Let's start with media:
"GOP debate turns volatile; Illegal immigration a hot topic for rivals" by Susan Milligan and Scott Helman/Boston Globe November 29, 2007
WASHINGTON - The rollicking debate, sponsored by CNN and YouTube and featured video questions submitted through the Internet -- represented the sharpest and angriest exchanges since the campaign began.
Senator John McCain of Arizona -- when Representative Ron Paul of Texas, the only GOP presidential candidate to oppose the Iraq war, called for the troops to be brought home -- McCain took the opportunity to display his pro-war credentials.
McCain: "That kind of isolationism, sir, is what caused World War II."
Strange the the Globe removed this from the on-line version:
On abortion, the candidates were largely in agreement in opposing it. Paul, while saying it should be a crime to perform a third-trimester or so-called partial birth abortion, said the doctors -- not the pregnant women -- should be punished.
They put this up instead:
"After hearing an emotional appeal from a self-described gay military veteran with more than 40 years of service, none of the candidates advocated a policy to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military."
Hey they really are the CLINTON News Network!
The Times tells you to go to their website for coverage, ha-ha!
But they do mention Ron in an op-ed, so I'll put the whole slam up:
"Paging the Lesser of 8 Evils" by GAIL COLLINS
Debate time! Once again last night, Republican candidates came together to taunt the viewing public with the reminder that one of them is going to have to be nominated for president.
Smackdown! Prompted by a YouTube question from Ernie of Dyker Heights, the evening instantly took up the immigration issue, allowing the front-runners to demonstrate their ability to pander in such an irritating way that even the panderees would have to be turned off. Mitt Romney accused Rudy Giuliani of running a “sanctuary city” while Rudy accused Mitt of running a “sanctuary mansion,” thanks to the illegal immigrants who were grooming his lawn.
“This whole debate saddens me a little bit,” said John McCain, the only person on the stage who ever made any effort or risked any political capital trying to seriously resolve the issue. Meanwhile Representative Tom Tancredo, who has a campaign ad showing an immigrant in a hoodie sneaking across the border and blowing up a mall, was in ecstasy over the rancor. (“It is great! I am so happy to hear it!”)
There was Mike Huckabee, the new rising star, whose latest TV ad reminds us he is a CHRISTIAN LEADER. Huckabee’s most famous supporter, Chuck Norris, was sitting right there in the second row, a show of support we have yet to see from Oprah or Barbra Streisand. There was no sign, however, of the former governor’s other star supporter, Ric (The Nature Boy) Flair, who I’m sure you all remember from his exciting triumph over Ricky (The Dragon) Steamboat in the 1989 National Wrestling Alliance heavyweight title match.
Huckabee is threatening Mitt Romney in Iowa, home of many evangelical voters, at least a few of whom are expressing concern that if a Mormon president prayed for guidance in a crisis, God might not hear him.
Romney, however, is not going to let you feel sorry about this, gentle reader. Every time you feel the least twinge of sympathy for him, he’s going to start screeching about immigrants again. “That’s not your money. That’s the taxpayers’ money!” he cried when Huckabee explained why he did not want to exclude the children of illegal immigrants in a state scholarship program for top Arkansas high school graduates. “Illegals are not going to get taxpayer-funded breaks.”
“In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did,” Huckabee retorted, winning the moral high ground just before he raced off to denounce the progressive income tax.
Taxing people based on their ability to pay got a brief, sensible defense from McCain, just before he denounced Ron Paul’s opposition to the invasion of Iraq. (“We allowed Hitler to come to power with that kind of attitude of isolationism and appeasement.”)
It’s no wonder the Republican voters are veering back and forth, rejecting one candidate after another.
And now, dear web-reader, the Times provides another censored piece of web garbage.
I'm staring at a paper, folks!
This is incredible censorship! Here's what they cut:
Rising in the polls, particularly the polls that involve Internet voting, is Paul, a crusty libertarian who is against any government interference with individuals' private rights whatsoever, except, of course, when they involve having an abortion.
Failing in the polls, particularly polls that do not involve South Carolina, Fred Thompson, who was supposed to be likable once upon a time, has gotten so desperate that he submitted a four-minute candidate profile that was composed almost entirely of attacks on Romney and Huckabee.
Now I'll pick it up from where the web gives it back to you.
Now tell me, dear reader, how the Times is a fair newspaper and not an agenda-pushing piece of crap!
Even if they took out the broadside on abortion.
I say, give all the ladies a pill.
Lately, Thompson has also been busying himself attacking the Fox network for bias against his alleged campaign.
Well, not really because she rewrote this (which appeared in my paper):
Giuliania is doing very well in Florida, a state so important that the Republican National Committee is going to bar half of its delegates from the presidential convention as punishment for moving its primary date to January. McCain has been struggling ever since he became known as the Budget-Balancer-Whose-Campaign-Is-Insolvent. It had to be a sign of slippage when the senator, who always hated milking his prisoner of war experience, told TV Guide that his favorite TV show was "Prison Break" because it reminded him of you know what.
Noticing a pattern here, readers?
Things the Times is hiding, then lying about!
