Way back when the internet was new, or at least new to me, a wildly popular leftist blog could still call itself "Media Whores Online" as it reported on the activities of the Republicanfascist presstitutes who acted to George W. Bush and those in his junta like the character Gradisca in the movie Amarcord. Only it wasn't a movie and the consequences in real life were horrific.
While I was among those regulars at Media Whores Online who pointed out that associating American journalists c. 2003 with whores was an insult to whores, that whores where nothing near as amoral and degenerate as our media, top to bottom, it's too bad that in the intervening years "whore" became a forbidden word because the presstitutes are at it again.
The great FREE PRESS of the United States is preparing the way for a possible presidency of either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump because they are what they've always been the pillars of the oligarchy which can't even abide a center-center democrat like Barack Obama and they certainly don't intend to have one somewhat to the left of him which they fear Hillary Clinton will be. Charles Pierce has noted how the Great Grey Lady, the grande dame of the newsie knocking shop, the Times is doing soft focus puff pieces on the intellectual brilliance of Ted Cruz, trying to humanize someone so horrific that it seems no one who knows him can do anything but hate him. Even those who have not only held their nose but superglued golf balls up their nostrils like Lindsay Graham to endorse him are on record as hating him. The reason his fellow REPUBLICAN SENATORS! hate him is because he is entirely self-centered, entirely ego-maniacal, reckless and irresponsible. I will grant that Graham, who is pretty repugnant, himself, probably did it in hopes of getting a brokered convention but he's stuck with it now.
But the New York Times and the rest of our media who proved in the Iraq fiasco, in the total incompetence of the Bush II regime in virtually every way, in their massive corruption are proving that they will promote the possibility of having that happen, perhaps even worse, this time, as they prop up the Republican establishment. And that's the "liberal New York Times" that is pushing Cruz as if he isn't one of the two fascist strong men who are poised to be the candidate of the Republican Party. As Pierce notes, they aren't the only major institution in which so many misplace their trust who are trying to put a false-front over the nightmare that Ted Cruz is. And, make no mistake about it, they'll do it.
I will note, again, that in 2014 the New York Times published an editorial boasting about the role they had in the Sullivan decision, granting immunity to media that lies. If we ever get the chance to write a modern constitution, one that takes into account the practical experience of the past two and a quarter centuries, we should make it clear that freedom of the press is a privilege that they keep only so long as they serve the purpose of democracy, telling the truth and informing The People so they can cast an informed and responsible vote. It doesn't work when the media lies.
Thinking of Amarcord reminds me that Mussolini was a journalist by profession. He, no doubt, understood the opportunity for a fascist strong man to rise and take power when the media could be roped in and used. A fascist strongman is like the biggest pimp in the land, turning the entire country into his stable of whores, using thuggery and violence when corruption doesn't work. And if there is one thing that is clear in the behavior of even the top end of our media, most of them are just fine with being his call girls or street walkers.
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