Goddam librul media.

Wait a minute...

Not Salon, but I hope it goes green.

I also hope more and more information can make it to the light of day to demonstrate how the media was complicit in 8 years of the treasonous Bush administration. That includes two stolen elections, one complete pass for 9/11, the escape of Bin Laden, the lies behind the Iraqi War and the disappearance of billions of dollars in that desert, the Valerie Plame debacle, the torture scandal, etc, etc, etc...

What... the... Fark...

"I see nutzing...."

They better not interrupt Hells Kitchen with this crap!

i just wanna know how long until TDS gets a hold of this one, as it's right up their alley. media malfeasance, bullshiat coverup, "nobody reads newspapers" jokes. this motherfarker writes itself.

The Military-Industrial-Media Complex frowns on subby's shenanigans

Those involved really need their noses rubbed in this steaming pile.

Assholes. I call upon the power of FARK!!!!!!

Some times I wonder if I'm *too* skeptical about what I hear, and then I find out something like this.

Hobodeluxe: The Military-Industrial-Media Complex frowns on subby's shenanigans

I'm surprised to not see that fundie nutball Lt. Genera William Boykin in that line-up. He claims to have seen demons on video taken by a recon plane filming the Black Hawk Down battle, which convinced him that "we were on the side of God."

I laughed my ass off when he was blacklisted from the Delta Force compound.

This needs greenlit.

+1 from me, and hopefully many more to come.

+1 out of sheer necessity
People who still trust the general media need to get their heads out of their asses. Being informed requires an effort at this point. Nobody deserves your allegiance. If someone tells you what you want to hear, it's likely they're farking with you.

Also I can't believe this went red. Seriously modmins? Way to roll with the rest of the gang.

legendary: Also I can't believe this went red. Seriously modmins? Way to roll with the rest of the gang.

Aaand retrogreened.

It's taken years for me to fully realize just how incestuous modern news media and the political power movers are nowadays. You can't just go from 0 to "every network is complicit" in one sitting. That'd be crazy, right? But then slowly, you see bits and pieces. NPR being administrated by Bush political appointees, and ABC with a sponsorship ad the week of the infamous George Dopplepopolis flag pin debate. Even "left wing" MSNBC largely ignoring the underpinnings and motivations behind a war for profit. CNN trading substance for Dead White Girls. Fox openly cheerleading for a specific ideology. The financial networks in bed with the very executives that built the clusterf*ck that brought down the economy. It all starts piling up, and making a picture where they're only telling you what they want you to hear. It's systematic, and it's bone-chilling.

Occam's Chainsaw: It's systematic, and it's bone-chilling.

Worse, this horrific shiat so systemic, so ingrained, and so interwoven with our daily lives that there is only one solution for ridding ourselves of it:

Kill the old guard and install ourselves as the new guard.

You see, the vast majority of people in this world are stupid. They are not capable of rational thinking, and are easily persuaded. Someone must lead them.

There will be no magical point in the future where everyone will be intelligent enough to make good decisions and everyone will be rational, simply because human beings are by and large irrational morons. They must be led by those who are not irrational morons.

In the end, human beings are cattle herded by a group of elites. Most of us will only have four basic choices:

1. Submit, and try to find what small amount of happiness you can with your mediocre life of toil.
2. Lie, steal, cheat, and kill; whatever it takes to become an elite, and live out the rest of your life on the toil of others.
3. Go off into the woods.
4. Despair, and kill yourself.

By the way, if you kill yourself, please do us a favor and kill your family and co-workers as well. Thank you.

Awesome greenlight. Not surprised in the least the "liberal media" buried this, and I would have been shocked if Fox hadn't. But you know, I've seen so much of this shiat at this point, it has just become routine. Massive government corruption? Routine. Misleading the American public leading to the deaths of American soldiers? Commonplace. This is what we've come to. I'm quite bothered by the fact that I am not in the least shocked that this got buried, and in fact I would have been more surprised if it hadn't got buried. I think that says a lot.

Sgt Otter: Lt. General William Boykin

Hey, these guys are used to having their staffs take care of them, you know this. Why do you hate free market capitalism that entangles us in foreign wars that kill our soldiers, sailors, Marines and zoomies while bleeding the Treasury?

We blowed shiat up reals well.

/Love to see an IRS audit on these clowns. At least Gates is taking away the power of people overseeing weapons projects from blabbing to the media and Congress to push their stupid wastes of money on shiat that doesn't work.
//The F-22 is held together with 100-mph tape, fer chissakes. $135,000,000 for that piece of shiat? How about we fix the armored vehicles at Aberdeen first.
//Rant off.

By the way, if you kill yourself, please do us a favor and kill your family and co-workers as well. Thank you.

Huh? Where'd that come from?

I've got a better idea. How about we keep it as it is for now, but if it's found out that said ex-generals lied on the air, we shoot them.

