Armstrong Williams PROVES the VRWC Conspiracy

[Octafish]

The Armstrong Williams deal shows us that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy exists. The Bush Family Evil Empire used their money to buy a toady in the press.

They bought him with $240,000 we know about. That's not merely criminal. That's all it took to subvert the First Amendment. That's treason.

The free Press is the only business named in the entire Constitution. There's a reason for that. It's called democracy. A free people need to know the Truth in order to maintain a republic.

Begs the question: Who else have they been hiring? I’d bet a lot of presstitutes have taken money from the BFEE. And I bet a whole LOT of them took money before November 2, 2004.

Thanks Armstrong! You may not be as big a dumbass as you appear right now.

Speaking of traitors: Robert Novakula even committed treason on the BFEE’s behalf. Ask Valerie Plame.



"The Johnson Administration Appraisal." You'd think something would rub off.

[Stand and Fight]

1. Two words that can now be trumpeted:

Media Whores.



ON EDIT:
And to think... The irony is that Bush's first name should be John...

[Octafish]

3. The Press has been on the CIA payroll a long time.

Operation MOCKINGBIRD

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

Most imporantly: What do you mean about John? As in President Kerry?

[Swamp Rat]

2. I hate Novak

I need a pic of Armstrong Williams... Mike Malloy is grilling him right now along with Alberto Gonzales, etc. :grr:

[Octafish]

4. Swampus Rattiticus, Your stuff is hyperreal.

~V?°Y<is stuff out:

http://www.strom.clemson.edu/presentations/photos/awilliams/awphotos.html

Is this a nice pic of the treasonous prick?



"Did you make that out to 'Cash'?"

[ClarkUSA]

5. Don't forget the Tribune FIRED him yesterday...

no apologists, they. I suggest we write letters thanking them for their decision.

[Octafish]

9. That's an excellent idea!

ClarkUSA, you might want to add a question:

"Do you think other journalists secretly worked for George W Bush's campaign?"

[merh]

15. Pat Buchanan asked that on MSNBC this morning. He

said the repukes owe the nation to find out how many members of the media are on the payroll of the admin and how many private PR firms and lobbyists are getting paid by our tax dollars. He was pissed. It was rather comical, he was agreeing with the dem senator that was on the show. (sorry I didn't catch the name of the dem)

[Octafish]

16. Isn't the first time. Remember George Will?

George the Shill Will was working as a columnist for WaPo, Newsweek and ABC News. The talking turd of the BFEE also was working for the Ronald Pruneface Reagan and Poppy Bush campaign in 1980. The guy would write a piece or say some crack on TV and the people actually thought he was coming up with it himself. Funny thing. He was repeating what he had been paid to say. What's worse, Will and the Raygun-Poppy campaign stole Carter's debate book. Of course, Will, being a good Republican wasn't really punished professionally. He's stil around, whoring.

Triumph of (George) Will: When Media Might Makes Right

By Norman Solomon
March 8, 2001

A skeleton is rattling in George Will's closet. But it's difficult to hear above the steady applause from his elite boosters inside the media business. Widely viewed as one of the nation's most influential journalists, Will churns out syndicated columns that appear in hundreds of daily papers. He also writes for Newsweek. And he's a regular on ABC's "This Week." He is definitely outspoken -- but don't expect him to speak out about the fact that Juanita Yvette Lozano now faces up to 15 years in prison.

"A woman who worked for a media company that produced ads for President George W. Bush's campaign was indicted for secretly mailing a videotape of Bush practicing for a debate to Vice President Al Gore's campaign," an Associated Press story explained the other day. Accompanying the 60-minute video were about 120 pages of the Bush team's confidential material for debate preparation.

Ordinarily, such a transgression might cause Will to express his law-and-order zeal in no uncertain terms. But it's understandable that he isn't eager to weigh in when the subject is theft of debate prep documents. The circumstances of the incident last fall were far less egregious than what happened -- with Will's active participation -- in 1980.

Six months ago, when Gore campaign adviser Tom Downey received a package containing the Bush campaign material prior to the first debate, he immediately turned it over to the FBI. In sharp contrast, 20 years earlier, top operatives in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign pored through Jimmy Carter's lengthy briefing book swiped from the White House. Back then, behind the scenes, Will was part of the effort to make the most of the illegally obtained papers.

Will looked at the Carter briefing materials and then helped coach Reagan for a crucial debate with Carter. Promptly after the debate, Will went on "Nightline" to praise Reagan for a "thoroughbred performance." Viewers had no way to know of Will's involvement in prepping Reagan for the debate.

