Remember when Pravda was the centralized propaganda machine for the Communist Party in the Soviet Union? Not that long ago. Well, NewsCorp has taken over that dubious distinction for the Conservative party in the United States. Backed by billionaire owner, Rupert Murdoch, who along with the billionaire Oil Industry tycoon Koch brothers, is one of the biggest backers of the Tea Party movement, Fox News spews out pro- Conservative/ Corporate propaganda and attacks the government every day and every night. Pravda goes primetime with patriotic platitudes!.
Money buys a lot of arrogant talk from hosts who disrupt anyone who attempts to answer a question with a factual response that conflicts with the narrow political view of the media's owner. Like some GOP candidates who dont believe in debate or appearing on any show that doesnt fully support their candidacy or feed them only the questions they want to answer, Fox spins the news into a vortex of doom every day and every night. No wonder grampa and gramma are convinced that they should fear for their savings, their health care, and their American values. Fox has them convinced that an out of control tornado is about to take their roof off......and that tornado is their own government.
The FOX credo is ATTACK the government! Not the big banking Corporations who charge them skyrocketing interest on their credit cards . Not the Wall Street bandits who gambled money and lost so that the common man has lost the opportunity to borrow on that money to finance a small business or home loan . Not the Oil Industry Corporations who continue to make record profits each year, yet refuse to elimninate $18 billion lumps of sugar in tax breaks. Not the pirates like the ones at Goldman Sachs that buried billions offshore in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes on profits, then lost it all. Not the Health Insurance Corporations whose top publicly traded companies showed profits that rose 428% between 2000 and 2007.
FOX media personalitiies, posing as historians and premonitionists, attempt to scare their viewers into fearing a common man who was elected president by the majority of Americans in a time of recession, loss, and great challenges inherited from the muddled policies of a former administration. It was the proudest ,moment in American Civil Rights history when the people of this nation came together and elected their first Black American president. Yet Fox celebritiies ignore this proud acheiivement in calling for viewers to take their Civil Rights back and restore honor that has somehow been misplaced somce then.
I fear. I fear the power of billionaires who covertly produce a political party, direct puppets on news programs, and pay, pay, and pay in order to promote their own agenda and control the political views of our voting citizens.
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