it went to coment #17 untill some one likened this action to one that Gobbels would do for the for the Nazis.

That was the first thought I had.

Its hard to believe that in America, Our goverment “with a small g” should resort to this when it didn’t work very well for the Germans, 75 years ago.

Yep, inappropriate — and we’ll do it again, if we damn well feel like it.

Contemptuously yours,
BushCo

War Is Peace (yep — got that one covered)…
Freedom is Slavery (that one’s proving a bit more difficult)…
Ignorance is Strength (making strides forward)…

If the White House acknowledges that editing the ABC Iraq Report for content was “inappropriate”, then why in the hell was it allowed to happen in the first place?!? I can’t swallow the idea that it was just one “overzealous staffer” acting entirely on his/her own — someone must have approved it. However, this does nothing to change the fact that censoring the report is inappropriate because it’s unethical — not just because they happened to get caught this time. Does anyone here honestly believe that this will stop the White House from trying to do this again, or that the person/people responsible will be fired? Not a chance — in fact, he/she/they will probably get a promotion.

Feinstein and Schumer are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote on the Mukasey nomination Tuesday.”

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/02/leahy.mukasey/index.html

Please contact their offices and ask them NOT to support him. I emailed both, and they do accept emails, even though I’m not in either of their states.

It is no more accurate to say that “Israel is behind everything” than it is to say, “Asians can’t drive”. Don’t worry. You do display reasoning ability. When your education has led you to wisdom you will get my point. Keep on reading.

Feel free to point our any factual errors in anything I’ve posted.
Personal attack is no substitute for facts.

Stories that you think harm the administration have not exactly stopped them.

It’s all very calculated. They protect their shills like Lindsey Graham, Trent Lott and the other used car salesman – by encouraging them to take a (temporary) stand against the administration – all to play to the ignorant voters back home.

It’s a total charade – funded by your tax dollars, offshored to Israel and returned to the mainstream media via AIPAC political contributions to their handpicked candidates, all of whom are morally bankrupt or otherwise blackmailable, or would not be allowed into the political arena in the first place.

Israel owns your ass, but unfortunately they control your media too, so you’ll never get the message.

You can’t stop the plunger juggernaut. “Pluggernaut”? I wonder if he (NOTE: If he were a COMMON troll I would refer to him as “it”.) is familiar with the expression, “Man has dominated the world through diversification and adaptability. Specialization only works for insects”.

I don’t think that his experience, and education, have led him to the widely held belief that concentrating on a single issue, to the exclusion of others, is a recipe for disaster.

Comment by impeachcheneythenbush — November 2, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

I understand precisely what you said.

They are playing their role in the game.

The White House approved of their protestation to provide them with some cover. It was all prearranged – very neat.

It’s all complete bullsh*t

Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners

By STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.

Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the commission, wants to repeal the rule in the next two months — a plan that, if successful, would be a big victory for some executives of media conglomerates.
[…]

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FCC chairman offers ownership plan
By JOHN DUNBAR, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 17, 8:39 PM ET
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a plan that would wrap up by the end of the year the long-running debate over how many media properties a company should be allowed to own in a single market.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal would allow for public comment on the proposed rules in mid-November and a commission vote on Dec. 18.
[…]
http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ ap/ 20071018/ ap_on_go_ot/ media_ownership;_ylt=AnZ.rZY_l9763zRsqFj4tHKyFz4D
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but, we all know the corporatists have no desire for a democracy…
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this is a repost from 10/18… the yahoo link won’t work, but a search on the googlenews will get you more …

this is scary shit.
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http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-liberal-blog-1.php

Comment by impeachcheneythenbush — November 2, 2007 @ 5:30 pm

I read it very carefully, and if you want to believe that ABC is an innocent victim in this charade, you go right ahead. I’ve been keeping track of their collusion:

Comment by plunger — November 2, 2007 @ 5:32 pm

I’m NOT saying that the media doesn’t play into these peoples’ hands. All I’m saying is that in THIS PARTICULAR case, it was ABC that pointed out the editing that had occurred.

When all that cash is utilized to purchase media time to promote AIPAC’s hand-picked candidates – the executives of the media companies can clearly see who they need to support in order to enrich themselves. The news departments are instructed to perpetuate the game for profit.

