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The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/05/2007 : 17:26:36
Is Bruce Springsteen Unpatriotic for Opposing War?
Drudge Report
October 4, 2007

Rocker Bruce Springsteen answers critics who call his anti-war sentiments unpatriotic by saying the real sin against patriotism is saying nothing while your country is being harmed. Springsteen discusses this and other topics, including why he’s still writing songs and performing, in an interview with Scott Pelley to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 7 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET, 7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.

When reminded that his anti-war views, prominent on his new album, “Magic,” will cause people to say he is unpatriotic — as his critic have charged before — Springsteen says “That’s just the language of the day… the modus operandi for anybody who doesn’t like somebody… criticizing where we’ve been or where we’re going,” he tells Pelley. “I believe every citizen has a stake in the course, direction of their country. That’s why we vote… It’s unpatriotic at any given moment to sit back and let things pass that are damaging to some place that you love so dearly and that has given me so much,” says the 58-year-old musician.

In the interview, Springsteen points out the direction in which the U.S. is going, by his estimation. “I think we’ve seen things happen over the past six years that I don’t think anybody ever thought they’d ever see in the United States,” says Springsteen. “When people think of the Unites States’ identity, they don’t think of torture. They don’t think of illegal wiretapping. They don’t think of voter suppression,” he tells Pelley. “They don’t think of no habeas corpus,” he says, referring to the people being held by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“Those are things that are anti-American,” Springsteen says. “There’s been a whole series of things that… I never thought I’d ever see in America,” he tells Pelley.


Comments

JC ANDREWS on October 5th, 2007
Thanks to Bruce Springsteen for saying what many of us are thinking. I too have been seeing the premeditated attacks on our civil liberties and the loss of freedom of speech that astonish me. With Bruce’s celebrity, he may be able to help get the message to the masses that the main stream media are trying to keep in the dark. I am a life long Republican (NOT NEOCON) and Ron Paul is right that the true Republican party has been hijacked by these wolves in sheeps clothing trying to imprison us all. GO RON PAUL! and Go BOSS Springsteen in getting the message out to the sheeple!
Signed:Pissed in North Carolina!

Steve on October 5th, 2007
Well said Bruce, speak out loud and hard against this Tyranny! All celebrities should fight this now if we hope to turn it around. Wake the people up. No more wars of agression, no more police state, let liberty rule.
Steve

dscglf4 on October 5th, 2007
i have never really been much of a fan of “the Boss”,but i would never label him “un-patriotic”.
whats the name of that song,oh,you know what song i mean,its right on the tip of my tongue.you know, that song that has been over expoited all over the airwaves around july 4th. and also on numerous commercials and movies…
what is it? something something somewhere?its not “back in the u.s.s.r”…
we need more people who were “born in the u.s.a” to speak out…
it is un-patriotic to not question !!!

garry on October 5th, 2007
Anybody who is surprised that Springsteen is saying what he is sayiing on the new CD hasn’t been listening (of hearing) to what he has said in the past. Or misunderstood the words. “Born in the USA” was not an ode to America. It was an indictment.

Dab on October 5th, 2007
For most people under the age of 40, the Internet has changed our perspective of the world, Most young people seem to understand that something is very wrong. Witness the amount of traffic that alternative news sites attract and the drastically reduced rating neocon radio has experienced and the unprecedented support Ron Paul has garnished. Young people no longer trust the Government and the mass media. Young people see the erosion of liberty in America. Young people are learning the truth about the FED and IRS. Young people are realising to what extent Big business controls our government and thus controls us. Young people are beginning to question why we support a terrorist nation like Israel. Young people know that 911 was an inside job.

Those who remain ignorant of these truths are almost exclusively older people who still get their news from mass media sources.

A revolution is brewing. There is no doubt in my mind.
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The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/10/2007 : 14:10:39
I like it. I liked this whole album. Bruce is cool for that kind of music. I used to snob him but my friends got me listening to him. In between me shoving the Gang Of Four down their throats back in the day.

