Jonathan KARL is doing his usual pimping for BFEE, now George Pee Shrub

[UTUSN]

Over the years, any time he has subbed for STEPANOPOULIS on This Weak, he has found some way to inject Poppy or one of the Shrubs into the broadcast, one year on Father's Day going so far as to do a video love piece portraying Poppy as nothing less than the Father of the Nation.

He has now extended into the George Pee Shrub extension of the BFEE, yeah gushing like a lovesick tween. Biggest question, will The Family Support Jeb Crow Shrub for pResident?!1 Answer, yaas, yaas they will IF he decides to run.

What *insight* what sycophancy!1

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Bush v Clinton 2016

To the voters:

Fuck you, this is your choice, heh heh. Enjoy your democracy.

[tabasco]

2. I don't know how you stomach watching the corporate whore media

I quit several years ago.

[blm]

3. Jonathan Karl ended up at ABC so Bushes can mainstream more 'made men'

mouthpieces. Add him to the pile. NBC and CBS certainly did.

[Octafish]

5. ABC (CIA) and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh

From the late, great Steve Kangas:

William Casey got mad that the CIA got lousy press before Iran-Contra was blown, so he went on a tear and his "old company," Capital Cities, decided to buy their own network, ABC.

ABC and the rise of Rush Limbaugh

The following brief history of ABC offers a perfect snapshot of everything that has gone wrong with the media. This remarkable story includes ABC's takeover by a conservative parent corporation, the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, the rightward shift of the evening news, the rise of conservative talk radio, and the cozy relationship between a state and a press that are supposed to be separate.

In 1985, ABC was taken over by Capital Cities, a conservative, Roman Catholic media organization with extensive ties to the CIA.

(If you think we're making this up, you should know that the Capital Cities takeover of ABC is one of the most analyzed in history, and the subject of many books by Wall Street experts and scholars. Especially recommended is Networks of Power, by Emmy Award-winner Dennis Mazzocco.) (1)

Capital Cities was born in 1954, and rapidly prospered. Many of its founders had previously worked in the U.S. intelligence community and had a great amount of wealth, social contacts and influence in government. Yet they opted to keep the company's actions out of the public eye -- they did not flaunt their wealth with private planes and lavish offices the way so many successful companies do. Just exactly how well-connected Capital Cities was to the CIA is unknown, but it is clear that the CIA concerned itself with the company at various times. The fact that the CIA has often used private businessmen, journalists and even entire companies as fronts for covert operations is not only well-known by historians, but legendary. (Recall Howard Hughes and Trans-World Airlines...)

One of Capital City's early founders was William Casey, who would later become Ronald Reagan's Director of the CIA. At the time of Casey's nomination, the press expressed surprise that Reagan would hire a businessman whose last-known intelligence experience was limited to OSS operations in World War II. The fact is, however, that Casey had never left intelligence. Throughout the Cold War he kept a foot in both worlds, in private business as well as the CIA. A history of Casey's business dealings reveals that he was an aggressive player who saw nothing wrong with bending the law to further his own conservative agenda. When he became implicated as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, many Washington insiders considered it a predictable continuation of a very shady career.

Another Capital Cities founder, Lowell Thomas, was a close friend and business contact with Allen Dulles, Eisenhower's CIA Director, and John Dulles, the Secretary of State. Thomas always denied being a spy, but he was frequently seen at events involving intelligence operations. Another founder was Thomas Dewey, whom the CIA had given millions to create other front companies for covert operations.

Capital Cities prospered from the start; its specialty was to buy media organizations that were in trouble. Upon acquisition, it would improve management and eliminate waste until the company started turning a profit. This no-nonsense, no-frills approach, as well as its refusal to become side-tracked with other ventures, made it one of the most successful media conglomerates of the 60s and 70s. Of course, the journalistic slant of its companies was decidedly conservative and anticommunist. To anyone who believes that the government should not control the press, the possibility that the CIA created a media company to dispense conservative and Cold War propaganda should be alarming. Rush Limbaugh himself calls freedom of the press "the sweetest -- and most American -- words you will ever find." (2) Apparently, he is unaware of the history of his own employers.

By the 1980s, Capital Cities had grown powerful enough that it was now poised to hunt truly big game: a major television network. A vulnerable target appeared in the form of ABC, whose poor management in the early 80s was driving both its profits and stocks into oblivion. Back then, ABC's journalistic slant was indeed liberal; its criticism of the Reagan Administration had drawn the wrath of conservatives everywhere, from Wall Street to Washington. This was in marked contrast to the rest of the White House press corps, which was, in Bagdikian's words, "stunningly uncritical" of Reagan. Behind the scenes, Reagan was deregulating the FCC and eliminating anti-monopoly laws for the media, a fact the media appreciated and rewarded. The only exception was ABC. Sam Donaldson's penetrating questions during press conferences were so embarrassing to Reagan that his handlers scheduled the fewest Presidential press conferences in modern history.

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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm

The mind shudders when seeing how the mass media became a tool of the right wing.

[Octafish]

4. Thanks for the heads-up on the corrupt BFEE Media Pimp, UTUSN!

The corrupt nature of the media is revealed by whom they destroy and by whom they laud. In the case of the Father of our Nation, yeah, if we're talking the Fourth Reich.

