I like Borowitz, so I’m sorry to say that I don’t find him to be particularly gifted in the field of satire. Sorry Andy, but I only found you to be mildly amusing. Roy Boy, who has posted here, on the other hand, is hysterically absurd.

RE:  And the Joker is ......?

well, bugger all!

How about Chomsky… admire Chomksy, do we?

Chomsky: ”...One can, in short, adopt this device to dismiss those who pursue the
unacceptable third option as hopeless fanatics and conspiracy theorists, ...”

Now, on the other hand, ”...Dec 2006 Chomsky Dismisses 911
Conspiracy Theories As ‘Dubious’.”

Clearly, every public figure of certain comfort and privilege finds the line across which
stepping will put at risk said perks: the result of book sales, lecture fees, salaries, benefits,
etc.

Tao Walker, time to step in an discipline this girl! Clearly, the last time didn’t take.

PS: Roy, Red Baiting became passé ca. 1990… find a new hobby.

How true and how unfortunate that the American public and the Lame Stream Media did not look closely into the past of this guy birthplace unknown, historical documents all HIDDEN who was born to a Black British Muslim Communist Father and a feckless Communist immature Mother adopted by a Muslim stepfather and schooled and brought up as a Muslim in Indonesia, where you HAD to be a citizen to attend school, before being sent back to his Communist Grandparents in Hawaii and mentored by a Black Communist homosexual before going to College and mixing with Radical Muslims and far left Socialists and Racist Blacks and traveling to Pakistan with one of the Radical Muslims and being mentored by an American Terrorist who most probably ghost wrote at least one of his books and who associated with criminals in his adopted home Chicago . What a surprise American voters were too naive, gullible and stupid to see any of it . But ALL of it was there and easily available online and people were saying it out loud long long before the USA committed suicide by voting him in to power.

Obama a Socialist?
The claim: Liberal’s say no proof Barack Obama is a socialist

The response:
Barack Obama Sr. (Dad)
*Communist who saw nothing wrong with government ‘taxing 100%’ so long as the people got benefits…
- Obama Sr. on socialism. See: http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
- Overview of the paper. See: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/
*Harvard educated economist
*Nairobi bureaucrat who advised government to ‘redistribute’ income through higher taxes
*Demonized corporations
*Abandoned Barack Obama Jr. when he was 2 years old to continue at Harvard (teaching son that ideology is more important than family)

Stanley Ann Dunham (Mom)
*Communist sympathizer
*Practiced ‘critical theory’ (aka Marxism)
*Influenced by Nietzsche and Freud
*Left Hawaii for Indonesia, Pakistan
*Attended a leftist church nicknamed the ‘little red church’ because of its Communist sympathies
*Left Barack Obama Jr.

Mentor
*Barack’s grandparents introduced Barack Obama Jr. to poet and communist Frank Marshall Davis See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.htm
*Davis becomes a mentor as young Barack struggled with abandonment by parents

College & Church
*Admittedly sought out ‘Marxist’ professors: You Tube speech “From Barack Obama’s own words - He Searched out Marxist (Communist) Professors in college”
*Admittedly attended ‘socialist conferences’: Weekly Standard “Why Did Obama Attend Socialist Conferences?” by John McCormack July 18, 2008 11:50 PM
*Began attending a Marxist church - led by pastor Jeremiah Wright (attended for 20 years) See: http://www.acton.org/commentary/443_marxist_roots_of_black_liberation_theology.php

Career
*Tragedy of the Warren Court: No redistributive change
*Voted for TARP
*$787 billion stimulus redistribution bill
*Healthcare bill admittedly about ‘redistributing the wealth’
*Single Payer Healthcare proponent ]
*President Obama now also President of GM & Chrysler
*President Obama seizes control of insurance giant AIG
*President Obama is leading America to single payer healthcare
*President Obama seized control of Student Loan industry in order to ‘cut out middle man’
*President Obama seizes control in massive land grabs
*Repeatedly vilifies ‘the rich’
*Obama believes race problems can be solved through redistribution of wealth… he said “race is still an enormous factor in our society. But economics can overcome a lot of racial division.”
*Trying to regulate the Internet via FCC
*Forces mortgage co’s to cover people who aren’t paying mortgage
*Extends unemployment benefits to 99 weeks
*Told Joe the plumber ‘it’s better when you spread things around’

Family, Friends, Advisors & Administration
*Wife Michelle Obama said “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
*Jim Wallis, Obama’s spiritual advisor & forced redistribution of wealth advocate
*Van Jones, disgraced Green Jobs Czar & Communist
*Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Czar & anti-free market
*John Holdren, pro-redistribution of wealth
*Andy Stern, SEIU President & redistribution of wealth fan
*Anita Dunn, fan of Chairman Mao
*Mark Lloyd, FCC ‘Diversity Czar’
*Carol Browner, socialist
*Robert Creamer, socialist

Conspiracy, conspiracy!  People love it!  Which presents the next problem—How to tell one conspiracy from another?  Is there such a thing as a “false” conspiracy and a “true” conspiracy?  Who says so?  Why are they saying so?  What ever happened to the facts in the case?  And the Joker is ......?

