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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 07:03 PM Apr 2018

CBS TV News (corporate news system): Reports "New Threat" in giant block letters on Iran responding

to Trump/Bolton/Hailey/Pompey Islamaphobes and war mongering actual real threat to withdraw from painfully negotiated and robustly monitored multi-national nuclear peace accord. An agreement no one but Trump and cohorts is saying is not being followed...it is not the "worst deal in history"', which is both the biggest lie in history and a slap in the face to France, Germany, Russia and China UN, etc. , all in the rush by corporate media media to beat the war drums.

Disgusting. Trumps needs a war. Corporate media needs a distraction from the massive tax giveaways at 100% taxpayer cost, with 80% benefit to the rich and corporations and 89%!of that to foreign. Not an oops! A plan,

Please, folks of America, do not let the corporate media do another Iraq mass produced and delivered and coordinated propaganda number on America. Never again.

The threat to the entire world is from Trump not Iran, and sure not South Korea anymore, so a new ENEMY, non-nuclear of course, is desperately needed by Trump and the massive, shiny, pretty military machine so beloved of way too many Americans.

So, sorry, I refuse to demure to your propaganda. We were here dissenting on Iraq and seeing through the illogic and lies and deflections and distractions then and they are even more transparent now. Trump is not exactly the kind of guy anyone sees as a war leader....leader of prostitutes, sure, but hardly qualifies as relevant.

Come on, corporate media, you are making fools of yourselves on Iran by trying to make fools of your viewers, but your viewers are far more skeptical now than 15 years ago, and less likely to soak in the fake news couched in opinions.

Why not give the full truth a try? Expand the national daily TV 30 minute slot, 18 actual minutes minus commercials, say, to 60 minutes, and give America NEWS, full, fair, balanced, intelligent.

Just saying.

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CBS TV News (corporate news system): Reports "New Threat" in giant block letters on Iran responding (Original Post) Fred Sanders Apr 2018 OP
Like you I feel better than during Iraq sharedvalues Apr 2018 #1
Still very nervous about the BS triron Apr 2018 #2
Cant argue... sharedvalues Apr 2018 #3
I don't see any possibility of a coalition of the willing. bitterross Apr 2018 #4

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
1. Like you I feel better than during Iraq
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 07:12 PM
Apr 2018

We still have to be careful. But we have a much more skeptical populace toward corporate media. (Phil Donohue’s firing would get much more coverage today). That’s a good thing.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
4. I don't see any possibility of a coalition of the willing.
Sat Apr 21, 2018, 08:14 PM
Apr 2018

I don't think even Britain will be with the US this time. The stakes are really too high and 45 is so roundly disliked in other countries following his lead is political suicide.

That doesn't mean he won't do it anyway. That was telegraphed when he picked Bolton.

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