The Political And Media Play-Act

Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Media .. all 4 legs of the government as expressed in the Constitution - are now bought out by the Corporate Executives. And on the face of it, what's everyone's excuse? "We need Corporate help to buy ads on TV," say the Executives/Legislators/Judges. "We need Corporate ad money to bring you the best reporting in the world," say the media. But that's just a game they play.

So when you say, "Why won't you raise taxes on the rich?" they say - "Don't punish success." But whose success? Their success. "Tax cuts help politicians and media execs stay rich," is something you will not hear them say. Rather, they say, "We can't tax the job-creators because then they will move elsewhere and the economy will crash and we will be destitute." This is just extortion, plain and simple. But the Media REFUSES to point it out, because they know this is just a game as well.

And why *would* the Media say that Corporate Executives are extorting the politicians into keeping taxes on them low? After all, the same extortion exists with Media ad sales: "Spin the news so it's favorable to the big Corporations, or your ad accounts will dry up." Again, it's just a game at this point, because there's no WAY a Media group would shoot themselves in the foot and lose that sweet Corporate ad-money. So it stretches the truth, here and there.

Patriotic CEOs and Boards of Directors: A Recent History

1950s: Company X sucks because its CEO is making more than $400,000 after deductions, stealing profits from the workers and from the economy. How selfish!

1980-now: Company X is the greatest because its CEO is making more than $400,000,000 after deductions, because without that CEO, the company would crash and burn, or so says the Board of Directors and Sean Hannity.

De-Fund NPR, or Don't

It doesn't matter if NPR gets its 3% of funding from the Feds slashed: The Hannitys and Becks and FOX Newses of the world will still say "Taxpayer-supported Public Radio" for 20 years or more after the funding stops. And the Media will say, "Yeah, that's a lie, but Fox will say that 'taxpayers still call in and donate, so it *is* taxpayer-funded',and we don't feel like clarifying. Too contentious and Liberal."

Just like the above clowns like to say "Air America went bankrupt" over and over and over again. Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann and Mike Malloy and Randi Rhodes are still on the air, though. Again - the Media doesn't care to correct them. Too Liberal to point that out.