CNN Joins the Tea Party?

[Oilwellian]

Run time: 04:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uTvVTq6c8   Posted on YouTube: March 27, 2010 By YouTube Member: Oilwellian Views on YouTube: 94   Posted on DU: March 27, 2010 By DU Member: Oilwellian Views on DU: 2118

 
I hope my fellow DU'ers will take the time to read the post below, written by a very good friend who helped produce this video, and is tuned in to the private funding networks that distribute propaganda masked as "grass roots" efforts. It's important they are exposed and CNN's participation in promoting this right wing gas bag is despicable and an affront to our intelligence. Let them know what you think. Just click their CNN TV button on the feedback page. Thanks! Hope you enjoy the video.
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

The right has screwed up this nation too thoroughly for us to just acquiesce to CNN giving a platform to the latest overrated stooge of concorporate hegemons. As the past few years have proved, they own or control most of this nation where it counts, and even when progressives score gains (as we just did with Health Care Reform), there is still a huge question mark hovering over the future of the United States. A recovering economy will not mask the near-kleptocratic nature of what our modern predatory-capitalist-system-run- amok has become.

Through one of many proxies like Redstate, the corporate and conservative elites use massive private funding networks to distribute professionally crafted propaganda masking as "grass roots" efforts.

Their work is designed to prey on the emotions and fears of an almost fundamentalist fervor amongst the ignorant Teahadist soldiers they are whipping up across the nation. The primary goal is to convince these gullible—or just rich, mean, racist, or stupid—people, that the administration that inherited the burden of fixing the economic malaise they created, are actually the people who caused them in the first place. And when you have a 24 hour news channel (Fox News) devoted to such efforts, it's really not all that hard to sell such foolishness to the proles.

This professionally-crafted and marketed lying has gone on far too long—and it's wrecking this nation. And yet, as I type this, the US Chamber of Commerce is gearing up to spend more millions of dollars in local elections. Precisely the kind of spending secured with the kind of right-wing propaganda that HumanEvents, Redstate, and Erick Erickson represent (often literally).

Much more at:: http://shoqvalue.com/?p=1246&preview=true#ixzz0jOd5lgd8
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[Grassy Knoll]

1. CNN, Closeted Neo Nazi's.

[glinda]

2. Anderson Cooper looks like one in a way

[szatmar666]

8. I SUPPORT TEABAGGERS ON NATIONAL TV!!!

If CNN wants to support the right wing circular firing squad by hanging the tea party freak flag on one of their worthless pundit blatherothons, I have nothing against that! in fact where can I write the letter in support of the idea?! This is good for dems! Bring it on, suckers! In a few years we'll have 100mbps internet and all of these dynos will go extinct anyway.

[sasquuatch55]

13. Cspan/ Washington Journal has also become very Right leaning.

nt

[jillan]

3. Well done video! I hope everyone boycotts John King's new show,

even if they don't boycott CNN.
I have already emailed them and I will definitely join that group on FB.

[unapatriciated]

4. K&r

sent email, signed petition, joined on Fb and posted video.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. Can you point me to the facebook petition?

Thanks!

[SkyDaddy7]

11. Nevermind! LOL!

I should have watched the video first, huh? Sorry.

[unapatriciated]

12. no problem-but for those that need it...

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/cnns_anti-gay_hiring_fail

[Oilwellian]

16. Wow!

Fantastic! Thanks so much!

[Turborama]

5. You should post your article as an OP in GD and GDP to help other DUers get involved

with making this go viral.

CNN had a series recently called "Meet The Tea Party" or something, didn't they? I did see a short series of profiles of baggers on AC360 recently and it was totally sympathetic to their 'cause'.

There's a "Tea Party Movement" page dedicated to them on their website, too
http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/tea_party_movement

Excellent video and article. BIG :kick: & R

BTW It's turning up in searches on YouTube and Google now.

[Oilwellian]

15. Thanks so much, I'll work on that right now

Knowing there was a search engine problem yesterday, tells me you know Shoq. :D

[Turborama]

19. Just saw it on GD & added it to Digg. It can be Dugg here...

Link: http://digg.com/politics/CNN_Joins_the_Tea_Party_2

Have you posted it in GDP yet? I reckon the whole blog post deserves to be posted in its entirety. ;-)

[peacetalksforall]

6. I already left CNN. We have seven Republican networks. We are an unhealthy nation.

[Enthusiast]

10. They control the message.

Actually this has become so demonstrably one-sided that it could probably be proven in court. But taken to its extremes we would end up with a 5-4 decision in the fascist's favor.

Something has to be done.

[neobeetle]

7. *scratches head*

It look like another whacko is being created. First Glenn Tali-Beck then birther bum Dobbs and now John King.

[The Wizard]

14. CNN is Pox in a cheap disguise

They are more dangerous than Pox because most believe they're middle of the road. They tipped their hand when the called for Bill Clinton's resignation for not disclosing intimate facts of his sex life. Then they promoted impeachment. I haven't watched that CIA operation since 98. Some people are saying Wolf Blitzer is part of Operation Mockingbird.

[sulphurdunn]

17. Just and insulting observation

but when I look at Erickson, Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity (four of the brightest oinkers in the zeig heil chorus) I want to help them. I am concerned for their health. I want to tell them to eat less, get some exercise, stop mind fucking morans and buggering children in the Caribbean even though it's a free market activity in some places there. :smoke:

[Oilwellian]

18. Ohhh! I really like you!

And agree with every word you say. Happy to meet you. :hi: