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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008...5:34 pm

Media Self-Parody

The vacuous talking hairdos of CBS and CNN have both employed the services of “body language experts” too inform us as to what Senator Clinton was really saying during her wonderful speech last night to the Democratic National Convention. They did so as to further propagate the largely media contrived Obama/Clinton feud, which both the Clinton and Obama camapaigns have repeatedly debunked.

Both networks report that their future reports will feature clairvoyants to inform us as to what future convention speakers are really thinking.

Meanwhile, playing the media for suckers, the McCain campaign has sending press releases to media outlets debuting campaign TV ads, which the TV media outlets dutifully repeatedly play, free of charge as part of the “news” reports and the McCain camp never buys time for broadcasting the ads.

The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers.
Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van HogendorpOct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.
Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491

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