CONTINUED...

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010308.html

[merh]

19. I forgot about George Will. Thanks for the reminder! n/t

[Swamp Rat]

7. Thanks

That pic is a bit too grainy, but I may use it if there are no better options. On the other hand, it looks like he is about to get squished by his own masters, so he might not be worth the trouble... like some folks are:

[Octafish]

11. Der Goffen-ohr uff Kal-lee-forn-e-ya tanks you.

"Hey! Do you guys know how to get to the book burning,
I mean, book signing at the Strom Thurmond Institute?"

[JanMichael]

6. It sure as hell does!

It's not like we all didn't know it but hell, they got the serious BUST now.

I sense an avalanche.

[Octafish]

8. Oh yeah. Now's the time to PILE IT ON!

So, let's ALL keep asking the questions.

This is EXACTLY what we need: The means to demonstrate Bushco's hijacked press.

DUers know they shilled and helped Bush lie us into an illegal war. But -- from what the media whores report -- the average American wouldn't have believed their pretzeldunce would lie.

Ha! They will now.

Who knows? Maybe we'll get the Mighty Whorelitzer to spew some truth about Bush and 9-11.

Does anyone remember James R Bath?


BFEE Factbook: GW Bush, James R Bath & House of bin Laden

Those interested in learning about how George W Bush and Ossama bin Laden go waaaaaaaay back need to know about James R Bath.

Bath was the middleman who represented and handled the US business interests of Khalid bin Mahfouz in the United States. Bin Mahfouz is a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. Mahfouz (and by many indications several other Gulf billionaires) helped bail out two of Bush's failed businesses, Arbusto Oil and HARKEN Energy. No theory, it's criminal evidence!

QUESTIONABLE TIES

Tracking bin Laden's money flow leads back to Midland, Texas

by Wayne Madsen

On September 24, President George W. Bush appeared at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to announce a crackdown on the financial networks of terrorists and those who support them. “U.S. banks that have assets of these groups or individuals must freeze their accounts,” Bush declared. “And U.S. citizens or businesses are prohibited from doing business with them.”

But the president, who is now enjoying an astounding 92 percent approval rating, hasn’t always practiced what he is now preaching: Bush’s own businesses were once tied to financial figures in Saudi Arabia who currently support bin Laden.

In 1979, Bush’s first business, Arbusto Energy, obtained financing from James Bath, a Houstonian and close family friend. One of many investors, Bath gave Bush $50,000 for a 5 percent stake in Arbusto. At the time, Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, head of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family and a brother (one of 17) to Osama bin Laden. It has long been suspected, but never proven, that the Arbusto money came directly from Salem bin Laden. In a statement issued shortly after the September 11 attacks, the White House vehemently denied the connection, insisting that Bath invested his own money, not Salem bin Laden’s, in Arbusto.

In conflicting statements, Bush at first denied ever knowing Bath, then acknowledged his stake in Arbusto and that he was aware Bath represented Saudi interests. In fact, Bath has extensive ties, both to the bin Laden family and major players in the scandal-ridden Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) who have gone on to fund Osama bin Laden. BCCI defrauded depositors of $10 billion in the ’80s in what has been called the “largest bank fraud in world financial history” by former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. During the ’80s, BCCI also acted as a main conduit for laundering money intended for clandestine CIA activities, ranging from financial support to the Afghan mujahedin to paying intermediaries in the Iran-Contra affair.

CONTINUED...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature3.shtml

Want to know how Bath and Bush got to know one another? Check out this US government document, ordering Bush and Bath to stand down from flight duty after they missed out on physicals. Gee. I wonder if anybody at NIGHTLINE knows they started drug testing pilots right around that time?



ORIGINAL:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=991298

[Karenina]

14. NOBODY done seen that Bath feller

für quite a spell now. Where he BE anyways? :shrug:

[Octafish]

18. Wish Roger Ailes would ask that question.

Then again, as Rupert Murdoch's own personal BFEE watch-stooge, Ailes thinks he has better things to do.

Ailes Takes Credit for Media 'Correcting Its Bias'

By Greg Mitchell

Published: October 27, 2003

NEW YORK In an article in this week's Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, attempts to take credit for making the elite media see the light on correcting their liberal bias.

"Look," he said in the interview, "we're doing something that is forcing them -- including The New York Times and the LA Times -- to examine how their journalism's being presented."

