Media Jackals and the need for Populism
The Drama plays out as the Media struggles to control the
GOP Presidential Primary. All they
wanted was a clash of the dynasties that are beholden to the same financial
interests that brought us the Crash, Derivatives, Too Big to Fail and all the
other bailouts that ushered in stagnant incomes for the middle class, high
levels of poverty and the rich got richer and very little of it trickled
down. The Media is now part of the
establishment, much like the state owned Media in other countries. Their involvement in Media manipulation is
reprehensible and does not serve the people as in freedom of the press.
The Democrat Presidential Primary was said to be all in Bill
and Hillary’s control group until Sen. Bernie Sanders dared challenge the
Democrat establishment. Where is the
data about the sizes of the crowds Bill and Hillary attract? I am tired of being ‘directed’ by the Media
instead of the Media reporting what is going on. Of course the Media reserves the right to
tell you which ‘fact’ they prefer, like the annoying practice of cutting off a
live speech in favor of an interpretation of the speech made by a talking
head. Are they assuming people are
stupid and need their assistance in interpreting? The USA population is extremely literate and
I do believe they can decide for themselves what some candidate is really
saying.
The CNN people are gleefully reporting that Mr. Trump was
hiding after the ‘controversy’ he stirred up by not ‘correcting’ a member of
the audience. Freedom of speech
apparently needs defense against these members of the Media. The
only ‘controversy’ about the ‘incident’ was stirred up by members of the Media
and now they actually expect viewers to take them seriously as they vilify Mr.
Trump for not doing what they thought he should. I
really don’t care what members of the Media believe about the candidates. I don’t even want to know what they
think. The way they are going about ‘reporting’
is interspersing their opinions into the ‘news’ instead of having an official
time for commentary that is clearly defined as an editorial. They blur the line between fact and opinion
and fiction.
An e message going around shows that the Democrat Machine
has placed friends, beneficiaries and relatives in key media positions. Instead of appealing directly to the people,
they chose to go behind the scenes to restrict and slant the ‘news’ they feed to
a gullible public. It’s despicable and
is an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
In just a few minutes, I heard at least six negative
references to the GOP frontrunner made by the ‘journalists’ at CNN. I am not so foolish as to fall for this kind
of mental manipulation. Why should a
candidate correct a questioner? Who
decided that? Bash ‘em! Set the candidates on each other and report a
biased result? Give us all a break! And
this morning CNN is touting candidates response to Trump’s Obama comment, which
was actually made by a member of the audience.
It was too much for Rick Santorum, who put down the Media for even
dealing with the fake ‘issue’. So I see
some members of the Media as wildly prejudicial and totally unfair to Mr.
Trump. The Jackals of the Media attack
at will and if there is no reason to attack, they make one up.
Is the fight breaking down as a struggle between the Populists
and Wall Street? It seems that the
candidates on both sides are lining up for this epic event and the Media is on
the side of Wall Street instead of reporting the news from a balanced
perspective. I detest the idea of the
Media choosing presidential candidates.
It’s not their job.
So why would a struggle between Wall Street and the
Populists occur? A recent opinion on
Reuter’s recalled the ‘financialization’ of the nation and the concentration of
money in the hands of the few as a result of financial manipulation, rather
than in investing in a business and making money on the free market by
providing jobs, services and goods. I
always envisioned this as basketballs of money being thrown back and forth
above our heads, like lottery balls that never hit your number.
This financialization has cost jobs and huge sums sit in
offshore accounts and I guess there is no more moral imperative to invest in
the good old USA. So where is the reporting
on this important topic? It’s obvious
that Mr. Trump is correct when he says some of the financial people need less
preferential treatment than they are now getting from the tax code. Dirty fighting is nothing new from Wall
Streeters or politicians but the freedom of the Media should be sacrosanct
against dirty influence.
Rumor has it that Wall Street backed both sides in the
Presidential Elections and so won the election, kind of like China allegedly
buying ISIS oil and funding it by selling goods to the USA markets? The emergence of a populist candidate is
astonishing in the face of all this certainty that the most well funded
candidates will compete and one of them will continue the status quo in favor
of continuing the financialization trend.
Mr. Trump is a populist who made good and learned along the
way and I believe he truly wants to do right by the people of this nation. Investing in the nation and in job creation
and grand projects and small businesses and a flowing of money back in the
hands of the people with creative employment, services and innovation needs to
happen now.
