The Journal
Serving the Metropolitan Area
Since 1872
October 5th
SOURCING the DATA!
By Jack Parnell - retired Congressman and Independent Presidential
candidate
Syndicated
by Acme Features
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"Character no longer
counts for aught unless reinforced by a bank account... Men are sent to Congress
whom God intended for the gallows, while those he ticketed for the penitentiary
sprout inanities in fashionable pulpits. The merchant who pays his debts in
full when he might settle for ten cents on the dollar is considered deficient
in common sense... Why is this?"
“April Fool’s is done and
past, and you’re
the biggest fool at last!” |
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American children’s rhyme – timeless |
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Last time out I mentioned, though
briefly, how most as passes for intelligence is just the propaganda... sometimes
clever, sometimes appallingly crude.
The late and
little-lamented Reverend Moon – with the indicticators
breathing down his neck for bilking little old ladies out’n
their widows’ mites - knew most Americans had heard of, and (at the time)
respected, the New York Times and Washington Post. So he just knocked city and
name together and, since New York already had a Post, started up the Washington
Times with his cash from the arms factories in South Korea and little cult slave
girls selling flowers in sleazy 'Murkan bars. And
presto!... people began thinking the Washington Times
authoritative too, especially those as agreed with its Nixon-lovin’, Trump-humpin’ agenda. Still do.
And now that the orthodox
(non-Trump) right’s Weekly Standard’s gone to that newspaper Boot Hill occupied
by the Journal American, Amurkan Mercury and the
Iconoclast, Bill Buckley’s boy, Fred Barnes, decided that the capitol needs another
right-wing rag, so he copycatted Reverend Moon, added a few teaspoons of Hearst
and birthed the Washington Examiner. (Which will likely lead to other geo-medial imitations…
the Post is taken and the boob toob’s got the Week in
Review, but how about the Washington Chronicle, Washington Enquirer (edited,
perhaps, by that Pecker guy, or Stormy Daniels?), Tribune, Herald and on and on
and on… )
Let me explain
something as might sound underhanded... if you’ve read a story in the news or
over the Internet, especially one as has come out of Washington, more like than
not it'll have been planted. Not
necessarily fake, but planted… slanted... Enchanted! Way down at the end, or buried in the copy,
might be the name of a politician trying to draw attention to himself, or else
some organization or think tank... often just mentioned by its initials! Might be real, might not, might be Russian, might
be Martian. Might be
Honduran.
The American Medical
Association's journal got caught in the act, so to speak, running this "study"
as recommended everybody take up the Viagra. This Edward Laumann
of the
Now I'm all for enormousity and wouldn't have wanted gumment
going round making more crimes of possession, throwing poor ol' Bob Dole in the
Graybar Hotel... but Mr. Laumann really ought to have
'fessed that his study was bought and paid for by Pfizer. The company as makes...
yeah... Viagra! Pfizer could easily have washed their money through some Pfizer
front or tame, multi-pharmaceutical think tank... they just got really
arrogant, so they got caught. Happens with others dozens of times
every day, probably hundreds.
(Now if the Pfizoids cared to salt their Corona vaccines with a little joy juice, you could watch
them plague and vax denialist
populations sink to about zero!)
Here's a baker's
dozen of common lobbies as are always in the media pushing something or
other... can you identify them?
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1) |
AIM |
5) |
III |
10) |
NRA |
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CDFE |
6) |
IRPL |
11) |
PMP |
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CLSP |
7) |
NAM |
12) |
UI |
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4) |
FS |
8) |
NCC |
13) |
UPI |
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NEF |
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We have programming
now... distributed by everybody from the Institute for Policy Studies to the
Hoover people... that filters Information according to
preset perceptions so nobody needs hear discouraging or
dissenting words! Peck in your
prejudices and credit card number and, as Nick Negroponte... Mister Digital...
predicted, this internet firm will serve you up an e-paper "The Daily
Me" as confirms all your stereotypes, with advertising configured to your
paper trail. "The key ingredient in creating an illusory world is a biased
selection of facts to fit a preconceived notion," I was once informed by
Tommy Sowell who, of course, would never stoop to enhancing
horizontal or vertical properties of the signal himself!
"Whoever gets swept
up by this begins to have as the entire perimeter of their
consciousness the imagery of Roger Rabbit... you see that same image either on
a mug, on a tee-shirt, related to the plate on which you're getting your
hamburger, somehow or other connected to the time you take your Coke," said
Herbert Schiller to Bill Moyers, many years back (would’ve been Harry Potter
some years after, and now… well, nothing – since a gob-stricken Hollywood
contacted the sequel-mania – or maybe something spawned by Marvel. "This",
back then meant the "unidimensionality" of information, entertainment and
advertising, then exhibited by Coke and McDonald's
sponsorship of Disney's movie, as later inspired Barbara Lippert's take on
Mickey D's animated moonhead crooning rewritten
lyrics to 'Mack The Knife'...