Listen to the words. http://youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk
He's not blindly waving any plastic flags. The video may be but he's not.

I have a head band on right now while cranking this video. Of course I had it on way before the video. I'm in the middle of an intense workout on my "Lateral Thigh Trainer".


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misterwoe Posted - 10/10/2007 : 13:52:19
I don't know about patriotism, but that song "Born in the USA" is god-awful. I mean seriously -- who likes that action?

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The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/10/2007 : 11:04:21
quote:
Originally posted by lonely persuader

I saw the episode of south park last nite, "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce". It reminded me of KOK.
Brilliant stuff. Cartman does a great powerpoint presentataion!!!

here it is
http://allsp.com/l.php?id=e148



That one is classic and it reminded me of myself as well. I was the dude with the model of the towers in my house. I've mellowed quite a bit though.

If I may let me show you another fine example of government controlled media. Last night there was a CNBC Republican debate. I did not see it but am getting to see clips on Youtube as they are posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHDiMz5g3QU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJFpcNqdiY

They had a poll afterwards and apparently Ron Paul was once again dominating this poll. So... They delete it.


I just received this in an email from Ron Paul 2008 headquarters.

CNBC not only closed the poll on their website, they completely deleted the results. Maybe they didn't like the fact that over 70% was voting in favor of Ron Paul, or maybe they just had a technical error. You can still find the results on internet search engines (http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_Wins_CNBC_GOP_Pre_Debate_Poll_by_a_landslide_68).

For the time being, MSNBC is still allowing people to rate the candidates (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21116732).


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Cheeseman1000 Posted - 10/10/2007 : 03:06:44
quote:
Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke

And sorry that's "CIA Shill".


I liked it better as shrill.
lonely persuader Posted - 10/10/2007 : 02:46:03
I saw the episode of south park last nite, "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce". It reminded me of KOK.
Brilliant stuff. Cartman does a great powerpoint presentataion!!!

here it is
http://allsp.com/l.php?id=e148
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 20:32:32
Do you know what I find most intriguing and difficult to understand? All of my friends - of which there is an extensive group - are on exactly the same page as me. 9/11, controlled media, you name it but trying to get this message out to a bunch of strangers while sitting at a keyboard is like talking to a cinder block wall.

WTF? I don't get it.

It's not like I'm sitting here alone in my underwear going crazy about this shit. I find this - although difficult - to be quite a challenge, and therefore extremely entertaining.

Why do so many people "get it" and so many do not?

Sorry Bill O'Reilly wasn't part of "Operation Mockingbird" but actually "Operation Spotted Owl" or whatever as of yet undisclosed secret program.

Here read this again. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_vi_ranse_071004_atavism.htm
Google search of "names of government secret programs" - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=names+of+secret+government+programs&btnG=Google+Search

How about U.S. Eugenics programs Darwin? When did they exist? Anyone?


The following is a list of this century's most controversial government activities from

1931

Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.

1935

The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occurred within poverty-striken black populations.

1940

Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.

1942

Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.

1943

In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.

1944

U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.

1945

Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.

"Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.

1946

Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.

1947

Colonel E. E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1950

Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.

In an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Francisco. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

1951

Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.

1953

U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.

CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955

The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.

Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.

1956

U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958

LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960

The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the European population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1965

Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965

Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966

CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967

CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968

CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969

Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.

1970

Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.

United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.

1975

The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

1977

Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978

Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.

1981

First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine

1985

According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.

1986

According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.

1987

Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1990

More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994

With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasmaincognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .

1995

U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996

Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

1997

Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.

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jimmy Posted - 10/09/2007 : 19:53:22
thank you. yes, but I'll do it tomorrow

my friend posted MORE NEW paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong
coastline Posted - 10/09/2007 : 19:16:58
quote:
Originally posted by jimmy

The FCC itself is a violation of the 1st ammendment and never should've existed.

Intriguing comment, jimmy. Can you expand on it?


