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Mika Brzezinski from MSNBC

I didn't see anyone post anything about this and thought it was note worthy. I didn't catch the live broadcast but seen the youtube video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0

Whether it was staged or not it makes a strong point. Why do we constantly have to spew Paris Hilton/Brittany Spears/Lindsay Lohan garbage on the news? What's the purpose for shows like "Entertainment Tonight" or "Access Hollywood" then? I personally cannot watch the news anymore, I'll catch the weather maybe some sports than turn it off, the rest is garbage.
 
television and propaganda blinds everything. If people stop watching and talking about trash, the trash will go away. Paris and the likes exist, because people allow them to.
 
It's all garbage. The weather forecast is just a teaser to entice viewers to sit through a some more commercials before learning that a terrifying snow flurry might strike later in the week. "And stay tuned to Channel 3 during the week for up to the minute updates." As for sports . . . I admit I watch every Red Sox broadcast I can and it isn't PBS we're watching Saturday & Sunday afternoons through the fall, but Marx had it all wrong when he said religion is the opium of the people. Sports are.
 
Former FBI agent, Cleon Skoussen, in 1958, in his book, THE NAKED COMMUNIST, revealed among other things, these long term goals of the communist agenda. The information is in the Congressional Record August 1963 and in the Communist Manifesto:

Sound familiar?

Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.
Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Get control of the teachers associations.
Gain control of all student newspapers.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures and TV.
Present degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy.
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch.
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principles of separation of church and state.
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part in the big picture.
Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the communist apparatus.
Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American traditions; that students and special interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political and social problems.
 
Uhhh..... can you elaborate please? Sound familiar to what/who? I don't understand what all that has to do with celebrity worship (don't take that literally)?


All of that just sounds like 1950's era paranoia anyway.
 
I get a kick out of that list. Change a few words in each clause, call it the Naked Fascist and a different group of paranoid people will say, "It does sound familiar!"
 
What are you guys talking about?

Erm.... Is this like Naked Lunch or something (good by the way!)?
 
Communist takeover is nothing but a mythical boogey-man used to scare the populace into submission.

As for the reporter in the video, it's quite tragic and poingiant. Look at her, watch her reactions. Here's a woman who likely wanted to be a reporter since she was a kid, fought her way tooth and nail through the ranks, and when she finally achieved her dream, it had been diluted and perverted into nothing but a purveyor of trite pabulum which a moronic and disconnected public eagerly laps up as the world passes them by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Brzezinski
The woman's been in broadcasting for nearly 20 years, and has contributed to NBC Nightly News and other real news programs. Yet she's forced to cover Paris. Frankly, if she hasn't been fired, she'll probably quit in disgust, since nothing with change no matter what she does.

I swear, I could write a whole novel from that one scene. We're watching the straw break the camel's back, the point in the life of a serious reporter when the stupidity and banality of the public finally pushes them past the tipping point. The infantile antics of her worthless co-hosts, jeering at her expense, are just sickening.

This is most saddening commentary on the state of 'news' that I've ever seen.

Mokele
 
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