing media ownership in Britain to be examined in the wake of the affair.
You can argue that this is the underlying reason for the incandescent hatred of Rupert Murdoch. He understood the rules of the game and unlike the individual journalists, was in a power position to challenge them.
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W: even more brilliant than usual. The description of Angleton’s insights into the “true” architecture of Soviet intel services, makes me realize how simplistic my thinking has been on Spy v. Spy. Instructions that don’t look like instructions, indeed.
And journalists getting played by the politicians, also very true. The White House put the Herald in the public stocks not because of what was said or done, but simply pour encourager les autres. We should expect a lot more of that as the pressure mounts.
Fortunately for the United States we have top men on this. Top Men.
Mr. Richard Fernandez, Sir: We find you guilty of 1,736 counts of “gross malpractice” aka speaking the truth.
These days I can’t think of a higher honor.
I like this “licensing” thing even better than I do my “Attack Watch” idea.
I’m really jealous.
Wretchard said:
“There are preferred narratives which are started and reinforced by a variety of means. The audience is dimly aware that they exist — the talking points on Global Warming for example — but put cannot put their finger directly on them. They are like shadowy things — “serials” — which are suggestive but have no shape.”
There’s a huge scandal within the American Physical Society over the official position that man’s actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide, refer to:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/
In some ways this is worse than the Catholic church making the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion its official canon.
Now add this little tidbit:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/09/26/doctor-and-ama-split-over-contentious-issue-of-obamacare/
The American Medical Association (AMA) in a lapse of good sense supported Obamacare. Consequently most of its member physicians bailed out of the organization. My guess is that Obama’s minions captured the executive leadership of the AMA to advance their political agenda. A zillion years ago I saw a similar phenomena happen with the Sierra Club. Originally the Sierra Club was focused on outdoor activity and promoting the conservation of wilderness. Left wing people and moonbats slowly took over the Sierra Club’s executive council and eventually the organization became focused on anti-nuclear politics and advancing various socialist agendas (that’s when I bailed out of the Sierra Club).
The Left Wing knows its stuff. They quietly take over an organization from the top and leave the confused membership wondering what happened. Sort of like changing the DNA of a normal cell into cancer.
Off topic:
At the close today, the DJIA dropped 202 points from its peak (still ended at the artificial high of 146.83). The PPT was desperate and lost billions in fiat money in a futile attempt to make the markets look viable. Watching the stock market is like witnessing a battle between sea monsters 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. All you see on the surface are ripples from the struggle in the abyss. The only clear indicator is the market volume (they don’t bother to hide that).
The BBC reported that Labour proposed to have reporters guilty of what was termed ‘gross malpractice’ “struck off” a register.
That would have a disproportionate effect on the BBC, if carried out impartially.
How about they issue a seal of approval?
(… and thanks for the fish)
Cui bono? Take each of the dominating narratives of the modern age and ask “who benefits?”. The beneficiary is often not the one the narrator pretends…
“Iran is the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world”. Here at PJM we have one of the high priests of this shibboleth in the person of Michael Ledeen. He fashions himself as a warrior against Islamic totalitarianism and a defender of America against the forces of evil. Iran is a heinous totalitarian fascist cesspit to be sure, and we should do more to harm this enemy. But Israel and Saudi Arabia benefit far far more than America by the endless repetition of this wild exaggeration. In fact, the purpose of this myth is manipulate the mighty political and military forces of America against the main enemy of Saudi Arabia and Israel : Iran. Isn’t that interesting? Iran IS an enemy, but how many mosques are built in Dar ul Harb by the Shiites? Nearly zero. How many terror inspiring imam salaries are paid by Iran? Nearly zero. How many of the nearly 20,000 terror attacks since 9/11 were conducted by Shiites? Far far fewer than their peace-loving Sunni counterparts. Hmmm… Seems like the Saudis and other gulf Arab Sunnis are responsible for most global terrorism – so why is this lie repeated so often?
“Islam is a religion of peace.”. This mini-lecture is endlessly delivered supposedly to school bigoted Westerners. Apparently we must not make the grave mistake of taking Muslims seriously when they cite Islam as their guiding creed in waging Jihadi terrorism. Nor can we draw inferences about the nature and character of Muslims or Islam by looking at their hideous, hateful, intolerant malfunctioning societies – that would be intolerant! On it’s face, this narrative seems designed to make us a more tolerant society – to live up to our ideals – and while we’re not perfect in that regard, but who REALLY benefits? This oft-repeated lie is really designed to deflect attention away Islam’s intolerance and barbarity and portray us as the intolerant ones. As a bonus, our supposed intolerance of Muslims is then cited as the genesis of their perpetual rage and hatred against us. Many, including most Muslims and weirdoes like Ron Paul, mihael Moore, and Sean Penn all subscribe to the idea that we brought Islamic terror on ourselves. And presidents from Clinton, Bush, and Obama all retail the lie that Islam poses no threat whatsoever. Islam’s agents and apologists provide the ultimate feedback loop, and it works solely for he benefit of Islam. You’d think Islam’s rage and hatred might more logically be laid at the alter of Islam – and its explicit incitements and exhortations to murder, terrorize, and subjugate the world by force – all of which are central , explicit tenets of Islam… Hmmmm…
Apply this same method to other narratives and ask “who benefits?”:
America is a Racist Nation.