Please pardon me, for these my wrongs.
jimmy Posted - 10/09/2007 : 19:14:47
I just want to point out, in general, but mostly to KoK, even if all the major news outlets really are controlled by either major corporations or the government, there is nothing at all stopping you from being the #1 source for news in America. I'm not being sarcastic.
If you don't like Fox or CNN or The New York Times or USA Today, then compete with them. This is still a free country*, so within , say, 5 years anyone of us here on the forum could be a major news outlet in America.

* The FCC itself is a violation of the 1st ammendment and never should've existed.

my friend posted MORE NEW paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 18:07:44
quote:
Originally posted by darwin

So you're no longer going to stand by your original posting about Mockingbird? You're going to say this happened therefore how do you know that didn't happen? You're unstoppable. You never face up to mistakes and respond to them by just piling on more links and mistakes.



As I said.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:39:25
quote:
Originally posted by darwin

That the US army helped orchestrate the pulling of the statue was reported by the "evil" mass media days after it happened. Long before you put up links.

So, are you going to continue flooding with links rather than admit that your O'Reilly link was wrong?



I'm not sure you are getting the point of that pic. They not only helped pull it down but they brought in a select group of supposed pro american Iraqi's and did close up shopt's of the square to make it appear as though it was swamped with people. The guy riding the head as a supposed Iraqi citizen was one of Chalabi's right hand men that arrived the day before with Chalabi' by special US envoy.

That's what I'm trying to point out in that picture. Not that US troops helped pull it down.



How the news will be censored in this war

A new CNN system of 'script approval' suggests the Pentagon will have nothing to worry about

Robert Fisk - 25 February 2003

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=381438

Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be "embedded" among the US marines and infantry. The degree of censorship hasn't quite been worked out. But it doesn't matter how much the Pentagon cuts from the reporters' dispatches. A new CNN system of "script approval" ? the iniquitous instruction to reporters that they have to send all their copy to anonymous officials in Atlanta to ensure it is suitably sanitised ? suggests that the Pentagon and the Department of State have nothing to worry about. Nor do the Israelis.

Indeed, reading a new CNN document, "Reminder of Script Approval Policy", fairly takes the breath away. "All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval," it says. "Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved... All packages originating outside Washington, LA (Los Angeles) or NY (New York), including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW in Atlanta for approval."

The date of this extraordinary message is 27 January. The "ROW" is the row of script editors in Atlanta who can insist on changes or "balances" in the reporter's dispatch. "A script is not approved for air unless it is properly marked approved by an authorised manager and duped (duplicated) to burcopy (bureau copy)... When a script is updated it must be re-approved, preferably by the originating approving authority."

Note the key words here: "approved" and "authorised". CNN's man or woman in Kuwait or Baghdad ? or Jerusalem or Ramallah ? may know the background to his or her story; indeed, they will know far more about it than the "authorities" in Atlanta. But CNN's chiefs will decide the spin of the story.

CNN, of course, is not alone in this paranoid form of reporting. Other US networks operate equally anti-journalistic systems. And it's not the fault of the reporters. CNN's teams may use clich?s and don military costumes ? you will see them do this in the next war ? but they try to get something of the truth out. Next time, though, they're going to have even less chance.

Just where this awful system leads is evident from an intriguing exchange last year between CNN's reporter in the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah, and Eason Jordan, one of CNN's top honchos in Atlanta.

The journalist's first complaint was about a story by the reporter Michael Holmes on the Red Crescent ambulance drivers who are repeatedly shot at by Israeli troops. "We risked our lives and went out with ambulance drivers... for a whole day. We have also witnessed ambulances from our window being shot at by Israeli soldiers... The story received approval from Mike Shoulder. The story ran twice and then Rick Davis (a CNN executive) killed it. The reason was we did not have an Israeli army response, even though we stated in our story that Israel believes that Palestinians are smuggling weapons and wanted people in the ambulances."

The Israelis refused to give CNN an interview, only a written statement. This statement was then written into the CNN script. But again it was rejected by Davis in Atlanta. Only when, after three days, the Israeli army gave CNN an interview did Holmes's story run ? but then with the dishonest inclusion of a line that said the ambulances were shot in "crossfire" (ie that Palestinians also shot at their own ambulances).

