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Re: Mother Jones Interviews Van Jones
I think about it differently, VT. To me, it's all about which billionaire's propaganda you're getting. So yes, the Washington Post took a hard right turn after Bezos bought it and installed Reagan's Chief of Staff as its publisher. But Bezos also was a never-Trumper. So the paper hit Trump hard. But it does everything to praise evil snakes like Paul Ryan who's trying to abolish Medicare and throw millions of American Elderly out of their homes and onto the streets with no medical care as we speak.
So that's Bezos...he's a sort of socially liberal, fiscally very conservative, anti Social Security, anti Medicare type of guy and that's what his paper supports. He wants only his kind of establishment Republican to get support, and maybe a very pro-war, anti-working-class 'independent' like Bloomberg or Lieberman too.
Then there's Rupert Murdoch. He's a billionaire champion of neocon causes. Much more of a hawk. Always pro-Republican. Quite far to the right. More or less socially and fiscally conservative. So you get a Wall Street Journal that reflects his values since he bought it.
But not every billionaire's there. Some, like John Henry--who owns the Red Sox and the Boston Globe along with the Liverpool FC and some other sports properties, put out a paper that is more or less in line with the Democratic establishment politicians, although he likes the 'centirst' class warriors like Bloomberg too...
Even your Intercept is run by libertarian billionaire Pierre Omidyar, who thinks that people without money should just be left to die on the sidewalk outside the Emergency Room. He took so much journalistic control away, he scared off Taibbi, but not Greenwald. He also has long and deep financial and operational ties with the CIA, and is an Iranian national, so God only knows what you're getting out of that source. Have fun untangling that mess. Then again, Pando itself got money from Peter Thiel, who's an ultra-right extremist who wants to end democracy and bring autocratic rule to America, so who do you believe?
It's whacky out there. The gods (billionaires) play games with us we cannot always understand. But it is always for their benefit and their amusement, never ours.
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I think about it differently, VT. To me, it's all about which billionaire's propaganda you're getting. So yes, the Washington Post took a hard right turn after Bezos bought it and installed Reagan's Chief of Staff as its publisher. But Bezos also was a never-Trumper. So the paper hit Trump hard. But it does everything to praise evil snakes like Paul Ryan who's trying to abolish Medicare and throw millions of American Elderly out of their homes and onto the streets with no medical care as we speak.
So that's Bezos...he's a sort of socially liberal, fiscally very conservative, anti Social Security, anti Medicare type of guy and that's what his paper supports. He wants only his kind of establishment Republican to get support, and maybe a very pro-war, anti-working-class 'independent' like Bloomberg or Lieberman too.
Then there's Rupert Murdoch. He's a billionaire champion of neocon causes. Much more of a hawk. Always pro-Republican. Quite far to the right. More or less socially and fiscally conservative. So you get a Wall Street Journal that reflects his values since he bought it.
But not every billionaire's there. Some, like John Henry--who owns the Red Sox and the Boston Globe along with the Liverpool FC and some other sports properties, put out a paper that is more or less in line with the Democratic establishment politicians, although he likes the 'centirst' class warriors like Bloomberg too...
Even your Intercept is run by libertarian billionaire Pierre Omidyar, who thinks that people without money should just be left to die on the sidewalk outside the Emergency Room. He took so much journalistic control away, he scared off Taibbi, but not Greenwald. He also has long and deep financial and operational ties with the CIA, and is an Iranian national, so God only knows what you're getting out of that source. Have fun untangling that mess. Then again, Pando itself got money from Peter Thiel, who's an ultra-right extremist who wants to end democracy and bring autocratic rule to America, so who do you believe?
It's whacky out there. The gods (billionaires) play games with us we cannot always understand. But it is always for their benefit and their amusement, never ours.
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