MSM - Shaping and Being - Instead of Reporting - THE NEWS!
John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, January 3, 2017 5:05 PM
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| Doesn't Paul Ryan look so happy before his first move to take the ethics oversight into the House instead of leaving it with an independent council? Photo by Common Dreams |
The 115th Congress Is Sworn In Today
The Republicans wanted it to be some thing special. So they held a secret, closed door, session and decided the very first thing to be done should be to take away the function of the U.S. Office of Independent Counsel, tasked with investigating government officials. They created a bill to put those responsibilities under the House of Representatives! You heard me, they wanted the responsibility of investigating their wrongdoing themselves, the fox in the hen house scenario, You got it! They want to get rid of the only independent council overseeing ethics and put themselves in charge of investigating themselves. Another very important part of the bill called for "No investigations on anything older than 2011"! Why could that possibly be? OH! WTF?! Could it be that many of them did something wrong leading up to the financial crisis of 2008-2009?! And they want to be sure if their culpability is found they can rely on this law to not be prosecuted because Congress wouldn't be allowed to investigate? For such STUPID MF's they sure get good ideas when it comes to "covering their asses (CYA). You know, the same people who spent over $7M of taxpayers money voting to repeal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", (aka Obamacare,) 59 times! All the while knowing it would NEVER pass, much less get signed by President Barack Obama. So, the Republicans wanted the very first act of the 115th Congress to put the fox in charge of the hen house. Very interesting. But this post is about the media and how they are shaping the story to tell you what their corporate owners want them to spread. All morning it was being talked about in the media, all over the media. I personally read at least three articles where they "quoted" representatives saying that they were going to "reconsider" because their phone lines were being "swamped" by people objecting to their latest move to take away the oversight of ethics from the independent council. Welcome 115th Congress. You do know of course the large corporations that own the media want to make nice with the President-elect right?
The Republicans Are Beat Down - But MSM Decides - Trump Is The Reason - Mysteriously
So it starts to get reported that the Republicans had went back into secret session, closed door, meeting and when they come out, they have decided that instead of the entire House of Representatives voting on this secretly devised/closed door/ bill they would withdraw the bill all together. But now the MSM is saying they did because President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted. At 10:03 AM he did tweet (in 2 tweets, read the bottom one first) this:
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| Directly from @realdonaldtrump Twitter account |
But by 2:00 PM when reporting that the Republicans withdrew the bill all media was giving Trump credit for them reversing themselves. What happened to the "public outcry" the members of Congresses phone lines being swamped? I've heard only one mention of it in hours when Chuck Todd (MSNBC - Meet The Press Daily) at about 5:00 PM when he said "It appears the Republicans learned their first lesson, the hard way, especially when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump, ethics, and a public outcry." Other than that you would not know that many representatives earlier were actually more concerned that their phone lines were ringing o"off the hook." Contrary to many people's believe contacting your own Representatives by phone, or e-mail, is VERY effective when a lot of people do it at the same time. This has been my mission on my blog Get Involved For A Better America and my Facebook page Stop The Obstructionist Tea Party since the their inception, to educate, help people FIND their own Representatives, and then to contact them by phone and/or e-mail. People CAN be heard, CAN make a difference!
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| Photo by Kate's Voice from Google Search |
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Please go to my blog, bookmark it, put it in your favorites, Sign-up for e-mails (I promise you will only get one e-mail each time I post something new!) There you will find links, explanations of links and posts that you may be interested in. Also, to get you started I've posted the links below. Look at the different links, some are better to find YOUR U.S. Senators (www.senate.gov), you have two, others for finding YOUR Congressmen or Congresswomen (House.gov) and even others to find YOUR State and Local Politicians like State Senators, Assemblymen, Assemblywomen, like (OpenStates.org) and I list sites that actually let you TRACK your Representatives and tell you when they vote, how vote, and you can track any legislative bill you want, everytime an important action is taken on a bill your tracking you will get an e-mail, that may trigger your calling or e-mailing your representatives. Please check out those sites as well. PEOPLE CAN BE HEARD - CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TODAY. LOOK UP YOUR REPRESENTATIVES E-MAIL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO NEVER TRY AGAIN TO GET RID OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON ETHICS! |
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