The revolving door between the White House and the mainstream media
By Steve Benen Monday Aug 18, 2008 7:30amI’m not surprised Dan Bartlett is going to one of the networks; I’m surprised Dan Bartlett didn’t go to one of the networks sooner. (via TP)
Former Counselor to President Bush, Dan Bartlett, has joined CBS News as a political analyst. Bartlett will provide on-air analysis on a variety of political issues, “including at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and beyond,” according to the press release.
Said CBS News & Sports president Sean McManus, “We’re very pleased to have Dan Bartlett join our team. We now go into the final stages of this fascinating political season with two analysts — Dan and Joe [Trippi] — who have had unique and extensive hands-on experience in major political campaigns and government.”
This is the latest part of a strange phenomenon of rewarding the Bush gang with high-profile opportunities at major media outlets. The Bush White House has been, for lack of a better word, a disaster for the country. From a journalistic perspective, these guys have been a nightmare — embracing almost comical levels of secrecy, propaganda, and media manipulation.
And yet, the moment presidential aides leave the West Wing, media outlets jump at the chance to put them on the payroll.
Michael Gerson was picked up as a columnist for the Washington Post.
Sara Taylor, who was integrally involved in the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal and the politicization of federal agencies, became a pundit for MSNBC.
Karl Rove became a Fox News “analyst,” a columnist for Newsweek, and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Tony Snow went from the White House briefing room to a gig on CNN.
Frances Fragos Townsend also went from the White House to CNN.
Nicole Wallace went from Rove’s office to CBS News (she left soon after to join the McCain campaign).
And now Dan Bartlett will be an “analyst” for CBS News.
The obvious joke is to note how not-at-all liberal the media is, but I think this speaks to a larger problem of a revolving door between the political establishment and the political media. A guy like Bartlett spun and misled news outlets, professionally, for most of Bush’s presidency. I don’t doubt he goes to the same cocktail parties as the producers of the major networks, but rewarding him, and putting him on the air as a credible media figure, is absurd.
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This is exactly how Repubs get their agenda across and muddy the water for their opponents. They stack the deck with their own and squeeze out objective reporting.
It's always interesting to get a criminal's take on things.
Colorful commentary such as, "Yeah, McCain's guys are crooks but we were much better crooks." That's what I want to hear from them...
Their work has only just begun...
Not unlike the revolving door between the Pentagon and the defense industry.
yet another reason to continue to ignore mainstream media sources.
unplug your TVs and use those newspapers for something useful, such
as lining one's birdcage.
put all of 'em out of jobs, I say.
We should petition to get them fired
Well, it's not legal to openly stack the judiciary, the people are getting fed up with the legislative, so stack the media, win back the legislative, then you have free reign to stack the judiciary and get away with it next time!
I dont think he has left the White House. He has just moved his desk to CBS. He wll continue his work for his masters.
the WH has done the work for those Fortune 100's, so as far as I'm concerned they are all on the same team. Not too surprised.
(a small example - media was personally insulted when they found out about the Edwards affair and not so much with all the PROOF we have regarding an illegal war)
More proof MSM 'news' broadcasting's gone to hell in a handbag....
does CBS have a "flex time" policy for grand jury appearances? as with most all members of the bush crime family, what an incredible lying asshole.
Anyone know how this compares to past administrations? I'm assuming that the Bush Admin alumni represent a spike, but...
And if Obama and the Dems win in November, these former Bushies turned pundit assholes will be relentlessly and unfairly criticising everything thing they say and do for the next four years.
The problem is that the public won't know how deeply involved these people were in the Bush propaganda machine. Even if their comments aren't blatantly partisan, they are experts at using subtle language cues to taint the left. MC Rove is the most talented practioner of this cynical art.
And the wing-nuts call it the "liberal media"... Too funny!
And the wingnuts call it the "liberal media"... Too funny!
Ace Armstrong @ 4:
Or the EPA and the pollution industry, or the DOJ and the prison/industrial complex, or the FCC and the broadcast industry, or the FDA and the drug industry or agri-bidness...
I do not think anyone who ever worked in Federal regulation of an industry should be permitted, legally, to sell the knowledge they gained about that regulatory scheme, which the People paid them to apply to regulation, and turn it against the regulatory system itself, by means of which to attack the regulatory system and the people the regulations protect...
