Posted on 02/13/2024 6:52:10 AM PST by Red Badger
Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.
How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.
When Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin got together for that viral interview, they actually discussed how US propaganda got so incredibly strong.
Transcript via Vigilant Fox:
TUCKER ASKS PUTIN: “If you had evidence … that NATO, the US, CIA, the West, did this [Nord Stream], why wouldn’t you present it and win a propaganda victory?”
(Putin Laughs)
PUTIN: “In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media is American financial institutions. Don’t you know that? It is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost-prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information, and we will not achieve results.”
Dems have perfected the art of propaganda, so much so that their propaganda machine operates under the guise of being the arbiters of truth, with their “disinformation campaigns” and “saving democracy” pledges and whatnot, and we have Obama to thank for that.
Wall Street Apes:
The Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin Interview Highlighted American Media Tightly Controls The Propaganda Being Spewed Into The United States & Europe
Barack Obama is Responsible
“Obama repealed the 1948 Smith–Mundt Act, which then permitted propaganda to be in broadcasting. It no longer said that it had to be credible”
This was National Reporting On Barack Obama Being Responsible For The Media Being Allowed To Use Propaganda Against The American People
Watch:
What’s really interesting is how the AP tried to “fact-check” this claim about Obama “creating propaganda” in broadcasting and debunk it; instead, they ended up confirming it.
AP:
CLAIM:
Former President Barack Obama signed a law in 2012 allowing government propaganda in the U.S., and making it “perfectly legal for the media to purposely lie to the American people.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT:
False. In 2013, Obama signed legislation that changed the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act. The amendment made it possible for some materials created by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the nation’s foreign broadcasting agency, to be disseminated in the U.S.
THE FACTS:
A post circulating on Facebook with a photo of Obama falsely states he repealed a ban on government propaganda in the U.S. when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act in 2013. The amendment did not repeal the Smith-Mundt Act, but rather lifted some restrictions on the domestic dissemination of government-funded media.
The change essentially eased restrictions for Americans who want to access government-funded media content, allowing media produced by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, to be made available to Americans “upon request.”
The “upon request” tagged at the end of that “fact check” is pure comedy gold. As if the media and government ever wait around to be asked before they start pushing propaganda down our collective gullets. The root of most of the turmoil we’re facing today can be traced back to one Marxist man, who, despite leaving office with a paper-thin record of achievements, had a long-lasting impact. Back then, we didn’t see the full picture, but it’s clear now: Obama’s legacy isn’t about what he built; it’s about the chaos he left behind. And to this day, the Dems and Deep State are still running the show and using his playbook.
I didn’t know this about Obama, but then I couldn’t actively campaign against him anyway. Who knows what other surprises about him may be in store?
My own Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) co-sponsored and pushed that Obama Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
It was one of the big reasons I ran against him in 2012.
My own Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) co-sponsored and pushed that Obama Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
It was one of the big reasons I ran against him in 2012.
My own Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) co-sponsored and pushed that Obama Smith-Mundt Modernization Act through Congress.
That is one of the main reasons I ran against him in 2012.
Sorry for the duplicate -— computer froze up and it said it didn’t complete the first time. Oops.
0bola aka “Steaming” (his name at our house, short for “Steaming Pile” was a pawn being moved around by handlers. Just as Pedo Sniffer is. I remember seeing 0bola at a press conference with no noties. He coouldn’t even say a complete sentence. He’s damaged goods, and drug habits never help anyone’s mental acuity.
PS - His handlers, of course, are evil but somewhat smart.
The courts in WA State actually ruled that it is legal for a politician to tell a political lie about an opponent. Conversely, I think that politicians can tell lies about themselves, too.
In 2007, the supreme Courtof WA Dtste ruled that it was perfectly legal to tell a political lie. Furthermore, they ruled that the government was the supreme arbiter of the truth. In other words, the truth is relative. Sound familiar? That is how they get away with global warming, gender issues and critical race theory.
This made big news in WA, but it took Obama until 2013 to reinforce it on the federal level. The heavy work was already done for him, though.
BTTT!
So, did the repeal of this law pave the way for the extravagant settlement for Michael Mann against Mark Stein? There is an article on American Thinker that quotes Mann’s lawyer telling the jury that the settlement must stop all the attacks on all climate scientists because he couldn’t show much of a case for financial damage to Mann?
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