Hanging up on the Party Line

Abby Martin has been doing sterling work lately on her RT show Breaking The Set.   Her latest video has a general theme about how our mass media seems to automatically dismiss "conspiracy theories" when those theories don't tow the party line or otherwise verge too far off of the predetermined "beaten path" of public discourse.    A classic example is the JFK assassination, and how it was proven decades ago about how a bullet's trajectory cannot possibly zig-zag it's way through Kennedy's body in order to kill him.    Even RFK Jr. doesn't seem to buy the official line, either.

Then there's 9-11.    The resultant Commission Report has been proven, many times over, to be one of the most whitewashed pieces of horseshit inflicted upon, and fed to, the public.   The stench still wafts, yet as demonstrated in the video, Rachel Maddow is among the chorus telling us that the stench is actually Chanel Number 5.  She's on the video, promoting not only the Commission Report itself as if it were an authoritative tome, but also the visual novel (comic book) version of the same, as well as another book which is supposed to debunk all those pesky "conspiracy theories" that won't go away.   She says they won't go away because they fill some kind of emotional need.

Bullshit.

They won't go away because THERE IS SUBSTANCE TO THE "THEORIES".    Or at the very least, there are enough educated, independent-minded people who have read the Commission Report and put the story propagated within to the test, and have determined that the stench that emanates from that book is, indeed, horseshit.

>> I've lost a lot of respect for MSNBC in general over the last year or so.   It's sad, because when Keith Olbermann was in the anchor's chair and proved that there is a market for left-leaning commentary and presentation, MSNBC was required viewing in my living space.    Now with the network acting as a mouthpiece for the Democrats and the Obama Administration (as Foxymoron News is for the Repubs),  I've largely tuned out.   Maddow's rant on 9-11 (and her displayed ignorance about what the 9-11 "truthers" actually say about that sordid day and what actually happened) cost her a lot of respect in my eyes.    Ed Schultz's and Melissa Harris-Perry's demonization of Edward Snowden relegated them to my internal "ignore" list.

So from this point forward, I will relegate MSNBS (they've been demoted several letters from C) to the political sideshow comedy-relief of the "left" (they're actually staunch centrists - the "left" is Pacifica, Abby Martin, Democracy Now, and a few other outlets).