The reporter's complaint was all too obvious. "Since when do we hold a story hostage to the whims of governments and armies?We were told by Rick that if we do not get an Israeli on-camera we would not air the package. This means that governments and armies are indirectly censoring us and we are playing directly into their own hands."

The relevance of this is all too obvious in the next Gulf War. We are going to have to see a US army officer denying everything the Iraqis say if any report from Iraq is to get on air. Take another of the Ramallah correspondent's complaints last year. In a package on the damage to Ramallah after Israel's massive incursion last April, "we had already mentioned right at the top of our piece that Israel says it is doing all these incursions because it wants to crack down on the infrastructure of terror. However, obviously that was not enough. We were made by the ROW (in Atlanta) to repeat this same idea three times in one piece, just to make sure that we keep justifying the Israeli actions..."

But the system of "script approval" that has so marred CNN's coverage has got worse. In a further and even more sinister message dated 31 January this year, CNN staff are told that a new computerised system of script approval will allow "authorised script approvers to mark scripts (ie reports) in a clear and standard manner. Script EPs (executive producers) will click on the coloured APPROVED button to turn it from red (unapproved) to green (approved). When someone makes a change in the script after approval, the button will turn yellow." Someone? Who is this someone? CNN's reporters aren't told.

But when we recall that CNN revealed after the 1991 Gulf War that it had allowed Pentagon "trainees" into the CNN newsroom in Atlanta, I have my suspicions.

go to top

http://www.robert-fisk.com

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The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:30:02
Good night.

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The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:29:03
quote:
Originally posted by yaz1967

kok--funny how the only media being controlled is fox. Despite years and years of left wing media bias we have one station and people like you go crazy. Have you forgotten Peter Arnet? Have you forgotten Dan Rather? Keith Olberman? Bill Moyers? All of your links bash the right but somehow forget the left. Not one mention of the new york times, NPR, Hollywood, Chris Mathews no one but Fox news. I at least have said fox is obviously slanted to the right, would I get any such truth from you? Of course not. Facts are facts.



I was in the process of addressing this left/right paradigm you adhere to like a tick then big brother deleted the Iran topic. I feel all of the major networks are controlled by the government. The locals networks have freedom still but they spend most of their time talking about car chases and such.

FOX is just the worst example of the bunch I feel.

The left/right thing is a sham, I wish you could see that. Divide and conquer. By allowing yourself to feel disdain for anyone that does not share your pseudo conservative views you have inadvertently allowed yourself to be divided and subsequently conquered.

If you are not Dallas I'm sorry fro the accusation that you were.
kathryn Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:25:48


Mock (yeah)
ing (yeah)
bird (yeah)
yeah (yeah)
Mockin'bird, now

Everybody have you heard
He's gonna buy me a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird don't sing
He's gonna buy me a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring won't shine
He's gonna surely break this heart of mine
And that's why I keep on tellin' everybody
Say yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, oh

Hear me now and understand
He's gonna find me some piece of mind
And if that piece of mind won't stay
I'm gonna find myself a better way
And if that better way ain't so
I'll ride with the tide and go with the flow
And that's why I keep on shoutin' in your ear
Say yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, oh

Now, everybody have you heard
She's gonna buy me a mockingbird
Yeah if that mockingbird don't sing
She's gonna buy me a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring won't shine
Yes, it'll surely break this heart of mine
And there's a reason why I keep on tellin' everybody
Say yeah, yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Listen now and understand
She's gonna find me some piece of mind
Yeah if that piece of mind won't stay
I'm gonna get myself a better way
I might rise above, I might go below
Ride with the tide and go with the flow
And that's the reason why I keep on shoutin' in your ear...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, now, now. baby


Sorry but I just really really needed to do this. Allllll better now.


Happy hearts fall from my shaking hands

The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:22:38
Perhaps sloppy because I'm dealing with four detractors at once here and trying to get some examples posted. I believe the original link I found showed what the Wikiipedia entry stated at one time. If you go to the current page it has since been edited.

