Kills vermin scribes dead: Stop Propaganda Act

[nashville_brook]

In response to continued revelations of government-funded "journalism" -- ranging from the faked news stories put out by the drug czar's office to the recently uncovered payments to columnists Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher (who are just the tip of iceberg according to Williams) -- Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) will introduce a bill, The Stop Government Propaganda Act, in the Senate next week.

The revelation that the New York Times killed a story that would have swung the election, (Bush cheating with a listening device during the debates), The Stop Government Propaganda Act seems a day late and dollar short as we are stuck with Bush for another four years with help of a this same propaganda network that has been schlepping the shit for conservatives since the Nixon administration. Under Bush, these cockroaches have come squealing out of the woodwork and in to the light of day. Their new, higher profile is evidence of that we are offcially over-run with the vermin scribes.

Meet Jeff Gannon. The bald guy. He is the one who greased Bush's ego with "divorced from reality Democrats question" at his most recent White House press conference.
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"Jeff Gannon" isn't his real name, and he is the ONLY "reporter" in the White House press corps EVER allowed to use an alias. My aunt used to say that the only people who change their names are wives and criminals, and guess what -- even married women have to use their maiden names in the Press Corps. Gannon (sic) gets a pass and that alone should raise eyebrows. He also works for something called Talon News which is no more than a GOP propaganda mill with connections to well-known dirty trickster, Bobby Eberle who also runs GOPUSA.com, a "conservative news, information, and design company dedicated to promoting conservative ideals." Again, this has never been "allowed" in the press corps. It used to be that you had to actually work for a news organization to be in the press corps. This is one of those rules that everyone can understand. I can't just go up to the White House Press Corps receptionist and get a pass for JC Forum. Wish I could. They stretched the definition of "legitimate news organization" when they let the Moonies in and if I worked for the Washington Times I'd be pissed Talon/Gannon (not his real name) was muscling in on my beat. Moonie News Correspondent "Stretch" Sammon the college sports fan looking guy sitting next to Gannon, should be getting red under the collar that he has to share turf with this gorilla (and possible criminal).

But here's the thing: Talon "News" and "Jeff Gannon" (not his real name) were PUT IN THE PRESS CORPS. They didn't just show up. An invisible hand put them there.

Which brings me to my next point. We have eyes. Look at these two in the picture again. Gannon (not his real name) has affected an amazing G. Gordon Liddy imitation. You have to watch the guys who shave their heads, anyway -- that's just a given. But this particular bald head has School of the Americas written all over it. If Gannon (not his real name) hasn't been trained in the military, he has at least been personally obsessed. One of those guys who haunts the gun section of the magazine rack in airports and creeps out little children.

He is a thug.

Now, read the question again for the first time. What do you pick up? What's the temperature?

Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

You expect him to follow-up with "Would you like me to take care of them, sir?" And he looks like he is there to do just that. The sad truth is, he has been put there to serve up softballs when McClennon and Bush get tired of obfuscating the truth to real reporters. In a blatant nod to this fact, Bush called on Gannon (not his real name) at the press conference RIGHT AFTER he was asked about Armstrong Williams and if the White House intended on continuing with the Propaganda Campaign. Yikes! It's like you expect Bush to just moon us at any point. Like he's going to be in Tulsa promoting the privatization of Social Security and he's just going to be like, "Fuck it. You know what, we don't give a flip what you people think. You think you can stop us?" Now watch this drive.

Digging deeper -- as in going to the GOPUSA.com website and reading some of the commentary, you find that these thugs in the press corps are being cheered on by the like of Jennifer King (pictured below) who is calling for Ted Kennedy to be brought up on sedition charges for questioning the war in Iraq. In her own words, "On the eve of Sunday's historic elections in Iraq, Senator Ted Kennedy took to the podium in order to stage a stunning display of defeatism, pessimism and vicious anti-Americanism... The malignantly magniloquent Massachusettsan further insisted that Iraq be "given back to the Iraqis" and that American troops should leave forthwith.

Senator Kennedy is a bloviating blowhard whose most outrageous libels are nevertheless overlooked by most of the media. Kennedy has called the war in Iraq, "A war made up for political gain", "George Bush's Vietnam" and - of course - the favored "quagmire." blah blah blah

Jennifer (if that's her real name) has obviously read Ann "The Thesaurus" Coulter. "Bloviating" is essentially a Coulter trademark. And "malignantly magniloquent Massachusettsan," -- holy shit! Someone needs to check and see if she didn't bust a blood vessel tapping that out on her Vaio.

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Here's the really funny thing -- at the bottom of her commentary piece, there's this disclaimer from GOPUSA: "Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA."