To illustrate this, Ailes cited a now-famous message sent by Los Angeles Times Editor John Carroll to his staff back in May, regarding coverage of the abortion issue. "When the editor of the LA Times sends a memo to his desk, which basically says, 'I know we're all liberals, but shouldn't we be a little more fair and balanced about this issue', that memo gets leaked," Ailes said. "Well, in 50 years of journalism, they never thought to be fair and balanced before we get on the scene."

The problem is -- and this is nothing out of the ordinary for Ailes and Fox News -- this is a wild, politically-driven exaggeration.

ConTINUED...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2010835

[sandnsea]

20. Gonzales too

Alberto Gonzales was recommended to Bush as counsel in the Texas Governorship by Harriet Miers, who has replaced Gonzales as White House counsel. Referred to by Bush as a "pit bull in size 6 shoes'', Miers is a former President of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell and former chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission. Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell have given at least $65,000 to Bush campaigns and are major backers of tort reform. One case involved a unique law - passed under former Gov. George Bush - that blocked Texas consumers from recovering $6 billion in overcharges on car loans and allowed dealers to keep kickbacks secret. Two consumer groups have called on the Texas Legislature to repeal it. Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell were defendants of the litigation, which included auto dealers in Texas . Miers was also Chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission and responsible for a chain of events involving GTech, which ran the Texas Lottery, former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes, and accusations of kick-backs and illegal contracts. Yes, that Ben Barnes, who says he helped George Bush get into the National Guard. His original deposition on that subject was given in 1999, during this Texas Lottery Commission investigation, and has been permanently sealed.

Gonzales is known to be at the center of at least two scandals in the Bush Governorship. In 1996, as counsel to Gov. Bush, Gonzales helped to get Bush excused from jury duty, "a situation that could have required the governor to disclose his then-secret 1976 conviction for drunken driving in Maine ." Gonzales argued "that if Bush served, he would not, as governor, be able to pardon the defendant in the future." Gonzales also appears to have been a part of the Texas and Florida scandals known as Funeralgate. In Florida, Service Corporation International was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida . Service Corporation International, the world’s largest funeral service company, is headed by Robert Waltrip, a longtime friend and generous financial patron of the Bush family. Eliza May was head of the Texas Funderal Services Commission when it began receiving complaints about unlicensed embalmers, and sued when she was fired. Gonzales kept Bush from testifying in this case and was also under scrutiny when a memo surfaced that was sent to his office when he was Bush’s gubernatorial counsel. The memo suggested possible improprieties by two funeral commissioners with ties to SCI. Joeseph Allbaugh, Bush’s former chief of staff in Austin, 2000 presidential campaign manager, who now serves as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.). The case was suddenly settled in November 2001. The Menorah Gardens case in Florida , involving 72 families, was settled in Oct of 2004. Further improprieties regarding Enron, Halliburton, Texans for Lawsuit Reform, various Texas court cases and the White House energy meetings are also well documented.

The Justice Department has launched three investigations of Halliburton: for allegedly overcharging the military $61 million for fuel, for allegedly bribing Nigerian officials to win a contract, and for allegedly doing business with Iran through an off-shore subsidiary. Halliburton was a major client of Vinson & Elkins while Gonzales was a partner at the firm. In 1999, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, Gonzales accepted a $3,000 contribution from Halliburton just before the court was to hear an appeal of a case where "a Halliburton employee had won a $2.6 million trial verdict" against the company. Gonzales did not recuse himself.http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=280963

Enron
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/15/BU132842.DTL&type=printable

[femme.democratique]

21. me too, jeezus please let it be true!!!! maybe the psychics have it right.

[bpilgrim]

10. nit-pick: it's NOT 'vast'

but we ARE :bounce:

peace

[Octafish]

12. Thanks to Billy P and the rest of DU!

The Truth is getting out.

Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed.
Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly:
loss of essence.

[seemslikeadream]

13. I need a soldier, That ain't scared to stand up for me

That's my Octafish

1st Rap: T.I. (DC)
Hey
(I want a soldier!)
The way you got it, I'm the hottest around
They'll know it when they see you rollin' impala's around
(I got a soldier!)
Wit the top down feeling the sounds
Qaukin' and vibratin' your thighs ridin' harder than guys
Wit the chrome wheels at the bottom, white leather inside
When them lames be spittin' at you tell 'em don't even try it
To shot it wit Chelle and kick it wit Kelly or holla at B
Ya, gotta be g's you way outta your league
Please!

