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Damn, he should run for president. I'd vote for him.

After reading the title, I thought they were going to remake the Canadian comedy The Newsroom, which was hilarious.

Meanwhile... even Chris Mathews admits the obvious!

Chris Matthews Admits Liberal Media Bias

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZiAE2lJ7JtM

http://www.youtube.com/embed/GggCB01ofFY

thomaswong.1986 says

Chris Matthews Admits Liberal Media Bias

Reality has a liberal bias.

Christ all mighty... you use Putin owned ... Russian Television (Govt owned) as a source!

Yea! i really expect reality as envisioned by the fucking russky dictator ! ..

So many people are talking about this but I am not sure if they watched the rest of the show, The main character who gives this speech has lost his way is going through a crises and is not a nice guy.
He takes a huge hit because of this speech and when the female lead appears she is the hero and the exact opposite in terms of him and his opinions.
Wrestling with these ideas is the point of this show.
And FYI this is a work of fiction Jeff Daniels is an actor not anchor and Martin Sheen was not the president.
Sorkin is Brilliant, because like it or not we cant stop talking about it!
Love it, love it Love it

Dan8267 says

Damn, he should run for president. I'd vote for him.

I also get all pumped up knowing the scene's intention.
But hope is cheap. Politicians are LOST in their own power and egomania.

thomaswong.1986 says

Christ all mighty... you use Putin owned ... Russian Television (Govt owned) as a source!

I judge a news organization by its content not its nationality.

TMAC54 says

But hope is cheap.

Who said anything about voluntary?

Dan8267 says

judge a news organization by its content not its nationality.

That's true. For example, what about the BBC?

The Newsroom is a show of mental masturbation, on the Fantasy that Liberals produce news for the benefit of enlightening humanity.
Where moral obligation to report the facts and the truth trumps all else.
And the producers, reporters and anchors all work tirelessly, and have a genuine pride in fact checking, and gut feeling and hunches are left in the realm of speculatory garbage that is discarded when reporting the news.

That being said, it's a great performance by all, and it IS a damn shame that there's not a single news organization left in the world with 1/10th of the integrity the CHARACTERS in that show have.

CaptainShuddup says

That being said, it's a great performance by all, and it IS a damn shame that there's not a single news organization left in the world with 1/10th of the integrity the CHARACTERS in that show have.

Fuckin' A, Cap'n.

I find the most reliable news comes in the form of satire. To read between the lines of what we are forced to talk about only through humor is quite enlightening.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/3sThcwmx3rs

Auntiegrav says

I find the most reliable news comes in the form of satire.

That's why there's The Onion.

The Onion is the best.

It's amazing how much that image still resonates with people. Sure, there's no chance of a violent revolution, but the situation that the common American finds himself in today has a lot of similarities to the everyday Frenchman right before the French Revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/f1s9ubYbFvc

CaptainShuddup says

Where moral obligation to report the facts and the truth trumps all else.

So you're saying the news has some higher moral obligation than to report the facts and the truth?

Like what? Promoting the agenda of the 1% by dividing Americans with wedge issues like Fox News does?

After America , There is No Place to Go"

By Tom Stephens

This Letter was sent to Evangelist Dea Warford by the author of this important paper.

Dea has encouraged this nation to be saturated by this true testimony.

Patriotic Americans and Christians love this nation under God.

The author of this article lives in South Dakota and is very active in attempting to maintain our freedom. Google "Kitty Werthmann" and you will see articles and videos. Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old. Below is her story:

"What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:

Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

"Mercy Killing" Redefined:

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

"It's true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!

Submitted by Tom Stephens

Promoting the agenda of the 1% by dividing Americans with wedge issues like Fox News does?

The "wedge issues" would be there with or w/o Fox News. Yeah, Fox News is a joke but they only fan the flames of existing bitterness.

I won't vote Democrat because they promote the idea that "traditional marriage" is another word for "discrimination." I won't vote Republican because they promise to fix all of the "social issues" (pandering) and then just give the top 0.1% even more power.

