Robert Bridge – Strategic Culture Feb 9, 2022
Not since the Vietnam War – when liberals behaved like peaceniks and not the Neocon country cousins they’ve become – has the media seriously scrutinized the US government’s arguments for military exploits abroad.
From the oilfields of Iraq, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to Trump’s classic head fake in Syria when a few missiles demolished a deserted airfield, triggering NBC host Brian Williams to get all choked up over “the beauty of our weapons,” the MSM has dutifully played water boy to Uncle Sam’s overseas misadventures. Somewhere, somehow along the way Americans inherited a Fourth Estate that actively promotes military aggression abroad.
Last week, however, it looked as though the White House press corps experienced an awakening of sorts as the risk of Russia and NATO stumbling headlong into Armageddon looked razor close. That epic moment in US media history happened when State Department spokesman Ned Price, fleshing out an earlier report from the Washington Post, claimed that the Kremlin was producing a video of a mass casualty event in Ukraine to be used as a pretext for a Russian invasion.
According to Price, the video is “fabricated by Russian intelligence using crisis actors” and is “one of a number of options the Russian government is developing as a fake pretext to initiate and potentially justify military aggression against Ukraine.”
Reporter: “It’s an action that you say they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to confirm that. […] This is like – crisis actors? Really? This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now.”
Must-watch exchange between @APDiploWriter Matt Lee and @StateDeptSpox. pic.twitter.com/RPIPb2zwf5
— The Hill (@thehill) February 3, 2022
In the past, these zero-calorie morsels of intel from the State Department would have been gobbled up by the press and regurgitated across every front page the very next morning. But just as Price was about to move on to more pressing matters, like maybe what flavor ice cream the Commander-in-Chief prefers this week, something weird happened.
Matt Lee, a veteran writer with the Associated Press, unexpectedly pounced on Price, demanding to know how he can “support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?” At one point Lee even suggested “this is Alex Jones territory” with regards to the idea of crisis actors being employed.
In other words, Lee wanted something that the White House hasn’t been forced to produce since Monica Lewinsky’s stained blue dress surfaced at Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment trial – gold ol’ fashioned, hardcore evidence. Price, visibly stunned, apparently couldn’t believe that the term “intelligence” no longer worked to mollify a roomful of reporters as it once did.
What is so laughable about the Price-Lee standoff is how a US reporter simply doing his job – pressing the State Department for evidence regarding an unclassified intelligence report – has actually turned into a major news story. And as the Price-Lee saga went viral, the main question – the veracity of the ‘Russian video’ claim – went conveniently missing in action. This shows how far the paying audience has allowed the establishment to travel from that safe space known as reality.
At a time when so many media stories are generously peppered with anonymous citations from various ‘former senior intelligence officials’ and ‘high-ranking diplomats,’ it’s no wonder that government officials feel they too are at liberty to spew ‘intelligence’ without the need to demonstrate its authenticity. Why should Lee have expected anything more than a verbal assurance when the majority of news channels and publications are themselves guilty of such shoddy standards (even the highly respected journalist Seymour Hersh was called out for the excessive use of anonymous attribution, as he did in his windy 10,128-word essay detailing the US military’s 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan)?
While it is necessary for the media and government to ‘protect national security secrets,’ this excuse has been tossed around so many times in the past that the majority of news stories “might have been written by Lewis Carroll,” to borrow a line from Hersh’s abovementioned fantasy piece. It’s no wonder that fake news of the Russiagate variety, alongside military disasters based on ‘intelligence errors’ like Iraq, flourish like the Tom Clancy shelf at the local bookstore.
Following this unseemly showdown at the State Department, Rice and Lee reportedly made amends in a phone call and everything was hunky dory. So hunky dory, in fact, that the media practically carried out a false flag itself, possibly as an act of penance for Lee wandering so far off the reservation.
The renowned @APDiploWriter and I have had our fair share of sparring sessions, and I have the scars to prove it. Clearly, he’s no one’s dupe, and I’d never want to suggest otherwise. Nothing but respect for him, which I underscored in a call to him after the briefing.
— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) February 3, 2022
On Saturday, Bloomberg News agency, instead of maybe doing a deep dive on the wild Russian video claim, ‘accidentally’ hit ‘publish’ on a headline that read, ‘Live: Russia invades Ukraine’. It just so happened that the editors at the news agency, so the story goes, had that apocalyptic headline all type-set and ready to go, you know, just in case. Incredibly, this latest media glitch just happened to target the all-time favorite bogeyman (aside from Donald Trump) of the Democratic Party and just hours after the White House was forced to walk back its ‘Russian false flag’ conspiracy theory.
It was not the Russians who staged a false flag attack, but rather a major US news agency – and on a Saturday night, of all nights, when cognitive thinking abilities are most likely to be severely impaired. The question now is: how much lower can the mainstream media go? Currently, 57% of Democrats say they trust the media and only 18% of Republicans, according to Edelman’s annual trust barometer as reported by Axios. At the same time, 58% think that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.”
So Bloomberg has the headline "Russia Invades Ukraine" ready, just in case. pic.twitter.com/h3zPNhhLwp
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) February 5, 2022
With the prospect of a possible war-by-proxy or worse erupting between Russia and NATO over highly volatile Ukraine, which Zbigniew Brzezinski listed as one of the “critically important geopolitical pivots” on the grand chessboard, the importance of a viable and trustworthy media to hold government officials to task has rarely been greater. Yet here we have a media industrial complex that, in the best case, acts as a ‘weapon of mass distraction,’ and, in the worst case, one of potential mass destruction. Americans must expect better from its floundering media; there is simply too much at stake.
See how sheeple truther (lol) rewrite history?
“Not since the Vietnam War – when liberals behaved like peaceniks”. Let’s think about the sheeple who actually fought in Vietnam. They were for the most part, very right-wing men who were very happy to make war where ever the elite told them to go.
Now, I’m no Vietnam war specialist, but I’ve not heard one single Vietnam veteran ever say this war was a good thing. In the wider sheeple population, the feeling of waste, cost, and loss of life simply wasn’t worth it. This wasn’t a lefty or Right wing thing. For all the so called hippies, they are senior citizens today, leading capitalist lifestyles and probably think socialist Biden is a tosser.
So called US liberals are more right-wing than UK Tories. There’s no right wing in any Western democracy which comes close to the so called US leftwing liberals. Only the UK is close, but the gap is still big. So I only read the very first bit of this article. I am sure that if I read all of it, I be here for a week picking it apart, and I don’t have the time to sort through rubbish.
Russia shouldn’t mess around with these menaces. Use napalm.
The Biden administration withheld $10 billion belonging to Afghanistan when US troops officially ended their occupation.
Biden administration has decided to return $5 billion, the other $5 billion is to be divided among the families of American victims of 9/11. They blamed Iran many years ago now they’re blaming Afghanistan.
What did Iran and Afghanistan have to do with 9/11?
Well we all know the answer…
Nothing.
America certainly has entered the twilight zone.
Jews must have told Biden they can get away with this.
It’s not so much that the role of the media has in any way changed, or that yellow journalism is in any way new…
The mainstream has always been mendacious propaganda owned by the governing classes, but now with alternatives available to anyone who can read and the ‘system’ itself so dysfunctional it looks unhinged.. they just rely on appeals to authority and censorship
Pravda was more ‘balanced’ and informative..
People can’t take any of it seriously….
Yes… a bit of honest pushback is always refreshing…but it wouldn’t surprise me if this whole Whitehouse crossing of swords was a piece of theater devised to give the MSM some vague appearance credibility..
and as usual the most notable element goes suspiciously unnoticed.. the yanks explicitly detailing what they have been up to all over the world, gladio and false flags a speciality (particularly recently in Syria) and projecting it onto ‘Russians’..
They really are a freaky bunch of imbeciles… (and getting freakier)..
Yes, no doubt about it, Judenpresse is a weapon of mass destruction, Organized Jewry’s main gun, only behind the shekel printing machine.
Without the Judenpresse the shekel printing machine would crumble overnight because is based on trust only, it would not survive after August, 1971. At least it shouldn’t, that should be the end of the dollar as international currency. Monopoly money works if society believes Jewish papers represent value. That’s an old Jewish trick (according to Wallace Rosenthal) – to exchange things of real value for Jewish papers – they have made a fortune with this magic alchemy for dupes.