Our tax dollars have been used to destroy Democracy. The electoral process is completely broken as a result of the money in politics. It is ironc that there is a new cry for publicly funded campaigns. They already are publicly funded…it’s just that the entity responsible for distributing the public funding is AIPAC.

While the vast majority of Americans are crying out for lobbying reform, every Jewish organization is actively campaigning against it – to protect AIPAC’s grip on the system.

Remember this?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704A.shtml

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

- Ron Suskind “Without a Doubt”

All that cash leads to that kind of arrogance. Frankly, I’d rather fix the problem now than study it later.

DEPORT AIPAC and win back your Democracy.

It really is that simple

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html

Hedrick Smith noted in his book Power Game that AIPAC had become a “superlobby … [It] gained so much political muscle that by 1985 AIPAC and its allies could force President Reagan to renege on an arms deal he had promised to [Jordan's] King Hussein. By 1986, the pro-Israel lobby could stop Reagan from making another jet fighter deal with Saudi Arabia; and Secretary of State George Shultz had to sit down with AIPAC’s executive director — not Congressional leaders — to find out what level of arms sales to the Saudis AIPAC would tolerate.”

“You are the most effective general interest group…across the entire planet.” Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich

“Aipac has a lot of influence on foreign policy,” says JJ Goldberg, editor of the Jewish newspaper The Forward. “They work hard to ensure that America endorses pretty much Israel’s view of the world and the Middle East.”

“A great asset to our country”. Condoleezza Rice describing AIPAC in March, 2003.

“Fully three-fourths of America’s foreign aid budget is devoted to Israeli security interests is a tribute in considerable measure to the lobbying prowess of AIPAC and the importance of the Jewish community in American politics.” — Prominent conservative lawyer and political commentator, Benjamin Ginsberg.

“I asked Rosen if aipac suffered a loss of influence after the Steiner affair. A half smile appeared on his face, and he pushed a napkin across the table. “You see this napkin?” he said. “In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.” Jeffrey Goldberg (The New Yorker).

“AIPAC’s Israel lobby has the power to pump up to a million dollars into the campaign coffers of any friendly member of Congress, or into the campaign of the opponents of an unfriendly member.” — Richard Curtiss, executive editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

“A lobby is a night flower, it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” — AIPAC research director Steve Rosen, 2001.

“The friendship between Israel and the United States is a great asset to our country. And AIPAC is a great advocate for this vital relationship.” White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.

“Congress is ‘terrorized’ by AIPAC… In practice, the lobby groups function as an informal extension of the Israeli government.” — “They Dare to Speak Out,” — Congressman (1961-1982) Paul Findley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee

For the details, see:
“Edited ABC Iraq Story Latest White House PR Fraud.”

As for broadcast news, the FCC has the final say on EVERY word and image. Sure, a network may choose from a wide array of “acceptable” info and images but, the list of possibilities must be cleared by the FCC.

Comment by plunger — November 2, 2007 @ 5:28 pm

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Comment by impeachcheneythenbush — November 2, 2007 @ 5:30 pm

I read it very carefully, and if you want to believe that ABC is an innocent victim in this charade, you go right ahead. I’ve been keeping track of their collusion:

The Sunday before the election at 8:30 est, Good Morning America featured a segment with George Stephanopolis pimping his Sunday morning program.

The segment featured his interview with VP Cheney.

The question was about the war in Iraq, and as Cheney was responding to the question, the Images on screen were file footage of the smoldering Twin Towers and the Smoldering Pentagon – ON 9/11.

THE IMAGES CHOSEN BY A PRODUCER AT ABC NEWS TO ILLUSTRATE CHENEY DISCUSSING IRAQ WERE OF 9/11. THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT NEITHER THE QUESTION – NOR THE ANSWER – HAD ANYTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THAT ENTIRELY SEPARATE EVENT.

WHO ORDERED THAT THOSE IMAGES BE USED?

DEMAND THE TRUTH.

A favorite old Texas saying.

They know that none of these “news” organizations is going to run a retraction, therefore their entire psyops mission was a complete success, all sanctioned by the appearance of an ABC News authority.

ABC is doing its part for this Fascist Dictatorship.

Comment by plunger — November 2, 2007 @ 5:16 pm

Read it again (link to “innappropriate). It was ABC that CALLED it. It wasn’t ABC that edited the report, but some unidentified NSC staffer.