Global Warming / AGW is Settled Science.
Democrats are on the side of The People.
Orwell’s family must be overjoyed, because state registration of journalists is proof that Orwell lives.
Sorry, OT, but cannot resist re: Sierra Club. Was a Navy rescue helicopter pilot in my youth. We got called to the Sierra Nevada mountains to rescue a hiker with a compound break at about 8000′. We landed, shut down, and dispatched the crew chief and corpsman with the stokes litter to begin treatment and prepare for the flight out. Turns out it was a Sierra Club hiking party. They started berating my crew and I for landing in a designated wilderness area. We were in the process of turning up to leave when they realized the potential impact of their hypocrisy on their fellow hiker in extremis.
Yes! Why not?!!??!!!
Let the future generations see the current crop of journ0lists wearing their ‘gubmint-approved’ badge proudly.
So the whole “Nuclear Winter” thing was a Commie hoax? And I made an even bigger fool of myself than usual by pushing that claptrap?
Well!
Thank goodness it’s too late for me to die of embarrassment!
Nyuck! Nyuck!
Re the AMA—
The AMA has been sellouts since at least the ’70s, when I bailed out after a 2-year membership; the phoniness was completely obvious. After failing to defeat MCare I think they just caved in. Their big deal is they own the numeric disease coding system thats used in all the billing and records—everybody has to buy this and they make a ton of money. Therefore, guess who is backing those accursed electronic medical records?
They also have an insurance racket. They’re nothing but a private branch of the government, cultivating the right people and raking it in.
I also bailed out of two other professional societies back during HillaryCare. Got a fax from each one urging me to write my congressman in support. One, the American Academy of Family Physicians, must have severely misjudged their membership (can you think of a group less likely to support HillaryCare?!!!!).
Not long after the fatal fax came a questionnaire purporting to sound out the members’ feelings and provide guidance to leadership. Baaah! It was obvious they’d stepped on their collective genitals up there and were about as representative of the average family doctor as Viagra is to Love Potion Number Nine.
A pox on them all . . . almost; the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons is doing yeoman work and truly stands up for doctors.
PS—
A few issues ago, the journal American Family Physician, which has otherwise been a pretty good publication over the years, published an article by a professor of public health from Hopkins urging family doctors to, amongst other things, persuade their patients to stop eating red meat in order to fight global warming.
I swear on my mother’s grave I did not make that up just now and even wrote them a letter. . . but that’s another story.
Eggplant wrote: “Watching the stock market is like witnessing a battle between sea monsters 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. All you see on the surface are ripples from the struggle in the abyss.”
That’s a VERY good analogy, eggplant! I’ve been trying to come up with some metaphor for what I’ve been seeing in the markets the last couple of weeks, especially. Words like “insane” and all the other terms thrown around don’t even come close to describing what’s happening. Big news happens – no response. A rumor one way, down 800 points, a rumor the next day, up 400 or whatever – and the fact is that BILLIONS of dollars, as you say, are getting tossed in and out of the pot at the speed of light! And there is not even a pretense of a rational expectation for the things that are happening!
How about this – Gold down $75 an ounce one day, up $60/oz the next! All I know for sure is that the same people who were riding the puts down were probably riding the calls up. Some people got incredibly rich off of those two moves alone, you know it.
Should we wonder whether these were people who knew in advance exactly what bizarre price moves were about to happen? Well, that’s dangerous, because then we’d have to ask whether what we’re seeing is just a vast web of manipulation, designed for a few at the top to pull out as many goodies as they can before the entire artifice comes crashing to the ground.
I will tell you one thing I know for sure – “long term” to the people trading today means about 18 hours, the time from one days close to the next days open. NO one in these markets plans any farther ahead than that.
Toady Scribblers forget that they are not paid by the politicians, except when they are, but by the public. Loss of credibility means loss of market share and an opportunity for the more confrontational. As they told the corrupt Mayor in His Girl Friday (the Front Page remake), “There is an Unseen Power that guards The Chronicle.”
There was no truth in Pravda. There was no news in Izvestia. We have better toilet paper.
Team 44 “convinced” the Ford motor company to pull their advertisement critical of the auto bailout today. Disappeared it off of YouTube too.
Eggplant/5: Great comment. The sea monster analogy to the Dow is excellent, both for its imagery but especially because it feels scarily true. (I cannot believe the volatility and the hidden variables involved here. Want to go hide in a foxhole called cash, but that exposes other flanks: zero yield, inflation, counterparty credit risk. Truly crazy times.) Your other pont in /5 about the Left’s infiltration of existing organizations also seems too true. Parasites prosper by working inside the host, invisible to its immune system.
Joe Buzz/16: I saw that too. Disgusting. I thought Ford management had some stones, but apparently not. On the other hand, the thing has gone viral and said management team may figure that, by capitulating in broad daylight to obvious pressure from what used to be our government, it just reinforces their argument. They’ve done the real work by putting up the ad in the first place. I still don’t like it, though.
As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between America and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, “our most significant success.”
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The KGB campaign to assault the U.S. and Europe by means of disinformation was more than just a few Cold War dirty tricks. The whole foreign policy of the Soviet-bloc states, indeed its whole economic and military might, revolved around the larger Soviet objective of destroying America from within through the use of lies. The Soviets saw disinformation as a vital tool in the dialectical advance of world Communism.
