Let's Get to the Heart of the Matter: Racism

Good points, Mr. Karlin, except that you neglect to mention...
that Goldman-Sachs is THE 800-lb gorrilla of big finance and (thus) _Corporate State_ America, and that the Neo-Con NY Times & Washington Post (owned by the Sulzberger & Meyers families, respectively) have most certainly BEEN PUSHING that RACIST PARANOIA & HYSTERIA AGENDA for TWO FULL DECADES now.

(Including both the Post & Times hyperventilating, and deceitful, efforts to paint the routine "Whitewater" real-estate flop as a HUGE part of the S&L scandals, (hapless Clinton former friend Jim McDougal DIED IN MAX SECURITY PRISON, DENIED HIS HEART MEDS by Ken Starr's FBI prosecutors, in no small part because of the Post & Times atrocious reporting.)
The Post & Times jumped all over the "VP Al Gore is a SERIAL EXAGGERATOR" theme in summer of 2000, while giving Bush & Cheney's career scandals records a free pass;
both the Post and Times accusing Los Alamos Chinese scientist Wen Ho Lee of SPYING (the Sulzberger Times was FOUND GUILTY of CHARACTER DEFAMATION in the ensuing lawsuit, but in good Goebbels Brown-Shirt fashion, the penalty was so paltry, split among a corporate media consortium, that the Times actually PROFITED from its blaring, hysterical, accusatory, defamatory "LEE is a CHINA SPY!" "reporting.")

And, regardless about how much Righties like to blast the Post & Times' so-called "LIBERAL" leanings, the Post & Times are most certainly RADICAL RIGHT-WING CORPORATE STATE ESTABLISHMENTARIAN, pro-war, pro-police-state, CONCENTRATION-of-wealth & Power AUTHORITARIANS - the EXACT sort of people another Buzzflash headline today decries as
"The Wealthy Elites Play the Racists for Pawns at a Town Hall Meeting in Maryland"!
The Times & Post families are the very "WEALTHY ELITES" Buzzflash decries, BUT the AIPAC, Neo-Con links to RACISM and "major media" RACE-BAITING are usually gloosed over.

Not only have the Sulzberger NY Times & Meyers-owned WashPost WHITEWASHED the ENTIRE RAFT of Bush co. crimes - including ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE, STOLEN ELECTIONS, CORRUPT WAR CONTRACTS, and the KARL ROVE ORCHESTRATED _PURGING_ of US Prosecutors
(Republican US District Attorneys who would not prosecute FRAUDULENT, PERJUROUS PROSECUTIONS against INNOCENT defendants - One such FRAUDULENT prosecution including former Alamaba Dem. Governor DON SIEGELMAN,
ROBBED of his 2002 re-election by the usual Rethuglican vote-stealing, then INDICTED, PROSECUTED, TRIED, and CONVICTED by Karl Rove's HYPER-PARTISAN prosecutors... including the lead prosecutor, Leura Canary, who was THE WIFE of the CAMPAIGN MANAGER of Governor Seigelman's 2002 Republican opponent!!!!
(And, most outrageous of all, the Emanuel/Obama White House, and Holder 'Justice' Department, PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE the political lynching of Governor Siegelman, to repeat, in a courtroom, and by a prosecutor, closely tied to Mr. Seigelman's career Republican political opponents.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leura_Canary

AIPAC Neo-Cons MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Mike Mukasey, Josh Bolton, Scooter Libby, and dozens of othes were INSTRUMENTAL in the Bush-Cheney assault on the US Constitution, including AG Mukasey WHITEWASHING the Rove Purge-gate scandal; and Presidential Chief of Staff Josh Bolton, and VP Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby HELPING BUSH & CHENEY FIND WAYS to AVOID US Laws & constitutional requirements, helping them skirt legal oversight, and generally helping the White House duo SUBVERT the US Constitution.

(In this rant, just mentioning that Likudnik Neo-Con Libby was AT THE CENTER of the VP Cheney's "CIA-OUTING" scandal; that Libby was CONVICTED of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE & PERJURY for obstructing the investigation of that scandal; and that OBSTRUCTION of the FBI investigation ENABLED Cheney & Bush to STEAL Election 2004 in Ohio & other states, sounds like just more hysterical ranting & piling on!)

Now here's the rub: the above (most certainly AIPAC Likudnik Neo-Cons) all HELPING the REPUBLICAN PARTY PLAY the BUSH-ROVE-CHENEY RACIST PARANOIA, Blackwater "Holy War" mercenaries, torture, surveillance, SECRECY, stolen-elections
(stolen, make no mistake, FROM MINORITY VOTERS), and tax-cuts-for-rich agenda EVERY STEP OF THE WAY,
(Token minority Bush admin. officials Condi Rice, Colin Powell, AG Gonzales, and a few others not-with-standing.)

