Comments on: New CBS executive is feverish opponent of the 2-state solution

By: delia

delia — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Hoo-boy, just what America needs: another Fox-style network. What with CNN gone tabloid, there doesn't seem to be any way to get the straight goods from the US via my TV set.

What does a vice-prez of communications do, anyway?

By: Dag Andersson

Dag Andersson — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@delia

vice-prez of communications do ?

A:
I suspect his function is like the old commisars in the Soviet union , a political overseer.
from Wikipedia:
It denotes a political functionary at a military headquarters who holds coequal rank and authority with his military counterpart. No military order might be issued which did not have the prior approval of both men.

By: bobf

bobf — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

When former NYU board of trustees chairman Laurence Tisch took over CBS from the Paley family in the 1980s, I think that also tended to increase the special influence of the Lobby over CBS's news coverage, since the Tisch family was formally linked to a number of Zionist institutions, if I remember correctly.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Being a proposition nation assuming all citizens and people on the earth were born free and entitle to equal treatment before any law, it's pretty obvious that the USA's highest ideals and fundamental interests are being soiled by its continued support of Israeli tribal politics in the key oil area of the world.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

How dare someone with his point of view get a job at CBS. Only left wingers who hate Israel should be hired. I wonder if Norman Finkelstein was interviewed?

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@ Julian

Prof. Noam Chomsky describes the process here:

The Fate of an Honest Intellectual
Excerpted from Understanding Power, The New Press, 2002, pp. 244-248

Still, in the universities or in any other institution, you can often find some dissidents hanging around in the woodwork—and they can survive in one fashion or another, particularly if they get community support. But if they become too disruptive or too obstreperous—or you know, too effective—they're likely to be kicked out. The standard thing, though, is that they won't make it within the institutions in the first place, particularly if they were that way when they were young—they'll simply be weeded out somewhere along the line. So in most cases, the people who make it through the institutions and are able to remain in them have already internalized the right kinds of beliefs: it's not a problem for them to be obedient, they already are obedient, that's how they got there. And that's pretty much how the ideological control system perpetuates itself in the schools—that's the basic story of how it operates, I think.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Of course, Julian, the Finklesteins are not only not hired, they also get booted if they somehow passed
the original litmus test: Is he or she good for the jews as AIPAC tells us? Nice template for the best interests of the USA as a whole.

By: MrXfromPlanetX

MrXfromPlanetX — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Well, last week CBS named one of those extremists, Jeff Ballabon, to a top job: its new senior vice president for communications. Ira Forman of the Democratic Party's Jewish caucus says that it's "astonishing" that CBS would name such a man to such a big job when Barack Obama is in the White House. Forman and I agree. "

Someone needs to get a fricking clue.

Barack Obama promised AIPAC $30 billion.

http://alternativeconservative.com/2009/01/26/obama-israel-myth