The Stockholm conference held annual international meetings up to 1972. In its five years of existence it created thousands of “documentary” materials printed in all the major Western languages describing the “abominable crimes” committed by American soldiers against civilians in Vietnam, along with counterfeited pictures. All these materials were manufactured by the KGB’s disinformation department. I would print up these materials in hundreds of thousands of copies each.
The Romanian DIE (Ceausescu’s secret police) was tasked to distribute these KGB-concocted “incriminating documents” all over Western Europe. And ordinary people often bought it hook, line, and sinker. “Even Attila the Hun looks like an angel when compared to these Americans,” a West German businessman reprovingly told me after reading one such report.
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Chased home: Mob attacks man in his house
9. Vanguard of the Commentariat,
Where were you stationed?
An independent press would cease all coverage under these conditions. It’s appropriate for the WH to limit the numbers only when press associations choose the reporters.
James Jesus Angleton was an odd bird and probably did more harm than good to The Agency.
He studied and wrote poetry @ Yale with a particular focus on TS Elliot and Ezra Pound.
In his form of analysis the task was to find the hidden meaning behind the hidden meaning–of the text–ending up in infinite regress–or mental masturbation–excuse my French.
He applied the same approach to intelligence and became increasingly paranoid and bizarre.
His paranoid search for hidden meanings with a hall of mirror led to
The Great Mole Hunt
–which almost destroyed the CIA and certainly destroyed many careers.
Re the British Labour Party and the press–they will going after bloggers next
The libel laws in the UK together with the governments power of D notices–censorship–already restrict freedom of the press.
In the US some are claiming that bloggers are not the press and that therefore the freedom of speech statutes should not apply to them
One fine morning, when I lived in San Diego, I was relaxing at my favorite coffee place with the San Diego Tribune. On the editorial page- the lower right part, below the cartoon- to the left of the paper’s editorials- were two columns, one by Robert Novak and below it one by Jim Hoagland. They were both quite obviously based on leaks by sources with axes to grind.
It’s appalling, but this is all “journalists” really do- take a press release and thinly rewrite it, or if they are of the august and connected sort, get a statement from some connected individual intended to further that individual’s personal agenda and similarly thinly rewrite it. There isn’t anything in any paper that isn’t obvious tripe, but we live in a society based on lies. Somebody decides what lies to tell, and it isn’t the sap at the paper.
Tina Brown comes clean about her participation in the Great Disinformation Campaign of 2008:
“While discussing whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will change his mind and run for President, the former New Yorker editor blurted, ‘Actually, I just hope he doesn’t, because in the end, you know, his tremendous misgivings, maybe he is right. I mean, We had this with Obama. He wasn’t ready, it turns out, really.’”
Video and audio of Brown’s interview at the link: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/09/27/tina-brown-obama-wasnt-ready-be-president
The 1968 Tet Offensive comes to mind, Disaster for the Vietcong but Americans were lead by our righteous Walter Cronkite into believing that it was a great win for them (Vietcong) and a big loss to us (America), yes Ted Kennedy was busy sending secret mail to our enemies, anything to sabotage his Political Opponents (Great American ol’ Ted K. the sex pervert was) and John Kerry’s friends were having the best of times using disinformation to lose a war America was very much in the winners seat. then the Great Democrat party sealed the fate of South Vietnam by cutting off the supply of ammunition finally handing the North Vietnamese what they could not do themselves. Ya just like “Eggplant” (#5) said “The Left Wing knows its stuff. They quietly take over an organization from the top and leave the confused membership wondering what happened. Sort of like changing the DNA of a normal cell into cancer.” I truly believe the National Republican party has been Cancerous for nearly 20+ years now.
Thrasymachus
…when I lived in San Diego, I was relaxing at my favorite coffee place with the San Diego Tribune. On the editorial page…
This is commonly referred to as the front page nowadays.
Blast #15:
“Loss of credibility means loss of market share…”
Nope. Fraid not. Don’work that way no more, if it ever did. The Left is a huge echo chamber and there is enough of them to lap up whatever gets spewed out if it resonates.
Dan Rather and the fired 60 Minutes folks are an aberration, a fluke, an exception that proves the rule. And even then the “Disgraced” readily found platforms where they could go around and spout out that “fake but accurate” drivel.
Millions of people believe that 9/11/01was a vast plot by somebody but not Arab Muslims. Thousands of others march in the streets and decry the oppressive, all encompassing influence of Fox News Channel, ignoring the fact that vastly more get their news from the Old Big 3. For the Left a daily flight from the Truth is their morning jog. And each day they get their Talking Points, which includes the constant assertion that the Right secretly sends out Talking Points.
The KGB were pikers in comparison.
The Beeb is wary and watchful; the Grauniad is not so sure.
“But the BBC’s own investigation has concluded that Rastani is authentic.”
“Trader’s Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims
Alessio Rastani, who claimed on BBC News ‘I dream of another recession’, is not a ‘Yes Man’ – but he could be an honest trader”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/27/trader-goldman-sachs-bbc-hoax
Registration of journalists was recently discussed by a Labor minister in Australia. The aim seemed more to cut out all but MSM reporters.