RE: Obama’s association with Ayers is of no concern…

not necessarily, if one looks into Ayers to learn neither he nor Dorn served any
time for their crimes - it suggests they were assets, and my still be - others
suggest Obama is an asset, groomed from youth - e.g. 
http://tinyurl.com/4djcda5

fearnotruth, March 22 at 2:39 am,

Obama’s association with Ayers is of no concern and Obama’s
socialist leanings are so minuscule that for the life of me, I can’t see
that he has any. Obama is a conservative following a conservative
agenda to the letter.  He is even involving our nation in another
expensive war, when we don’t even have medical for all the citizens
and he wants to talk about destroying Social Security and Medicare
as if they are the only entitlements and ignore entitlements to the
wealthy war mongers.

titles are not copyrightable ... but ... moreover, Tarpley brings the clarity of vision in Obama: The
Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate to cite Bill Ayers and other Weathermen
terrorists as the cointel provocateurs they were and question Obama’s ongoing relationship with
Ayers and his Foundation support -  and he looks more deeply into his Wall Street support

unlike the ‘socialist’ canard on which Klein’s work is focussed, Tarpley illuminates in his book
(predating Klein’s by 2 years) its obvious Left-cover bait and switch - ergo: Making of a
Manchurian Candidate - essentially an agent for the same old globalist financier agenda - now
being called the New World Order. Klein, however, seems to be shilling a divisive line.

___________________________________________________

RE: Highlights of The Manchurian President: 1 edition (May 3, 2010) -
http://tinyurl.com/2dkczwf

Obama’s mysterious college years unearthed Shocking details of Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers
and other Weathermen terrorists Obama’s ties to Islam and black liberation theology Startling facts
about Obama’s eligibility to serve as president Obama’s membership in a socialist party probed How
Obama’s “hope” & “change” slogans stem from communist activism Radical socalists involved in
drafting stimulus bill, ObamaCare Communists, socialists and other radicals on team Obama,
including an expose on Obama’s top guns in the White House Never-before-revealed depth of
Obama’s relationship with ACORN

Aaron Klein (Author),
...is a Jerusalem-based author, journalist, columnist and U.S. radio and television commentator
known for his close contacts with Middle East leaders.

Brenda J. Elliott (Author)
...an author and historian, is the formerly anonymous blogger known as “B Merry” and “Procrustes”
who created and maintains both RezkoWatch (RW) and TheRealBarackObama(RBO).Prior to launching
RW in January 2008, Elliott contributed to SourceWatch (SW) as the citizen journalist known as
Artificial Intelligence.

_________________________________________________________________

Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate 1st edition (June 2008)
- http://tinyurl.com/6538cu

Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup
by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich
contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power.

Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won public office in a contested
election. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater
who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. All indications are that Brzezinski
recruited Obama at Columbia University a quarter century ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder
Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States
than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure.

Obama’s economics are pure Skull & Bones/Chicago school austerity and sacrifice for American
working families, all designed to bail out the bankrupt Wall Street elitist financiers who own Obama.
Obama’s lemming legions and Kool-Aid cult candidacy hearken back to Italy in 1919-1922, and raise
the question of postmodern fascism in the United States today.

Obama is a recipe for a world tragedy. No American voter can afford to ignore the lessons contained
in this book.

About the Author
Webster Griffin Tarpley (Massachusetts 1946) is an intelligence expert and historian who has been
studying and exposing covert operations for over thirty years. He is the author of George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography (1992) and 9/11 Synthetic Terror (2005). He has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN,
Fox News, and many more.

Glenn Beck ratings skyrocket; has three times the audience of Chris Matthews
The biggest news in cable news of 2010 is the remarkable rise of Glenn Beck at Fox. His Friday night special drew huge numbers and leapfrogged his show above long-time #2 Sean Hannity. What was CNN thinking when the let this guy get away? As for the rest of the cable news pack, some were up a little, some were down a little. And Larry King is history. Keith (the Delusional Supreme) is gone. So who does MSNBC have? Nobody except Ed Schultz who has the contagious virus going around MSNBC called the “Maher Syndrome.” Ed’s commentary never included a smidgeon of intelligence but now it’s even worse, he now sounds like a cross between Mel Gibson and Lawrence O’Donnell. As the syndrome progresses it will cause Ed to fall into the “Chris Matthews phase.” This will lead him to believe that he is his own guest, in other words, he asks and answers every question.This will lead Ed to start spitting when he pronounces certain words, it’s similar to Sylvester the Cat’s lisp.  Sylvester’s lisp of course was much worse but at least the people he talked to stayed dry. The next phase is the Dylan Rattigan phase and he will find himself starting to spend time in Hugh Hefner’s grotto and believing the women when they tell him “you were great” or he will start believing the info coming out of “Pravda” MSNBC. The last stage of the syndrome is called the Bill Maher psycho phase. This phase will start with an eye “tremor” or eye itch, similar to the one that Inspector Dryfus had (Inspector Clouseau’s enemy) in the Pink Panther movies. The angrier you get, the more it twitches. The more it twitches the angrier you get. And of course with this last phase, he will start believing the notes the Progressives and the Mao lovers have him reading.

