"Class Warfare" Was Created by the GOP with Unconscionable Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, But the Corpora

[babsbunny]

"Class Warfare" Was Created by the GOP with Unconscionable Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, But the Corporate Media Ignores the Reality

http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/363

CNN

When, according to “punditry conventional wisdom,” CNN is referred to as the “balanced” cable news network by the corporate mainstream media, you know that we have a problem America. CNN is, generally, nothing more than another television outlet that offers the shallowest of reporting buried within a sea of “elite status quo” talking points and superficial analysis of political “process.”

For instance, just last week they let George W. Bush groupie Candy Crowley loose to “analyze” an Obama speech about the economy (a word one of the CNN anchors chose to utter with finger gestures for air quotes around it). What did Crowley have to say? (Watch this video excerpt to hear her in detail.) Quite simply that Obama was engaging in class warfare, which is the Republican talking point every time a Democrat or Independent brings up the redistribution of wealth to the richest in America over the past three decades.

[Trillo]

1. The best thing I ever did was cut off the Cable TV

nor do I watch local broadcasts due to not having the newer digital TV. That's fine with me.

[msongs]

2. lol the corporate media pays little to no taxes so a fat lot they care nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Turned on my TV to watch Meet The Press this morning

...caught the last 5 minutes of the "Coral Ridge Ministries" religious program, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Apparently these people live in some alternative universe where there's a radical left wing president with a cabinet full of "extreme radical socialists" making all these "radical changes" to America.

I should have wrote down their phone number so I could ask them where the portal to this parallel universe is, where all of that is true. Sounds like a great place to live.

Guess they missed Rahm Emanuel's list of the President's "accomplishments".

[Hydra]

4. Yes sir, no sir.

I agree with you- the national dialogue is so far from reality, I have:

a) no idea how to get back to reality now
b) no idea where those people are either

[Greyhound]

6. We can't compete with the God-Box, never could.

We're probably left with simply preparing for the inevitable collapse, so that we can provide the means for the next cycle.

[Uncle Joe]

5. The corporate media have a major conflict of interest, rarely do individuals buy their commercials,

it's virtually always corporations.

Corporations are the corporate media's primary clients, the people are only customers or consumers to be sold a product, candidate or down the river.

From an agent's perspective there is a greater fiduciary responsibility owed a client over that of a "consumer,"and this is one reason as to why you will almost never hear the corporate media refer to the people of the United States as citizens except during special occasions, ie; during an election or discussion about immigration.

The corporate media want the American People to consider themselves to be first and foremost consumers rather than citizens, because citizen is an empowering word and has connotations of a public interest or good, whereas consumer is a mindless word, sheep are consumers, locusts are consumers.

The public interest or good; is what often bumps heads against oligarch or corporate supremacy, so it's best not to have the American People think about a public good and whenever the discussion turns to what's best for the many over the exceptionally privileged few; whether it be individual or corporation the corporate media are quick to take up the oligarch/corporate cast aspersion of the people starting "class warfare" in defense of the corporate media's corporate clients.

Thanks for the thread, babsbunny.

[Lasher]

7. If you want to know what Repuplicans are up to, look at what they are accusing others of doing.

It's a good rule of thumb and this "class warfare' bullshit is a perfect example.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Yeah well, we're "engaging in class warfare" because the upper class is trying

to destroy the middle class. We didn't start the war, they did.