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12 November 2010
Perhaps Americans and President Barak Obama signed off on the notion that “The
people have spoken” in Tuesday’s mid-term election, before taking the time to
read what is hidden in small print.
Are Sarah Palin and the “Tea Party movement”
truly representing the powerful voices of the American people, or were millions
of Americans hypnotized by the magic of poli-tricks whereby the true “power”
was camouflaged by journalistic smoke and mirrored lies. Look closer. I am convinced
you will find Tuesday’s results came by way of Americans being fooled by deceitful
hands (and words) that proved to be quicker than the mind and eyes.
Standing behind this smoke screen, you will find the largest media conglomerate
in America who has the muscle, the might, and the motive to successfully pull
off such a feat. I am referring to FOX News, which is part of News Corp, whose
earnings climbed 36% in its fiscal first quarter of this year. On its top line,
revenue increased to $7.43 billion.
News Corp is now undergoing the regulatory approval process for its proposed
acquisition of the remaining 60.9% of British Sky Broadcasting Group that it
does not already own, at a of price of $11.5 billion. By merging its wide array
of media assets, it would expand News Corp, while other media companies struggle.
Competitors and critics have objected to the deal, saying “it would give News
Corp. outsized market power.”
FOX News already dominates all of their cable news competitors, including CNN
and MSNBC through averaging 2.25 million primetime viewers daily.
Therefore, rather than succumbing to the thought the “American people have spoken”,
I contend, the election brings into question, the extent of mental control media
conglomerates such as News Corp have on its viewers through using repetitious,
divisive, and biased 24 hour cable news programming.
I further contend, the election may prove the need for new Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) guidelines to ensure such media conglomerates are not monopolizing
the market and using its media muscle/dollars to control and circumvent mental
freedom rather than responsibly providing facts that provoke free thinking.
I am also not convinced FOX is doing all it can to minimize the reporting of
distortions that needlessly exacerbate hatred, exclusion, violence, recruitment
of domestic terrorists, and add gasoline onto racially motivated fire that puts
the U.S. President and nation’s security at risk.
Far from being “Fair and Balanced” as claimed by its slogan, this mega-media
phenomenon appears to violate the basic concept of democracy when using its
multi-billion dollar empire and psychologically domineering multi-million-viewer
powerbase, to push its own highly partisan agenda. Likewise, FOX has become
similar to a massive ventriloquist who powerfully sits us on his lap, pulls
the strings, and speaks the words of his own voice and agenda through the mouths
of millions of American puppets who act upon and are subconsciously controlled
by a FOX ingrained message.
Like foreign dictatorships, media conglomerates such as News Corp allow their
programming such as FOX News to powerfully serve as a platform to strategically
polarize, divide and ultimately conquer the poor and working class citizenry
through the repetitious usage of race-baiting, fear-mongering, and other distasteful
forms of demagoguery . This is strategically done in the interests of America’s
or the world’s richest one percent , who realizes it would be impossible to
control the other 99% of the people if their minds were truly free. I am reminded
of Jesus’ of words, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Since the emergence of Barack Obama as a serious contender for the oval office
and ultimately throughout the duration of his 20 months serving as Commander-In-Chief,
FOX has relentlessly used its stature as the nation’s most powerful media conglomerate,
to wrongfully discredit, distort, and diminish the success of President Barack
Obama.
The true voice of the American people have no vested interests in helping to
exacerbate anger, magnify/amplify misinformation, provide fertile ground for
White Supremacists, and drive millions to the polls to illogically reward the
party of “NO”; recompense the party who has blatantly disrespected and refused
to cooperate with the first African-American U.S. President; and give more power
to the party who has shown no compassion for the working class, the poor, the
oppressed, and proven to favor only the rich.
And most importantly, Tuesday’s election backwardly empowered the very party
who for the last eight years, drove Americans into high rates of unemployment,
increased poverty amongst children by more than 11 percent, created the most
devastating economic recession since the Great Depression, and created unprecedented
foreign policy/military disaster while wasting taxpayer dollars, lying, inflating
the deficits, violating and rewriting the U.S. Constitution, and in other ways
actually doing for 8 long years, everything the Tea Partiers and other so-called
“Conservatives” are now deceitfully accusing President Obama of doing.
With this said, there is absolutely no way “the American People” won on Tuesday.
However, we can see how Tuesday’s outcome will serve the interests of News Corp.,
FOX News, it’s wealthy share holders, the richest one percent, and others who
have no compassion for poor children, diversity, livable wages, justice, and
the well-being of the larger struggling population of Americans. Yes, I agree,
on Tuesday, a certain voice spoke loud and clearly. However I adamantly disagree
with the notion it was the “American people” who spoke. If we dared to dig deeper,
if we dare to look beyond the mirrors and smoke, we will find, what we heard
was a deranged, self-serving voice from the multibillion dollar News Corp speaking
through millions of journalistically manipulated, angry American puppets.
