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2021-03-14 -PC Follies

Matt Taibbi: The Sovietization of the American Press

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Posted by Slusoting Crans9404 2021-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

Posted by Grolush Slomoque6701 2021-03-14 01:51|| 2021-03-14 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 He is not wrong. The sad thing is the Press did it voluntarily. That's why they should be the first ones on trial when the day comes that this is all turned around - and consequently justifiably sentenced to die as traitors. Give them the Ceaucescu treatment, and I be there will be hundreds of volunteers just like there were with the Ceaucescus. Virginia motto says: Sic semper tyrannis.

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-03-14 04:11|| 2021-03-14 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Please note that was not a threat, nor any other form of objectionable speech. It was a hopeful request for legal recourse and a proper outcome of a legal and fair trial such as those given to dictators and their enablers. Justice for the suffering they are causing to others

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-03-14 04:13|| 2021-03-14 04:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, an easy passage from this world may satisfy the people the journowhores have harmed, but there's no long lasting lesson in it. Make them all teach "Why communism is bad" at summer camps for the rest of their miserable lives. Subject them to every dirty trick they ever played and only "liquidate" the occasional high profile example.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-14 04:53|| 2021-03-14 04:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Hasn't dawned on them yet, but when state and media become one, the state doesn't need a lot of redundant people in the 'business'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-14 07:09|| 2021-03-14 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 They lie shamelessly and with impunity. They lied and still tpush preposterous lies about Trump being a Russkie agent. They lied about Kavanaugh being a gang rapist.

"Peaceful protests." "Undocumented immigrants." "Systemic racism." "White privileged. "Toxic masculinity."

These are Big Lies, following the Goebbels formulation. Telling the truth is not enough. Truth-telling didn't bring down Goebbels and his boss because their party was ruthless and wills to spill blood to maintain power.

Like the Bolsheviks, like the Maoists, the Fidelistas and the Jacobins, today's Cultural Marxists rely on force to get their way.

The unfortunate truth is that these vicious little monsters will not stop until they are opposed with equal or greater force. Sooner or later the quisling majority in this country will be confronted with a stark choice: fight back, meet fire with fire, or be crushed. How much longer before we face that choice?

Posted by Thans Jaigum6399 2021-03-14 10:27|| 2021-03-14 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Sound familiar? "Pre WWI-France: Businesses and banks secretly paid certain newspapers to promote particular financial interests, and hide or cover up possible most behavior. Publishers took payments for favorable notices in news articles of commercial products. Sometimes, a newspaper would blackmail a business by threatening to publish unfavorable information unless the business immediately started advertising in the paper. Foreign governments, especially Russia and Turkey, secretly paid the press hundreds of thousands of francs a year to guarantee favorable coverage of the bonds it was selling in Paris. When the real news was bad about Russia, as during its 1905 Revolution or during its war with Japan, it raised the bribes it paid to millions of francs. Each ministry in Paris had a group of journalists whom it secretly paid and fed stories..." [The result: A cynical France that was easy pickings for the Nazis.]

Posted by b 2021-03-14 10:57|| 2021-03-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

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