As far as I know the first instance, and successful use, of “fake but accurate” was as the basis for the fall-back campaign to rehabilitate Rigoberta Menchu when, having won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, her credibility was demolished. Her purported autobiography, “I, Rigoberta Menchu,” formed the basis for her career and the Nobel it earned her, but it was subsequently shown to be false. The cry arose that, while her story may itself have been fraudulent, the political situations and oppressions it described were in fact true. Some went so far as to claim on Menchu’s behalf that while her book had the form of an autobiography, it was not intended to be one, and was instead meant to be an account of her people’s oppression and struggle. The ruse enjoyed success in a measure sufficient to have motivated people to use it again and again.
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In other words truthiness must remain the domain of the priesthood.
In Catholicism TRANSINTERMEDIATION is core principle — and one of the MAIN divergences between Martin Luther and Rome.
( Wiki has an entirely fouled up conflating intercession with intermediation. The heathens. )
The role of the Church was to stand before man and God — at Mass — transintermediating between the faithful and the Lord; transubstantiating wine into His Blood and unleavened bread into His Host.
This notion has been entirely absorbed by our new priestly class, the MSM. ( Morally Superior Mentalities )
Hence, the constant preachiness, the hectoring and the utopian ambit of their collectivist vision.
It goes unremarked, but the Soviet state aped the Catholic Church — in its structure.
The General Secretary was elevated from the ranks of the Politburo — just as the Pope is elevated from the ranks of a subset of the Cardinals.
Further parallels are to be found as one descends the Soviet table of organization.
It has long been said that Stalin was instrumental in Structuring the Soviet state. And it has long been noted that he seemed to have a masterful grasp of bureaucracy.
His personal history shows that he was, for a time, oriented on a religious path — within the Eastern Orthodox Church. However, he chose the new Marxist religion early on — and wisely became as faceless a functionary as he could possibly be. He chose to be the Morlock amongst the Eloi.
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Everything that was old can become new again, especially if one does not know of it.
Maybe we should register ex-politicians?
Koch:
Lady Astor, facelifts, fedoras, baby elephants—oh…
…and Obama?
I like the guy next year!
blah, blah, blah,
scroll to bottom of page:
“The President should be praised for intervening with the Egyptian army to save the Israeli diplomatic personnel from physical assault and providing the Israeli military with bunker buster bombs, advanced military technology and providing military intelligence cooperation far exceeding his predecessors.
I’m now on board the Obama Reelection Express.“
“…the first instance, and successful use, of “fake but accurate” …”
Well, I suppose the first instance of “fake but true” is a very elastic one, but surely this has been going on for centuries. The protectors of the lie/narrative were simply more successful at supressing the counter-narrative and therefore their lies became reality. The heroic Kennedy family was a huge hoax perpetrated in the 20th century. Given what we know about it now, I think virtually everything about that family was a fake concoction engineered by the thug patriarch. His lies were made true by the army of fellow travelers in the fauning media who colluded 100%. And the fake but true narrative that maintained that America had nothing to fear from communist infiltration, and thatbour efforts to stamp out commies was the true menace was extremely successful. And the “fake but true” lie that FDR’s socialism was responsible for lifting us out of the poverty of the Great Depression was still being peddled by my commie public teachers when I was a kid… That’s the sloppy swill Obama and his fellow traitors absorbed and never questioned…
That Wiki is entirely dominated by the Scribe Class — now atheistic/ agnostic — the irony is vast.
Each day the world becomes even more of a bad joke it seems. Main stream journalism is just another word for “gossip”. Unregistered gossip will sell just as well as the registered kind; I guess. Ex mayor Koch is riding on the Obama Re-election Express (ORE). It seems old Eddy is mining something.
Where is Tommy Cooper when you need him? Woman to doctor “When I walk it hurts in several different places”. Doctor to woman “Then stop going there.”
I’m trying to identify the last year that qualified as serious but I can’t. Interesting times.
d @ 31: I thought Obambus had specifically *withheld* the bunker busters, etc, so is Koch confused or did I miss an announcement?
If the press are not compliant then a kinder and gentler press will be found.
And now, for something completely different!
In contrast to the tradecraft mastery of Andropov and Pacepa in planting memes, comes this story today that North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has suggested the 2012 Congressional elections be postponed.
Perdue’s full statement:
“You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It’s a little bit more contentious now but it’s not impossible to try to do what’s right in this state. You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”
Read more: http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspending_congressional_elections_for_two_years_was_she_serious#ixzz1ZD8JF7p8
The Governor’s office is now trying to spin her statements as a joke, but accounts from attendees at the event say there was no indication of such at the time.
Notice that she is not talking about the NC Legislature, but rather Congressional elections, which are not usually a state governor’s main area of interest . Perdue is very unpopular in NC, and the almost universal consensus here is that she has no chance of re-election. What better candidate to float a trial balloon for the White House?
Perhaps the area I live in colors my view point but, while their are “millions” of leftists there are millions who hate their guts. Right now aggregate polling at the Real Clear Politics site show Obama & Company to be in trouble and if the election was held tomorow they would lose. the rumor is that the internal polling is even worse. On top of the while Obama’s toads brag about his 55 million fund raising, in comparison to past results and considering campaign needs it is not enough and a sign that people are holding out this go around. Newspapers revenues have dried up to such an extent that they are becoming vanity projects. The word is old Slim is putting money into the NY Times so he can make a splash in NY City society, not to make a good return?
