If it's an election year, there must be a Russiagate story. The Clintons and their neoliberal progeny, including the current standard bearer for corporate liberalism, have turned the Democratic Party into a branch office of the Deep State Inc., whose propaganda drones, the
New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC act like hired guns for the Office of War Information.
There's nothing new about the mainstream media (MSM) being teammates with the State Department and the CIA. Carl Bernstein published a
major investigative report back in 1977 that revealed that the
Times and their fellow travelers had been functioning as the overseas eyes and ears of the Agency, what was called
"Operation Mockingbird," since 1948. The MSM were practically owned by the CIA.
The
Times still goes to "The Company" before reporting events abroad. Given that the largest section of Americans still depends on television for news, and TV in turn relies heavily on the
New York Times for the international news agenda,
the CIA is able to feed its propaganda to the public through establishment media, even though this violates its charter. The CIA also influences public opinion through its
entertainment industry liaison program, established in the mid-1990s, that in effect co-directs many American film and television productions.
The warmongers in the liberal media are more gung-ho than even the president. Interviewing Mike Pence last year after Trump threatened to obliterate Iran, CNN's Jake Tapper expressed the concern that "Iran would get the wrong message from the president's restraint." The cowboy pundit asked Pence, "Is he willing to pull the trigger," salivating at the prospect of war.
Comment: Just about the only thing that the corporate media has truthfully reported about the White Helmets group is that they wear White Helmets.
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