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Hey Brian...instead of trying to make up the news why not just report it?

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mimi's picture

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for being truthful"

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

get a demotion for some bullshit reporting?
He is due for another demotion.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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Another caption I've actually used before is:

Brain Williams is an idiot.

Feel free to borrow.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

watch Mr Beautiful Bombs every day... Thank God for C99.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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What is happening right now is that an old man is carrying the most colossal imaginable weight on his shoulders. It is the weight of all of those people you see in that ad, people drowning beneath medical bills and student debt and terrified of climate change and taking care of dying relatives and juggling miserable jobs they work from can’t-see in the morning to can’t-see at night, the people who come up to him and beg him to please please just help them, make it okay, fix this. And you can watch him in that video promising them that he will do everything he can to fix it. And the news that he had a fucking heart attack means we’re learning just what he’ll do to carry out that promise, and when those people hug him and beg him, he knows that it doesn’t matter whether he’d rather be sitting by Lake Champlain with his grandkids instead of crisscrossing Iowa all winter listening to desperate strangers tell him about the worst things that have ever happened to them. He’s got to do it, because there is so much riding on it, and history has put him in a unique position, and if that happens to you then, sorry, you have to do what you’re put on earth to do, and if it kills you, tough luck.

This is what Nancy and her corrupt pals don't want to happen. That they know how bad peoples are suffering because of their lack of scruples just rolls off their hearts. Imagine having the power to make people's lives better but not doing it just so you can stay in power and get filthy rich off the blood and death of your constituents. I can't imagine what it takes to do that.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

@snoopydawg you will see the list of politicians who have cast votes that they knew with certainty would result in deaths. And you will see the ones who voted against legislation that would certainly result in saving lives.
I think the absolute requirement for running for office must be that one's blood is icy cold.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Who watches/listens to these MSM morons anymore? They "tried to call it..."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/heart-attack-myocardial-infarction...

Title: Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)

Quote: "A heart attack also is called a myocardial infarction."

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@ChezJfrey

And Rachel and Joy and Malcolm Nance and the countless others who have all sold out for money. This includes the once great Amy Goodman of democracy now. I don't know if she belongs to the CFR, but most of the media folks do.

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@snoopydawg go completely off the rails, but folks here say she has, and I do watch her interviews with more caution now.
Did Russiagate break her brain, or was it something else?

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp
with more caution also. I have heard her leave lame establishment memes unchallenged, something I would never have expected from her prior to "Russia!".

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@on the cusp

Trump derangement syndrome and resorts the the lizard part of her brain when it come to anything involving Trumpilini abandoning all rational avenues of thought.

She still does some good reporting and worthwhile interviews, but loses it when there's any possibility of "getting" Trump. She barely mentions Bernie, and I've never heard her mention Tulsi. She's a WARren supporter I suspect.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@ChezJfrey

where the high point is near the nose. Some liars have figured this out, but many including the putrescent Cruz and the previous president still show it.

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@Creosote.
Is such a prevalent and irritating habit with these "shows." It's so wearisome and irritating.

I presume the idea was to use this little phrasing to present a "gotcha" implication for the audience to apply to those miscreant, lying, Bernie campaigners, with their devious attempt to use a common synonym for heart attack that they "tried" to get away with. But Brian caught them for you! The MSM is rife with this technique for even the most innocuous events, such as this instance of a campaign simply relaying this a status of health, direct from a physician's mouth.

MSM has gone full stupid, it's unwatchable.

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"In this election, in the last couple- I mean, maybe couple of months, certainly a few weeks, there's this whole conversation that has been coming up about electability focused on our campaign," Harris said. "Is America ready for that?"

Several audience members were then heard responding "No" throughout the room, with Harris visibly shocked by what she heard.

Not taking no for an answer:

"Well, yes they are," Harris told the crowd, sparking some laughter.

Some laughter, but how many didn't laugh?

Moving on..

"We can fix this problem ourselves, but won't be able to do this unless Russia quits exacerbating the problem."

Sure, Susan. Like we have done so much to fix these issues ourselves. Not as long as they are used as a beachball between the two parties. BTW Susan has a book just out about her time in Obama's administration. I'm betting she doesn't talk about how she illegally unmasked 200 people in Trump's campaign that had FISA warrants taken out on. No consequences for her doing that. But as Nancy says, "no one is above the law." Hmm....

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vulnerability?
And the majority of our citizens do not even vote?
Square that, Rice. Square that.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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That sounds like a view of democracy North Korea would be comfortable with, or a certain historical figure with a little mustache.

I always thought genuine political divisions among the populace are what make democracy necessary and vital in the first place.

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@lotlizard It is spouted off by a Democrat.
I have always thought hard core Republicans were cruel, at but I now view the Democrats as the Educated cruel.
I am never surprised by anything a Republican does. They are cruel bastards by design and are proud of it!
I am now gob smacked at what Democrats do. I was one of them. For decades. They want me and mine dead, at least that is what their policies suggest.
Am I supposed to support a party that absolutely does not give a shit if I and mine live or die?

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp Maybe you should put the word educated in quotes. But like you, I think the Democrats want me and mine dead.

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@lotlizard

comfortable with” Excellent observation, lotlizard. North Korea or Bizarroworld.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

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qualifies him to sit in judgment on others. He appears to have trouble recognizing the truth. Or telling it.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

Sanders has a myocardial infarction? I was looking on this site to see if anyone had posted about it because it is important to this board. This title buried the news.

I really don't give a shit about Brian Williams or anyone else on TV, since I haven't watched it for news since 2003.

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@davidgmillsatty

The point is Bernie's campaign stated that he had an MI which is obviously a heart attack. But then Brian tries to make it seem that they were hiding that fact.

I put these up because the person doing something is so stuupid that I can't think of a title. BTW the word myocardial infarction is written in the tweet....

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@snoopydawg

I have a number of emails from Bernie asking for money since his heart attack. I don't recall a single one where he comes out and says he had a heart attack. To the contrary, his emails would imply otherwise, though I have not read every single one, or even the ones I read, in great detail. But I was looking to see what he would say about it. Didn't find a thing. His emails strike me as either a lie by omission or a trivialization of what has happened unless I missed something. Would love to be proven wrong however.

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@davidgmillsatty

Then a response is possible.

Edit/add: I'm a sometimes contributor to the campaign and the last email solicitation for a contribution from Bernie I got was on 9/30 which was the last day of the reporting quarter.
Bernie went into the hospital on Tuesday night, October 1st. It would have been impossible for that soliciation on 9/30 (or before) to include any information about his hospital stay before it happened.

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@davidgmillsatty

on his heart attack. But the point is that the media has been bitching because they didn't inform them about what happened. But the point of this essay is Williams. Not bringing people the news that he had one. Besides others here gave us that news before my essay.

Brian Williams: "The campaign in its press release tried to call it a 'myocardial infarction'"

A mycardial infarction is the definition of a heart attack. But Williams is accusing his campaign of trying to lessen what happened to Bernie. Did you watch the video? If not then do. It shows that Williams is a doofus and trying to make up something that isn't there.

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Reporting news is the job of journalists. Brian is paid to be a propagandist.

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