Consider the Labor party’s flier about journalist’s regulation. Was that really a smart thing for a minority party to do? Governor Purdue’s remarks about suspending Congressional elections so Congress could concentrate job creation, has been followed by “just kidding around. It was a joke.” when the backlash flared up. I’m seeing cannibalization on the left to an extent that I have never seen before. I have to figure there is even more circular shooting going on behind closed doors.
The left is “showing it’s ass” more and more. More and more I think the biggest mistake the American left has done is to put Obama into office.
In a prior post, a commenter asked, in effect, “What should be done with Pakistan?
The answer is the same today as on September 12, 2001: employ information/disinformation against the adversary. The great advantage we would have had and could still have is in telling the truth about the culture and beliefs of the adversary. But because of political correctness we would not and still cannot. Islamist regimes, in contrast, easily, readily, and cheaply employ the KGB gameplan against us. It’s as simple as paying a p.r. firm to do the job. Just ask Hamas how it’s done. So easy!
All we know how to do is engage in kinetic activities. That’s a losing game, at least for any time over 6 months or a year.
The blogger Protein Wisdom used your title “False Flag” yesterday topping a Murdochian story about Fox News sliding leftwards–implying that the news station as a whole maybe something other than it seems.
In Nov.’08, when lefties were flushed with happiness, the CIA ran frequent TV ads to vacuum up the young and committed. Surreal, I haven’t seen any ads like that before or since. From PJM’s series on the Justice Dept. hires (every single one) we can deduce who lurks in our current intelligence agencies.
5. Eggplant
Wretchard said:
“There are preferred narratives which are started and reinforced by a variety of means. The audience is dimly aware that they exist — the talking points on Global Warming for example — but put cannot put their finger directly on them. They are like shadowy things — “serials” — which are suggestive but have no shape.”
There’s a huge scandal within the American Physical Society over the official position that man’s actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide, refer to:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/
In some ways this is worse than the Catholic church making the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion its official canon.
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Similarly, there is a medieval equivalent to the white man’s burden of the past which justifies all manner of government entitlements and set asides for non whites and even illegal aliens.
The medieval equivalent is called the sale of indulgences.
The catholic church placed all the ancestors of europe in purgatory. The only way that the people could get them into heaven was to pay the church. It was a great revenue generator for the church.
The sale of indulgences was one of the items against which Martin Luther railed in his famous 95 thesis in 1517.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#The_start_of_the_Reformation
Ah the sound of crickets.
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/184269-blacks-leave-obama
The screams of fake should start any minute now.
Let’s be fair. “Licensing journalists” wasn’t proposed by the Labour Party, it was proposed by Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s “shadow” culture secretary, at Labour’s current party congress, and was received with “universal disdain”. Lewis’ proposal was flatly repudiated by Labour chief Ed Miliband. Labour is many bad things, but not that stupid (other than Lewis).
Let’s also not elevate the disgraceful keyhole-sniffing of British reporters to “muckraking”, just because it is practiced by Murdoch’s quasi-right-wing henchmen. The News of the World was caught fair and square in illegal actions.
What most observers (other than the invaluable “Guido Fawkes”) have deliberately ignored is that the phone-hacking for which NotW was condemned has been practiced by the whole British press.
There are other dangers. Britain’s Standard and Independent newspapers are now owned by Russian oligarch and ex-KGB man Alexander Lebedev. The New York Times is dependent on the largesse of Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim. How much covert influence is similarly wielded by the petrostates or China is unknown.
The press is slave to the game of access only selectively. To remind you of the utter depravity of the press, let us recall the heady days of Bill Clinton, yes, heady days because heady they were!
Bill Clinton used to come out and bald-faced lie to the press, and they knew it, and they loved it. The story was not that Bill Clinton lied, but that he lied so well! So masterfully! How they loved being feted and adored by their philosopher-king. That is what mattered.
Republican presidents are strangers to these ways of the press corps. It matters little what “access” one of them doles out. Limitation of access was tried against the New York Times by the Bush administration several times when the NYT was set to publish classified material in acts designed to purposely hamper the US war effort. The NYT had no problem calling Washington’s bluff in those days.
During the Clinton years, the NYT willfully buried stories at the West Wing’s behest.
If you are a viewer of MSNBC as your sole source of news, the words, “Operation Fast and Furious” are strange things to hear.
No, officialdom has not corrupted the press by playing games of insider-access. No, not at all. The press corps is in fact driving that scene, they would love and do push for a time when only special people have access to the king, and they are licking the king, and they are dedicated to making certain who becomes king.
There is no crisis about a press corps being corrupted against its will by a sinister king. The reality is that the press corps loves that kingship, it loves being corrupted (“Clinton lies SO WELL!! {gush}”). It begs for more.
Battered wife syndrome?
Who cares. Why do them the favor of decoding their myriad pathologies. It’s like arguing with one of those Zombie guys from the Frisco streets, with a cock in his mouth, about love. Fool’s errand.