No? That's how I read it. Again looking for example Googling and posting a link I find. Google "Bill OReilly CIA" yourself there were other sites talking about it.


Excerpted from Wikipedia:
>
> According to Carl Bernstein, over 400 reporters were working for the CIA as part of Operation Mockingbird. These include, but are not limited to:
>
> * CBS (William S. Paley)
> * Chattanooga Times (Charles Bartlett)
> * Christian Science Monitor (Joseph Harrison)
> * Copley News Services (James Copley)
> * Fox News (Sean Hannity)
> * Louisville Courier-Journal (Barry Bingham, Sr.)
> * The Miami News (William C. Baggs, Herb Gold, Hal Hendrix)
> * Fox News - The O'Reilly Factor (Bill O'Reilly)
> * Newsweek (Ben Bradlee)
> * New York Herald Tribune (Stewart Alsop)
> * New York Times (Arthur Hays Sulzberger)
> * Time Magazine (Alfred Friendly, Charles Douglas Jackson,
> Henry Luce)
> * Washington Post (Walter Pincus)
> * Washington Star (Jerry O'Leary)


I guess after finding very little else on this I would have to ask 'how credible is Carl Bernstein?' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bernstein

yaz1967 Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:10:46
kok--funny how the only media being controlled is fox. Despite years and years of left wing media bias we have one station and people like you go crazy. Have you forgotten Peter Arnet? Have you forgotten Dan Rather? Keith Olberman? Bill Moyers? All of your links bash the right but somehow forget the left. Not one mention of the new york times, NPR, Hollywood, Chris Mathews no one but Fox news. I at least have said fox is obviously slanted to the right, would I get any such truth from you? Of course not. Facts are facts.
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:10:10
Is unclear to you that 1 minute of digging often shows that your claims are false, and therefore your claims have no value? The KOK that cries wolf.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:06:12
The mistakes you point out are inconsequential to the point most of the time. You get me on semantics I feel.

Mocking bird was exposed. Bill couldn't be part of Mocking bird because it ended in the seventies. Hannity wasn't born until 61.

Yeah, it was exposed and therefore has a new name for the same type of program.

Is this honestly completely unfathomable to you folks?
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:05:25
My point is simple. You posted:

Operation Mockingbird -
Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were, according to Wikipedia, propagandists for the CIA
http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/o'reilly_hannity_cia.htm

If you looked at the wikipedia page that's not what it says. And the program was 35 years ago. So, you were wrong. Admit it. Try to have some creditability. Could there be other programs with different names? Sure, but that's not what you posted. You posted about 'Mockingbird'.

What do I think? I think you're sloppy and your efforts are counter-productive to what you claim to be trying to accomplish.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:01:17
I don't know what you expect. Operation Mockingbird was an example. "Operation Northwoods" is and example of the government planning to execute acts of false flag terrorism on it's own soil. Does that mean operation Northwoods was waht was folllowed on 9/11? No it's an example of what goes on. I'm trying to show you it happens. I did not read the whole Wikiipedia link you posted. As things get exposed they become different programs.

So what is your point? You don't think the media is controlled? Or you don't think people like Oreilly work for the CIA?
yaz1967 Posted - 10/09/2007 : 17:00:06
Gee kok did I say Oreilly is a private citizen? No I did not. Again his show in not news---it is opinion. Answer the question--is it news or commentary?
It would of course be impossible for me to crush you over the computor but I can crush you on facts. Psycho---Whats really psycho is your posts. Your paranoia runs deep. But let me say at least you actually care. Agree or disagree it is always healthy to converse ideas. PLease do not take my verbal jabs so seriously. When you believe in somthing you get heated.
Please inform me who took this poll. also, do you really think I would base my opinion on a poll? I am not a litmus test politician. I actually believe in somthing and will not be swayed by a poll.
as far as me being Dallas I can assure you I am not.
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:58:51
That the US army helped orchestrate the pulling of the statue was reported by the "evil" mass media days after it happened. Long before you put up links.