"This is perhaps
the first time a song about murder - slicing people up - has been turned into a
toe-tapping jingle to sell hamburgers." Which leads to “Help” selling
Google “, Sympathy for the Devil” selling cars and “You Can’t Always Get What
You Want” selling the Presidents, 2016 and 2020.
"There is some
rebellion in this video. A message," as also promised the hawkers of Joey Buttafuoco's rock video. "There's different ways to say
our piece."
Thus the quixotic
appeal of the Tea Party’s exhumation of Dick Armey's flat tax to the
short-attention-spanned... just to pull Dick a bit, I offered a substitute
amendment, back in the day... a poll tax, like they had over in Maggie Thatcher's
farm. Brother Rush bit the bait and remarked, approvingly, sort of:, howling: "what's slowing the
Now, if the media seem
more pliable, perhaps it's because there are more and more of ‘em, at least
electronically (tho’ less and less of 'em accountable
to anything save the whims and prejudices of their Creators). A few years back,
noted Moyers, "only six corporate behemoths play a major role in virtually
everything we see on television." Since his PBS special, "Free Speech
for Sale", Vicolcom has bought the peacock,
bought out the Sackler drug money and renamed itself Vee Three (though there ain't a
one, nor two!) and General Electric spun off NBC into that dark hole of grabbitry as is known as MicroTimeTM,
enabling that micronetwork as puzzles folk as turn to
it expecting good ol’ Country Western music to go "all reruns, all the
time!" Macrobrewer
Bud bought out macrobrewer Miller and thus merged two
lousy suds into ABM, Once Google finishes buying ABC off'n the mouse factory a’fore merging
with Disney/Fox/ILM, there'll be three.
Other day, in case
you heard, the last paper in Dayton shut down, supposedly to be replaced by an
eight-page weekly insert out of Cincy… mostly advertising, tossed into your
yard by work-release prisoners so as to remain in piles, slowly decomposing in
the weather. Not to mention “Nightline”,
after being shuttled off to the post-midnight desert by Jimmy Kimmell, then bein’ yanked in
favor of “Hollywood Probe”.
"With the
growing interlocking concentration of media power, where the agenda is set by
fewer and fewer corporations," says Moyers, "you have the issue of
political worth and net worth intruding into the whole question of who gets
heard."
Do away with
competition and you solve everybody's problems with the media.
Just like in the
Garden of Eden, Russia, under the Commies, or the DreamBellTM
dreamworks, as made director Rod Lurie re-cut this
movie "The Contender" into left-leaning propaganda, according to
former blackballed vampire Gary Oldman...
No need for
censorship, without which... as General Westmoreland reflected, eight years
after the curtain rang down on
Face it... without
Taylor and Queen Bee, their imitation principlers and
their merch, America would have gone bankrupt months,
if not years ago.
Have you ever read, or
do you expect to read (or watch, or stream) a commentary by Marc Thiessen celebrating
the triumphs and tragedies of the gig-econslaves… or,
for that matter, a screed by Rachel Maddow suggesting that Americans take responsibility
for their own lives? Na’gonna
happen!
Of course that
hasn’t stopped POTUS from floating more sedition prosecutions or sterner libel
legislation like they have over there in Blighty, as
George Washington fought to break free of and John Adams and Saint
Alexander Hamilton brought back. Or the FBI from arm-twisting the movie malls
from illegalizing the wearing of costumes at screenings of “The Joker”.
Even a late, great
old-timer like Joe Franklin would agree. "Saying these shows are degrading
America, that this is the beginning of Sodom and Gomorrah, that's just wrong.
"This won't ruin
America. They're only TV shows!"
Have to think that
out! But... later!
Time for "Cop on
the Run"!
And how ‘bout those rumours that Pope Francis… it bein’
nearer to God and to Halloween… making a special guest appearance. As Himself, presumably.
(Or maybe the Godfather?)
Answers to above: 1) Accuracy in Media - conservative (also the American
Indian Movement, which is moving more and more over into casino gambling
lobbying these days), 2) Center for Defense of Free Enterprise - anti-environmental
lobby, rotten with Moonies, 3) Center for Law and Social Policy - liberal
lawyers, 4) Federalist Society - conservative, 5) Insurance Information
Institute - occupational, 6) Institution on Religion and Public Life - think
tank far to the right of the Moral Majority, says Bill n’ Hillary Clinton used
to chill by performing abortions in the White House basement, 7) National
Association of Manufacturers - occupational, 8) National Council of Churches -
occupational, but tend towards liberal policies, 9) National Energy Foundation
- lobby for oilies, tend to oppose alternate energy
unless Washington's tossing out subsidies for it! 10) National Rifle
Association - recreational (but lean rightwards, 11) Progressive Media Project
- liberal Woodstein-Burnward wannabes, 12) Urban
Institute - self-designated "moderate" think tank that supports a
liberal view oftener than not, 13) United Press International - formerly objective,
moderate wire service now owned and operated by and for the interests of the
irrepressible (even beyond the grave) Reverend Moon!)
And compare these to the initials of the Kochtapus
in the Don Jones Index!
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