Posted on 06/20/2014 2:28:53 PM PDT by PoloSec
The Obama administration has been awash with scandals – some that have been said to surpass Watergate – and yet America’s mainstream press has apparently forgotten its role as watchdog, claims Fox Business News’ Lou Dobbs, and his award-winning journalist guest has a theory as to why.
Emmy-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson appeared on the June 19 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” program and explained the media isn’t digging into allegations the White House used the power of the IRS to target tea-party groups because “propaganda interests” have intimidated reporters so severely, they’re afraid if they cover the administration’s scandals, they’ll be seen as a “right-wing nut.”
“Whether it’s Fast and Furious, whether it is spying on a journalist, whether it’s IRS targeting, Benghazi, the list goes on and on and on,” Dobbs posited to Attkisson. “Yet the national liberal media, as I often style it, simply will not rise up to the level of a watchdog for the state. Instead they are behaving much more like lap dogs. It is, to me, mind boggling.”
Attkisson suggested some reporters may simply not be that interested in these scandal stories, but she also suggested there may be more nefarious forces at work.
“I think to some degree they have been played by propaganda interests who suggest that if these stories are covered, they are simply phony scandals and Republican generated. Which they’re not, in my opinion,” she said. “From a neutral viewpoint there are many important questions to be asked and implications here. But the propaganda campaign says that if you’re interested in the story you’re a conservative and a right-wing nut.
“Media should not be swayed by that,” she concluded, “but I think to some degree they are.”
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One should be proud to be a pervert but ashamed to be a conservative.
The Liberal media and the Liberal politicians (along with academia, Hollywood, lawyers, CPAs, and Big Business, esp the banks) are beholden to the same masters - the Ruling Elite. They are transforming our military as well.
So, they follow the line so their buddies won’t frown at them? Whatever happened to their watchdog of democracy crap? I guess that only applies when Republicans are in the White House.
Does 40,000 innocent children brought to the US/Mexico Border due to illegal promises and illegal Executive “Dreamer” Orders from Obama qualify Obama to be placed on the US State Department’s Blacklist for Human Trafficking?
If anyone of them tells the truth they are called right wing nuts, racists etc.
Lies and name calling are all the MSM is capable of.
I don't get what is happening. How can unaccompanied minors just wander across the border???
Absolutely gutless. None deserve their constitutional protections, treasonous B@STARDS!
At least it is known who they are.
Sharyl is missing the core point...
Comrade obamatollah is a communist with a deep hatred of America and the Constitution.
The “news” propagandists belong to the same satanic cult and act as guard dogs for their messiah.
It’s not that difficult to grasp.
Two of the radical left’s goals, from well before 1963:
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
We said, “It can’t happen here.”
It did.
Reporters?? Journalists?? More likely, boot-lickers, toadies, azz-kissers, cowards, or the more traditional brown-nosers? Incompetant, unprofessional, ametuers, all (well...at least, most).
I’m wondering if “Through the Looking Glass” was banned or burned before today’s generations.
I’m wondering if “Through the Looking Glass” was banned or burned before today’s generations.
I know it sounds hard, but head down to McAllen, Texas some time and hang out down by the river (Rio Grande). Getting across is easy... Maybe 3 or 4 feet deep in many places... 70, maybe 80 feet wide. Any 10 year old could do it alone and he could cross in about 3 or 4 minutes if he can swim. Lots of tree cover too.
bkmk
Hell Rupert Murdoch is a pure amnesty freak who is dining with Valerie Jarret and he owns fox news. if Murdoch is an amnesty freak then the owners of the liberal media are simply foreigners who can’t wait to feed on whatever left that’s good about America. that is the bosses of the liberal networks are pure predictors. no wonder their employees are terrified.
The MSM’s dependent on democrats for stories to cover.
They’re like a caricature of a black welfare community... they vote for democrats, do what they can for democrats and in the darkest corner of their souls knows they’ve sold out for next to nothing...
Au Contraire - they’re afraid that they’ll demonstrate that us “right-wing-nuts” are right and them left wing fascists are wrong.
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