You know only the video montage and the sound bite that some corporate media lackey chose to loop onto your television set. Or maybe someone at a site that goes by the name of C.U.N.T. or HillaryHatersRUS. Or someone who works for a political opponent but says he did it on his own time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo You only know the words that were misquoted or edited out of context (sometimes by Drudge) or even made up by unreliable sources like Bob Novak or Moonie Publications or Drudge. Or misquoted by the New York Times over and over again, even though Media Matters called them out on it over and over again.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030004 You only know the topics that interested the self described journalists---like her tits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgBz87FZeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uGDVid7BA... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9uSh1fU7A4 And her cackle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YIX4C2V5w8 And her cheating ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CZjvEjPlQ... And her criminal ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2GNqhz1P9Y... Back in 2000, a bunch of you thought that you knew that Al Gore was the "same as" George W. Bush. And if you were too young to vote, a bunch of people just like you thought that they
knew this. Because the corporate media told them, so they would stay home. And Ralph Nader, who was running for president told them (in order to get their votes). And Michael Moore told them, to help Nader get their votes. And they saw Al Gore looking dumb on TV and they read about how he was a liar in the press. And they believed it.
But the press was lying back then. This is a different press, now. This press tells the truth. They show things exactly the way that they are. And we are different now. We could never be fooled again.Yeah, right. Thirty years ago, Dick Nixon illegally invaded Cambodia, precipitating a genocide that would be dubbed the "Killing Fields." He could have been impeached for that and charged with war crimes. So could Henry Kissinger. Instead he was allowed to resign and given a pardon for his crimes against US citizens and no one did anything about Cambodia. Kissinger got off scott free and was able to come back and help Cheney and Bush plan the illegal invasion of Iraq where crimes against humanity have occurred and another Democratic Congress has been too scared or apathetic to impeach.
In the meantime, the press has lost what little independence it had. Most of the nation's newspapers and TV news are controlled by a handful of giants that care more about the profits of the parent company than about journalistic integrity. They will kiss the ass of whatever federal regulatory agency can improve their financial status. Usually, that means a Republican administration FCC, except for GE/NBC which kisses the ass of the Pentagon.
So, the corporate media turns out high grade propaganda designed to improve its bottom line. They do not even care if they make a profit anymore. Ratings only matter, because they want to make sure that voters get the message.
This election, ABC and CNN will side with the Democrats, because McCain has pissed off Time-Warner and Disney with his A La Carte Cable stance. FOX will side with McCain. The Tribune Co. and CBS have to do what the Bush administration tells them or else the FCC can make them divest their media holdings. GE/NBC is the wild card. McCain wanted to run against Clinton, because in a McCain-Clinton race, GE would back McCain. McCain supports nuclear energy and the Pentagon likes McCain. But in an Obama-McCain race, GE is torn. The Pentagon is split between the two, and both men will support GE's plan to get back into the business of building nuclear power plants in this country. Obama will be better for the price of oil and immigration policy which is good for manufacturing, so NBC will probably go for Obama. NYT for Obama. Washington Post for McCain. McClatchy will report the news.
That is how the contest will be decided. And that is how elections in this country will continue to be run, until we create a working viable public broadcast system like the one they have in England, Japan and about every other civilized country on earth.
You thought that you knew Hillary Clinton and you were so surprised when you discovered that you did not know her at all about--let me check my watch---five months ago. But it did not have anything to do with the four journals full of media bias that I was able to document from January 2007 through the first months of 2008, no sir.
If you do not learn to see through the corporate media lies, you are going to be surprised at what you "discover" about some other candidates in the very near future, people that you thought that you knew very well, too. Just ask George McGovern. I don't think a week passed from the Democratic Convention in 1972 before the press which had been in love with him started tearing him to little shreds, and all those people who had thought he was so honest and trustworthy decided that he was such a lying sack of shit and that even Dick Nixon was a better choice.
"If the doors of perception were cleans'd everything would appear to man as it is, infinite
For man has closed himself up til he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
William Blake
Every Democrat is Hillary Clinton.