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Bitter Media Control Epiphany????
I was just thinking, how could the media get it so wrong?? There's no controversy to what he said. But I think he touched a nerve with corporate america and corporate media. His words told truth to power to these people and if it had gone on uncontested, then these people might just realize that they've been oppressed for so long and wake up and start a revolution.
This affects all of corporate america. They can't have poor people starting to descent and go against everything that they had been brainwashed with since they were young.
If they wake up and revolt, media loses the control they have over them. They've already lost a little of it with youtube. The media started to panic a few years ago with the innovation of independent oline media forums like Dailykos, talkingpointsmemo and americablog.com. They then tried to conquer that tool and incorporate "blogging". Thus, you have CNN's 360 blog, MSNBC's first read, Politico, Huffingtonpost. They even bought out Ana Marie Cox's wonkette.com She went to time.com and then got canned. It's all about conquer and control.
If the poor people revolt, corporate america loses control. When the people speaks, descent and become independent, corporate america loses political power, consumer pricing power, production power, money power, environmental waste power, shareholder power, etc.
If the oppressed revolt, politician's lose power and control. If their political divisive message of guns, race and religion is overturned, then they have nothing left but to either get the fuck out of washington or do their fucking job.
But make no mistake, the political, corporate and media control are all intertwined with one another which explains why they all all of the sudden turned on Barack. They now want to destroy him because if he gets too far ahead, they will all lose control and then the people will control again.
Comments (3)
And you can add Hillary Clinton to the list. She's enabling, propagating and amplifying this effort by corporate America, the corporate media, and the corporate political class (in both parties) to hold onto their power, their perks, their influence, and their wealth. Hillary's willingness to use Rove/Atwater fake-populist memes, documented by Thomas Frank (both in his book What's the Matter with Kansas and online) puts her firmly in the Republican/corporate/corporate media camp.
She's become a corporate DLC hack. That's all that's left of her.
Very, very sad.
April 14, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
nice post, a lot of great points - but please proofread - misspellings and typos diminish the argument
April 15, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't often criticize other bloggers, I take exception to lots of ideas... But I agree with beastmode, and I would add that needless profanity is the mark of the writer whose ideas are essentially unformed, one whose anger has not really been examined and explored, only ineffectually expressed...
Oh, and Google has a pretty good spellchecker on the Google Toolbar...
RGJ/Dallas112263
PS, The MSM did not 'get it wrong', they correctly judged that this was the kind of error that could be easily framed so that the referenced 'bitter ones' could draw the proper 'gotcha' conclusion, spoken as it was in a place and manner guaranteed to place it in that light. You are not supposed to answer the question 'What's wrong with Kansas?' in public or in earshot of Kansas anyway... And the best time to speak truth to power is when you have some not as you seek it. See Wiki, or Google Walter Mondale, Tax Hike, Debate...
April 15, 2008 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
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