When the very same meme often with the very same words, is used all day by various newsreaders . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . how can that be construed as anything but the company line being implemented?

Today, MSNBC is asking each and every guest if telling the base to "buck up" and "stop whining" is helping or hurting the Democrats.

Here's my take: Asking the question *was* legit - back when the words were said. Most people have moved on. So, as interest/"outrage" over the remarks begins to flag, MSNBC sees their job as stirring the shit pot. Watch MSNBC today and see if you notice how often this is "innocently" interjected into on air "conversations" (actually, fully scripted vignettes).

They do this a lot. One such example that continued until just recently, and which I've posted about before, was calling the upcoming ethics hearings for Rangel and Waters "trials". There is no such thing as a trial for them in the offing. And yet, there is good old MSNBC - seen by so many as the bastion of liberal reportage - calling them trials, or word with no other purpose than to make the two seem to be criminals, even as they have yet to be charged with malfeasance by anything but a political body.

The only time you don't get this subtle but well thought out propaganda is when their liberal hosts are on. As cover, the network seems to mostly allow their night time lineup to say whatever they wish so as to maintain their liberal bonafides. There have, however, been instances where these night time hosts, quite inexplicably, have just avoided a topic rather than go against the company line.

By the way, looking ahead, here is another meme they're starting: Should the Dems celebrate if they lose seats in both houses but still maintain control?

What a bullshit question. OF COURSE they should. The fact is, conventional wisdom says the party of a first term president loses control of at least part of the Congress in the new president's first midterm. If the Dems hold both houses, the fact is, against conventional wisdom, that is a HUGE win.

Subtle but relentless - that's your "friends" at "liberal" MSNBC - worse than Fox.






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[opihimoimoi]

1. Stealth brain washing with repetitious RW memes.....

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Precisely

They gather our ears with the bait of the nighttime liberals and pound us during the day.

Right now, to present a "left vs right" perspective, they have Doug Wilder and Bob Barr on. Isn't that more like right and righter?

[opihimoimoi]

16. Bob Barr? OMG...he still around?

[bemildred]

3. They're all sheep, sheep naturally herd up. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

8. They all feed at the same trough

They are all owned by the right wing. Including MS Worse Than Fox

[Javaman]

4. it's because they get their information from the same news feed...

the republican party.

[blondeatlast]

6. Quite correct; and that feed comes from the TAX-EXEMPT likes of the Heritage Foundation

and CATO Institute.

[Winterblues]

5. There is a possibility that the more Republicans hear that Democrats are demoralized

and unmotivated then more will stay home and not vote because they feel it is in the bag...If they keep hearing Republicans have huge advantage and they really aren't excited about their tea bagging candidate they may very well sit this one out.. Democrats on the other hand are getting more fired up by the day...

[Stinky The Clown]

7. You're not suggesting that the media is trying to help the Democrats, are you?

You're just pointing what might be a good thing in the current state of the media, right?

[EFerrari]

9. Following the course of these memes is an education.

When the FBI was trying to float their stupid sorry excuse of a case against Ivins, I followed the word "compelling" through their statements + the "coverage". The word was used instead of facts, it became a substitute for facts.

:thumbsup:

[Stinky The Clown]

10. It certainly is . . . . . yet so many people just accept red meat agreement as an indication of . .

. . . . mutual interests and agreement.

I have three or four threads up right now about MSNBC and look at the disdain and disbelief and at whom it is aimed.

Welcome to the Dead Messenger Club

[EFerrari]

11. LOL! "The Dead Messengers".

I like that.

[grahamhgreen]

12. Propaganda works by repetition and omission

[Hannah Bell]

13. +100. choosing what we talk about, framing it the way they want it framed, & drilling it into our

heads = creating & manipulating consciousness & producing false consciousness.


you can see these same techniques used here as well

[MineralMan]

14. I've noticed that, too. Unrelenting attacks on President Obama's

administration, often before anything is actually decided, posted daily here on DU. It's almost as though people want to destroy his Presidency. That just seems unconscionable to me.

[opihimoimoi]

17. So much for their COUNTRY FIRST SCHICK....BULLIES WHO LIE CHEAT STEAL = GOPERS

They are despicable....

[Fumesucker]

15. Turn them all off, every single one..