Romney is a perfect example. He's "liberal" on social issues but "conservative" (i.e. neocon) on economic & military issues. Obama is another perfect example. He does the bidding of powerful special interests (like the homosexual pressure groups and Planned Parenthood) but won't go really go after the top 0.1%. Do we have anything like Glass-Stegall in place? No.

The take away from the above hitler story is this:

Get a government job NOW NOW NOW!

taxee,

The above script is probably a hoax. Where did you find it?

It looks like "bait" to me.

CaptainShuddup says

Where moral obligation to report the facts and the truth trumps all else.

So you're saying the news has some higher moral obligation than to report the facts and the truth?

Oh no, who in the hell am I to make such assertions?
That marching order came down from Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronckite, Mike Wallace, and countless others...

John Hersey: “Hiroshima,” The New Yorker, 1946
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring, book, 1962
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Investigation of the Watergate break-in, The Washington Post, 1972
Edward R. Murrow: Battle of Britain, CBS radio, 1940
Ida Tarbell: “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” McClure's, 1902–1904
Lincoln Steffens: “The Shame of the Cities,” McClure's, 1902–1904
John Reed: Ten Days That Shook the World, book, 1919
H. L. Mencken: Scopes “Monkey” trial, The Sun of Baltimore, 1925
Ernie Pyle: Reports from Europe and the Pacific during World War II, Scripps-Howard newspapers, 1940–1945
Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly: Investigation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, CBS, 1954
Edward R. Murrow, David Lowe, and Fred Friendly: “Harvest of Shame,” documentary, CBS television, 1960
Seymour Hersh: Investigation of massacre by American soldiers at My Lai in Vietnam, Dispatch News Service, 1969
The New York Times: Publication of the Pentagon Papers, 1971
James Agee and Walker Evans: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, book, 1941
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, collected articles, 1903
I. F. Stone: I. F. Stone's Weekly, 1953–1967
Henry Hampton: “Eyes on the Prize,” documentary, 1987
Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, book, 1968
Norman Mailer: The Armies of the Night, book, 1968
Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, collected articles, 1963
William Shirer: Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1939–1941, collected articles, 1941
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood, book, 1965
Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, collected articles, 1968
Tom Wolfe: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, collected articles, 1965
Michael Herr: Dispatches, book, 1977
Theodore White: The Making of the President: 1960, book, 1961
Robert Capa: Ten photographs from D-Day, 1944
J. Anthony Lukas: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, book, 1985
Richard Harding Davis: Coverage of German march into Belgium, Wheeler Syndicate and magazines, 1914
Dorothy Thompson: Reports on the rise of Hitler, Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post, 1931–1934
John Steinbeck: Reports on Okie migrant camp life, The San Francisco News, 1936
A. J. Liebling: The Road Back to Paris, collected articles, 1944
Ernest Hemingway: Reports on the Spanish Civil War, The New Republic, 1937–1938
Martha Gellhorn: The Face of War, collected articles, 1959
James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time, book, 1963
Joseph Mitchell: Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories, collection of much older articles, 1992
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique, book, 1963
Ralph Nader: Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, book, 1965
Herblock (Herbert Block): Cartoons on McCarthyism, The Washington Post, 1950
James Baldwin: “Letter from the South: Nobody Knows My Name,” The Partisan Review, 1959
Nick Ut: Photograph of a burning girl running from a napalm attack, The Associated Press, 1972
Pauline Kael: “Trash, Art, and the Movies,” Harper's, 1969
Gay Talese: Fame and Obscurity: Portraits by Gay Talese, collected articles, 1970
Randy Shilts: Reports on AIDS, The San Francisco Chronicle, 1981–1985
