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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 10:15 PM Aug 2013

It was a manufactured ‘event’ by CNN & a Republican for profit consultant

Maddow: The story behind Michelle Bachmann’s speech — it was a manufactured ‘event’ by CNN & a Republican for-profit consultant

Stunning. It appears from Rachel Maddow’s reporting that there’s a larger story behind the Michelle Bachmann “Tea Party movement official response” to Obama’s state of the union address. Turns out, “Tea Party” doesn’t mean what you think it means; and neither does “movement.”

According to Maddow, CNN has been working with Sal Russo, of the for-profit Republican consulting firm Russo Marsh & Rogers — Rachel used the words “merging” and “partnering” — in several Tea Party–related joint enterprises.

http://americablog.com/2011/01/maddow-the-story-behind-michelle-bachmanns-speech-it-was-a-manufactured-event-by-cnn-a-republican-for-profit-consultant.html

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Blue Idaho

(5,048 posts)
6. So True That!
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 03:56 PM
Aug 2013

Its been at least a decade since we've had anyone in the M$M with an ounce of journalistic ethics. If you want real news - the kind I grew up with back in the 1950s and 1960s your going to have to look outside America to find it. Today's talking heads are bought and sold by the pound.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
4. Are there any Americans who still don't get that all of the TV and radio stations work for the
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:39 PM
Aug 2013

far right? At least in Soviet Russia the peasants knew that TASS was government propaganda.

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
5. Looking at the latest polls on Congress, it seems their numbers are shrinking fast...
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 03:49 PM
Aug 2013

i'd like to see a poll about that, though (m$m & co's = pRopaganda)

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