I'm going to harp on my belief that the Washington Post, which supported the Iraq war and showed editorial indifference to the Gaza slaughter, is playing a negative role in informing the American elite. Robert Parry, the former AP reporter who broke so many stories in Central America, says that the media attacks on Freeman weren't just chatter, but were significant, in driving the politicians to take their stands against him, and for Obama to crater:
Only after years of Bush’s catastrophes
did American voters push back, stripping the Republicans of
congressional control in 2006 and handing the Democrats the White House
in 2008.
But the neocons and
other rightists retain one important bastion of power: the U.S. news
media, which can roughly be divided between the right-wing media
infrastructure, from print to radio to TV to the Internet, and
mainstream journalism, which includes important pro-neocon outlets like
the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The New Republic.
Now, that strength within the national news media is serving as the
neocons’ reserve army, launching counterattacks after its front-line
troops of the Bush years were routed.
By driving back the appointment of Chas Freeman, the neocons also have
made the point that they have no intention of surrendering to the
forces of “realism” or letting go their influence over the country’s
intelligence analysis.
I've got news for you: the entire corrupt left-liberal establishment is basically either Neocon or Neolib to most degrees. Hegelian dialectic: Formerly opposed, the worst elements of the Left have combined with the worst elements of the Right, joined forces, and a corrupt, pro Big Government establishment is what we now have.
People ask: why do the elite close their eyes to the Israel lobby?; why do the elite close their eyes to Wall Street chicanery?; how have the elite managed to steer the country into the toilet without a peep out of the powers that be?
Orwell said it best: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." And the corrupt left-liberal/Neocon establishment is easily as deceitful as their corrupt Jewish Zionist partners; in fact, they're all intermarried.
I'm actually sort of glad in a way that all this happened. Obama's hardly been in office two months and we've already learned that he has no spine. This is a valuable thing to know, and to have demonstrated in such a clear and public manner.
Original gangster or Original gangster?
Phil, you have to stop talking about something called "The Washington Post" and start talking about specific individuals who are shaping its policy.
Let's start with its editorial policy:
"Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor and a columnist for The Washington Post. He and his wife, Margaret Shapiro, have three children. Shapiro was editor of the Post's Sunday magazine."
We also need more info on what role the Meyer family play in running their newspaper, and what their opinions on Zionism are.
pro neocon. what does this mean. the post and nyt et als are part of the lobby. are neocon/jewcon. pro oneself.
once in a millenia sighting: a jew in a usa military uniform.
onward jewish soldier
marching as if to war
hey, im shopping. this is a mall.
with pink sharon-jowly face and jet black hair, our good rabbi's head was adorned with a yarmaluki. a camouflaged yarmaluki. concealed in the men's wear waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting a rab.
his function is to give the jewish soldiers -whenever they see fit to enlist for their wars- god's good grace to slaughter the non-servile- to-jews muslims.
The term neocon has been thrown around so loosely it has no meaning anymore. No one has a clue what it means…it's just parrot talk–a vague insult.
Meanwhile, I see Freeman, the poster boy for rabid anti-Israel kookdom, has shot himself in the foot again. He is attempting to tie the Lobby in with Avigdor Lieberman–which is slanderous, dirty, and not likely to stick. Follow him at your own risk. :-)
I think what Freeman is clarifying is that it was a right-wing group that sought to orchestrate doubt about his candidacy rather than EVERYONE that bears any sympathy to Israel and is politically involved (say writing to their Congressmen).
I like that he was more specific.
His rant in the letter though was published. You can't even call it an angry blog response.
It was intentionally mass e-mailed, the same process that he is accusing slandered him. "Their own medicine", you know "an eye for an eye."
Suzanne, as usual, you are only speaking for yourself. A lot of us know exactly what we mean when we use the term neocon. If you want to know too, you could start at the website of the Canadian academic, Shadia Drury:
link to phil.uregina.ca
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It's only three or four pages long, and it's very, very funny (you'll love the illustration).
I mean, the illustration at the bottom, the photo of the young man furrowing his chin suggestively. It's wicked — I'd love to know where she got it from!
Rowan's comment is very important. The article he refers to points out the historical philosophy attempting to justify
neocon action. In essence it goes to how people justify themselves playing a duty-bound God in the apparent interest of the flock, which everybody know is subject to herd following of the lead goat–over a cliff or into a slaughter chamber. The article points out the arrival of Socrates, Dostoievsky, Kafka, and Nietsche to the question of who shall be entitled to play a long-term beneficent God (it works in mysterious ways) in the interest of the human species, taken as a whole. "If there is no God, than I can do anything?" Dahmer was Fyodor's fictional creation come ignorantly to life. The best and the brightest, the neocons later, were examples of the Grand Inquisitor. Socrates viewed himself as the dung beetle, as did Kafka. Fascism, Communism, Capitalism, all in the name of the people, promise heaven on earth–to the extent they point to heaven, the same rules apply. Zionism is not even in the picture because, like Nazism, by definition, they don't hold all humans to the same moral and equitable standard.
you are brave Phil … you're psyche will never recover from what you will see … something you once loved now a thing of such pure evil