She turned that into this (and we know what she's reading, huh?):
McCain and Huckabee, the candidates who seemed to speak from the heart did best, even though their hearts occasionally seemed to be completely nutty. McCain absolutely dismembered Romney on the question of torture. (Mitt refused to denounce waterboarding because he said he didn’t want the terrorists to know what we were up to.) “It’s in violation of the Geneva Convention ... how in the world anybody could think that that kind of thing could be inflicted by Americans on people who are held in our custody is absolutely beyond me,” he said. Having whipped his opponent good, McCain then turned right around and started refighting Vietnam. (“We never lost a battle ... ”)
It was suspenseful, waiting for the next shoe to drop, for the next candidate to go whacky.
Back to the print and web versions:
Rounding out the field was Representative Duncan Hunter, who has — well, he has a grandson who says cute things to his teacher. Hunter appears to have done his hardest campaigning in Florida, which means he has made approximately as many stops over the last six months as a low-energy tourist on a single weekend.
Now another censored paragraph. Come on, NY Times!
It was fortunate it was the Republicans debating in Florida. The Democrats have signed so many pledges not to campaign there, at the behest of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina, that they'd have to come into town with their coats held over their heads like vampires caught between coffins at sunrise.
Which is what all the DemocraPic candidates are except for Gravel and Kucinich!
Back to both versions, readers!
Every sign points to the party nominees being chosen by the first week in February. (If given the choice, would you prefer to see your Christmas stocking filled with a lump of coal or 10 months of Clinton vs. Romney?) But on the Republican side, it’s not hard to imagine the poor voters veering from one to the other. (Him? — Oh, god no. How about — him! No, wait, what were we thinking? )
Maybe they’ll vacillate until the bitter end, leaving it all up to the final primary in South Dakota in June. And that would be great. Finally, instead of allowing a few thousand corn farmers to decide the fate of the nation, we could place the power where it rightfully belongs, with a few thousand wheat farmers."
How about that job of censorship by the NYT, readers?!
Case closed, folks! Case closed!
ou can't believe anything they say!
But you can believe in the blogs, readers!
Thank you for being here!
Let's get some blog reaction:
"SAY IT AIN'T SO: CNN/YouTube Republican debate scrape the bottom of the barrel
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
Malcolm X
The Mitt and Rudy Show
Ron Paul makes his point against the (apparently rigged) limited time
John McCain and Paul argue with Paul correcting McCain on the misconception of American isolationism leading to the rise of Hitler
Paul trounces McCain on Non-Interventionism (3 min)
I thought it can't be possible for the networks beside the inane Fox News Channel to sink low in scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of unfair airtime allotted to the presidential candidates outside of the "favorite" (MSM's view) candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, not to mention some horrible YouTube questions selected by the mainstream journalists. But CNN did and it shows the utter bias in favoring Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney as they get the most airtime, essentially hogging the limelight.
Ron Paul (and to be fair, Tommy Tancredo and Duncan Hunter) got the shaft with less airtime, and when Paul did, it was part straight answer and part rebuttal.
CNN does suck, but it is not a surprise that the mainstream media is trying hard to manage the debate and control the viewers' behavior to determine the outcome of the presidential election that should play safely into the autocratic hands of the ruling Elite, as National Public Radio's revelation "10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know about the Debates" indicate who and what organization really control the debates.
There is no such a thing as a fair televised debate of the aspiring presidents in America. One exception is the historical 1960 presidential debate between JFK and Nixon that turned the table in JFK's favor much to (I imagine) the chagrin of the rulers behind the curtain when JFK challenged their regressive policies in controlling America for the oligarchy. 44 years since the assassination, the table turned in favor of the Establishment.
It is time to turn the table on the Elite when they least expect it. America belong to the People as the mainstream media make itself obsolete and untrustworthy (even treasonous in abetting and aiding the enemy hostile to liberty). The Internet is the last bastion of free speech where the truth cannot be suppressed -- instead, the truth and right to know spread like wild fire. The burning fire must overwhelm the corrupt and moneyed monopoly that conspire to control American's destiny under the false guise of democracy with the assistance of the bipartisan interests.
This is the essence of Fascism, derived from Corporatism. The dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini elaborate on the definition:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
The debate between pro-war McCain and no-intervention Paul (5 min)
Compilation of Paul at the CNN/YT debate (10 min)
I included the blogger posts from the blog I linked you to, reader:
The die is cast The American MSM has already chosen what candidates we'll get to vote on in 2008.
Both CNN and FOX have picked their candidate for WE the People.
CNN is pimping out Hilary and FOX is rooting for GHOULiani.
Both of those candidates have something in common:
Both are ready to bomb Iran.
Both profess adoration for Israel.
Both want to continue the occupation in Iraq and let Israel continue on with its ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
What does that tell you about the American MSM?"
Nice job NepoS, I enjoyed
Nice job NepoS, I enjoyed this article.
The statement:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
by Benito Mussolini is excellent. I wonder where that was first pulled from. Excellent!
I second the idea and truth that the media outlets in America should all be rounded up and tried for treason. Everyone involved in suppressing information, twisting truth, assisting corporate and banking to overthrow the constitution...these all need to be put on trial for treason.
In fact everyone on 'Capital' Hill and the Zio-House need to be evicted ASAP.
We need about 5 million people to show up in Washington D.C. and PHYSICALLY REMOVE THEM.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" Voltaire
What great comments from bloggers! So superior to MSM in every way!
I've got to give you more:
Guliani : "You're all a bunch of morons"
RON PAUL WENT MISSING AND JESUS PROBABLY WOULD WIND UP IN GUANTANAMO THESE DAYS