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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP crusade to keep Americans miserable, negative and distracted
You could go back much further, but I will just start with Clinton,
Whitewater witch hunt, making sure to waste lots of money and time.
Clinton impeachment, sorry to the sensitive among you, but many of us saw this as an attempted coup,
which tied up the government and press for months, and of course wasted a whole lot more money and time.
Next, GW Bush ignored threats about planes being flown into buildings, and we got 9/11.
This allowed Bush to sell fear, promote violence, torture, and start two wars.
And of course it all cost hundreds of thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and became a contributing factor to the soon to follow financial crisis.
Then of course, it has been nothing but pure obstruction since Obama was elected, the details of this chapter alone could fill a few books. They have deliberately interfered with and tried to sabotage the economic recovery
I wish more Americans could see how much pure misery the GOP has visited on this country.
It's not an accident!
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(113,101 posts)The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ
By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
December 27, 2006
The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.
George Archibald, who describes himself as the first reporter hired at the Washington Times outside the founding group and author of a commemorative book on the Times first two decades, has now joined a long line of disillusioned conservative writers who departed and warned the public about extremism within the newspaper.
In an Internet essay on recent turmoil inside the Times, Archibald also confirmed claims by some former Moon insiders that the cult leader has continued to pour in $100 million a year or more to keep the newspaper afloat. Archibald put the price tag for the newspapers first 24 years at more than $3 billion of cash.
At the newspapers tenth anniversary, Moon announced that he had spent $1 billion on the Times or $100 million a year but newspaper officials and some Moon followers have since tried to low-ball Moons subsidies in public comments by claiming they had declined to about $35 million a year.
The figure from Archibald and other defectors from Moons operation is about three times higher than the $35 million annual figure.
The apparent goal of downplaying Moons subsidy has been to quiet concerns that Moon was funneling vast sums of illicit money into the United States to influence the American political process in ways favorable to right-wing leaders and possibly criminal cartels around the world.
Though best known as the founder of the Unification Church, Moon, now 86, has long worked with right-wing political forces linked to organized crime and international drug smuggling, including the Japanese yakuza gangs and South American cocaine traffickers.
Moon insiders, including his former daughter-in-law Nansook Hong, also have described Moons system for laundering cash into the United States and then funneling much of it into his businesses and influence-buying apparatus, led by the Washington Times.
The Times, in turn, has targeted American politicians of the center and left with journalistic attacks sometimes questioning their sanity, as happened with Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis and Al Gore. Those themes then resonate through the broader right-wing echo chamber and into the mainstream media.
Washington Times articles are routinely cited by C-SPAN, for instance, without explanations to viewers that the newspaper is financed by an ultra-right religious cult leader, a convicted tax fraud and a publicly identified money-launderer. Most American listeners just think theyre getting straightforward news.
The Times also has led attacks on investigators who threatened to expose crimes committed by Republican and right-wing operatives. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Times targeted Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who recounted in his memoir Firewall the importance of the Times in protecting the Reagan-Bush administrations legal flanks.
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(40,372 posts)Robert Parry is a treasure!