There whole stated reason for being for GOPUSA is to disseminate their brand of conservative Republicanism and they can't even endorse the words they publish as their LEAD editorial. Wow. For people who blow a mighty wind about Responsibility and Ownership -- you'd think they'd be able to own their own mission statement (although I can personally understand if Jennifer might want to disown her press photo).

The elephant in the room is that if you open your eyes, the administration has plum become cartoonish in their misbehavior.

So, unless we want everything you read to be written by the likes of Jennifer and Jeff (not his real name), it's time to make those calls and send those emails. And use those eyes.

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on edit -- spelling

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. The momment Gannon asked that question

Every real journalist in the room should have groaned loudly and thrown crumpled pages from their steno books at him.

[nashville_brook]

2. this is why i'm asking us to open our eyes -- look at that guy

doesn't he seem out of place in a room of wonky writers? the guy is a thug. no one is going to throw their notebooks at him b/c he can probably kill them with his ball point pen.

i'm a writer. i've hung with the geeky writer-types since grade school. he is not a writer. he is a wrassler. he is a ROT-SEE. he is a bully.

if you use your eyes, it's plain as day.

[Merlot]

3. Why aren't the "real journalists" in the room wirting this story?

Why aren't they objecting? Oh, I know, because they'll never be let into the WH press room again. Ok, they're smart. Why don't they figure out a way to "deep throuat" this story to some struggling journalist who will never be in the WH press room anyhow?

Don't they realize that with phoney plants in the WH press room, they (real journalists) are on the endagenred species list anyhow?

[nashville_brook]

4. again, look at this guy -- i think they are threatened with

"not being called on"

but also by plain old bullying.

but, to be fair, Media Matters and the Boston Globe have both covered this. i'm hoping that with the introduction of this bill there will be more attention given to this.

i would have needed 50,000 words to cover all the angles on this. there is soooo much more to the story and probably my favorite part is that Gannon is a "graduate" of a $50 journalism diploma mill -- The Leadership Institute:
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org

on the site they sell a video that explains the Roots of the Ultra Left. here's an outline of the script. god, it's funny and frightening at the same time:


The Roots of the Ultra Left is an in-depth look at 35 things the ultra left really thinks. From Socialism to Communism, from economic and religious oppression to the elimination individual freedoms -- they say it’s all for the common good, but the ultra left’s sordid history tells a different tale. It's the documentary the left doesn't want you to see. It’s the documenatry you can’t afford to miss.

Roots of the Ultra Left Script Browse the Script By Topic
• Introduction

Section One: What Socialists Really Think About Economics
• Profit Comes From Evil Greed
• Socialists must get all your property
• Tax all income at 100%
• Support big government. No new tax cuts.
• Only government creates wealth
• Bureaucrats spend your money better than you do
• To elect more socialists, destroy the economy
• Government jobs good; private employers bad
• "Something for nothing" fools almost everyone
• Why work when you can loot those who do?
• Socialism has never been tried

Section Two: What Socialists Really Think About Your Family And Our American Culture
• Traditional morality is always bad
• Do what feels good now. Make taxpayers pay the bill
• Break all family ties
• Make God illegal
• Masculine is bad; feminine is also bad
• Kill it. Why give your baby to a moral couple?

Section Three: What Socialists Really Think About Liberty
• Solve all problems. Give the Left all power.
• Stamp out liberty. It's unfair.
• Everything not compulsory must be prohibited
• Re-write history or stop teaching it
• Keep campuses conservative-free zones
• In the media, any conservatives are too many
• No free speech for conservatives
• Only groups have rights
• Give up your guns. We want you defenseless.
• Pay the union boss or we'll crack your skull
• Save the environment. Kill off all the people.
• Destroy all non-government education
• Teachers unions -- more important than teaching kids
• When judges give us what we want, forget the laws and the Constitution

Section Four: What Socialists Really Think About The Future Of America In The World.
• America causes all world problems
• Eliminate patriotism
• Bring on world government
• Next time, Marxist-Leninists will get it right



http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RootsLeft.htm

[nashville_brook]

5. here's another tasty bit -- the ULTRA LEFT

i would have needed 50,000 words to cover all the angles on this. there is soooo much more to the story and probably my favorite part is that Gannon is a "graduate" of a $50 journalism diploma mill -- The Leadership Institute:

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org

on the site they sell a video that explains the Roots of the Ultra Left. here's an outline of the script. god, it's funny and frightening at the same time:


The Roots of the Ultra Left is an in-depth look at 35 things the ultra left really thinks. From Socialism to Communism, from economic and religious oppression to the elimination individual freedoms -- they say it’s all for the common good, but the ultra left’s sordid history tells a different tale. It's the documentary the left doesn't want you to see. It’s the documenatry you can’t afford to miss.