So, are you going to continue flooding with links rather than admit that your O'Reilly link was wrong?
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:56:08
So you're no longer going to stand by your original posting about Mockingbird? You're going to say this happened therefore how do you know that didn't happen? You're unstoppable. You never face up to mistakes and respond to them by just piling on more links and mistakes.

Really the only thing you're accomplishing with your sloppiness is diminishing really problems. How do you know that the CIA isn't funding the Truth Movement in order to discredit critics of the Bush administration? Everybody can just say, "Oh, those wackos are up crazy claims once again".
PixieSteve Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:55:55
The King of Karaoke is often abreviated to "kok"

why is this? because it sounds like "cock"

cock is another word for "penis"

it is usually used as an insult

e.g. "you're a cock" could be thought of as synonymous with "you're an idiot"

through this reasoning, i have decided that "kok" is not to be taken eriously.

who takes a cock seriously?

I like to complain
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:55:44
Okay, I posted this a few weeks back. Would you agree this is now taking place? http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/040907_cheney_orders.htm

Now I posted this several times years ago. Do you see what is going on here? If so, please explain what you see. This is called propaganda.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:49:51
Pentagon Planting Pro-U.S. News in Iraqi Papers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5033320

What makes you think they only did this in Iraq? They suddenly hire reporters to write fake stories? No, they already have them. I've got more give me a second I'll show you a great example of propaganda we were fed.
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:41:57
Fine. Then you go your original "source". The one quoted by the power hour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Where are the names O'Reilly and Hannity? Did you bother to check or do you like a little puppy just post what the conspiracy industry feeds you? Wake up. Use your your brain. Isn't that your mantra?
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:37:32
So you think because it was exposed it stopped? How about MkUltra? How about secret torture?

Come on Dar baby.

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We're going on a sweaty man love picnic!


There we go.
darwin Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:36:09
According to wikipedia? If you want, you can edit wikipedia to say anything you want.

Plus this Mockingbird thing was exposed in the 70s. Bill O'Reilly has been doing political commentary for a little over 10 years. It doesn't add up. Sean Hannity was born in 1961. You don't seem to prize credibility.
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:17:37
And sorry that's "CIA Shill".

Operation Mockingbird -
Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were, according to Wikipedia, propagandists for the CIA
http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/o'reilly_hannity_cia.htm

He's also a former conspiracy nut - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQdphWO2SQ

Before that fat checks started rolling in.

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We're going on a sweaty, man love picnic!
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 16:16:44
What's hard to understand is why "Dallas" morphs into "Yaz1967" every time I make a point that successfully counters his.

Again - Bill O'Rielly is not a private citizen.

You can post and counter post and attempt to "crush me" all you want (sounds a little psycho to me) but just be aware that this is where you stand in the popularity of your opinions.

Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? * 566571 responses
Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.
89%
No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."
4.2%
No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching.
5.1%

I don't know.
1.9%
yaz1967 Posted - 10/09/2007 : 14:27:53
Last time I checked, Bill O'reilly has a commentary program---not a news program. O'reilly gives his opinion, not the news. Dan Rather, Cronkite and the like were not opinion programs but news programs--see the difference.
When you read Malkin, it is not on the front page, it is on the editorial page. You see, the front page is for the news, the editorial page is for the editorials. Why is this so hard to understand?
The King Of Karaoke Posted - 10/09/2007 : 04:08:28
It's my bumper sticker.
Cheeseman1000 Posted - 10/09/2007 : 03:51:15
"America destroying CIA shrills on the FAUX propaganda dissemination channel"

I like this, it has a nice ring to it.
lonely persuader Posted - 10/09/2007 : 02:37:32
quote:
Originally posted by Carl

quote:
Originally posted by lonely persuader

What is this "patriotic" thing ye americans have?


Yeah, for fuck's sake! Why can't they be unpatriotic like Irish people?! ;)



Fuck, i forgot the "un" there.... i'm ashamed :(

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