Did you watch Mayor Virg Bernero on CNN this morning?

[Blaq Dem]

It was another YouTube moment! Can't wait for the video to come out online. Mayor Bernero of Lansing, MI basically discussed how the trade agreements harmed American's manufactoring and textile industries. He's absolutely right. We can't compete against the lowest working conditions around the world without destroying our economy. We can't compete with other countries that covers health care through a national plan when companies here must do so. China and the other countries have us boxed in, thanks to conversative policies.

Obama wants to insert a 'buy America' component into the stimulus package. But other countries don't want us to do so. What good will those trade agreements be without Americans having a job to by their products?

[leftchick]

1. it was great, but you know what sucked?

Ali Velchi's comment after he went off the air was so condescending and trite. He is such a fucking moron. It totally ruined the moment for me.

[MO_Dem]

2. Yeah, Ali Velshi should take his own advice

He's the one who needs to take a broader view. Instead, he's all worried about those poor Wall Street thieves who might lose their huge-ass bonuses, along with thier ability to steal, cheat and lie. It really steamed me when he suggested that the mayor sounded like an info-mercial. Velshi should try just a little bit harder to shut up and listen. He just might see the truth if he would/could. But then I guess he isn't paid to tell the truth, he's paid to spout that line of BS!

Edited to add that I think the mayor did an absolutely terrific job of presenting the real story! Go Mayor!

[Kansas Wyatt]

11. That's him.... Bald Headed Cock Sucker!

That worthless piece of shit needs the shit beat out of him for gleefully advocating the continued destruction of the American Worker.

Everyone in his everyday life needs to shun this worthless piece of shit. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, everyone should refuse to even acknowledge that fucking worm.

[H2O Man]

4. I found it curious

that he waited until the guest was safely gone before attacking him. Very brave.

[tom_paine]

8. See post #7. Standard Cookie Cutter Infoganda Op using Standard Bushie Protocols.

Any good Bushie would tell you that the only way to attack people is when they are defensless or cannot speak for themselves. Denying voice to the opposition is but one portion of their Media Control Program. The old "spend 20 minutes attacking them AFTER they have left the room" is a key method of advertising and propaganda combining both The Last Word Principle and the opportunity to repeat innoculating soundbyte slogans or memes in an unopposed setting.

This is critical to the Bushies literal hijacking of the National Dialogue and reengineering it to insanity, which benefits the tyrants and always has.

You understand that such things are now literally woven into our media system. It is now indistinguishable where media ends and Bushie propaganda machinery begins, and has been for quite some time.

What is creepy about this whole thing is do you thing an ignorant, unself-aware blow-dried mouth-breather like Velchi considered that or any thoughts remotely like it before doing so?

Unlikely. He is just going along to get along. He sees that the Infogandists who do that sort of thing are the ones who get the VERY BEST performance reviews and get the plum assignments, the rasies, the fame.

That's all it takes for most. Hell, it might be all it takes for any of us, no matter how much we doth protest.

As I have said before, the subtle and amazingly high understanding of the human mind, as taught to tyrants and their propagandists/advertisers, combined with the power of the statistical understanding of the behavior of large groups and the level of media saturation in our society, has given them the power to melt reality like mozarella cheese.

Velchi is on the autopilot of Conventional Wisdom and Go-Get-Aheadism. The system he is now a part of guides him in what he must do to get ahead. Good performance review coming up for HIM.

How do you stop something like that, once it has reached a certain critical mass, once it is literally interwoven into the system? As we watch the creepy Bushie and Toady Corporate M$M do their usual infoganda template, unchanged since Sept. 2001 by and large, on the Obama Stimulus, and how quickly reality melts like mozarella cheese, the advertising and PR manipulations work as the statistical psychology SAYS THEY MUST, and the stimulus approval numbers go down.

It works now as well as it ever did, when the machine is truly turned on. I remain 80% convinced that the rapid and extraordinary economic crash was pretty much the ONLY thing that could have gotten him into the Imperial Palace and on the Throne.

[leftchick]

9. Yes he is an intellectual coward

He can not take the truth at all. He is so brainwashed by his corporate/wall street bosses. I think he actually believes his own bullshit.

On the bright side the economics gal across from him seemed to completely disagree. As the camera panned away she "put up her dukes".

:hi:

[tom_paine]

10. Of course, the camera panned away, and pretty QUICK too, I'll bet!

Economics gal will be reprimanded. Velchi will be praised, given a raise, and more face time

Economics gal will be in trouble, and her name rise slightly highr on those hwo might need to be "let go".

Either that, or Ecomonics gal will quickly learn what she has to do to succeed and adapt, as most people do when confronted with a work reprimand and threat of job loss, however small and indirect.

You haven't noticed? Intellectual cowardice and ignorance are prized traits in Modern Corproate America, and no corporate structure more so than the Toady M$M.

[Pathwalker]

12. He did that because Virg would have torn him a new one, so to speak

had Virg been given a chance to reply. the Mayor of Lansing is no softie, and he's been watching this town die for too long to take the MSM's bs. Go Virg!

[tom_paine]

7. Standard Corporate M$M Practice: Velchi will get a GOOD performance review and a raise.

Seriously, I have absolutely no doubt that use of the performance review as tool to rate lack of integrity (which Corporate undoubetdly rates highly, as long as it is lack of integrity in submitting to and propagating Corporate Infoganda Practices), journalistic integrity, intellectual honesty and willingess to follow a story no matter where the facts lead (characteristics which are undoubtedly ALL HIGHLY DISCOURAGED in all but a few "holdout" corners of the Corporate-M$M).

I never imagined one could get the level of State Control that the American Corporate-M$M exhibits without brutalizing, imprisoning, or murdering hundreds.

Boy, was I wrong! Mighty America! Our Formerly Free Press! Brought down by fear of a bad performance review.

:rofl:

[global1]

3. I Was Really Impressed By This Guy And His Passion.....

we need more mayors and governors around the country out there selling this 'Jobs Bill'.

[murray hill farm]

5. He was so good!

Someone really, really worth listening to....and what passion and conviction.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Pull out of the trade agreements.

How much worse can things get then what we're headed for now?

[MO_Dem]

13. Kicking

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[malaise]

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