Despite speeches of tolerance by Judeo-Commie demagogues the Jew doesn’t tolerate competition in this area. No diversity of speech, no exercise on brainstorming, criminalization of thought, pasteurization of information for the masses, non-differentiation between to TALK (no big deal) and to DO (big deal), etc. Actually, if think about it, the Jew doesn’t tolerate competition in ANY area.
We are living unprecedented monopoly of political speech at the (iron) hands of the tolerant, diverse, democratic and socially responsible. It is so great these people are there to protect us and our families from dangerous misinformation. Thank you!!
911 was done by Israel and the ZUS and to see how it was done , go to drjudywood.com and wheredidthetowersgo.com
> The Biden administration withheld $10 billion belonging to Afghanistan
Where did this $10 billion come from?
How did midden end up in possession of the $10 billion?
The reporter uses Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook problems as a bad example of political machinations when all Jones did was reveal some of the routine trickery of the Deep State.
The headline asks, “Is the American Legacy Media a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’?” Is that even a question? As we all know, the legacy media is more than just a weapon of mass destruction; it is a putrid shit-stain on the fabric of humanity and the enemy of everything good, just, reasonable, and sane.
The piece starts by mentioning that vile sniveling sack of pig vomit Brian Williams. Williams doesn’t even have to open his mouth and it is obvious he is lying. His weasely, contorted visage as he tries to project what he apparently thinks is how an actual human being would display empathy speaks volumes. Then, you can safely bet every cent you have that everything coming out of that asshole’s mouth is a lie.
That vile satanic whore Williams, and all of his ilk, is fully deserving of being stripped naked, his ribs and jaw broken with brass knuckles and tire irons, dragged through the streets by his ankles, his tongue cut out and stuffed up his own ass, vigorously flogged, rolled in pig shit and salt, then nailed to a tree and left to think about his crimes against humanity. Same with that sniveling c*nt Ned Price.
I’ve said it before here many times, and I’ll say it again; corporate media should be required to post warnings before and during every broadcast or publication. As courts have declared that “news” is just another form of entertainment, courts have also determined the “news” is under no obligation to tell the truth, that they are free to slant, distort, wildly embellish, and outright fabricate and lie. They can be held to account for slander and libel against individuals, but they can otherwise legally spout outrageous lies and complete fabrications. Most citizens don’t realize this, to their detriment.
So, “news” programs should be required to have a warning label before every broadcast and after every commercial break, or newspapers print a giant warning label right under the main banner. That warning label should say something like, “WARNING! What you are about to be subjected to is for Entertainment Purposes ONLY. The following segments may not be factual or truthful. Though the following may be loosely based on actual events, all details and aspects presented are under no legal obligation to be truthful, factual, or accurate. WARNING!”
Anyone in violation of giving that warning should be dragged out of the studio and immediately flogged and hanged, all on camera.
SINCE SOLDIERS ARE NO MORE TO
BE DRAFTED NECESSARY IN COMING
MISSILE WAR SO THE PROPAGANDA
MEDIAS ARE NO MORE NECESSARY
AS NOBODY BELIEVES THEM ANYWAY
harry on February 12, 2022 at 3:47 pm
911 was done by Israel and the ZUS and to see how it was done , go to drjudywood.com and wheredidthetowersgo.com
Boy Guoy on February 12, 2022 at 4:25 pm
> The Biden administration withheld $10 billion belonging to Afghanistan
Where did this $10 billion come from?
How did midden end up in possession of the $10 billion?
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When you occupy the country you help yourself to everything.
When you consider the damage the US has done; by your own admission you say Afghanistan didn’t do 9/11 but US forces invaded, killed, maimed and destroyed, that alone is worth far more than $10 billion.
Goy Buoy says
harry don’t waste my time.
Those who deliberately get my handle wrong are trolls.
You don’t like Goy Buoy…
You must be a Jew?
Judy Wood…hey?
Sorry Harry
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Boy Guoy on February 12, 2022 at 4:25 pm
> The Biden administration withheld $10 billion belonging to Afghanistan
Where did this $10 billion come from?
How did midden end up in possession of the $10 billion?
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Murder and criminal damage for a start, old Boy.