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Time Magazine: We Don’t Report the News, We Write it

Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abuses

No matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that “nobody cares” about the countless abuses of spying powers by the Bush administration; that “Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security”; and that the case against unchecked government surveillance powers “hasn’t convinced the people.” Not a single fact — not one — is cited to support these sweeping, false opinions….

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...Does Calabresi or his Time editors have the slightest idea how secret, illegal spying powers have been used, towards what ends they’ve been employed and with what motives? No, they have absolutely no idea. Not even members of Congressional Intelligence Committees know because the Bush administration has kept all of that concealed…

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….Time claims that “nobody cares” about the Government’s increased spying powers and that “polling consistently supports that conclusion.” They don’t cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false.

Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is “very secretive” has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%) and that “nearly nine in 10 say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government when deciding who to vote for….”

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This is a great Greenwald piece. It is why the second act of any new President should be to appoint new FCC commissioners that will immediately proceed to bust up the media cartel in this country.

But, of course, no presidential candidate could possibly divulge his/her intention to do this as part of their campaign platform without eliminating all possibility of being elected because of the negative media onslaught that would ensue.

Catch 22

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1. By bushtool on March 18th, 2008 at 9:12 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
Well, according to Thom Hartmann, that’s what did Dean in.
He says that he watched Dean - then the media darling of the ought-four election - talk about doing that very thing on a talkshow and he (Hartmann) said that he thought then that the tide would turn on him, and it did.
Then they showed him in the eleventh hour on a lackluster night, cut the sound from the audience so he’d sound weird and played it ad-nauseum.
Who run Bartertown?

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2. By Rich on March 18th, 2008 at 9:47 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).