tagged w/ Media
-
The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions of bra burning and man-hating.
Recently, after overhearing an explosively sexist comment on a lunch break, I asked a friend, “Do you consider yourself a feminist?”
“Oh, NO!” she snapped back with a level of enthusiasm that shocked me, spitting the word out like a worm in an apple, “…no no no.”The F word. The worst one around. The one tied with unpleasantly preconceived notions... more
-
-
Protesters Accuse Police of Improperly Using Barricades
In Suit, Protesters Say City Violated Their Constitutional Rights
Opening day for Occupy Wall Street: Act 2Protesters Accuse Police of Improperly Using Barricades
In Suit, Protesters Say City... more
-
-
A friend of mine stopped by the other day. I hadn’t seen him since last summer. He travels almost constantly for his job. When he is home he and his family spend as much time together as they can. I consider him a REALLY great guy. Not too many of those have been in my life. Not too many really great people in most people’s lives.A friend of mine stopped by the other day. I hadn’t seen him since last summer.... more
-
-
-I have always wanted to buy a van with a sound system in it, one of those like you see in an ice cream truck or political van, and ride around praising women. I just want to go from neighborhood to neighborhood, the well off and poor alike, spreading a message of hope.-I have always wanted to buy a van with a sound system in it, one of those like you... more
-
-
Occupy Wall Street prepares for May Day strike
Tom Morello urges fans, musicians to strike on May Day with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy the regulatory system!Occupy Wall Street prepares for May Day strike
Tom Morello urges fans, musicians to... more
-
-
The establishment elite and its media are finding themselves in a rapidly growing dilemma as years of contrived silence about the election process, namely the GOP’s and how it actually works, is now coming back to haunt them in a profound way.
Despite Tuesday’s so-called “5 state sweep” for Romney, all over the country Ron Paul’s Delegates have swarmed the states that utilize a delegate selection processes that is separate from their original caucus or primary. Yet ironically, that very silence is now allowing that tidal-wave of delegates for Paul to continue winning state after state for Paul’s 2012 campaign.
Even as America awoke on Wednesday to the media parading its favorite establishment candidate as winning all 5 states the night before, Ron Paul continues to rack up delegates himself at a pace that has his campaign trailing by much less than the media would like everyone to believe.
Just hours before Tuesday thru Wednesday’s completely disingenuous national Romney propaganda parade, Ron Paul had officially taken Iowa over the weekend, and himself swept Minnesota and Colorado the weekend prior.
In fact, not only was Ron Paul already basically taking the majority of the caucus County, District and State Conventions around the country, the vast majority of Rick Santorum’s very conservative Delegates have also decided to spite the “front-running” big-government 1%’r who’s backed by Wall Street and join the Ron Paul Revolution instead.
This situation has, in effect, propelled Ron Paul into the fore-front and now close to neck and neck with Romney, or even better.
Prior to Tuesday’s Primaries a very conservative estimate, based on the reality of how the race is truly playing out behind the scenes, had Romney with approx. 600 delegates and Ron Paul with around 400, despite the establishment’s desperate attempt to have people believe otherwise. It’s very likely much closer than that.
Even with Tuesday’s primary states supposedly going to Romney, not only is it still nowhere near enough to have the nomination wrapped up, but even some of these states will also go through a post-primary delegate selection process that is also sure to see much of those delegates go for Paul as well.
Nowhere in the rule-book does it state that the delegates attending Precinct, County, District or State Conventions are bound to vote for the winner of the original Straw Poll, “Caucus” or “Primary” that took place in the state, prior to the actual delegate selection process.
............
One of the ways the establishment tried to fool everyone into thinking otherwise was by making sure everyone was clearly told that the “straw polls” that take place, prior to the official beginning of the nomination process at January’s Iowa Caucus, means virtually nothing. When in actuality, many of the caucuses and primaries themselves, including Iowa’s, also only serve as a precinct-level overall straw poll, leaving only the actual post-caucus delegate selection process to determine the true eventual outcome.
This is something the establishment wanted to keep very quiet and has successfully done so over the years. It allowed for the old guard to play with the delegate selection process the way they saw fit after everyone went home. This made it very easy to get their candidates elected
Now, however, thanks to the internet, articles like this one, very popular “Truther” radio shows and non-establishment co-opted Tea Party supporters who are actually informed of the truth, young politicians are then taking advantage of forums and sites like Facebook and Twitter to inform each other about the facts and election laws and are actually participating in the process. Whereas the older and ignorant mainstream-news-believing supporters of mostly Romney and Gingrich are losing out as a result of being left out of the loop.