When will you white citizens get it. This a a system based on class and race. The politically powerful and, if not yet soon to be rich through ill-gotten means, rich among us think they are priviliged as opposed to the masses. Because this is a so-called religious population, the powerful and privileged think they are at their level because their god graced them. Opportunity is a myth. Until you accept that, you will not be able to change a thing.
Obama's story seems to bolster the myth that anyone can be president but the reality is that a few lucky ones will make it, and if they happen to be like him, the rich and powerful will do anything they can to shut him down. You would think that it would be different because he represents a "great American story" and he would be embraced for that alone but, but he's....different!
Thankfully the web is showing there are progressive humans but their numbers as still far outweighed by the idiots and their minions.
Fox was exposed for White House propaganda
and people stopped watching
Now the White House needs a new home to restart their propaganda
*CBS that McCain interview/cover up was unethical, outrageous and everyone should have been fired. What's more funny, is that media ignored this scandal for is Obama presumptuous.
CBS was dead to me at that moment
cricket: Anyone know how this compares to past administrations? I’m assuming that the Bush Admin alumni represent a spike, but
The only Clintonites I can think of off the top of my head are George Stephanopolous (sp?) who was clearly working against Barack Obama during the primaries while pretending to be a neutral journalist and James Carville who assaulted Howard Dean for not winning more seats when the Dems won control of congress. (He may be offset by the dog-and-pony show he does with his wife, however.)
I can also think of two Nixonites: George Will and Pat Buchanan.
Then there's Bill Moyer's who worked for Kennedy in the Peace Corps and as press secretary in the Johnson White House.
For any others I'll have to rely on research and/or better informed posters.
i have no doubt that this is also the next stage of the rove plan to infilltrate any and all aspects of american politics. you might call this the post white house phase.
Groucho Says: yet another reason to continue to ignore mainstream media sources.
unplug your TVs and use those newspapers for something useful, such
as lining one’s birdcage.
put all of ‘em out of jobs, I say.
I agree Groucho
I quit watching the "TV NEWS" in 2003 and I had watched meet the press since Spivak was the host. remember in America it's not what you know but who you know, and there is no better example of that then washington.
All of the people in our government are there by suction and nepotisim.
On the republican side fueled by greed, stupidity, and in some cases pure ignorance have made a mess of everything they have come into contact with.
It's a shame that it has taken so long for so few people to understand what the GOP has been doing to America for so long.
Maybe we can beat the evil bastards back this election cycle. Lets just wipe the republicans off the government rolls.
Then we can fix things again.
CBS? Does anybody really watch them anymore? But, that is not the point. Our nation's news media surely is a big business that has no resemblance to journalism - especially when those responsible for crimes against this country are given the airwaves to spout their distortions and lies.
I am not surprised by any of this. It is all about money and power. Mostly power.
For the time being it appears that crime does pay.
The MSM = Last refuge of scoundrels.
It's like I've been saying all along, the Press is in on it.
Not only did this administration lie to US... but they lied to the PRESS, which damaged their professional and personal credibility...
... and there's no outrage.
What a transparent JOKE.
Turn off the TV. They don't deserve your patronage. You can get your news from the Internet.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, it's better to be uninformed than misinformed.
Glad to see CBS is pulling its weight when it comes to doling out the Wingnut Welfare for former Bush enablers. Quite a coup for them to have snatched him up before ABC ("The Path to 9/11 Network") got a hold of him. He'll certainly be a valuable asset in their tireless efforts to ensure a McCain victory!
Mr. Blather: good list. i'll add a few:
G. Gordon Liddy - Nixon campaigner (and goon)
Oliver North - Reagan (i don't think he was a member of the administration per se, but he was high level military, and carried out some of the administration's ... initiatives)
Chris Matthews - Carter speechwriter
Paul Begala - Clinton advisor
David Gergen - "political consultant and presidential advisor during the administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton" ... "also a campaign staffer for George H.W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign"
The media will soften up public attitudes that's what they get paid for.
The Media will soften up public attitudes thats what they get paid for.
Assassin Says:
An excellent list. I also forgot Dee Dee Myers, former Clinton press secretary and now at MSNBC.
Keep 'em coming folks. I love this.
(I can't believe I forgot Gergen, who's worked for everybody.)
