CNN and MSNBC's Dirty Little Secret : CO-CONSPIRATORS IN MULTIPLE COVERUPS

CNN and MSNBC's Dirty Little Secrets

Maybe it's because they're embarrassed that they allowed themselves to be conned by the

Media Refuses to Admit The U.S. takeover by Trump's Russians

Trump campaign, allowing themselves to give credence to all of the false information spread to millions of Americans on a daily basis for a year. It could be that they're embarrassed for cowering to Trump's threats of lawsuits, or his threats of imprisoning journalists like Putin does. Or, it could be that our media is already in the control of Putin and Trump's Russia. Let me explain....

ABOUT FAKE NEWS STORIES  
Every time I turn on CNN or MSNBC, I hear the whack-jobs talking about "fake news stories" and how they affected the election. They turn to the fake internet news articles which circulated throughout the closing months of the campaign season. I actually heard Chuck Todd say "People believed these fake news sites rather than listen to us, the ones that vett these articles for factual information before broadcasting it". My jaw dropped to the floor. I thought to myself "ARE YOU F*@#ING KIDDING ME?"

For an entire year, CNN and MSNBC acted as a stage for fake news. While every negative story and false allegation against Hillary Clinton had been long debunked, they allowed equal time to Trump surrogates and Republican conspiracy theorists to spread their lies. Many times, most times, the false attack went unanswered by the host, and the surrogates were invited back to the show the following day, flooding the electorate with false information. This was a tactic to anger voters, and further addict them to the news shows, thereby increasing their ratings and subsequently increasing corporate profits. MEDIA SOLD US OUT, AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS.

They are NOT ALLOWED to say "It wasn't our job to investigate".  Oh..yes it was, you jerks. We expect honesty in media. Investigative Journalism is required in order to maintain integrity, which was abandoned in this election cycle. This failure to call out the lies and repeat false information on a daily basis trashed the First Amendment. The future of the nation and planet was altered as a result of mainstream media turned tabloid rag.

WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE TO THE ELECTION
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why CNN and MSNBC are not tying together the influence of Russian and Wikileaks espionage to the Russian operatives within the Trump camp. This is way too obvious. Campaign manager and trump surrogate Paul Manafort worked closely with Viktor Yanukovych, ousted leader of Ukraine, exiled to Russia under the protection of Vladimir Putin. Manafort is also known for taking secret payments, in the millions, directly from the Kremlin.

General Flynn, trump's National Security Advisor was and more than likely still on the payroll of Russian state television. Flynn regularly defends the tyrannical leadership of Putin, including the murders of journalists who express opposition to Putin. 

Boris Epshteyn, trump surrogate, is an investment banker, who has spent the last few years trying to get American investors to invest in Russia. He is also a Russian immigrant. Epshteyn was a panelist in the "Invest in Moscow" conference in 2014. 

Trump himself, there are too many ties to Russia to list, so I'll direct you to this July 2016 article by CNN, which lays it out. Interestingly, now CNN refuses to tie the Russian connections and election tampering to the Trump campaign. WHY IS THAT? WHO IS PAYING OFF WHO? Our media has taken part, and is currently taking part in the destruction of the United States of America, and the perversion of our democracy.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/donald-trump-russia-ties/

We are now EIGHT DAYS away from the Electoral College voting. It was NINE DAYS before the election that Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani conspired with the New York division of the FBI to hack into Huma Abedin's ex-husband's computer with the sole purpose of finding any emails from Abedin, which would allow them to throw more questions about Hillary Clinton's personal email server into the electorate. If you notice, there was NOTHING found against her husband. The fact is that the entire exercise was to rig the election in Trumps favor. In the absence of cause to search and seize Wiener's computer in order to fish for anything against Clinton, they used Wiener's computer to get Huma's emails.

MEDIA..... PLEASE STATE THE OBVIOUS. YOU HAVE EIGHT DAYS TO CONVINCE THE ELECTORS TO GO "FAITHLESS". This would be the only way to redeem yourselves, and partially reverse your reckless abandon of true journalism.

Media was all over the email garbage, and propelled the treasonous act of espionage and election tampering. Willing partners in crime, allowing Trump surrogates to say things like "Hillary Clinton is guilty", "Crooked Hillary will be in prison", etc. every day, dozens of times per day. Even as they could clearly see that these allegations were false, and the entire story line was trumped up, they allowed these surrogates to talk and talk, as Clinton's poll numbers fell.