Romney is truly only supposedly leading the race currently, despite having an almost identical political record and historical political philosophy as Barack Obama, because of how incredibly hard the media has pushed him as the “likely” candidate, including misleading its unwitting followers about who’s actually winning.
Establishment rhetoric has also left their followers severely complacent and incredibly over-confident in their candidates, much like 2010’s mid-term elections that watched many self-proclaimed “Tea Party” politicians instantly change the face of politics in America with many “surprising” victories. Again, only surprising, however, to those who trust “mainstream” sources exclusively.
Ironically, even as the so-called “conservative” Fox News keeps their “Republican” constituents in the dark about what is actually playing out in the 2012 “Republican” nomination process, it was the radically-left MSNBC who decided to continue recently detailing what is actually playing out behind the scenes on Monday.
Although they too continued to be dishonest about Paul’s chances, even as they ironically told their unwitting viewers that Ron Paul is continuing to win many states, it may be that they were given the task of initially breaking the news because the establishment knows they’ve lost the majority of their viewers over the last couple years. Especially so-called “conservatives” who may have also once watched “left” leaning news from time-to-time but no longer do..
Had the media been able to sell Romney as a true conservative and one worthy of representing the “Republican” Party in the general election, and/or been honest with the people and the supporters it needs to help its candidate win, it is possible many of Santorum’s Delegates may have decided to side with the establishment’s Romney when Santorum was unable to continue.
Overwhelmingly, however, Santorum’s "young" Delegates have decided to side with Paul, now clearing the way for what looks to be an almost certain “brokered” National Convention in Aug. Something the Conspiracy Examiner has been warning readers about for quite some time.
Even worse for the establishment and its candidate is that during the Republican National Convention this August it is still possible that many of the delegates that originally thought to side with Romney have the ability to change their minds when it truly comes time to cast their official votes this summer. Something even the establishment’s media admitted is far more likely than Paul’s or even Santorum’s former delegates changing their minds in favor of Romney. Even though, as the RNC approaches, they’re likely to tell you isn’t supposed to happen or is somehow against the rules.
.....
Right now, for instance, Mitt Romney is truly in big trouble. Even the people who really don’t know the truth about the race and how the GOP Nomination process truly takes place are soon going to find themselves wondering what happened to “all those delegates” Romney supposedly had as delegates actually start making the official votes that actually count at the RNC in Aug. If the truth ultimately has anything to do with it, that is.
The truth, however, we may continue to find, isn’t always what takes precedent when it comes to the establishment, its media and its politics. They're likely to continue to do and say anything to insure a Romney victory anyway. After all, Romney is arguably the candidate, out of all that initially entered the race, that most resembles Obama and the most likely to continue 'their' major campaign contributors' "1%'r" agendas.
Full Article: http://www.examiner.com/article/elite-media-hurting-romney-itself-2012The establishment elite and its media are finding themselves in a rapidly growing... more
-
-
Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural trajectory of unregulated capitalism tends towards hyper-authoritarian excess, even towards fascism.Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus... more
-
-
Putin’s Reversal of Democracy Pledge Risks New Protest Wave
GE annual meeting interrupted by 99 Percent protesters
Fears for Bahrain hunger striker, minister defends policePutin’s Reversal of Democracy Pledge Risks New Protest Wave
GE annual meeting... more
-
-
Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a graduate of The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI, a copywriter for CBS, and an award-winning corporate film producer.Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a... more
-
-
As the Earth’s climate warms, glaciers are shrinking worldwide. But Fox News is using a recent study showing stable glaciers in one region of the Himalayas to obscure the global melting trend and cast doubt on climate change.As the Earth’s climate warms, glaciers are shrinking worldwide. But Fox News is... more
-
-
By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:30 EDT
Conservative Fox News contributor Dick Morris is asserting that the news media “ruined” President George W. Bush’s presidency because coverage of the Iraq war was “too harsh.”
During a Wednesday morning segment with Morris, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that Arthur Brisbane, ombudsman for The New York Times, recently complained that the paper had been more critical of President George W. Bush while he was in office than it had been of President Barack Obama.