First Verse: Kelly (DC)

We like dem boys that be in the lac's leanin'{Leanin'}
Open their mouth their grill gleamin'{Gleamin'
Candy paint, keep that whip clean and {Clean and}
(They always be talkin' that country slang, we like)
They keep that beat that be in the back beatin'{Beatin'}
Eyes be so low from the chief {chief and}
I love how he keep my body screamin' {Screamin'}
A rude boy that's good to me, wit street credibillity

Hook: DC
IF his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he lookin' at me
I need a soldier
That ain't scared to stand up for me
Known to carry big things
If you know what I mean
If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he looking at me
I need a soldier
Thay ain't scared to stand up for me
Gotta know to get dough
And he betta be street

Second Verse: Beyonce (DC)
We like dem boys up top from the BK{BK}
Know ho to flip that money three ways {Three ways}
Always ridin' big on the freeway {Freeway}
(Wit that east coast slang that us country girls we like)
Low cut ceasars wit the deep waves {deep waves}
So quick to snatch up your Beyonce {Beyonce}
Always comin down poppin our way {Our way}
(Tellin us that country girls the kinda girl they like)

Hook: DC
If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin for him
Betta be street if he lookin' at me
I need a soldier
That ain't scared to stand up for me
Known to carry big things
If you know what I mean
If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he lookin' at me
I need a soldier
That ain't scared to stand up for me
Gotta get dough
And he betta be street

Hook: Beyonce (DC):
I know some soldiers in here (Where they at, where they at)
THey wanna take care of me (Where they at)
I know some soldiers in here (Where they at, where they at)
Don't mind takin one for me (Where they at)
I know some soldiers in here (Where they at, where they at)
They wanna spend that on me (Where they at)
I know some soldiers in here (Where they at, where they at)
Wouldn't mind puttin' that on me (Where they at)

2nd Rap: Lil Wayne
Hey, see cash money is a army
I'm walkin' wit purple hearts on me
You talkin' to the sargeant
Body marked up like the subway in harlem
Call him, weezy f baby, please say the baby
If you don't see me on the block I ain't tryna hide
I blend in wit the hood, I'm camouflage
Bandana tied, so mommy join my troop
Now every time she hear my name she solute

3rd Verse: Michelle (DC)
I like dem boys over there they lookin' strong tonight {strong tonight}
Just might give one the phone tonight {Phone tonight}
Homey in the dickies in my zone tonight {Zone tonight}
He don't know it might be on tonight
Ooh he lookin' good and he talkin' right {Talkin' right}
He the type that might change my life {Change my life}
Everytime he look at me my girls be like {Girls be like}
(Thats one may be the one tonight)

Hook: DC
If his status ain't hood
I ain't checkin foor him
Betta Be street if he lookin' at me I need a soldier
That ain;t scared to stand up for me
Known to carry big things
I ain't checkin' for him
Betta be street if he looking at me
I need a soldier
That aint scared to stand up for me
Gotta know to get dough
And he betta be street
Hook: DC

Bridge: Beyonce (DC)

________________________________


‘While we were laying that paper out, in the background we could hear a record, and the song was named “Ballad of a Thin Man” by Bob Dylan. Now the melody was in my head... but I didn’t really hear the words. This record played after we stayed up laying out the paper. And it played the next night after we stayed up laying out the paper. I think it was around the third afternoon that the record was playing. We played that record over and over and over.

‘Huey P. Newton made me recognize the lyrics. Not only the lyrics of the record, but what the lyrics meant in the record. What the lyrics meant in the history of racism that had perpetuated itself in the world. Huey would say: “Listen, listen – man, do you hear what he is saying?” Huey had such insight into how racism existed, how racism had perpetuated himself. He had such a way of putting forth in very clear words what he related directly to those symbolic things or words that were coming out from Bobby Dylan.

‘I remember that the song got to the point where he was talking about this cat handing in his ticket and he walked up to the geek, and the geek handed him a bone. Well, this didn’t relate to me, so I said: “Huey, look, wait a minute, man”. I said, “What are you talking about a geek? What is a geek? What the hell is a geek?” And Huey explains it.’

Newton’s explanation runs for almost a page: ‘“a geek”, he tells Seale, “is usually a circus performer”, who has been badly injured and can’t work any longer. But he knows no other life than the circus, so he agrees to do the lowliest jobs just to stay in the community. Maybe he even agrees to eat live chickens in a cage as a freak attraction.’ Newton continues:

‘These people who are coming in to see him are coming in for entertainment, so they are the real freaks. And the geek knows this, so during his performance, he eats the raw chicken and he hands one of the members of the audience a bone.

‘Then to put it on the broader level, what Dylan is putting across is middle-class people or upper-class people who sometimes take a Sunday afternoon off and put their whole family into a limousine, and they go down to the black ghettos to watch the prostitutes and watch the decaying community.(...) That makes the middle-class and upper-class people, who are down there because they get pleasure out of it, freaks.

