CNN’s “Technical Difficulty” or Censorship? [VIDEO]
08. Jan, 2012
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As Iowans were casting their ballots in the state’s Jan. 3 caucuses, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash interviewed an American soldier who had just cast his vote for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen explained that he was excited by Paul’s ideas, including “bringing the soldiers home.” When Bash stated that “some Republicans out there have been saying that Ron Paul will be very dangerous for this country” for that very reason, the 28-year-old soldier replied that he didn’t think “nitpicking wars with other countries” was necessarily a good idea. When Thorsen began to get specific, the audio suddenly starting breaking up. Viewers heard “Iran” and “Israel is more than capable”—before Thorsen’s words vanished from the airwaves altogether.
The mainstream American media have made a concerted effort to ignore or dismiss Paul’s foreign policy platform, which includes an end to U.S. foreign aid, including (gasp!) to Israel. (Paul’s son, Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY], explicitly stated that in an earlier interview with Blitzer.) A look at the background of Blitzer and Bash might provide a useful context.
Blitzer is a former employee of AIPAC, Israel’s behemoth Washington, DC lobby (see former Sen. James Abourezk’s “Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC, and the Saudi Peace Initiative” in the July 2007 Washington Report, p. 16, also posted on our Web site). The CNN anchor also is the author of Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed (the title seeming to imply that it was Pollard, rather than his native country, who was betrayed).
Senior congressional correspondent Bash joined CNN as Dana Schwartz, her maiden name. Her father, Stu Schwartz, is a senior broadcast producer at ABC News and her mother, Frances Weinman Schwartz, is, according to Wikipedia, “an educator in Jewish studies and author of the book, Passage to Pesach, and co-author with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of two books, Jewish Moral Virtues and A Touch of the Sacred.” In 1998 the CNN correspondent married her first husband, Jeremy Bash, chief of staff to Leon Panetta in his capacities as both defense secretary and former CIA chief. The son of the chief rabbi of the Arlington Fairfax (VA) Jewish Congregation, Bash was chief minority council to the House Intelligence Committee when the pro-Israel Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) was its top Democrat prior to the 2006 elections. The Bashes divorced in 2007. The following year Dana Bash married fellow CNN congressional correspondent John King, who converted to Judaism prior to their marriage.
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Censorship! No doubt! Frankly, this is the way to watch tv, thru the internet missing the commercials, the cable bill, the fleecing. Actually not missing anything on tv! After all it is technically difficult for the media to broadcast anyway! One reason to quit tv is when the discussion gets interesting, out of the mediocrity state, one way or another the interruption erupts. TV, a vision of vicious world order. A home with a tv is not a home sweet home.
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Wolf Blitzer of CNN has been using this trick since the Bronze Age.
But such is one of the prices a nation pays for permitting a group to monopolize its media and communications.
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Suzzanna Reply:
January 8th, 2012 at 10:11 am
And the solution is SO simple. It does not even take going to the streets or writing congress. It saves money and stress. And it insures your children are not brainwashed like parents. And children are not numbed and zombied from watching tv at a young age early programming them into ingrates also. Such a simple message to send! NO to the lies, liars, technical difficulties of truth! And that blue light that disrupts brain waves so invasive! No longer does ones mind lead their body, their body leads their mind through the master tv. And such an invasion into the bedroom! What a step to higher state of being without tv in the world. But it is like the microwave, people claim ‘oh I just use it to warm up’. It is not doing me any harm. The price is way too dear. And the solution is forever beneficial. Who is not dreading the endless debates and election (non)coverage! It is the invisible wall breaking down family communication. Even digestion is negatively effected as people try to enjoy a meal obstructed with media subversions.
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Here’s what gets me.
All these candidates blabbering on about a ‘strong defense’ and America ‘controlling the world’ and the ‘war on terrorism’, when you are more like to die from a BEE STING than a terrorist attack. Yes, statistically you are TWO TIMES more likely to die from a BEE STING. Where’s the War On Bees? To make matters worse, NONE OF THEM (except Dr. Paul) seem to consider collapse of the economy a national security threat , even though at this point it is all but inevitable. If unemployment is measured as it was in the Great Depression we have an unemployment rate of 23% – just like it was in 1933, the height of the Great Depression. What part of ‘National Security depends on the economy’ are people not understanding here?
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PBS also cut Jesse Thorsen off when Ron Paul allowed him to speak later that evening:
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