Obama Nation An Abomination

Its not that Swiftboat author and political hack, Jerome Corsi, doesn't have the right to publish any kind of book he cares to, no matter how false, biased, or slanted his allegations about Presidential candidate Barack Obama turn out to be. Free Speech must be allowed. What makes this drivel so disgraceful is its incorporation into the right wing media talking points to assassinate Obama's character. No amount of money raised by Obama's campaign to get their message out is sufficient to dispel rhetoric repeated on radio constantly by the Limbaughs and Hannitys; pedaling rumors and outright falsehoods like mantras planted in the sub-consciousness of their listeners. Huffpo's Jason Linkins gives insight on the ultra right's racists embrace of Corsi. TV news outlets are only slightly less guilty of spreading this literary manure.

Corsi's New York Times bestseller status is mentioned like some imprimatur to the book's veracity rather than introducing his book as the right wing tactic, Swiftboating. Even the NYT rates the book as a Best Seller with a dart, meaning that since many of the sales are bulk purchases, usually done to boost the numbers artificially, don't trust it's status as a best seller. This is only the latest example of MSM making a mockery of news reportage. The national media CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, television news channels, cable giants CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, major urban newspapers like The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, magazine publications like Time and Newsweek failed as The Fourth Estate contesting, investigating, reporting, and countering the Executive Branch run up to the war on Iraq, and even worse, were cheerleaders for it. Bill Moyers special on PBS, the only TV station offering any unbiased coverage, makes the case for the sellout in Buying the War .

Even now, after tens of thousands of American military deaths and casualties, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and wounded, and domestic economic paralysis as a result of draining the Treasury to fund the NEOCON's invasion, the MSM is mute. Corporate ownership of media outlets is in large part the cause of the retreat from true journalism. Their profit motives necessitate succumbing in knee jerk compliance with the Republican controlled Government of the Bush years. The right wing's use of the MSM to dupe the American public into enduring eight years of a bloodless coup de etat using a right wing rigged Supreme Court to give the air of legality, waging war on a country based on cooked intelligence, Executive Branch manipulation of and collusion with that same MSM to accomplish the conflation of Al Qaeda and Iraq; ignoring Congressional legislation rubber stamping deregulation of corporate business practices that have led to the train wreck our economy now resembles, cannot be excused.

Even as the Iraq related Executive crimes have been exposed , there is little MSM support for Congressional inquiries to set the record straight; no mea culpas emanate from newsrooms and journalists in the MSM. Even the 2006 Congressional Elections, which signaled the publics' awakening to the problem, failed to elicit a turnaround in the MSM's bias toward the Bush administration's agenda. Media continually carps on the publics' perception of a do nothing Congress without adequately explaining the tactics employed by the remaining Republican obstructionists' contribution to legislative gridlock and the inability of the razor thin Democratic majority to pass legislation to remedy administration abuses. Democrats in Congress went along with the Carte Blanche policy given Bush to prosecute his military adventures in 2001 out of fears that they would be perceived as weak and even unpatriotic; fears not unfounded based on the flap Presidential nominee Barack Obama endured in the media for failing to wear a flag pin or the media obsession with Michelle Obama's patriotism on the heals of her "not really proud" comment while ignoring McCain's "not loving America" declaration he had repeated on many occasions? MSM bias in favor of McCain is well documented.

On television, only Keith Olbermann , in limited distribution through cable outlets, is constantly vigilant to confront the obvious lies and distortion our media allows from right wing zealots. Progressive radio hosts like Ray Taliaferro , Amy Goodman , Rachel Maddow and others on stations like NPR and Air America, try to raise public consciousness regarding emerging events, but the sheer volume of propaganda outpourings parroting constantly updated talking points, and MSM complicity in its dissemination, are formidable. The only hope for the public to reassert their rights to get the truth from a free press is to vote with their remotes to tune out the farce the news shows have become. Stations like CSPAN need to be aired on public TV and not limited to the cable stations.

Candidates' public records on character issues is fair game for the MSM and instead of a daily horse race atmosphere their polling reportage fosters, they should focus more time on uncovering the candidates flaws were present, and diligently dispelling the falsehoods, exposing political disinformation campaigns as anti-American, robbing voters of the right to make a fair decision on voting day. Propaganda is used in countries controlled by dictatorships we abhor like Cuba, North Korea, and China. American MSM are quick to expose the disparity between their public disinformation and their factual circumstances.

Contributions to the truth from comedians like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and to a lesser extent late night talk show hosts Letterman, Leno, O'Brien, and Kimmel reprise the court jester roles of past monarchies, lampooning the follies of the illegal Government propaganda machinery. In humor, comedians distill the implications of ill-conceived and anti-democratic policies that lead to manipulation of laws and state agencies to the benefit of the few. Ultimately, the American people are to blame, and if the voters of America don't rise en masse this November and restore a two party system to power, we will see a future of increased government interference and control over our lives.

Comments

[slc20]

The problem is, most people still get all their information from the mainstream media!