Janet Flanner (Genet): Paris Journals chronicling Paris's emergence from the Occupation, The New Yorker, 1944–1945
Neil Sheehan: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, book, 1988
A. J. Liebling: The Wayward Pressman, collected articles, 1947
Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff, book, 1979
Murray Kempton: America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950–1962, collected articles, 1963
Murray Kempton: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties, book, 1955
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele: “America: What Went Wrong?,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1991
Taylor Branch: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963, book, 1988
Harrison Salisbury: Reporting from the Soviet Union, The New York Times, 1949–1954
John McPhee: The John McPhee Reader, collected articles, 1976
ABC: Live television broadcast of Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954
Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, documentary, 1967
David Remnick: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, book, 1993
Richard Ben Cramer: What It Takes: The Way to the White House, book, 1992
Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, book, 1982
Russell Baker: “Francs and Beans,” The New York Times, 1975
Homer Bigart: Account of being over Japan in a bomber when World War II came to an end, The New York Herald-Tribune, 1945
Ben Hecht: 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago, collected articles, 1922
Walter Cronkite: Documentary on Vietnam, CBS television, 1968
Walter Lippmann: Early essays, The New Republic, 1914
Margaret Bourke-White: Photographs following the defeat of Germany, Life magazine, 1945
Lillian Ross: Reporting, collected articles, 1964
Nicholas Lemann: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, book, 1991
Joe Rosenthal: Photograph of Marines raising an American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, The Associated Press, 1945
Hodding Carter Jr.: “Go for Broke,” editorial, Carter's Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.), 1945
The New Yorker: The New Yorker Book of War Pieces, collected articles, 1947
Meyer Berger: Report on the murderer Howard Unruh, The New York Times, 1949
Norman Mailer: The Executioner's Song, book, 1979
Robert Capa: Spanish Civil War photos, Life magazine, 1936
Susan Sontag: “Notes on ‘Camp,’” The Partisan Review, 1964
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: All the President's Men, book, 1974
John Hersey: Here to Stay, collected articles, 1963
A. J. Liebling: The Earl of Louisiana, book, 1961
Mike Davis: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, book, 1990
Melissa Fay Greene: Praying for Sheetrock, book, 1991
J. Anthony Lukas: “The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick,” The New York Times, 1967
Herbert Bayard Swope: “Klan Exposed,” The New York World, 1921
William Allen White: “To an Anxious Friend,” The Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, 1922
Edward R. Murrow: Report of the liberation of Buchenwald, CBS radio, 1945
Joseph Mitchell: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, collected articles, 1943
Lillian Ross: Picture, book, 1952
Earl Brown: Series of articles on race, Harper's and Life magazines, 1942–1944
Greil Marcus: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, book, 1975
Morley Safer: Atrocities committed by American soldiers on the hamlet of Cam Ne in Vietnam, CBS television, 1965
Ted Poston: Coverage of the “Little Scottsboro” trial, The New York Post, 1949
Leon Dash: “Rosa Lee's Story,” The Washington Post, 1994
Jane Kramer: Europeans, collected articles, 1988
Eddie Adams and Vo Suu: Associated Press photograph and NBC television footage of a Saigon execution, 1968
Grantland Rice: “Notre Dame's ‘Four Horsemen,’” The New York Herald-Tribune, 1924
Jane Kramer: The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany, collected articles, 1996
Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes, book, 1996
Vincent Sheean: Personal History, book, 1935
W.E.B. Du Bois: Columns on race during his tenure as editor of The Crisis, 1910–1934
Damon Runyon: Crime reporting, The New York American, 1926
Joe McGinniss: The Selling of the President 1968, book, 1969
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, book, 1973