Newsweek Apologizes to Poppy Bush for Calling Him a ‘Wimp’ in 1988

The man who said “We have more will than wallet" in his inaugural address and then found money to bail out the nations looted Savings & Loans and lied America into wars against Panama, Iraq and who knows where else, was the subject of a kiss-kiss piece in this 2011 Newsweek magazine.

A Wimp He Wasn’t

A daring showdown with gun-toting rebels. The truth behind the Berlin Wall’s fall—and other secrets of George H.W. Bush. As the honors pile up, a new, truer view of him is emerging.

He’s 86 now, his eyebrows silver and his legs weakened by Parkinsonism, a vascular disorder akin to Parkinson’s disease. But as George Herbert Walker Bush approaches his twilight years, he is beginning to get his due.

President Obama last month awarded him the Medal of Freedom. On March 21, Bush will be feted—by Bill Clinton, no less—at a major Kennedy Center event in Washington honoring his contribution to volunteerism through the Points of Light Foundation. Qualities once branded as vices—his civil tone, willingness to reach across the aisle, even his sway with Mideast strongmen—suddenly seem more like virtues in a world weary of attack politics and confronting a cascading series of global crises.

Stigmas that once dogged him—Iran-contra, the “wimp factor,” “read my lips,” and Dana Carvey’s deadpan caricature—have faded in the public memory, only to be replaced by a fresh view, aided by newly released documents and longtime aides’ loosening tongues—that 41 may have been a more swashbuckling and politically selfless figure than Americans appreciated during his Washington tenure.

“At the time, didn’t seem to be leadership qualities to the public. Some even saw it as weakness,” says Roman Popadiuk, a national-security spokesman in the Bush White House who today heads his presidential-library foundation.

“But now people are looking back at how he treated people and how Washington is now. And they’re appreciating how he harkened back to an era in which people were treated with respect and in which politics had some civility,” Popadiuk says. “The mutually cooperative way he tried to address things, the calm way he handled things in crisis. People see it today as a strength.”

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http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/a-wimp-he-wasn-t.html

CLASSY SIDEBAR:

Fighting Words

The Bush family was furious about this NEWSWEEK profile, which ran the week George H.W. Bush announced his candidacy for president. And who could blame them? The cover line suggested that the then–vice president was a wimp—a strange charge about a man who narrowly escaped a strafed Navy bomber in World War II and took a daring little-noticed trip to meet with gun-toting Salvadoran military commanders during the Reagan years. Barbara Bush placed a furious call to her son, future president George W., who had vetted journalist Margaret Garrard Warner. “Have you seen NEWSWEEK?” Barbara Bush growled, according to her son’s recent memoir, Decision Points. “I quickly tracked down a copy and was greeted by the screaming headline: ‘Fighting the Wimp Factor,’?” Bush 43 wrote. “I was red hot. I got Margaret on the phone. I .?.?. told her I thought it was part of a political ambush. She muttered something about her editors being responsible for the cover. I did not mutter. I railed about editors and hung up. From then on, I was suspicious of political journalists and their unseen editors.” A year later, owner Katharine Graham made peace with the Bushes, although “the issue never really died down,” Graham wrote in her book Personal History.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110322184028/http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2011/03/20/reliving-history-october-19-1987.html

John Solomon, the author of the Newsweek article, worked as executive editor at
Poppy’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Times.

Who owns The Washington Times? The heirs of KCIA messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Solomon, FWIW, also is now executive editor at the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit promoting “investigative journalism in the public interest.” Nice work, for the pusillanimous ink-stained scribe class.

Like Jonahtan Karl, it seems Mr. Investigative Reporter Solomon left a LOT out of the story.

[Octafish]

6. George P is the BFEE Stalker Dude

A Look Back At The Stalkerish Past Of The Bush Dynasty's Future Star

May 6, 2013
The Smoking Gun

So George P. Bush--son of Jeb and the political dynasty’s fourth generation standout--is making his Washington, D.C. debut this week. The 37-year-old lawyer is now running for Texas land commissioner, but his family reportedly expects bigger things from the telegenic offspring of the former Florida governor.

Which is as good an excuse as any to revisit a police report detailing George P.’s creepy, stalkerish behavior towards a former girlfriend.

Back when he was a Rice University student, Bush was investigated for burglary and criminal mischief related to a 4 AM visit to the Miami home of his ex, Cristina Cohen, and her parents.

A Miami-Dade Police Department report includes an account of the December 31, 1994 incident provided to cops by Murry Cohen, Cristina’s father.

According to Cohen, Bush--wearing black shorts and no shirt--arrived at the residence and “went to his daughter’s bedroom window,” pulled it open, and “pushed the screen inward.” As Bush was “climbing in the window,” Murry Cohen awoke and spotted the trespasser. A neighbor of the Cohens also spotted Bush trying to get into the residence and began to argue with him.

With his intrusion thwarted, Bush “backed out of the window.” Cohen reported seeing Bush then “jump into a vehicle and flee.” But he would not be gone for long.

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/george-p-bush/george-p-bush-stalking-758409

It's like they think they're royalty above the law in an empire or something.