You can't blame Americans when the only knowledge they have is from the nightly news, filtered through the screwed up media. I think that back in the day- a couple decades ago, you could actually trust the news to be the news, not the sensationalized crap it is now. Until i started paying attention to the primaries- this year- i assumed the Washington Post, Katie Couric, Brian Williams and the lot were unbiased, and just reporting the news. I didn't even know Fox news leaned to the right. I am not stupid, I have considered myself more informed than most Americans. I wasn't the political junkie I am now, but i voted in every presidential election, and kept up on the issues. What i know now- now that I'm paying closer attention- is that the mainstream media only tells Americans what they want them to know, and what will garner higher ratings. It's all very creepy. We are quickly any losing access to truth.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Hey don't feel lonesome. I got sold on the WMD thing trusting the NYT and MSM until I learned about curveball, and Powell lying, and the aluminum tubes were not Nuclear grade. We all awaken at some point. I love America, I want us to take it back from the MSM and the Right Wing Fascists.

[donnal]

Yes, J. Corsi, has the right to publish the book that he has...as the MSM media refuses to to vet this candidate others must.

If Obama would be more open to his true personal history...such as his birth certificate, his mother, father and step-father, schools that he attended, and not present imaginary incidents as facts, J. Corsi, Fox and others would not have the freedom to share thoughts and other information on Obama .

Attacking this book to the other problems of the media, the other party, John McCain, the war and the state of affairs is pointless. The book is what it is; information that fills many holes in his personal history... some of these facts could become the October surprise.

[biglarry52]

i am so tired of these we dont know who obama is people.thats the stupidest statement anyone can make at this point in this election season.if you dont know who obama is by now you really dont want to know.its cowardly to use this excuse ,this mans life has been turned inside out for over a year almost two years.he has been scrutinized investigated over and over again.what is it you want to know?your looking for proof that he is muslim,he is not.your trying to find some dirt that would desgrase him and his family and cause him to leave the race.its not gonna happen.and garbage like this book is never gonna take off.you cant turn lies into truth

[chucktrotter]

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels

This quotation, repeated with great frequency during the past 7 12 years, remains applicable in the U.S. today. Think I'll go watch "Dancing With the Stars." This is s-o-o-o boring!

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Thanks Chuck,
Its been done before, but we thought we were better able to handle tyranny here. So much for Democratic principles. What time does that show air?

[Cranbot]

What about libel? There are still laws and when you knowingly publish false and damaging information about a person you are subject to libel laws.

No, free speech aside, he does not have the right to do that and to profit from it.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Unfortunately, public figures like politicians have little or no libel protection under the law. People like Corsi are the literary hit men employed by the right to assassinate the character of their opponents when they can't win on their own merits.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

What I'm saying is that the press people rely on to call the liars on their lies are actually in cahoots with them. Do you agree with that? And if so, what are we to do about it?

[goldnchyl]

All I can see that we can actually do is what we're doing. Push back. The biggest difference between now and 2000 and 2004 is the use of the internet. No matter how tiresome it becomes to respond and correct the incessant lies of trolls and neonuts, we must call out the misinformation every time we encounter it and spread the truth about both candidates where ever we can.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Golden!

[MyThought]

Falling for this guy's BS got them what - George W Bush again......really want to take that chance again?

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

So you're saying the Republicans are dirty, ugly fighters, and they lie.

Well, I agree.

[NoSillyName]

What about Alex Jones @ infowars? Is he far right or far left? The two do intersect at a certain point.

Jone's online station is the only place I heard about Georgia/Russia before the network evening news bothered to mention it. And when they did, it was after the Edwards story or the Olympics. They didn't mention the US involvement.

I don't believe most of what I hear is even near 100% objective truth so I try to listen to as much a variety as I can stomach (No RL)

Is Jones just a rabblerouser or is he credible?

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

Hadn't heard of Jones, but I'll check him out. Hey, I agree with you, I even watch Fixed News on the occasion. Until the crap they air obscures the screen!

[NoSillyName]

I have only heard Jones the day the Georgia/Russia trouble happened. There was raw video of the Russian tanks rolling, missles firing. None of which I saw on the CBS or NBC Nightly News Broadcasts. I did see more on the BBC World News that night. He definitely believes in the Big Conspiracy, but also seems to have a lot of info the MSM doesn't talk about. The link to his radio show is at the infowars.com site. Guess you can also watch him live. There are videos, etc. I haven't done any research on him yet. Seems to lean toward survivalist, but I know several lefties who also want to go to the mountains and be self sufficient due to the general state of things and fearing worse.

I try to be optimistic, but it gets harder at times.

[ljpljpljp]

"Ultimately, the American people are to blame, and if the voters of America don't rise en masse this November and restore a two party system to power, we will see a future of increased government interference and control over our lives."

I tried to tell some of the staff members of both of my current senators about my experience with such matters. They were not interested. I live in Illinois.

[joanjourne]

EXACTLY! I've lost count of how many letters I've written to lawmakers & journalists & editors. This is currently the top story on bradblog .com, a site that's been a tireless investigator of election frauds:

"E-Voting Failures Unmet With Accountability from Officials"

Election Officials Finally Acknowledge Voting Machines Problems, But Seem Unwilling to do Much About It..."

[Chillinout]

I am only one person, though I am doing what I can. I have written emails to all three of the networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS and told them that I am not watching their networks until they start acting like real journalists instead of the right-wing propaganda machines that they have become. I now get my news online and from Countdown, Verdict and sometimes Hardball on MSNBC.

The funny thing is that I don't miss watching those networks at all. And it isn't just their news shows that I am not watching, I am not watching ANY shows on those networks.

[UnbiasView]

So you go to a biased source to get your only news . . . that sounds about right.

[LongBeachDave]

No different than what he was doing before, is it?