“Remember who the real enemy is”. Day One: Our lapdog media.

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/remember-who-the-real-enemy-is-day-one-our-lapdog-media/

"Another day, another lying, anti-ObamaCare hit piece. This one on NPR, “showing” how it would hurt Dems in the next election. Lots of readers would be surprised to hear that NPR is participating in the anti-ACA witch-hunts that litter the mediascape like so many bloated buzzards, because NPR is supposedly a “liberal” outlet. But that is no longer the case, and hasn’t been for quite some time.

The truth is, 95% of the American “news” media is neither liberal nor conservative: they are driven by revenue, not ideology. NBC and Fox, for example, get paid by their advertisers and owners to put out stories that make more people watch their networks, because that makes more money for them. NPR does the same thing, except they call their paymasters “underwriters”. Same thing, different labels.

Back in the day (the 60?s and the 70?s), we used to say, “remember who the real enemy is”: it wasn’t the soldiers or the National Guard, it was the politicians and Military-Industrial Complex that gave the orders. Orders meant to increase the wealth and power of a very few, at the expense of the rest of us. So it was then, so it has always been, and so it is now. The real enemy is the class of powerful, wealthy, power-hungry motherf***ers who manipulate our politicians and media outlets in order to manipulate us.

“Remember who the real enemy is”. It is a truth that bears repeating. And this writer was pleased to hear it in the Dystopian allegory du jour (“The Hunger Games”), because a helluva lot of people need reminding. Generations of humans have been herded like cattle, and used in much the same way. We are NOT cattle, however; and we needn’t and shouldn’t compliantly chew our cud, being used up and milked of all our resources while we live, and eventually getting it where the livestock gets it.

Whenever you hear the “news” media harping on a single theme in near-unison, you can bet someone is paying for that chorus to sing those notes and recite those lyrics. Maybe the lyrics are lies, maybe they are selected bits of truth, but they are all chosen to deliver the message of our enemy. And that enemy has no single skin color, political affiliation, location, sexual orientation or gender: it is defined only by its ruthless rapacity and relentless creativity in fooling the foolish, gulling the gullible, and screwing the screwable.

And the Media take their silver and play their scripted part, making them (if not the enemy themselves), at least the willing accomplices of that enemy.

Tomorrow: trickle-down economics, and how successful it has been in robbing and dividing us."

[BlueCaliDem]

1. America has two gov'ts: the We the People (weakest) and We the Personhoods (strongest).

The sad thing is, We the Personhoods shadow gov't is winning. It has no qualms hurting people just as long as it fattens their bottom lines. It's just business to them, and we're expendable if we outlive our usefulness to them.

The sad thing is, Republican voters don't know that they're being fooled into defending and strengthening the We the Personhoods shadow gov't that will hurt them and theirs. This shadow gov't is permeating our 50 states down to the local level. It's a far bigger government that's more intrusive, more oppressive, more controlling and far more dangerous to them and theirs than the "Big Gubment" bogeyman they've been indoctrinated to fear through decades of carefully crafted and executed propaganda. They're like blissfully ignorant sheep being led to the slaughter, and they demand we - who see this anti-American scheme - go with them.

Corporate Rule (fascism) is the enemy; working through their well-paid lackeys in our halls of power and M$M in order to take down the only entity with unlimited resources that is powerful enough to hold them to account and even eviscerate them: the U.S. Government.

That's why, among the Republican faithful, Big Gubment must be seen as EVIL. Not to the indoctrinated sheep, but to their corporate masters and neo-robber barons who are hellbent on destroying this democracy and replace it with a fascist system.

[riqster]

2. Nicely put. nt