Ben Stein - Nixon and Ford speechwriter
and what kills me is that Mr. Monotone is like the rockstar of the group!! not only a pundit, but he's been Hollywood for two decades!
I bet they make Abramoff a foxnews contributer. He's be broadcasted live from prison. He'll be a perfect ANALyst since he knows the ins and outs of the McCain crime machine when that stupid fuck becomes president.
This is cheating a bit as he's technically not a white house staffer, but I almost forgot William "The Bloody" Kristol who was chief-of-staff to both William Bennett in the Reagan Admin and Dan Quayle in the Bush I Admin.
James @ 26:
yep. I agree whleheartedly.
the media - the corporate media - is also the enemy. Lies and lies of omission - that's the media playbook now. Oh, and outright government propaganda too.
John McLaughlin - speech writer/advisor to President Richard Nixon
Monica Crowley - "In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon" (dunno if this quite qualifies, as it was after his administration ended.) (and thanks to posters in the recent Crowley thread for bringing her job to my attention.)
Mr. Blather: and for thorough itemization, add "William Bennett - Reagan" himself to the list. :P
Greup @ 8:
I don't think that this can be said enough. These buggers should be on the other side of the equation. Are there not any gubmint outsiders that are smart enough to do analysis? Why keep stacking the MSM with....oh wait a minute, now I get it.
I'm beginning to detect something afoul [remove tongue from cheek before slamming head to desk]
Bartlett is a thug who along with Karen Hughes scrubbed the military records of the Shrub some years ago allowing a drunken AWOL coward into the WH. The MSM is allowing the fox to guard the hen house. It is no wonder you cannot find an objective reporter on the networks. They are all crooks and liars.
About the Media, i just read this article:
Russophobia: A Political Pathology
Assassin:
Thanks for the editing.
I also have to add John Podhoretz, speech writer to both Reagan and Bush and assistant to William Bennett.
This is not your fathers CBS.
We need to harness the power of Murrow's quickly spinning grave -- it could power the US!
Media hiring practices are all about "getting access" without considering the spi9n that comes with it. About all my TV is good for now is for watching Star Trek (TOS) reruns.
this is just one more reason NOT to watch CBS News...or anything else on CBS for that matter. Starve the beast.
Bartlett has "...unique and extensive hands-on experience (in government)." Yeah, and Hermann Goering had unique and extensive experience in European affairs in the 1930s.
Media executives are exactly like politicians. They believe their own bullshit. And as long as people tune in and buy the sponsor's products, said bullshit will continue unabated.
Having been given large doses of GOP venom WashingtonDC and the American Federal Government it presides over have been under GOP siege to prove "big government programs don't work" for many years.
The premise being that private business concerns can do Federal Government tasks cheaper,better and we all "win".
As others note above Pentagon is rife with revolving door activity and surely any detailed breakdown of Federal/private jump ins, jump outs and jump overs would illustrate this pattern to be deep and well set.
Of course WashingtonDC players and gamers should be fully held to higher standard of no crossovers for the duration of the WH term they are leaving or in cases of Federal departments and down no direct crossovers based on prior four years of Federal work or private work that suggests any conflicts of conduct,decision making or contracting acitivity.
As for American political media majors and minors mixing up with freshly departed WashingtonDC movers and gamers so openly that would suggest honesty,integrity and objectivity have become far too murky for the good of either WashingtonDC or the big American political media venues.
More and more one is led to conclude American big political media and WashingtonDC are not even trying to keep up any real separation of insider/outsider pretense.
So we end up with this Bush WH that is infested with scandals, rule of law mockery and a wide range of shoddy conduct and American political media is more often than not staying "blind" and happy to peddle Bush WH spin and propaganda.
As seen with Iraq Debacle,Bush DOJ corruption,VP Cheneys ploys, Pentagon corruption/conduct shortfalls,Bush WH fiscal shell games. Just for starters.
The Democrats not innocent by any means either. Call it WashingtonDC bipartisan conduct. Because it is.
It is not ethical. It is not honest. It is not sustainable. When the whole thing crashes for lack of integrity it will crash hard.
As Tim Russert's death spectacle showed - it is all about image. And money .And self promotion.And money... Did I say money? And more money.
At what point did the idea of news change from information to formation of images?