Well in my opinion the press acts the way it does because it is perceived as a way for the not too intelligent to get power and influence with out having to do all that tedious stuff like run for an office or take college algebra. There is the civil service of course, but a lot of those positions require the passing of a test, and your typical media major can’t seem to get pass the reading, writing, and computational part of the tests. Become a media major, barf back what the hack professors want and get your credentials. Of course these days a lot of them are living with the parents and serving up latte’s. In ye olde days when a reporter was a tradesman they had to go out an interview people, you also had to be able to hold your booze because when people drank they often let information and tips past the lips. Some of the better ones actually new short hand. One old timer stuck with taking paper notes because he found it wasn’t as off putting as using a recorder. If you get a media job now days, you make phone calls, check the Internet for the latest talking points, and seldom leave the air conditioned comfort. You might how to go out for a press release or something but you’ll be handed printed material, so you can just fake taking notes. Snark/off.
35. Josh…
It was a secret.
shhh
Washington Finally Sold Bunker-Buster Bombs To Israel -/a>
Two years ago, the Obama Administration secretly authorized the sale of 55 deep-penetrating bombs — or bunker busters — to Israel
@exhelodriver NAS Fallon, NV at the time.
Like every major institution, I think Murdoch took the scandal voluntarily, or he was instructed to do it. Our leaders are all stepping down for some reason… every one of them.
46/Doug & 35/Josh…
It was a secret.
If it happened at all. A quick google search for this shows pages of articles from the usual left-leaning media sources which all seem to derive from a new “scoop” article by a Newsweek writer named Eli Lake. This would be, of course, the same Newsweek that “scooped” the story about the Korans being flushed down the toilet which turned out to be a lie after causing a lot of deaths.
In addition, the stories, numbers of munitions and time line are curious, merely claiming 55 bombs were “secretly promised” in 2009. However, a search on “Israel bunker busters diverted” reveals pages of stories from May 2010 from conservative and alternative media that the Obama administration ordered the US military to divert 367 promised bunker busters to Diego Garcia. This was discussed right here on BC.
In none of these stories is there any confirmation that 55 bombs were actually delivered in 2009, nor that 367 were diverted in 2010. Even if 55 bombs out of the numbers originally promised were delivered in 2009, the administration’s policies have definitely hardened as time progressed, which would fit with the reputed diversion of more significant numbers later in 2010.
Given the Obama administration’s actual public record in its treatment of Israel and Newsweek’s actual track record for truth and accuracy, this current spate of stories doesn’t pass the smell test. As usual, something else is probably going on. This could be more of a PR attempt by Obama to recoup some of his lost support among American Jews – it seems it was good enough for Ed Koch. Alternatively, it could be the result of an effort from his hard left base to pressure him to take an even harder stance against Israel in order to “atone” for this earlier mistake, and his current blocking of a Palestinian state at the UN.
Amen Cowboy (#44) the truth sets us free but not all want to be FREE! I fault education and then work place politics… Our public education system starts stacking the deck early, it becomes hard core in our Colleges and Universities and then to top it off Journalism has no room for unbelievers and neither do the MSM employers.
47) Vanguard,
Thanks – I flew H-3s. Went to Fallon a couple of times for short dets.
M @ 12 – 100 % agreement here.
Disinformants suffer the fate of lying witnesses in court. Hard to credit anything they say.
t @ 49: I have no source of knowledge on the bunker busters other than the internet and media, but I clearly remember the discussion of those bombs being diverted – and no MENTION of that diversion in today’s articles. Fishy. Also, even 55 of these mutha’s is a lot, so this story of 367 sounds fallacious.
I just have a flag set on the issue because of Israel’s tactical mistake in the last Hizboolah/Lebanon war, they thought they didn’t need the penetrators, thought that thermobaric and fuel-air devices would take out the bunkers – and were wrong. I was surprised when apparently they had *none* of these of either US nor local manufacture.
I’m also not clear that the Bush administration held back on approval or delivery, though they might have required Israel to wait for some new manufacture.
Is Obambus really that clever, that he would semi-secretly announce the diversion, and then double-secretly actually ship them?
#4 Joseph
Have you already forgotten the RKK?
Re: Bunker Busters. BBs (lol) are not that sophisticated. Mostly lots of BOOM in case hardened steel or other hardened penetrator. Given that Israeli defense industry is very sophisticated, it seems more of a device that would be manufactured in-house. I am skeptical.
Completely On-Topic…about as false as you can get:
“Patriotic Millionaires” that want you to donate to their campaign to get their taxes raised……
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/09/patriotic-millionaires-want-you-to-donate-to-them/
#37 tharkun
The call for suspending elections is not an anomaly, nor apparently is was it a joke as now being claimed..
1) Peter Orzag, who until recently was the White House Budget Director, has an article in the current THE NEW REPUBLIC titled “Too Much of a Good Thing, Why we need less democracy.” calling for “depoliticized” boards to take over governance from elected officials. http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democracy?page=0,0&passthru=MGU3YjMxNDdlN2UyMjM2MTNhZGZjNDE2MjE2NjE2Nj
That is two data points. If this comes up again, we are looking at what might be being considered trial balloons for a Democrat alternative to 2012.
2) Perdue claimed that her call for suspending elections was rhetorical hyperbole. That did not fly. So now she is claiming that it was a joke, and apparently we have no sense of humor. Look at this and tell me that she was joking.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections/
TWANLOC need to be slapped back, hard and fast; until they are afraid to even think of such a thing. Because if they do, the “=” will have been crossed.
Subotai Bahadur
49. tharkun…
But, but…
Isn’t Ed Koch the Gold Standard???
