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HPM MASHUP: John McCain And The Economy

I made this mashup in July but it seemed like an appropriate time to revisit.

VIDEO MASHUP EXCLUSIVE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN AND THE ECONOMY

AOL / REDSTATE.COM BLOGGER PROPAGANDIST MARK IMPOMENI IS TODAY'S WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!

Mark Impomeni is a blogger/propagandist at AOL's “Political Machine” and at RedState.com. You can read the back story to this video at this post and read my back and forth with Impomeni at this article he wrote about Karl Rove's appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

The gist of the story is that despite Karl Rove repeatedly refusing to deny involvement in the Don Siegelman prosecution to Stephanopoulos, Impomeni headlined his story about the interview, “Rove Denies Tampering With Investigation”. This is precisely the type of cover Rove was looking for from the media despite his careful language never denying anything.

When confronted with many examples of headlines opposite to his own, Impomeni wrote: “If this were any other figure but Rove, the media would be reporting the comments exactly as I am”. Thus, Impomeni thinks himself the only one with any journalistic integrity. But it gets worse:

“Raw Story, Josh Marshall, The Carpetbagger Report, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, News Corpse, Veracifier, and Crooks and Liars at a minimum are hardly bastions of independent and unbiased journalism. I personally would also question MSNBC and Dan Abrams.”

Hence the video labeling Mark Impomeni “Today's Worst Person In The World”.

Technorati Tags: Don Siegelman, Karl Rove, Mark Impomeni, Political Machine, AOL, RedState.com

A DAY AT THE BEACH WITH HEROES OF PEACE

"A Day at the Beach with Heroes of Peace" was a special live KPFK/Pacifica broadcast that took place at Arlington West in Santa Monica on Sunday. The top video is a short mashup (5:45) I made of some of the event highlights and videos of most of the speakers follow.

Daily Show: History Of Fox 'News' Journalistic Integrity

In the must see video above, The Daily Show's “John Oliver shoots his own documentary spotlighting FOX 'News' and its history of journalistic integrity”. I only wish Oliver had given me a hat tip or a shout out for covering much of the same in the video mashup below I titled, “Hard Hitting”:

And for even more video mashups and commentary on the absurd Fox “News” Bush special, “Fighting To The Finish”, see my earlier post.

Technorati Tags: bush, foxnews, Propaganda, Fox News

PEACE MARCH IN L.A. TO MARK 5th ANNIVERSARY OF IRAQ INVASION

The short video mashup above (3:10) is from Saturday's peace march in Los Angeles sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. LA to mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The rally was different from others that I've attended since the Iraq occupation began in that it was dominated by young people and because I never once saw a camera crew or truck from the mainstream media.

While the mainstream media rarely report more than a sound bite of one of the crazier or scarier people in attendance at these rallies, at least they previously had the courtesy of pretending to take seriously the majority of Americans who remain anti-war. Apparently this is no longer the case.

Meanwhile, one would have hoped that after five years of horrific war - that has cost nearly 4,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives - more than a few thousand people would rally for peace in a city of 10 million. Soon we will be able to add our democracy to the list of the dead.

“Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)” (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Technorati Tags: anti-war, democracy, iraq, March, media, Peace

Jonah Goldberg Is Making Shit Up

Jonah Goldberg is caught making shit up about President Bill Clinton (Monica Lewinsky scandal) in the short mashup above (1:34). In related news, the sun will once again come up tomorrow. Seriously, the only time Goldberg is not making shit up is when he is proving to a national audience how freaking little he knows about politics and government (see clip below, 0:47).

Which helps explain why he is a nationally syndicated conservative political columnist, editor at National Review Online and a regular on the cable news shows. What a country!

Technorati Tags: Jonah Goldberg

CNN, GOP, HILLARY SUPPORTERS GANGING UP ON OBAMA!

 

The Clinton News Network (CNN) is now working overtime on Hillary's behalf by advocating ad-nauseum for new primaries or “Do-Overs” in Michigan and Florida. It seems that despite Hillary's amazing victories on Tuesday people are finally waking up to the fact that she has lost the nomination barring some last minute shenanigans. Enter CNN, the GOP and Hillary supporters! 

In this latest piece of propaganda (video above) CNN's Wolf Blitzer all but begs Florida Governor Charlie Crist to hold a second democratic primary in the sunshine state. Both men point out all of the positive advantages of a “Do-Over” which supposedly include bipartisan support, fairness and a financial windfall to Florida. My god, it's a win-win for everyone! Except for Barack Obama, of course, which CNN fails to mention.

CNN also fails to mention that all of the democratic supporters of the “Do-Over” in the segment are Hillary supporters. Whoops! And if you think that that is an accident or oversight, please see the mashup below from a CNN sponsored debate a couple of months back where the cable news network does the exact same thing:

But CNN propaganda is not just limited to the big ticket items evidenced above. The network also has no problem misleading viewers on the small stuff too:

Dumb President Bush Quotes: Who's In Your Fave5?

A short mashup.

President Bush Thinks His Pakistan Policy Is Crazy

George W. Bush is quick to criticize Barack Obama for a foreign policy stance toward Pakistan that he shares. Video mashup is 45 seconds.

Tucker Carlson: Sex Lies And Hyprocrite

Tucker Carlson mashed up to reveal his usual self...

Will Congress Finally Hold Administration Officials Accountable For Lying?

Where would one start? Rice? Gonzo? McConnell? Chertoff? Oil company executives? Video is 52 seconds long.

VIDEO MASHUP: Why Does Bush Favor Hillary Over Obama?

Hillary Clinton is the candidate of choice for Republicans - including President Bush (as seen in the video mashup above) because she matches up so poorly with Senator John McCain. Among the many problems a Hillary nomination poses are:

• She voted to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq thus taking the disastrous war off the table
• She will not pose the stark age contrast with McCain that Obama can
• She cannot distinguish herself as a Washington outsider or legitimately claim to be an agent of change
• She will rally the Republican base to vote in a year when many would stay home
• She will lose the support of the growing youthful electorate that have rallied around Obama

Those are merely a few reasons why Republicans have rallied around Senator John McCain who is universally disliked by the Republican base. Republicans are willing to accept a lesser candidate because he stands the best chance of defeating Hillary (the presumptive nominee), thus enabling the GOP to hold on to the White House in November.

While there is no doubt that either Clinton or Obama would be far superior leaders than Bush or McCain, there is also no doubt that Obama stands the best chance of defeating the Arizona Senator. One hopes that this truth weighs heavily on Democrats in the remaining primaries.

VIDEO MASHUP: Conservative Pundits Jonah Goldberg & Matthew Dowd Clueless On 'Real Time'

Matthew Dowd was the chief strategist of the George W. Bush 2004 presidential election campaign and is currently an ABC News political contributor. Jonah Goldberg is a nationally syndicated conservative columnist, founding editor of “National Review Online” and author of Liberal Fascism. Neither of them know who is the current Director of National Intelligence.

“Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” (Jonah Goldberg)

“Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community” (Ron Fournier, Douglas B. Sosnik, Matthew J. Dowd)

VIDEO MASHUP: Thought Control - The MSM's Role In Silencing Anti-War Voices

Cross-posted at Brad Blog