Like what? Promoting the agenda of the 1% by dividing Americans with wedge issues like Fox News does?

Now see there, Liberal news is so worked up and worried about the lack of integrity in the Conservative news agency. (That has a limited philosophical following btw) That they forgo their own integrity in reporting the facts. White washing shit, with more crap.

That and the lack of respect they have for their intended audience. They assume that the masses are too STUPID to comprehend the honesty of afair laid out in concise facts, that they opt to counterspin, conservative reports. Ignoring news that's really important.

What happens, is most people are disgusted by both factions of the American media. That is the only way on earth you can possibly explain the 24/7 parade of reality shows, and the droves of mindless asses that sit and watch it. They hope, or maybe suspect, that somewhere nestled in Catfish noodling, Mama's diamond ring pawning, an Amish parishioner surfing the web on an iPhone, or grown people fighting over defaulted storage lockers, they will find the truth, of where in the fuck we as a society are headed.

Dan8267 says

Sure, there's no chance of a violent revolution, but the situation that the common American finds himself in today has a lot of similarities to the everyday Frenchman right before the French Revolution.

Any country is just 3 meals away from a revolution.
In France, they said "Let them eat cake!" (meaning cheap bread) and in America, we say "Let them eat corn syrup."

The question is: "Can they continue to provide the corn syrup?"

Hitler was supported by American 'Interests' for far too long, and it was entirely too easy to justify fascism as "efficient". Corporations loved it, because the state stepped in, put a gun to people's heads, and told them what to buy and how much to pay, according to the prices set by the corporations.
"Affordable Health Care Act" ? Who thinks any of those words are true? When was the last time you saw the name of a bill reflect the reality of what it does? It has nothing to do with health, or caring, or affordability, or action. It is about health insurance corporation revenue, and should be called the "Health Insurance Corporation Revenue Guarantee".

I'm all for socialized medicine (if it's good enough for the troops, it's good enough for the country), but not this crap.
I simply feel sorry for Obama. He's like the contractor that was just working on remodeling our bathroom: way over his head in an anachronistic system architecture.

Auntiegrav says

"Health Insurance Corporation Revenue Guarantee".

Auntiegrav says

I'm all for socialized medicine (if it's good enough for the troops, it's good enough for the country), but not this crap.

The Affordable Healthcare Act, was all about political feathers. Winning at any cost. The emphasis was dropping to the floor, and scooping up as much candy in their shirt fold from the Federal piñata, that the Liberals didn't even stop to see the quality of the candy they had until it was passed. What they ended up with, was anything but "Affordable Healthcare" or any system that resembles a system that would benefit the masses.

But they were so busy, doing the "We won, we're number one" happy jig, they didn't even notice the Republicans popping champagne bottles.

Hey Nancy it's passed and we see what's in it, and I'd like to thank you on behalf of Karl Rove, Dick Chenny, Mitt Romney. You hit the ball out of the fucking park, you did such a bang up job. Chief Justice Roberts reckoned it a sheer brilliant master piece.

Bravo young lady, bravo, (yeah I know just trying to make the old girl feel good, her make up is horrendous, geesh!)

CaptainShuddup says

Oh no, who in the hell am I to make such assertions?

A thinking human being.
I add:
"The Imperial Cruise" by James Bradley
"Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael Ruppert
"Everything I Want to do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin
"We Don't Need Them" by Joe Carpenter
"You Are Being Lied To" by Russ Kick
"The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook
"The Conspirators" by Al Martin
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen
"Fair Game" by Valerie Wilson Plame (avoid the movie)
Then there's this:
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q2/foxbgh.html

Auntiegrav says

Any country is just 3 meals away from a revolution.
In France, they said "Let them eat cake!" (meaning cheap bread) and in America, we say "Let them eat corn syrup."
The question is: "Can they continue to provide the corn syrup?"

Maybe not:

I believe he said we only led three categories, didn't he forget about gross domestic product, even if it has been gross lately in some categories like fast food, prescription drugs, and some of the recent music and entertainment. I think we lead in food production as well, even if we use some of it to make ethanol which is totally insane overall, but if the government subsidizes its production then I can't blame the ones who produce it. I think we may have the lowest ratio of pollution to GNP, and I think we are leaders in the ratio of the area of really cool places for recreation and travel to the area of slums and unappealing places. You can say we didn't make the really cool places, but you also have to say we preserved them pretty good. I think when I see us be obviously defeated in any technologically based short term conflict....at that point I will not continue to claim we are one of the leading contributers of technological advances. We're not all that bad, but we really should stop buying so much imported stuff or we're going to strangle the research and development, not to mention the people.

Like what? Promoting the agenda of the 1% by dividing Americans with wedge issues like Fox News does?

People quickly forget that people who join the media world are just people; people with agendas and they have the same percent of immoral and selfish people as the rest of the population. Fox news is propaganda, and it works.