I understand the desire to force falsehood out from what constitutes the media today, but expecting the legal system to take up that issue is grossly misguided.

Think back to when Dubya's administration began issuing new "guidelines" and other manipulations of how already established laws were going to be enforced. Many things people took for granted were lost, maybe forever, through establishing legal precedent as the law was applied in ways not originally intended.

Then there are the corporatist courts. I don't have the link at hand, nor do I remember the pertinent individual's names, but Fox News successfully defended against a wrongful termination suit by presenting one of these "opinions" in how the FCC regulations were to be applied. The court ruling stated that without specific statutory language, the FCC could not legally enforce the prevention of Fox News presenting clear and provable falsehoods as truth (sound familiar????), therefore the ex-employees were legitimately dismissed for refusing a legal order from their employer, who has no legal obligation to exclusively utilize provable facts when they present a story as news.

The best way to alter media is to remember Mark Felt's wise words to Woodward and Bernstein: Follow The Money. Glen Beck has just lost a few sponsors for his show (which you KNOW Rupert isn't liking very well!) due to the uproar his insane comments generated, so it still can be done. Even to Fox.

So stop expecting Someone Else to do what you are already doing here. Communicate your distress over the lies the media presents as news to the people who pay the expensive costs of presenting it!

It has been evident for a number of years now that the reactionary element of the coordinator class has goaded on the more ignorant, illiterate and racist elements of the primarily white working classes for years. And we must give the devil his due for in what can only be described as a stroke of genius, those who are hurt the most by big corporation politics and policies are now Big Corporate American's most willing foot-soldiers.

The marriage of the racist, reactionary right and Big Corporate American became evident to me during the Jimmy Carter's administration when I tended a little redneck bar. Imagine if you will working men, union members, who did not trust Carter, they told me, because he was too honest! And anyhow, the Iranians were afraid of Reagan, he'd get those hostages back! The television and WHO Radio, the 50,000 watt voice of the Middle West told them so. Oh, by they way, WHO Radio was where Ronald Wilson Reagan began his career as a sportscaster.

I witnessed the power of the media during the 1988 presidential election when my white National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) union steward informed me he was voting for Vice President George H.W. Bush because he was for the death penalty. Obviously the Lee Atwater "Willie Horton" commercial had done its work.(for the record, I too am white.)

And now, thanks in no small part to coordinator class liberal Democrats in the White House and Congress we are saddled with the unforeseen, by Democrats that is, results of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Deregulating the public air waves has resulted in media consolidation and monopoly control. If it ain't on a Clear Channel station you can hear it on a Citadel or Cumulus Broadcasting radio station. As an Iowa wag observed, in Iowa there are two types of radio, Republican radio and country radio which is pretty much the same thing. It is not that different elsewhere.

The media helped create the monster we are seeing unleashed at town hall meetings. And as long as there is no charismatic leader round which a rabid fascist movement can coalesce, Big Corporate America keeps the wolf on a short leash. But should a charismatic leader arise on the rabid-dog right Big Corporate America will have the wolf by the ears. Let us hope, Glenn Beck is the best they got.

Thomas M! Haven't you looked under your bed or in the closet lately? Just because you don't see the danger doesn't mean it isn't there!

I could see it build back when Reagan was demonstrating more emotion than he was intellect (see: Philadelphia MS), and how well that was playing with the voters. Too many people who should have known better voted for him for specious reasons. They would brag to me about it! But they got theirs during Reagan's first recession, losing jobs and maybe their homes. Afterwards, they would deny to my face they ever supported the man.

I won't go into an entire litany of the period, but Poppy Bush made things worse, enough so that after "No New Taxes" fell by the wayside that maybe the people were smartening up. Selecting Clinton demonstrated that wasn't so (see: NAFTA, GATT, WTO, welfare "reform", ...), and when Gore was getting beaten up by the Bush-friendly media, I knew we had reached a dangerous stage. Dubya of SCOTUS took us to the edge of the cliff and then began hacking at it. The rest is all so recent that even health care protesters should be able to remember it all. (The poster below who lists Obama's shortcomings is referred to those whose memories have indeed failed totally.)

I'd like to modify that poster's conclusions, however. It should be clear that it is no longer important whether a politician is Democrat or Republican. It is important whether that person stands with the corporations or with the people. That is the choice for the person I am presented as a candidate. Any politician who stands with the corporations should have to eat his corporate campaign contributions when We the People select someone else to represent us.

You guys should get over yourselfs. Everything & I mean everything is racist to you. You use it as crutch. Obama's policy poll numbers are diving big time!! I know, I know its all because of racism!!
Do you not remember the many pictures of Bush splattered all over the liberal Media when he was in Office. I didn't like Bush, I'm a Democrat, but you people are parnoid.
Take a look at these pictures.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/03/obama-joker-poster-starts-outrage-bush-joker-poster-not-so-much

I guess these are Ok thou with you guys. Gezz!!