When did a merger of politics, marketing, and governing cease to be seen as a threat to democracy? And pushed on electronic soap boxes as the epitome of Democracy. Very ,very expensive soapboxes.
For those who may not have noticed - capitalism equals democracy and your vote for any brand of office holder counts as much as your vote for any brand of toilet paper.
They both get used and thrown away. See the 2006 election results :
DEMOCRACY INACTION
Former Nixon cousel John Dean on MSNBC.
I like what the guy has to say, but he was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of Watergate.
Shocking? Only if you're not paying attention.
The media is owned by the same criminals that have made HUGE profits from this administrations crime they call the Iraq war.
Now they're thanking them.
It seems to me that politicians and pundits should just start sewing corporate patches all over their suits, just like professional athletes. Then at least we can keep track of which crime syndicates these professional liars work for. (And they are all criminal.)
Robert @ 47:
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Watergate trial
Dean pled guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on November 30, 1973. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. However, when Dean surrendered himself as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U.S. Marshals, and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" holding facility primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia. He spent his days in the offices of the Watergate Special Prosecutor and testifying in the trial of Watergate conspirators Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson, which concluded on January 1, 1975. Dean's lawyer moved to have his sentence reduced, and on January 8, Sirica granted the motion, adjusting Dean's sentence to time served, which wound up being four months. With his conviction for felony offenses, Dean was disbarred as a lawyer, so could no longer practice law.
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just in case anyone was wondering.
Never liked Bartlett -I didn't think he was a very skilled, nuanced liar; and, I don't watch CBS, NBC or ABC news for that matter.
Unfortunately, these outlets are the main source of news for many millions of Americans, which is why so many Americans are so badly informed.
And, as we are sadly aware, a free republic cannot survive long without an educated middle class and a free press. We have neither.....
great post. i think the emphasis on how disasterous these men and their administration has been, is the critical point of the post. i mean, it's not like it's a matter of partisan debate! people could have that sort of partisan argument relative to all sorts of different administrations or issues- just not this one. to use bush's logic, this issue is very black and white: a truly disasterous administration.
it would be great to get a real in depth report, book, documentary or whatever on how (and maybe "why"?) this poisonous trend and backwards logic is embraced. although maybe the answer isn't that opaque when factoring in corporate interests.
infuriating.
It's a tipping point for America when the gullible public can no longer distinguish the corrupt players in the government from the corrupt players in the mainstream media. It's a warning sign that neither of them gives a shit about good government or the public's right to know anything. I almost want to see them blow it so badly on a major story that their credibility is ruined forever. But if Iraq, Katrina and the economic meltdown weren't enough, I don't want to see how bad it has to get.
When will Jeff Gannon get his deserved spot at one of the Bigs?
It's OK to turn off your TV's. By staying tuned in, you only empower and embolden the liars. So don't watch CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN. Especially DON'T WATCH ANYTHING FOX! They are the WORST OF THE WORST! Cancel your subscriptions if you get it from Satellite or Cable and don't buy ANYTHING that Rupert Murdoch is trying to sell you.
Campbell Brown of CNN is married (was?) to Dan Senor, a member of the State Department and part of the Bremer Iraq reconstruction team.
What's he up to now?
Fire Dan Rather, hire Dan Bartlett. This move is just more evidence that the corporate media is getting more and more conservative, in conformity with their Chamber of Commerce paymasters.
The media love the propagandists, because the propagandists made the media's job easier. The propagandists KNOW this.
The media is populated with lazy stars who demand that people wait on them (where is that kid with my latte?), anchor-divas making salaries way beyond their actual contribution and worth. They're millionaires and wanna-be millionaires, and the people who suck up to millionaires & wanna-be millionaires. They will do anything to keep their jobs. They will NOT resist and order from the front office, because if they do, they will be targeted, fired, and blackballed (trust me.. btw, there are those of us who've been black-balled don't regret it one little bit ;->). If the boss comes down and says we ought to do more on John Edwards divorce, just as the Russia/Georgia situation is boiling over, everyone gets the hint. They don't want to take on fox news because they might want to apply there someday. In large, they do NOT stand up for us. They WILL not stand up for us. They don't like us.
