6,000 Troops To US-Mexico Border
Bush announces that he is sending the military down to the southern US border to kill Mexicans seeking work in the US. The stenographers over at the Associated Press characterize that as Bush seeking 'the middle ground'.Killing poor, brown workers is now the middle ground. What's extreme then?That's how these guys work. And it doesn't work the other way around as some on the left believe, claiming we need to take over the corporate media. Where are the instances of the media overblowing Americans feelings about labor unions and against corporate influence? The corporate media is a one way right-wing check valve
US(?) Assaults WireTapping Lawsuit
One of, if not the most ubiquitous print media psyop is the Orwellian headline. The San Francisco Chronicle, aided by self-identifying progressive website Common Dreams, is shopping the headline operation to its readership.
U.S. Opens Assault On Wiretap Suit
Now go back up and read it again. And wrap your mind around what it actually says, not what you know they mean.
The US gov’t led by the Bush presidential administration is being sued by US citizens working together in a group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
However, the headline states that the U.S. is assaulting the suit.
The headline, as a logical imperative, implies that only the defendants are Americans when anyone familiar with the situation knows that U.S. citizens are filing suit against the U.S. gov’t. One can only assume three things:
- The editors are grammatically inept meaning it is an innocent mistake.
- The editors see nothing wrong with the grammar as they think in a fascist framework which identifies the gov’t first as the country, the citizens granted some lesser status.
- The editors understand the inaccuracy and perpetrate it consciously to communicate an idea identifying the gov’t as the U.S. while relegating citizens, particularly ones opposing the gov’t, to some lesser status.
Consume at your own risk.