Great opening clip. I was stunned. Regardless of what went on in the show later, it was still refreshing to hear someone lay out a bunch of raw truths, without doing a politically correct apology.

I worship the Trinity. Fox news, Limbaugh, Beck.

Auntiegrav says

To read between the lines of what we are forced to talk about only through humor is quite enlightening.

So true. My favorite lines:

Facebook actually saves the CIA money.

That's how they got my brother.

400 billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted.

HEY YOU says

I worship the Trinity. Fox news, Limbaugh, Beck.

I like Lolcat News. It's the news read you can has.

Ruki says

Uh..I think that meant 'public sector labor unions', not 'rich and powerful'.

Yeah, it's just like the French Revolution when the population rose up and chopped off the heads of the public sector labor unions. Just think about all those fireman and teachers who died during the French Revolution.

Dan8267 says

HEY YOU says

I worship the Trinity. Fox news, Limbaugh, Beck.

I like Lolcat News. It's the news read you can has.

You can back up everything in it with the LoLcat bible.
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Proverbs_1

Dan8267 says

Ruki says

Uh..I think that meant 'public sector labor unions', not 'rich and powerful'.

Yeah, it's just like the French Revolution when the population rose up and chopped off the heads of the public sector labor unions. Just think about all those fireman and teachers who died during the French Revolution.

Well, except there wasn't anything left to keep from burning and nobody really wanted to learn French anyway.....
Just think of all those Bugs Bunny cartoons with guillotines in them.

Srsly, the issue in all of these cases is the bully factor. One bunch of bullies takes advantage until another bunch fights back (or things collapse and all new mobs are formed). The lack of human moderation is really pissing off Ceiling Cat, who wants tummy rubs and some tuna.

freak80 says

Romney is a perfect example. He's "liberal" on social issues but "conservative" (i.e. neocon) on economic & military issues. Obama is another perfect example. He does the bidding of powerful special interests (like the homosexual pressure groups and Planned Parenthood) but won't go really go after the top 0.1%. Do we have anything like Glass-Stegall in place? No.

Well said. Gay marriage is a perfect example - one the one side we have religious zealots trying to seize the opportunity to bring back religion-based politics and on the other side you have a herd of Pavlov's dogs conditioned to bark "discrimination!" if somebody just expresses their personal views (clearly separated from their business), and "human rights issue!" when it is clearly not. If one really strongly feels about reducing favoritism they would stand for abolishing government backed marriage, incl. all the perks and duties, as well as removing the ban on poligamy and let marriage return to a purely religion-of-choice event/journey if desired and a fusion of families/civil union based on contracts agreed by the involved parties only which can easily be enforced by courts without the government's interpretation, so that the people who simply don't want to marry don't get left out.

HEY YOU says

I worship the Trinity. Fox news, Limbaugh, Beck.

Nazi Germany did it, countries like Iran still do it...works for them, works for us! Why not? Nothing spells propaganda like nationalism and fascism. It always works on the ignorant and makes them feel smart, powerful and warm and fuzzy. Heil Fox!

Auntiegrav says

The lack of human moderation is really pissing off Ceiling Cat, who wants tummy rubs and some tuna.

Fuck Ceiling Cat. He's always watching me masturbate.

mell says

If one really strongly feels about reducing favoritism they would stand for abolishing government backed marriage, incl. all the perks and duties, as well as removing the ban on poligamy and let marriage return to a purely religion-of-choice

I could go for that, yes. Why is gummint involved in marriage at all? Isn't marriage an inherently religious idea?

CaptainShuddup says

That being said, it's a great performance by all, and it IS a damn shame that there's not a single news organization left in the world with 1/10th of the integrity the CHARACTERS in that show have.

The only newscast that even comes close is Comedy Central's, John Stewart's "The Daily Show". Sad that a comedy news hour is the most serious and best news program out there. This alone sums up the state of the msm today. I gave away my TV 10 years ago and my brain thanks me everyday.

Buster says

The only newscast that even comes close is Comedy Central's, John Stewart's "The Daily Show".

Someone hit him...