They don't like to send Reporters and Photogs more than a couple of miles from the newsroom. That's why your town is never in the news. They live downtown, or in exclusive suburbs, or gated communities. They want to eat in restaurants every night of the week and complain when they're recognized. They think they are different from us. They are often the children of the privileged, in journalism and mass-comm because it was so much easier than accounting. There are few, if any, from the working class. And they gladly help trash anyone who comes from, or stands up for, the working class. John Edwards divorce is a case in point: How many media hacks gladly went hypocritical and refused to draw parallels to McCain's history of infidelity? Which one is running for president and currently holds public office. Which one made it a point of his public life to stand up for those with less?
The media are not the Woodward and Bernstein of old. The go-getters and investigators have long been chased out of the business. Those people started being forced out of the business in the 1980's. The years after 9/11 accelerated the process. The remainders from the old guard wake up every morning, look at themselves in the mirror, and say to themselves, "I don't care whose cock I have to suck, I will KEEP MY JOB TODAY!" The newer members (20 years or less) are often young conservatives, who were directed into the media to counter the "left wing bias".
YES, I was in the corporate media (20+) and am somewhat embittered from the experience. Get it OUT of your heads: The Corporate Media is NOT going to help us, they WANT to cooperate with the propagandists and they will do everything to get McCain elected.
Surprise. Surprise. Surprise...
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - former CIA Director William Colby
"There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear." - Ted Turner
re: Turning off the TV
I remember reading this in the 70's. Still relevant today (maybe moreso).
http://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Elimination-Television-Jerry-Mander/dp/0...
correction:
Mr. Blather @ 31:
Yeah, but Dee Dee is so friggin' hot! Its nice to see a blonde with brains, as opposed to your standard GOP idiot model.
well, we get what we pay for and boy do we pay!
Although she hasn't been seen for a while let's add the always lovely (!) Victoria Toensing (Deputy Assistant Attorney General under the Reagan administration).
Why does WH and media need any door at all?...they are all part and parcel of the the same crime family. The NAZI had their propaganda media and the fascist Republicans have theirs. It is no secret about Republican/media collusion.
thenervousrex @ 49:
Good idea.
Worry not. Im sure Bartlett will be unbiased, non partisan and objective.
The blogs are going to have to make up for some of the slack. Luckily we have the skills and willingness to do it.
This bears repeating: If you control the media (all aspects) then you CONTROL THE VOTING PUBLIC.
Groucho @ 5:
And I agree with you... I don't read any newspapers, nor do I watch the "news"... it's so terribly biased for the the very reasons this article points out. Slimy ba$tards, each and every one of them... the nepotism smacks of the French court before the storming of the Bastille. I do think it's going to take some drastic action on the part of the U.S. citizens... you remember who you are--WE, THE PEOPLE... ?
no longer a proud american @ 69:
On the importance of good media...
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Join Forces ~ http://www.StopBigMedia.com
1e47Kansaskowboy @ 24:
Crime usually does, when done on a large scale.
As Bob Dylan said:
"Steal a little, they throw you in jail. Steal a lot, they make you King."
It so they can catapult the propaganda from a better vantage point.
The scariest part is they are hiring all these partisan, Bush Cronies who all have a history of lying and distorting to protect their party/president at the expense of the country..and the media seems to hire them believing they are capable of honest, intelligent analysis of political events.
WTF? Time and time again, the public says they want more substance in their political media coverage. They want facts and they want power held accountable for the things they do and say. Yet more and more the media gives us partisan political operates who are labeled as "experts" or "political analysts." It's no wonder so many people remain absolutely clueless about politics in their own country. They believe that when the media calls these people "experts" they are offering a fact based analysis. Instead they get a biased smear job handed directly down from the party heads.
Simoh White-Thatch Potentloins @ 2:
Right. "And now for the lying fascist traitor perspective on this story...Dan?"
Uninsane @ 14:
I'd say this is Bush n Rove's plan to keep control of the media under a Democratic administration.
He who controls the media.... controls the message... rules the world... blah blah blah....
Well, shucks, why wouldn't they run right out and hire these serial liars.... It's the MSM after all... You know, that hotbed of biased liberalism... (yawn).... And yet.. Some in that industry will sit around pining over why noone gives a shit about Brian Williams reciting the evening 'news' from a teleprompter anymore. Some will complain that they don't understand why people put more faith in what they hear out of a John Stewart or a Stephen Colbert then out of a Katie Curic's cute but aging little piehole..
