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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (8834)	11/6/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Trippi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

On the AP Wire: Newt Gingrich to step down as Speaker and give up House seat he has held since 1978 according to Republican sources.... Geez they can't shoot straight -- they aim at the President, but hit Newt instead.....life just isn't fair. Trippi

To: jlallen who wrote (8834)	11/8/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

CORRUPTING THE PRESS AND THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE By: Bob Momenteller The success of the Clinton administration's agenda is dependent upon the successful corruption of the press. The Ether Zone's exclusive article on The Impeachment of Salon Magazine will attest to this. Murry Waas got his 15 minutes of fame conjuring up a tarot card reader whose son witnessed money payoffs to Whitewater key witness, David Hale. Murray Waas and Johnathan Broader are good friends of Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal has repeatedly used these Salon reporters for disinformation to the public. Many of Salon's articles are quoted in the main stream press, thus providing the White House propagandist, his mouth piece. Blumenthal's news scoops are hand fed to these reporters and copied verbatim on Salon's Website. Blumenthal's access to the White House FBI files, gives him plenty of ammo in which to feed his puppets. As we have reported elsewhere at the Zone, Blumenthal gave David Talbot, Editor of Salon, key FBI file information on Henry Hyde to compile their story. Murray Waas has spent endless hours looking into the backgrounds of Clinton enemies and those of Ken Starr. Waas's mob style methods of reporting has surfaced. Waas threatened to have reporter Michael Lewis killed, after Lewis wrote a New Republic piece looking into drugs and murder in Arkansas. Lewis's story in 1996, presented an unflattering look at Waas. BLUMENTHAL'S PROPAGANDA CREED "It's readers, by and large, can be divided into three groups: First, into those who believe everything they read; Second, into those who have ceased to believe anything; Third, into the minds which critically examine what they read, and judge accordingly. Numerically, the first group is by far the largest. It consists of the great mass of the people and consequently represents the simplest-minded part of the nation. It cannot be listed in terms of professions, but at most in general degrees of intelligence. To it belong all those who have neither been born nor trained to think independently, and who partly from incapacity and partly from incompetence believe everything that is set before them in black and white. To them also belongs the type of lazybones who could perfectly well think, but from sheer mental laziness seizes great fully on everything that someone else has thought, with the modest assumption that the someone else has exerted himself considerably. Now, with all these types, who constitute the great masses, the influence of the press will be enormous, They are not able or willing themselves to examine what is set before them, and as a result their whole attitude toward all the problems of the day can be reduced almost exclusively to the outside influence of others... The second group is much smaller in number. It is partly composed of elements which previously belonged to the first group, but after long and bitter disappointments shifted to the opposite and no longer believe anything that comes before their eyes in all, or without exception fly into a rage over the contents, since in their opinion they consist only of lies and false hoods. These people are very hard to handle, since they are suspicious even in the face of the truth... The third group, finally, is by far the smallest; it consists of the minds with real mental subtlety, whom natural gifts and education have taught to think independently, who try to form their own judgement of all things, and who subject everything they read to a thorough examination and further development of their own. They will not look at a newspaper without always collaborating in their minds, and the writer has no easy time of it. Journalists love such readers with the greatest reserve. For the members of this third group, it must be admitted, the nonsense that newspaper scribblers can put down is not very dangerous or even very important. Most of them in the course of their lives have learned to regard every journalist as a rascal on principle, who tells the truth only once in a blue moon. Unfortunately, however, the importance of these splendid people lies only in their intelligence and not in their number -- a misfortune at a time when wisdom is nothing and the majority is everything! Today, when the ballot of the masses decides, the chief weight lies with the most numerous group, and this is the first: the mob of the simple or credulous." Adolph Hitler, 1927 Mein Kampf Published in the November 1, 1998 issue of Ether Zone Online. Copyright © 1998 Ether Zone Online (http://etherzone.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact. etherzone.com