As a result, we have a climate change denier, one that actually wants to DELETE the Environmental Protection Agency, to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

We have Exxon executives and Wall Street crony capitalists, in the cabinet. We have people that want to REMOVE the minimum wage as a way of increasing corporate profits. They're using the threat of automation, even automation in fast food service as a weapon against the low wage American worker. This, even as corporate profits have never been higher. GREED, GREED, GREED.

Now, it's up to the ELECTORS. Electors who were appointed by Republicans, and are obligated to vote for the Republican, not by law, but by agreement. The Constitution of the United States allows Electors to vote their conscience if they feel that the choice made by the American people was made through misinformation.

MEDIA CAN PRESSURE THESE ELECTORS TO PROTECT THE NATION. To send the election into the House of Representatives would more than likely produce another Republican to sit in the White House, but it would be a clear message sent to Trump, his surrogates, Vladimir Putin and other Russian operatives, and to the FBI and other federal agencies who would wish to pervert our democracy in the future.

INVESTIGATIONS WILL HAPPEN, and heads may roll, but not soon enough. We need the Electors to stop this corruption dead in its tracks over the next NINE DAYS.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS THE ABILITY TO REPAIR SOME OF THE DAMAGE THEY'VE CAUSED. Now, it's just a matter of whether or not they give a damn. Whether or not they are patriotic enough to blow up the November 8th election. They have the power, but do not seem to have a backbone. 

2018
We MUST keep our coalition together. In 2014, just 17% of Democratic voters showed up at the poll. With a 10% approval rating, Republicans gained seats in both the House and the Senate.  

WE MUST NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN. Everyone needs to stay focused and pay attention, and make it to the polls on NOVEMBER 6, 2018 where we can build a Senate and House that represents our progressive ideals.

DO NOT QUIT. We have the task of fixing Washington and saving democracy. If not us, then who?

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

DEAR CNN & MSNBC : The Blood is on the Hands of your Political Directors and Anchors.

DEAR CNN and MSNBC POLITICAL DIRECTORS and ANCHORS, 
THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS.  Allow me to explain.....
By Thom Palmer
November 16, 2016

You gave him his ONLY path to victory. Where Trump may be a Putin puppet, You, the mainstream cable news media, are Trump puppets. You allowed yourselves to be manipulated, cowering to Trump's threats and were fascinated with his foul mouth and images of his great big airplane bouncing around. 

Political Directors, CNN's David Chalian and MSNBC's Chuck Todd, along with many hosts and Anchors BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY of a President Trump. Responsibility for the damage to race relations, the damage to women and families, the damage to Mother Earth due to the advancement of dirty energy and quashing of clean energy corrective measures is yours. Responsibility for the thousands of American men that will DIE in foreign oil wars as a result of the oil and weapons industries dictating policy to the Republican led government is yours. The responsibility for the many thousands of unnecessary gun deaths here in the United States due to the gun lobby and their control over Congress now, etc. is yours. Congratulations again.

I'm calling out Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Jake Tapper, Chuck 

Todd, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brezinski and all of the rest. All but one of these people more than likely voted for Hillary Clinton, but all bear the responsibility for Trump's election along with the ensuing national and global disasters to follow.

You have no right to ask what the Clinton campaign did wrong. You bear the responsibility for the thousands of extinctions that will ensue due to rising ocean levels and extreme drought in other areas throughout the world over the next century. You bear the responsibility for up to a billion refugees from low-lying areas in Indonesia and island nations throughout the world. Death and starvation. Congratulations, you made a lot of money this election season, and at the same time screwed 7 billion people living on this planet.

GIVING OVERTIME TO PROVEN LIES and HATEFUL RALLIES
You're still doing it, and it makes me sick. Every day, 24-7 you allowed proven lies to be told in front of millions. Equal time given to those who would savagely slander and politically crucify a very good woman, one far more experienced, educated and prepared to lead the nation. You perverted the First Amendment for corporate profit. True that you did a certain amount of push-back on many of the false claims made by Trump, his surrogates and Republican extremists, but you STILL allowed them back on your shows over and over and over, as if it were a valid debate. It was disgusting. I know that you didn't actually want Trump to win. Instead, you wanted the race to be close, and keep controversy at the forefront, because the tighter the race, the more angry your viewers became, the higher the ratings and the higher the profits. 