Superb blog post but is the quest to control the “messaging” itself the first pitfall in slouching towards the next quest of controlling the leadership, through whatever (tweaked) disinformation tactic works best?
I don’t know but how to explain that Fockers Snooze now skews leftward, and that they, like GOP establishment also want Soetero to have a second term, with the proviso that in four years they will really, really this time, (they promise!) really get down to some serious business?
That disaster of a “debate” last thurs. on fox is the worst piece of politically manipulated of chaos, confusion and favoritism I’ve ever seen in political debate. CNN has lost viewship and now is actively trying to establish an more honest reputation by virtue of market forces. Their debate the previous week consisted of all question from Tea Party orgs throughout the country asking the questions and Wolf Blitzer moved the thing along without biased intervention at all. ALL the candidates were asked the same question and ALL gave their responses. No Perry vs. Romney Drama, and all the weird and blistering camera cuts, not to mention that whore Megan Kelly fronting the fagenda for her own personal agenda to attain more fame and “access”. And that weird ass echo in the that echo chamber of a hall. It was a damned disgrace. Just when it was starting to look promising, the venues and the formatting, I mean. Only thing was it didn’t payoff for gatekeepers Fox and GOP estab. Instead of a coronation for Perry, we might just get a good vetting of this democrat party insider.
Something the hell is up with fox, and it’s not good at all.
Speaking of suspending elections:
On the heels of “I dream of recessions” Rastani’s rant on the BBC, today comes another politically incorrect rant from Attila the Hun-garaian, head of Unicredit who says” the Euro is practically dead and Europe faces a financial earthquake from a Greek default” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/step-aside-bbc-trader-head-unicredit-securities-predicts-imminent-end-eurozone-and-global-finan
Deep in his long ,thorough rant though is a warning that the ATM’s of Greece will shut down and many crucial government employees will not be paid at the default, which is very similar to the warnings here at the BC a few threads back that our ATM’s, credit cards and bank checks will go poof when our collapse comes. Got me to thinking. Could this be part of the plan? Total disruption of our banking system would mean total chaos and a huge loss of life here in the states. Could this be the planned trigger event for Marshall Law and the suspension of elections by our Dear Leader Buraq? I could see our Elites demand that Buraq take over everything and extinguish that constitutional republic thing that restrains the Left so.
Fortunately for us, but not for the Greeks, Greece will be a smaller dry run for our collapse. We will get a glimpse of the horrors of a default/collapse there, and if we had competent people in power we should be able to prevent the worst of it. Unfortunately for us , we do not have competent people at the FED, the Treasury and or in th is administration to avoid the worst of it. I fear they will try to not let another crisis got to waste.
53/Josh
Also, even 55 of these mutha’s is a lot, so this story of 367 sounds fallacious.
On the contrary, 55 bombs are not very much once you initiate operations, and would be used up quickly. However, I do need to make a correction, the 367 figure was supposed to be 387, and the story dates from March 2010, not May 2010:
Special To world Tribune
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Obama blocks delivery of bunker-busters to Israel
WASHINGTON — The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel.
Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia. They said the shipment of 387 smart munitions had been slated to join pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in Israel Air Force bases
“This was a political decision,” an official said.
Later in the article we find:
Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems.
And further down:
Under the plan, the U.S. military was to have stored 195 BLU-110 and 192 BLU-117 munitions in unspecified air force bases in Israel. The U.S. military uses four Israeli bases for the storage of about $400 million worth of pre-positioned equipment meant for use by either Washington or Jerusalem in any regional war.
The time line is important here. We have an article in March 2010 that contradicts the Newsweek claim that such a request was honored in 2009. Who do we believe?
There is more in the World Tribune article which can be found here: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0217_03_18.asp
57/Subotai Bahadur
That is two data points. If this comes up again, we are looking at what might be being considered trial balloons for a Democrat alternative to 2012.
Thanks for the additional info. The Perdue story is making a bit of a stir here in North Carolina, but the real question is whether it will go national, or be suppressed.
TWANLOC need to be slapped back, hard and fast; until they are afraid to even think of such a thing. Because if they do, the “=” will have been crossed.
Agreed, but I’m not optimistic. Alea awaits.
Ok, I re-read it.
“Using phone-hacking and paying sources, Murdoch was on the brink of achieving something that very few other media organizations had achieved. He was in a position to “turn” officialdoms sources on themselves. Murdoch was about to convert Whitehall’s disinformation channel into a two way street.”
The inference here is that people in government, undertaking government business with news papers, news outlets and sources for the purposes of advancing their partys agenda (by phone) is every bit the people’s business as would be or in fact is through e-mails, or other official correspondence. It’s trouble enough just getting e-mails through Freedom of Information Act. Especially from this Administration. Fast And Furious Anyone? Fed Audit?
It’s also difficult to consider it “hacking” when the relevant info vis a vis government business conducted by phone is the people’s property to begin with.
Rahm used to schedule all meetings of White House business off-site at restraunts and the like and to avoid the accountability loop back at headquarters, and I’m sure they all still do it that way there.
There is more than a whiff of authoritarianism in the air.
Obama kicked it off with ObamaWatch. Then the Fed jumped with its surveillance program. Then the British MP sought to limit speech. Then, we have Australian courts convicting people of un-PC speech. Then we have Perdue suggesting to suspend elections. And now we have Peter Orzag with his latest authoritarian rant:
“During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result.
