Mainstream reporters love to talk about Sheldon Adelson’s interest in gambling legislation as the motivation for his political giving– and leave out the Israel angle. NPR did it a month ago. Not a word about Israel. The Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger did it yesterday.
Adelson’s political beneficiaries adopt casino magnate’s cause to ban Internet gambling..
Many of the beneficiaries of Adelson’s state donations are now siding with the billionaire as he seeks to outlaw a practice he views as a threat to the economic health of the casino industry on which he built a personal fortune.
Israel wasn’t mentioned. Really, how much of Adelson’s tens of millions of presidential giving is about casino regulation? Very little, I venture. When Adelson holds forth about his political views, here and here, he talks about Muslims wanting to kill Jews and his own regret over not serving in the Israeli military, not a word about gambling.
“All we care about is being good Zionists, [he says of himself and his wife] being good citizens of Israel, because even though I am not Israeli born, Israel is in my heart.”
And this is Hamburger’s second paragraph:
Adelson became a political force in 2012 when he poured more than $90 million into Republican presidential campaigns.
Wait: Adelson has been around for a while. He gave $300,000 to the Republican Party in the 2000 election to put an end to the peace process; and George W. Bush was obedient to the neocons. The New Yorker’s Connie Bruck chronicled some of that history.
And last October, Adelson called on Obama to nuke Iran. Shouldn’t the Washington Post and NPR be telling that to their audiences?
When people ask themselves why the MSM are losing subscribers it is not because the quality of the writing has gone down(although the length of the articles typically have).
It is that people become much more aware, with the rise of the independent blogosphere and independent media through the internet, just how craven the MSM have always been to the rich and the powerful.
30 years ago, without elite journalists telling us the things you tell us, that we need to hear, we wouldn’t have known the backstory. We wouldn’t have known the real story.
I don’t subscribe to a single newspaper. I get my general news from Reuters and the like. The NYT has some articles that interests me but I usually get by on the monthly limit.
The real news, the backstory, is gained through websites like this or democracy now or other news outlets, not to mention highly intelligent and unbiased bloggers, like Sullivan and other less known people.
I always laugh when I hear elite journalists lament the “end of journalism”. It has never been better, but they have never been less powerful, and the two are not unrelated.
It is so obvious that there is deliberate silence, when it comes to even stating the truth – that Adelson is enmeshed with Israel so much, that the zionist media writes articles, omitting important information, and protecting Israel by not making obvious connections to this devious man, who has plotted, and planned, to insert himself into our political system, not for the good of our nation, but a parasitic alien nation, and make sure those who are elected show loyalty to Israel first.
RE: “Wait: Adelson has been around for a while. He gave $300,000 to the Republican Party in the 2000 election to put an end to the peace process; and George W. Bush was obedient to the neocons… And last October, Adelson called on Obama to nuke Iran. Shouldn’t the Washington Post and NPR be telling that to their audiences?“
MY COMMENT: They just can’t risk it, Phil. Even if they wanted to!
RE: “All we care about is being good Zionists, [he says of himself and his wife] being good citizens of Israel, because even though I am not Israeli born, Israel is in my heart.” ~ Sheldon Adelson
MY COMMENT: I wonder why that is. Might it have something to do with an inferiority complex?
Matt Bors had a good cartoon about Adelson, politics, and the Palestinians: http://news.yahoo.com/comics/matt-bors-1305609842-slideshow/matt-bors-comic-strip-20140409-bor-gif-050135705.html