Trump had just one real path to victory, and it was YOUR willingness to cater to bigotry and hate, and cower when Trump said that you were rigging the election. You knew that there was election rigging going on, but also knew that it went in the other direction. You knew that when Trump said Hillary was a bigot, that he was covering his own bigotry through "projection", and any decent Journalist could plainly see that the Trump campaign was working hard to manipulate the election through espionage and FBI tampering. You buried his many scandals and legal problems in favor of a close race. Instead of correcting the record by proving to the public once and for all that Hillary Clinton was in fact NOT crooked, was NOT going to end up in jail, etc., you chose instead to let them say it thousands of times on your news shows. News shows that have become tabloid news. With the exception of a couple of hosts, you are not much better than Fox News now. Congratulations. You pushed him over the top.

You, the media, knew of Trump's legal battles. You knew he was the corrupt one....under indictment for racketeering and other cases. You knew that he lied to his followers over 75% of the time, and you knew that he is unqualified and uneducated. You knew that his lack of experience made him too dangerous a candidate. Yet, you gave him and his surrogates the megaphone. YOU gave them the ability to spread their hateful and xenophobic rhetoric. You were suckered by Trump, who put one of his top campaign managers (Lewandowski) on your payroll. He took you for fools, and you bit the apple.  You gave a megaphone to FULL BLOWN FASCISM. 

YOU allowed them to lie about the direction of the nation. Allowing them to convince 60 million voters that things are bad, when in fact the recovery we've made has surpassed expectations since the economic crash of 2008 and 2009. You never told the public how good we have it and how far we've come in the last 8 years as compared to the rest of the world. 

BLAMING THE ELECTORATE
There is plenty of blame to go around for Trump's electoral win. From the "Bernie-or-Bust" Democrats, to Gary Johnson and Jill Stein protest voters, to the seven million Democrats who decided that the election is too stupid to vote, to voter suppression as states with Republican legislatures have actively worked to cut down on voting precincts in highly Democratic areas, causing a certain percentage of voters to refuse to wait in a three hour or more line to vote, etc.

BLAMING TRUMP CAMPAIGN, FBI, RUSSIA, WIKILEAKS
You can blame the Trump campaign. Not for running a great campaign, because they did not. They ran a rag-tag, disorganized campaign with little grass roots effort. You can blame Trump and his Campaign Managers Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon working with Russians to commit espionage against the United States, giving hacked emails from the DNC to Wikileaks and Julian Assange for mass distribution. You can blame Trump and his campaign managers and surrogate Rudy Giuliani for conspiring with the New York office of the FBI, where some of his right-wing friends and former co-workers worked.

BLAMING THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Hillary didn't pay enough attention to rural white America. She didn't defend the email controversy properly. She didn't cater to middle America enough. Oh, just shut the hell up, Chuck, and take the responsibility for your own actions, and quit deflecting. 


BUT... NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE MATTERED IF NOT FOR MEDIA MANIPULATION
Being the Political Director of CNN or MSNBC, major sources of political information among many millions of Americans, means that you are responsible for content, truth, and true investigative journalism. Ratings MUST come secondary to truth if our democracy is to survive.

CORRECTIVE ACTION REQUIRED
You need to correct this, and fast. In two years, we expect you to TELL THE TRUTH. We expect you to use the First Amendment as it was intended. While it is true that it gives great latitude, and allows for stories of alien invasions, fake conspiracies and scandals, and pornography, YOU, the media bear the responsibility of getting to the truth, and having the best interest of America as your foundation. YOU FAILED.... AND YOU BETTER FIX IT. 

Since you gave Trump the Presidency, it is now your responsibility, your job to....

• Save Medicare from being dismantled
• Prevent Trump from abandoning the Paris Climate Agreement
• Stop the Keystone Pipeline from being built
• Prevent Mexican Concentration Camps
• Protect religious freedom across America and around the world
• Protect the First Amendment
• Protect the ACA
• Protect Social Security
• Heal the racial divides
• Refuse to accept xenophobia
• Refuse to accept sexual inequality
• Refuse to accept sexual abuse

Democrats, who SHOULD be in charge of the Senate and White House at this point, will continue fighting for truth and justice, but you made the task so much harder through your greed and reckless reporting. FIX IT, and don't tell us that it is not your job. You made it your job.

WE ARE GIVING YOU NO TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT, and if you don't respond, we're going to take you down. Better to have no news media than to have media that pushes misinformation for profit. In the meantime, it's your responsibility to make sure the GOP doesn't run us over the cliff. If you do not respond, we will protest. We will march on and boycott every damn one of your advertisers and bring you to your knees. This will be a 60 million person effort that you won't be able to survive.... I PROMISE.