I believe it's called credibility, and the news industry as we know it today?? Is rapidly losing any shred of it, that was left over from 2000 and 2004.... Truth is the MSM has been bleeding credibility with every little war mongering cheerleading escapade they've sunk their money and time into for five fucking years and with every merger and buyout that's been ongoing at least since that point in time during the 90's when the fairness doctrine got shitcanned in order to, in part, allow monopolization of media ownership. Which I suspect, was either the point or an expected by-product of that legislative bullshit.... This 'thing' we call news reporting and the MSM... It might still be a business entity, but it's got nada to do with objective reporting anymore...
If we want news reporting to get back to what its original intent was, (hint: it was never about making money for any corporate entity as a primary reason to exist), then we are going to have to elect politicians that will work to undo all the bullshit republicans and media monopolists have been engaged in for decades. That shredding the fairness doctrine in 96, 97 whenever it was? That was just one of the more recent moves to undermine the news reporting process. The end game near as I can tell, was/is to convert the MSM from an objective observer and purveyor of information and what's going on in our nation and the world around us and turn it into the fucking 'Ministry of Truth'...... And the infamous 'they' have damned near succeeded.......Goebbels laughs from hell while in some other part of the afterlife Orwell just sadly shakes his head, thinking, 'I was trying to warn the world... Not create some kind of blueprint for fascists to follow'.......JD
To download or pirate a song, clip, movie, etc. is a FELONY, punishable by huge mega-fines and arrests. They have teams of lawyers paid very well to do just that. They are so good, they will arrest and sue people who do not even own a computer, and they mean business. How DARE you steal from THEM!
Yet, they stole all our entire msm outlets and with sheer blatent convolution, propaganda and lies hold back the real TRUTH as it unfolds to give us a proper perspective on what we, the people, need to do. That isn't a felony. That isn't a crime. That's BUSINESS! That's PROFIT! That's CAPITALISM AT IT'S FINEST!
The problem is, the actual end product their supposed to provide, is supposed to be the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH. Unbiased, raw, ..."this is this", truths. When you can just go out and outright buy it and own it, lock stock, news reporters and barrel, and with the backing of monoply corporations record profits, and lack of ANY accountability to the FCC or anybody, you have a PERFECT PROPAGANDA FINE TUNED MACHINE. It is so well tuned, that nobody questions "minor" little things like, reporting building #7 collapsing BEFORE it collapsed. Or explaining how gwb saw the planes crash into the buildings before it was ever shown and making "fun" of it, saying, ..." now THAT'S a really bad pilot".
It don't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be logical. It just has to be REPETATIVE to be made into their TRUTHS. The same way teachers drill the facts into students heads and will flunk you if you don't get it right, the military drills the troops in basic training, and pharmaseutical companies give you your commercialized med training. Being repetative. I repeat,...being repetative. One more time,...r-e-p-e-t-a-t-i-v-e. R-E-P-E....(LOL!)
Go ahead. Change the channel. Try to get a second opinion, a different perspective. It's useless. They are all basically "clones" of what appears to be choragraphed info. The few who give us any of the truth whatsoever, in any fashion, must do so in mere quick fleeting minutes, then it's back to you know what. R-E-P-E.....
The internet is it. They know it. They want it. They will get it, eventually. They got everything else, didn't they?
Blow up your TV
Throw away the paper
Move to the country
Build you a home
(h/t John Prine)
CBS gets Dan Bartlett and MSNBC gets Rachel Maddow. Sweet irony.
More proof that the old CBS "eye" is truly blind. I gave up watching CBS Evening News after Dan Rather was savaged for telling the truth about by the minions of the Chickenhawk-In-Chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Walter Cronkite, we sure miss ya, bud.
This is what happens when a few mega rich / corporations are allowed to buy up and own all the major media sources , thank you Reagan ( and every president since ) . Media ownership used to be regulated and restricted for this very reason , the Republican and neocon know exactly what they are doing and in this they have succeeded .
Dan Bartlett should be on CBS for one reason and one reason only and that is to explain and produce Bush's National guard records that Bartlett removed from the Texas National Guard.
CBS needs a reporter with the troops in Afghanistan and this is the SOB I think they should send.
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