Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Ocasio-Cortez Responds To Fox News’ Laughing Critique Of Her" video.

  1. It seems the panel has Judith Miller on. The shill from the New York Times that would play the mouthpiece and stenographer for the Cheney / Bush admin with the Times - cheering on the war against Iraq 2003. She - like many others in media and politics - sold out the country. But I am sure it was very lucrative and did not damage her "career". While the New York Times FIRED Chris Hedges, Pulitzer price winner (a team won it) and long time WAR correspondent. He was always outspoken about war being horrible - but the New York Times liked that he actually went to the war zone, and these were far away wars. But when he got in the way of domestic power he was a goner. He had seen that done to others over the years. His status as esteemed war reporter somewhat protected him, but he knew he was not completely safe. He got a reprimand, when he chose a graduation speech in 2003 to voice opposition to the war. The crowd yelled him down, cut the mic. University security removed him from the grounds (the university was not pleased with him either). He got reprimanded by his employer for bringing them into disrepute (I wonder if they did that with Judith Miller when the public found out about her collusion with the admin) - with the 2nd reprimand he would be out. So he COULD have kept his head down and he would have kept his safe position and the retirement funds. Only that he couldn't (honoring the morale example of his father, a WW2 veteran but opposed to the war machine and likely an FDR style progressive / Democrat). So he chose to hand in his resignation (with a lot of sweating). There were some well established media figures kicked out for daring to be against the Iraq war (in the U.K. too - Afshin Rattansi BBC, higher up management of the BBC. Piers Morgan fired by the Mirror. In the U.S.: Chris Hedges fired by the NYT, icon Phil Donahue lost his long time show. First - they got rid of people who were well known to the audience and could have an impact on public opinion and they could have a DIFFERING point of view. Second: it set a warning example to all others who had a mind to dissent to the line that the owners / management of the media and politicians found "fit to be presented to the public" Noam Chomsky was ahead of the curve he spoke and wrote about "Manufacturing Consent" and the role of mainstream media DECADES before. He had been an early ! anti Vietnam war activist, so he knew that side of U.S. politics/media. Jesse Ventura already had his 1 million USD contract, when the TV network found out he was AGAINST the Iraq war - he was a former marine ! how could they have suspected that ! He got the money, alright, but they never put him on air. He told them he would not shut up about the war.
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