“It’s terrific that he said that,” Morris explained. “There are two factors that make the media liberal. One is that the reporters are liberal. But the other fact is that the media tends to react to what it last did badly. So for example, it was relatively mild toward Bush during the early years of his administration after 9/11, and then it over compensated by being too harsh during the Iraq war.”
“And then when Obama got elected they said, ‘Oh, wow. We just ruined a presidency with Bush. Maybe we’ll be nicer to Obama,’” he added. “And I think you will begin to see a bit of pendulum swing against Obama even though the media itself is liberal.”
A 2003 study by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) found that 71 percent of guest on U.S. television news programs were pro-war, while only 3 percent were against the Iraq war — a ratio of almost 25 to 1.
A recent analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that coverage of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was twice as favorable as the coverage of Obama during the primary season.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/25/dick-morris-media-ruined-bush-because-iraq-war-coverage-was-too-harsh/
Watch the video below from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast April 25, 2012.
"Yup, it's all the Media's Fault, LOL, what a Moron!!!"By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:30 EDT
Conservative Fox News... more
-
-
KB723
-
added this
-
1 month ago
- |
-
In Hippie Holdout, a Fight Over Worms and Moats
Hash Mob Lights Up Yonge-Dundas Square
Charles Manson still casts a long shadowIn Hippie Holdout, a Fight Over Worms and Moats
Hash Mob Lights Up Yonge-Dundas... more
-
-
By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies.comIn which Y’r Intr’s'g’t C’mm’t8′r examines a putatively progressive platitude and detects the reek of CorpoRately-self-interested historical elisions which ‘blame the victims’ for their “failure” to resist the encroachments–the infestation–of the corpoRat roaches.By Dr. Woody,Worldwidehippies.comIn which Y’r Intr’s'g’t... more
-
-
I saw a recent article on an RSS news feed about a new mall, City Creek Center, in Salt Lake City. According to the article, people are being harassed by the security guards and/or asked to leave because of their appearanceI saw a recent article on an RSS news feed about a new mall, City Creek Center, in... more
-
-
They say hindsight is always 20-20. In other words, when you look back at things gone wrong, you gain the wisdom to do things differently. But facing difficult times also provides the chance to hide our heads in the sand and let history repeat itself. This Earth Day, as we stand in the shadow of some major environmental losses, we have the opportunity to decide how we’re going to use the hindsight we’ve gained.They say hindsight is always 20-20. In other words, when you look back at things gone... more
-
-
Rahm Emanuel owned by the big boys. You can count on violence from his goons.
Tough guy, with tax dollars and corrupt courts to back up his army. He will be met with non violent
resistance, from peaceable protesters. But Protest we Shall! You Corrupt Bastard! Protest we Shall!Rahm Emanuel owned by the big boys. You can count on violence from his goons.
Tough... more
-
-
* Body of protester found on rooftop, Wefaq opposition says
* Dead man was among protesters beaten by police – Wefaq
* Opposition vows “days of rage” during Formula One race
* Bahraini govt wants Grand Prix to show return to normalcy* Body of protester found on rooftop, Wefaq opposition says
* Dead man was among... more
-
-
I take a deep breath. I swallow hard. My ears feel like they haven’t popped yet, as if I’ve just arrived by plane and the descent was much too quick. The edges of my ears tingle with the prickling of needles. An army of them march to the top of my skull, where they dissolve beneath my thinning hair. Wave after wave of needles sweep over my brain, the prickling so intense, it becomes an electrocution.I take a deep breath. I swallow hard. My ears feel like they haven’t popped yet,... more
-
-
Each WeekWorldwide Hippies will post excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry.
Hip Poetry 2012 dances and moves. It brings the challenges in life to the surface. The writers and poets meet today’s horrors, pain, and suffering in the world head on, without blinders, but with the reflection of an undying spirit of hope, peace and love..Each WeekWorldwide Hippies will post excerpts from the Book Hip Poetry.
Hip Poetry... more
-
-
NYPD makes more arrests as OWS continues to occupy Federal Hall steps
Police, protesters face off as Bahrain Grand Prix begins
Tens of thousands protest military rule in Egypt
Occupiers occupy court to interrupt foreclosure auctionsNYPD makes more arrests as OWS continues to occupy Federal Hall steps
Police,... more
-