And this goes into the one-eyed midget. What is the one-eyed midget? He screams and howls at Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones doesn’t know what’s happening. Then the one-eyed midget says, give me some juice or go home. And this again is very symbolic of people who are disadvantaged. They’re patronizing Mr. Jones, the middle-class people. You know, they’re not interested in them coming down for entertainment. But if they’ll pay them for a trick, then they’ll tolerate them, or else they’ll drive them out of the ghettoes. This song is hell. You’ve got to understand that this song is saying a hell of a lot about society.’
http://www.judasmagazine.com/Pages/Issue%201%20Peter%20...



You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand
Just what you'll say
When you get home

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God
Am I here all alone?"

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You hand in your ticket
And you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you
When he hears you speak
And says, "How does it feel
To be such a freak?"
And you say, "Impossible"
As he hands you a bone

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You have many contacts
Among the lumberjacks
To get you facts
When someone attacks your imagination
But nobody has any respect
Anyway they already expect you
To just give a check
To tax-deductible charity organizations

You've been with the professors
And they've all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You've been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's books
You're very well read
It's well known

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan"

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Now you see this one-eyed midget
Shouting the word "NOW"
And you say, "For what reason?"
And he says, "How?"
And you say, "What does this mean?"
And he screams back, "You're a cow
Give me some milk
Or else go home"

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, you walk into the room
Like a camel and then you frown
You put your eyes in your pocket
And your nose on the ground
There ought to be a law
Against you comin' around
You should be made
To wear earphones

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Dylan

[Octafish]

17. How the Reich got its Groove ... ABC and the rise of Flush Limpnutz

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Dreamie! Here's how William Casey and his anti-commie pals on Wall Street decided to buy up the media, especially the way they treated Dick the Crook Nixon.

ABC and the rise of Rush Limbaugh

EXCERPT...

In 1985, ABC was taken over by Capital Cities, a conservative, Roman Catholic media organization with extensive ties to the CIA.

(If you think we're making this up, you should know that the Capital Cities takeover of ABC is one of the most analyzed in history, and the subject of many books by Wall Street experts and scholars. Especially recommended is Networks of Power, by Emmy Award-winner Dennis Mazzocco.) (1)

Capital Cities was born in 1954, and rapidly prospered. Many of its founders had previously worked in the U.S. intelligence community and had a great amount of wealth, social contacts and influence in government. Yet they opted to keep the company's actions out of the public eye -- they did not flaunt their wealth with private planes and lavish offices the way so many successful companies do. Just exactly how well-connected Capital Cities was to the CIA is unknown, but it is clear that the CIA concerned itself with the company at various times. The fact that the CIA has often used private businessmen, journalists and even entire companies as fronts for covert operations is not only well-known by historians, but legendary. (Recall Howard Hughes and Trans-World Airlines...)

One of Capital City's early founders was William Casey, who would later become Ronald Reagan's Director of the CIA. At the time of Casey's nomination, the press expressed surprise that Reagan would hire a businessman whose last-known intelligence experience was limited to OSS operations in World War II. The fact is, however, that Casey had never left intelligence. Throughout the Cold War he kept a foot in both worlds, in private business as well as the CIA. A history of Casey's business dealings reveals that he was an aggressive player who saw nothing wrong with bending the law to further his own conservative agenda. When he became implicated as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, many Washington insiders considered it a predictable continuation of a very shady career.

Another Capital Cities founder, Lowell Thomas, was a close friend and business contact with Allen Dulles, Eisenhower's CIA Director, and John Dulles, the Secretary of State. Thomas always denied being a spy, but he was frequently seen at events involving intelligence operations. Another founder was Thomas Dewey, whom the CIA had given millions to create other front companies for covert operations.

CONTINUED...

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm

First ABC in 1985. Then GE and NBC in 1986. Then Murdoch and FOX in 1996. Then...Dan Rather gets fired and ...



Cue Twilight Zone music...

[wishlist]

22. Sinclair Broadcasting, anti-Kerry ex-CIA Mark Hyman probably paid too

I find it hard to believe that there isn't something in it for the executives of Sinclair Broadcasting including spokesman and VP Mark Hyman who is former CIA. I doubt that RW ideology alone would be enough for this Broadcasting company to spend so much time each day broadcasting pro-Bush, anti-Dem propaganda and to be so strongly anti-Kerry with dozens of editorials during the campaign plus their promotion of the Swiftliars.