So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic. “http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democracy
As Leroy Jethro Gibbs of NCIS fame says ” I do not believe in coincidences”. There are way too many on the Left saying similar things. The hard Left is just itching to shut down democracy and to silence once and for all those ungrateful, whiny, patriotic, God fearing, bitter clinging Tea Partiers, who have caused all this “gridlock”. Look for the meme of silencing dissent and suspending elections to grow by leaps and bounds amongst our Ruling Class. All in the name of progress, “governing” and “fixing” things. Soon it will be the “adult”, “pragmatic” position of our anointed everywhere, and the long knives will be out for anyone who dares to disagree. These first forays in authoritarianism are just the public relations beginning in the softening up of the public for the big takeover- to an Elite Leftist Dictatorship.
To the readers at Belmont, including you left-wing guys on the payroll for someone or other. You have to realize that the Left is a bunch of kids in diapers playing with gasoline and matches. They have no idea what will happen when they go forward with their sweaty little fantasies. These are people whose life experience is based on bullying people and mistaking their restraint for cowardice. People on the Left eternally insult strangers in a crowd, and take it for granted that since no one screams or punches them, that they have won the argument. They strut, they preen, they act like they’ve just shown everyone who’s the real tough guy.
Pathetic.
They will cross a line, and reap the whirlwind of their own sowing.
westerncanadian@34: “I’m trying to identify the last year that qualified as serious but I can’t.”
By my estimation it was about 1992. Nobody can seriously contend that any of the Clinton years were serious, between the serial scandals, the nascent dot com boom, irrational exuberance, yuppies with no financial clue comparing NASDAQ portfolios, blue dresses with stains, etc. Nor really can any of the Bush 43 years be considered serious as a whole. Certainly the last part of 2001 was serious…but come on, we were all looking for ways to help and were told to go shopping. Then had Medicare D shoved on us, the incipient BDS, the unhinging of the Democratic party and so forth. The end of 2008 was pretty damned serious financially, but doesn’t really count because while you see endless claims about how we nearly “went over the cliff”, nobody ever seems able to describe what is meant by that. And I refuse to entertain any Obama year as a serious year.
So for my money, 1992 was the last real year we’ve enjoyed. The Soviets had well and truly fallen, a huge part of the nuclear war threat had receded, We had not yet seen a bombing of the WTC, the Cole hadn’t been blown to hell, serious people were trying to do serious things to make sure Russia didn’t self-destruct in the post-cold-war years, we had a decent man in the WH, the Clinton Derangement Syndrome hadn’t yet vanquished the Repubs. It was a good year.
1992 was the year I (finally) graduated from college at age 24 and started working in the real world. Coincidence? I like to think so. Because I have this nagging feeling that maybe somehow I am directly personally responsible for all the ridiculous things that have happened since through my own incompetence at actually being an adult. Maybe I’m taking too much on myself here…but maybe not. Maybe I’m just THAT much of a f-up.
Nah, nobody is going to suspend elections, or declare Marshall law. That’s just a wet dream that the “elite” have that occasionally surfaces. We should welcome the Purdue remarks, and Orzag column, and hope for more. Maybe Friedman can weigh in with another column suggesting that we emulate China. it’s nice to know how desperate they are becoming.
We have a lot of challenges, and there will be events that will shake our stability. I believe that cancelling elections would tip us over into real civil war. The talk of doing so is more likely an “if only” thing rather than a serious agenda, although it’s possible they they may really be that stupid. There’s not a lot of evidence to counter that supposition.
The poor darlings don’t have total control of the narrative any longer. People have no faith in them, and that feeling is rightly earned. So, as typical humans, they attempt to project their immense failures and inadequacies onto the public. The only other alternative would be for them to face the truth about themselves, and people of any persuasion find that very hard to do.
If they could just stop all the racists and other meanies from pointing out their flaws everything would be right with the world again. Because, of course, they have no flaws, just a stupid populace who has no idea how lucky we are to have them to preside over us.
I haven’t read any recent polls on this, but I’d be willing to bet that one of the only National institutions that has popular support would be the US Military. Maybe they ought to ponder what that means.
Although I don’t think you could go very wrong underestimating their intelligence, I think even most of these dimbulbs have an inkling where things would go if elections were cancelled. These outcries are a good sign: regardless of any pep talks, even these idiots are starting to see the handwriting on the wall. They will be repudiated, maybe in 2012, but certainly sometime soon after, and a more deserving bunch would be hard to find. One day we’ll look back at these people with amazement, wonder at their ability to screw things up so royally, and the gullibility of a public who would take these grifters seriously.
The idea that the solution to our problems is to allow unfettered control to the idiots that have taken us here in the first place is so laughable that I still have a hard time believing it when they say these things. The correct response to this is not alarm, but laughter. The fact that they believe this just confirms how delusional they are. Let’s hope they keep up the dialogue.
Speak of the devil:
“AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops”
“Microsoft, Red Cross and UN sucked into global news fixing row”
“Kelly Scolds Behar Over Booing At GOP Debate Criticism”
The Left is losing it’s grip on power. And they don’t like it. They blamed their way into to office and now they’ll blame their way on out.
@GaffePrices
Here’s the story on Fox News’ left turn.