As someone that lives outside of the US but sees a lot of US media, this confirms some of what I suspected. I could never really understand how nobody inside the US seemed to be asking the questions that everybody outside the US was asking about Iraq. The pentagon certainly learned how to wage that war well.

I guess I just thought everyone would see through what appeared to be happening. I'm equally surprised it's taken this long to investigate it.

James F. Campbell:

Wow, dude. Not trying to be snarky at all here, but you should seek some professional help. That just ain't healthy.

there is no reason for the tv to still be around.
its time we forced all the old people onto the internets, then it can be their own fault for being delusional.

Argh2: James F. Campbell:

Wow, dude. Not trying to be snarky at all here, but you should seek some professional help. That just ain't healthy.

Humans seem to be capable of meta-cognition to varying degrees. Personally, I think it's our species still evolving.

/unless we get outbred by the quiverfull nutjobs

In before the "Obama is spending my great, great, great grandkids money and its not right" crowd.

After RTFA, all I can say is so? Did you really want the truth or did you want to feel good without having to worry about the consequences. For all the outrage you feel this revelation won't change the way the government is run or what does transparency mean to the government and the media..

Maybe Glen will win a Noble Prize on the real reason Obama won't end the warrantless wiretapping. And the move to Portugal.

Argh2: James F. Campbell:

Wow, dude. Not trying to be snarky at all here, but you should seek some professional help. That just ain't healthy.

Honestly, his argument is a perfect example of the thinking of certain groups on both the right and the left. We know what's good for Them, and They're just too dumb to know any better, so We have to impose Our ideology on Them for Their own good. If They resist or refuse, some of Them may be imprisoned or killed, but what do you expect when you're herding functional retards? Besides, it's for The Common Good.

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/If they poop it out, some will watch in amazement

Jeffrey Zucker, CEO NBC TV, Zionist
Robert Iger, CEO ABC, Zionist
Leslie Moonves, CEO CBS, grandnephew of David Ben Gurion, Zionist
Peter F. Chernin, President and COO FOX, Zionist

And that's all I have to say about that.

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/COINTELPRO was so pre 9-11

FTA:
"[N]ot only did Williams last night conceal from his viewers any mention of the Pentagon program, he featured -- on the very same broadcast -- "independent" commentary from one of the central figures involved in that propaganda program."

This is downright shameful.

aw fark. could we please stop farking with my blood pressure for one goddamned day?
/not really surprised but just... disappointed. again.

I wish I could say that I'm shocked and appalled by this. The military industrial complex knew they lost Vietnam because they lost the propaganda war here so they made sure that wouldn't happen ever again. So much in this country is rotten to the core and it's been that way for so long people have stopped noticing how wrong it really is.

Those articles are pretty sickening.

Mr. Bevelacqua, then a Fox analyst, was among those invited to a briefing in early 2003 about Iraq's purported stockpiles of illicit weapons. He recalled asking the briefer whether the United States had "smoking gun" proof.

" 'We don't have any hard evidence,' " Mr. Bevelacqua recalled the briefer replying. He said he and other analysts were alarmed by this concession. "We are looking at ourselves saying, 'What are we doing?' "

Another analyst, Robert L. Maginnis, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who works in the Pentagon for a military contractor, attended the same briefing and recalled feeling "very disappointed" after being shown satellite photographs purporting to show bunkers associated with a hidden weapons program. Mr. Maginnis said he concluded that the analysts were being "manipulated" to convey a false sense of certainty about the evidence of the weapons. Yet he and Mr. Bevelacqua and the other analysts who attended the briefing did not share any misgivings with the American public.

Mr. Bevelacqua and another Fox analyst, Mr. Cowan, had formed the wvc3 Group, and hoped to win military and national security contracts.

"There's no way I was going to go down that road and get completely torn apart," Mr. Bevelacqua said. "You're talking about fighting a huge machine."

Cowards.

NewportBarGuy: Sgt Otter: Lt. General William Boykin

Hey, these guys are used to having their staffs take care of them, you know this. Why do you hate free market capitalism that entangles us in foreign wars that kill our soldiers, sailors, Marines and zoomies while bleeding the Treasury?

We blowed shiat up reals well.
Rant off.

I remember when FNC replaced Col. David Hackworth with professional cocksucker (and I mean that literally) Matt Sanchez.

How does it feel America, to know that you are bought and owned by a few dozen families who control the masses in the furtherance of their interests, that your vote and your voice doesn't really mean shiat?

Is anyone shocked by this? Murrow and Ike called this a long time ago, but it was easier just to go along.

Occam's Chainsaw: Even "left wing" MSNBC largely ignoring the underpinnings and motivations behind a war for profit.

I like Olbermann and Maddow, but MSNBC is owned by GE (who also owns CNBC, a shameless cheerleader for greed), one of the founding members of the military industrial complex. MSNBC will push left in their reporting only where it is safe to do so.

Was Bill Clinton stupid or complicit in letting so much of what led to this happening go on under his watch? Bill Clinton was no liberal.

