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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Juan Williams - In his hands ... civil rights have become --- swivel rights. THE MEDIA: MAKE IT GO AWAY http://etherzone.com/2003/lieb041003.shtml By: Norman Liebmann The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column, whose world-wide reach fosters traitors, not only to nations, but to Earthkind. Their constellation by which they navigate is The Golden Calf, its Polaris is Bill Clinton, who convinced the thralls of media that a false god is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and that bullshit is better than no shit at all. After all, it works in Hollywood. Journalism is the Fourth Estate, which in our system is as low as an estate can get. When you consider the people who ply that trade, it couldn't have happened by accident. One considers it is not the journalist but the hapless viewer/reader who needs an editor to filter out the duplicity that grinds information into a kind of liberal news-meal. The media sees its conceits, not as duplicity, but as romance. Never called to account, the mediacrats seem to retain their tenancy forever. Hooked on the hallucinogen of journalistic immortality, they never expect that they will one day go to that big op-ed room in the sky. Network anchormen are the most relentlessly tenured members of the Job Security or Bust Gang. Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather have had their faces pasted on television screens so long people think they are decals. Dan Rather's demeanor is as congenial as watching a process server foreclose a mortgage on an orphanage. His word is as reliable as the ballpoint pen at a bank teller's window. He is showing the strain of trying to appear plausible - and the greater strain of trying to appear personable. Rather's position is that the media should not take sides in the War on Terror, and, to function objectively, must not be patriotic, although no one has ever accused him being that. His public pronouncements on the war in Iraq hammock between incoherent and defeatist. During an interview, Dan told Bill O'Reilly he thought Clinton was an honest man, and O'Reilly almost fell off his perch. It is expected Rather will reaffirm his belief in objectivity in a speech dedicating a new Pravda Wing of the National Press Club. If Dan Rather is ever remembered in journalism it will be because Edward R. Murrow said of him, "Beat it, kid." Peter Jennings is a Canadian by birth, and a resident of America by intrusion. He has been away from Canada so long, when someone gave him a hockey puck, he was up all night trying to get it open. Jennings went the Madison Avenue sincere necktie people one better by wearing suits with discreet lapels. By meticulous attention to his attire, it appears he has achieved the desired effect of insincerity, superficiality, and monotony. ABC's last contractual offer to Peter Jennings (in a highly publicized negotiation) ended with ABC making him an offer that was insulting - but, apparently, not insulting enough. Tom Brokaw still maintains the guilelessness of a geriatric schoolboy. Despite having written a book about "the greatest generation", he talks as though he never read it. Brokaw is considered the most trustworthy network anchorman, principally because he is not Peter Jennings or Dan Rather. Consider these ubiquitous journalistic aphids. Nothing could be done to redeem Geraldo Rivera after his declaration that he finds Bill Clinton embraceable. I doubt if Bubba would spring for a motel room and just settle for a hug, even from a celebrity like Rivera. Geraldo is the first journalist ever requested by "the management" of a battlefield to leave the premises. The Larry King Show is a Betty Ford Clinic for celebrities in recovery from their last Bill O'Reilly interview. King is the ideal hood ornament for CNN, which is a virtual informational Emporium of Empty. Consider the titmouse twittering of the unremitting Barbara Walters who sounds like she is talking with her lips inserted through a keyhole. There should be a bounty on Ms. Barbara for her affected pronunciation of her show's title as "Twinty Twinty". Bill Moyers dispenses a kind of propaganda-lite, a kind of hopelessly vanilla, suffocating, and classroom-dull journalism. He is a semi-subtle liberal dogmatist for the publicly funded left-of-left socialist PBS (Public Brainwashing System). One suspects his mother combs his hair before taking him across the street to the studio. Charlie Rose, a Moyers disciple from that same socialist stable, is a show biz hobnobber and rubber of in-crowd elitist elbows, and fluent in the shallow patois of Spago-speak. Thomas Friedman's New York Times pontifical patter attempts to camouflage a shopkeeper's eye-view of the world. Journalists have the loyalty of water. They take the form of whatever receptacle they're put in. A template in point is David Gergen. Unencumbered by political convictions, he takes on the coloration of his political surroundings, a commentator who ricochets from one administration to another. It is said, in the name Warren G. Harding, G stands for Gergen. By going to work for President Clinton, Gergen fulfilled his karma that he would never amount to anything. That Gergen has coiled his way into the faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School is an abuse of inevitability. Peter Arnett's capers in Baghdad reveal him as a sheep in renegade's clothing. Worse than his defecting to the Arab media, is his offense of looking like a villain out of Charles Dickens. The depressing threnodies of professional CNN news mourner, Judy Woodruff, speak for themselves. She is always fastidiously, however mournfully, attired. It may be said on her behalf, she didn't let herself go after she died - in a manner of speaking. NPR's snappish, housewifey NPR news hen, Mara Liaison's, comments have an in woven gossipy over-the-back fence triviality. Juan Williams - hip hop doomsayer who perceives the world as a conspiracy in restraint of rock n roll. He has a remarkable facility for switching any subject, however incongruously, such as the weather - to racism. In his hands civil rights have become swivel rights. Poster Comment: Juan In civil sNivel running happy Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BorisY (#0)
I think that's his job. "So Juan, how does the Russian hacking affect black unemployment?"
running happy If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
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