Roots of the Ultra Left Script Browse the Script By Topic
• Introduction

Section One: What Socialists Really Think About Economics
• Profit Comes From Evil Greed
• Socialists must get all your property
• Tax all income at 100%
• Support big government. No new tax cuts.
• Only government creates wealth
• Bureaucrats spend your money better than you do
• To elect more socialists, destroy the economy
• Government jobs good; private employers bad
• "Something for nothing" fools almost everyone
• Why work when you can loot those who do?
• Socialism has never been tried

Section Two: What Socialists Really Think About Your Family And Our American Culture
• Traditional morality is always bad
• Do what feels good now. Make taxpayers pay the bill
• Break all family ties
• Make God illegal
• Masculine is bad; feminine is also bad
• Kill it. Why give your baby to a moral couple?

Section Three: What Socialists Really Think About Liberty
• Solve all problems. Give the Left all power.
• Stamp out liberty. It's unfair.
• Everything not compulsory must be prohibited
• Re-write history or stop teaching it
• Keep campuses conservative-free zones
• In the media, any conservatives are too many
• No free speech for conservatives
• Only groups have rights
• Give up your guns. We want you defenseless.
• Pay the union boss or we'll crack your skull
• Save the environment. Kill off all the people.
• Destroy all non-government education
• Teachers unions -- more important than teaching kids
• When judges give us what we want, forget the laws and the Constitution

Section Four: What Socialists Really Think About The Future Of America In The World.
• America causes all world problems
• Eliminate patriotism
• Bring on world government
• Next time, Marxist-Leninists will get it right

[nashville_brook]

6. UPDATE! this is priceless, ya'll -- Jeff Gannon gay porn connection!

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/holy-crap_08.html

Holy crap
by John in DC - 2/8/2005 07:03:41 PM

Let me say again, holy crap.

The blogosphere has dug up some really really really creepy stuff about that pseudo-reporter with the pseudonym who the White House lets ask all the softball questions about their briefings. His pseudonym is Jeff Gannon, and well, the folks at DailyKos, and Eschaton, have been doing a little digging around on him.

It's a long and sordid tale, but let me give it to you in a nutshell. Mr. Gannon's home page is JeffGannon.com. Well, JeffGannon.com is owned by a person and company that owns the following Web addresses as well:

Hotmilitarystud.com
Militaryescorts.com
Militaryescortsm4m.com

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[JohnOneillsMemory]

7. *sigh* Most of the MSM is propaganda since 1945. Not just a few.

Outting this particular son-of-a-bitch who is as fabricated as they come is good for introducing the topic of propaganda to newbies.

But Operation Mockingbird has had the CIA massaging and working in the ENTIRE MSM for over 50 years now! This is an old old story which is being minimized into the 'Few Bad Apples' technique of damage control due to the internet.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html
(Operation Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA)

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
(The Origins of the Overclass)

>snip<

MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda. At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads like a Who's Who of journalism:

* Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)
* William Paley (President, CBS)
* Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)
* Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)
* Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star)
* Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)
* Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)
* James Copley (Copley News Services)
* Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)
* C.D. Jackson (Fortune)
* Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)
* ABC
* NBC
* Associated Press
* United Press International
* Reuters
* Hearst Newspapers
* Scripps-Howard
* Newsweek
* magazine Mutual Broadcasting System
* Miami Herald
* Old Saturday Evening Post
* New York Herald-Tribune

>snip<
So this legislation is like sweeping sand off the beach. That's why there was a blackout on election fraud again. TOTAL CONTROL.

Has anyone talked about Operation Vigilant Warrior? The NORAD exercises 'simulating' multiple hijacked planes crashed into buildings the morning of 9/11? No. TOTAL CONTROL.

http://www.oilempire.us/wargames.html
(9/11 Wargames Before and During the Attacks)

The NYT just edited the transcript of Rice's damning tsunami remarks at her confirmation hearing out of the online transcript. Why? Someone at the NYT is helping out the neocons. TOTAL CONTROL.

Just before the Em-poor-er's Inaugu-urination recruiting speech TIME magazine ran a cover story about young men who still live at home with the shaming headline 'Why Won't They Grow Up?' This was intended to push them into the military. TOTAL CONTROL.

Does anyone think this is a coincidence? These MSM organs are STILL all part of the Mighty Wurlitzer of organized propaganda that shape the attitudes of Americans so they will drive around and buy crap or pick up a gun and kill on command.

Suggesting that a few paid goons can be eliminated ignores the whole army and diverts attention from reality.