The distinct lack of comments here is somewhat saddening in and of itself.

regretlesspanda: The distinct lack of comments here is somewhat saddening in and of itself.

In fairness, it is rather early, 5:00 am here in Illinois. I'm sure there will be a full compliment of Fark Independents here soon enough to explain why this report, the reporters, the Pulitzer Prize, everything down to the computers that were used to type the reports, are tainted by "libs" or "America haters" or some such nonsense.

Apik0r0s: How does it feel America, to know that you are bought and owned by a few dozen families who control the masses in the furtherance of their interests, that your vote and your voice doesn't really mean shiat?

Is anyone shocked by this? Murrow and Ike called this a long time ago, but it was easier just to go along.

Kinda shiatty, really.

outatime: regretlesspanda: The distinct lack of comments here is somewhat saddening in and of itself.

In fairness, it is rather early, 5:00 am here in Illinois. I'm sure there will be a full compliment of Fark Independents here soon enough to explain why this report, the reporters, the Pulitzer Prize, everything down to the computers that were used to type the reports, are tainted by "libs" or "America haters" or some such nonsense.

Good morning to you fellow IL resident.

A large portion of our glorious state is no doubt preparing to watch the NFL Draft so we can see how badly Angelo farks over da Bears.

That being said, I must delve deeper into the investigation. I have absolutely no love for journalists, and have seen the Pulitzer go to some farking slimeballs who manipulated quotes and interviews to get what they wanted.

Apik0r0s: How does it feel America, to know that you are bought and owned by a few dozen families who control the masses in the furtherance of their interests, that your vote and your voice doesn't really mean shiat?

Is anyone shocked by this? Murrow and Ike called this a long time ago, but it was easier just to go along.

Look, we're trying to do what we can on the short to alter the course as much as possible. Assuming that fails? Nothing but armed revolt will do it, and I hesitate to jump to using permanent solutions to potentially temporary problems.

Occam's Chainsaw: Apik0r0s: How does it feel America, to know that you are bought and owned by a few dozen families who control the masses in the furtherance of their interests, that your vote and your voice doesn't really mean shiat?

Is anyone shocked by this? Murrow and Ike called this a long time ago, but it was easier just to go along.

Look, we're trying to do what we can on the short to alter the course as much as possible. Assuming that fails? Nothing but armed revolt will do it, and I hesitate to jump to using permanent solutions to potentially temporary problems.


Nothing temporary about it. Some animals will always be more equal than others. Toss them out and they get replaced with another set of greedy assholes because people don't remember.

It is fitting that this is posted to Fark on Friday night leading into Saturday. Is the Streisand Effect in effect, I hope? Forwarding this to my clueless family.

bob_ross: They better not interrupt Hells Kitchen with this crap!

Calm down there spatula boy, go paint a tree or something, it will relax you.

This news is being released on Friday night/Saturday morning.

For that reason, I would not be the least bit surprised if the people who actually CAN do something - ANYTHING - to right this wrong will simply ignore it.

/I don't know which is sadder, that nothing will be done or that I'm not gonna be surprised.

Apik0r0s: How does it feel America, to know that you are bought and owned by a few dozen families who control the masses

That's cute, but we're not. It is correct to say that a very small group of people have a large control over some very important parts of our lives. But they by no means own us, and they are by no means omnipotent or omniscient. They're just people, like us. And like must of us, they act selfishly and their own best-interests. The problem being that they are in positions where their self-interest sometimes conflicts with ours.

Still, to you and to the nutjob earlier who wanted us to kill ourselves, I'd suggest a healthy dose of perspective. Walk outside and look at what you see. Do these "Zionist overlords" control the process by which the trees grow? How about the chemical reactions that form the concrete in the sidewalk, are they behind that, too? Do they secretly guide each birth and death?

The most powerful politicians and financiers in the world are flaccid fools next to those like Einstein, DaVinci, Shakespeare and their modern equivalents. Their schemes can annoy us, they can hinder us (though the current batch is less cumbersome than most in human history) but they cannot, could never and will never be able to stop true human progress.

So definitely be outraged, I definitely am and hope the reliance on TV news continues to die a quick death, and people continue to share stories like these on the Internet. Be outraged, but don't lose perspective (or in the case if the earlier suicide dude, lose your marbles completely)

The corporate media will tell you as much about this as they will about Obama corrupting the DoJ with five RIAA lawyers and counting. Different reasons, of course. This is simple self-preservation, while the DoJ scandal-in-waiting involves deliberate "I know when my obsequience is being bought" corruption by both sides.

/YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR HISTORY ARE BEING STOLEN FROM YOU

"And for your information media, during the first years of the war, lost its credibility and manifested itself as a tool of the colonialist empires, and its condition has often been worse than the condition of the media of the dictatorial regimes which march in the caravan of the single leader."----Al-Qaeda-2007

Told you so?

Hobodeluxe: The Military-Industrial-Media Complex frowns on subby's shenanigans

I laughed

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