As for the programs, their two main news shows saw their best quarters ever. Special Report with Bret Baier and FOX Report with Shepard Smith at 6 and 7pmET respectively. Of course, the entire line-up was up – in demo, Glenn Beck was up the most (50%).
While CNN continues to decline in prime time (as detailed today in the New York Times) and MSNBC’s signature programs fall off as well (post coming), Fox News remains unaffected. In fact, with health care passing, there’s no reason to doubt the second quarter of 2011 will be any different. With the midterm elections finished, Fox News could conceivably be headed for another year of stronger ratings than the one before.
We see that despite an astonishingly radical first two years in office, which has awakened unprecedented voter outrage and caused Obama’s popularity to plunge, the lame stream media largely continue to ignore the reality of who Obama is, what he really stands for, and who influences him. During this time most of the media’s top publications and personalities refused to read the No. 1 best-selling non-fiction book in America, Aaron Klein’s “Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists” a blistering, thoroughly documented account of Barack Obama’s extremist connections, because they “found” the subject matter “offensive”. We now know that the media were our enablers, that our political opposition is funded by us, that Acorn and the welfare-entitlement complex is funded by us, that the Marxists in schools are funded by us. We now know that the MSM not only failed to do their job–asking important questions and informing the populace in a balanced way–they have also lied to us over and over again. We now know that we can’t depend on the MSM for information. We now know that Barry Hussein is a mere symptom of what ails America. We now know that liberalism is not only intellectually incorrect but also an affront to common decency. We now know that liberals simply hate Americans, especially when they won’t go along with such obviously good things such as President Obama’s healthcare law, “economic stimulus” spending, nationalizing student loans, unilaterally disarming American nuclear weapons, or raising taxes in an anemic economy. After watching the Glenn Beck rally and the news aftermath, we now know positively that the lame-stream media will never be objective.

RE: ...PBS has the NewsHour, and NPR carries ME and ATC.  Democracy Now is good too.

exception taken

limited hangouts, intended to placate the so-called, left-lib progressives - watch very closely
how they cover the Libya campaign; how none will connect the dots leading from the ‘leaks’
(remember Qadafi ‘cavorting’ with the Ukrainian nurse - utterly despicable to Muslims), to the
rise of the ‘rebels’, through social networking, to the Colonel’s bombing his own (Russian
military satellites picked up zero evidence of it in the 1st week of the reports), to official Libyan Gov.
reports of civilian casualties from Euro-American missiles and bombs, aired this weekend on
NPR as ‘unconfirmed’ - I’ve yet to hear ‘Libyan casualties at Qadafi’s hands’ reported as
‘unconfirmed.’

ENCORE!  The Mighty Whirlitzer plays the Oligarchs’ tune.  Tunisia was the warm up… Egypt the
prelude; now we get the La Gran Fuga - try following the subject, counter subject,
development, et al; many voices to emerge before reaching the stretto and final cadence: when
the IMF and World Bank comes waltzing in to ‘rebuild’ the bombed out infrastructure at 22% APR
against futures on bulk crude!

If anybody on Truthdig has had a successful experience in changing the rock-
hard mind-set of the typical right wing Fox addict, please list specifics of how.

Fox is only number one because it is the only “major news outlet” that is included in all the subscription television viewing tiers.

The bottom tier does NOT include CNN or MSNBC or C-SPAN.  FOX has a built-in viewership with low income families that can only afford the lowest tier of pay TV.

Unfortunately, they are fed garbage information that is totally GOP agenda progaganda and they cannot afford more.  Murdoch in control - AGAIN!!

Faux News plays the right-wing role against the National Propaganda Radio left-
wing role in our nation’s broadcast media psy-op circus

2 things to never forget:

1. “Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state.” - James Jesus
Angelton - Director of CIA Counter Intelligence (1954-74)

2. “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major
media.” - William Colby - Director of the CIA (1973-76)

The Elite and Corporate Right Wing, Rupert
Murdoch and his FOX Network assisted by his
toady Roger Ailes take full advantage of the B. F.
Skinner savant propaganda training from cradle
to grave propaganda technique starting on
television, then the Public School System and
throughout life until death of the Right/Wrong,
Good/Bad, Yes/No, Pretty/Ugly, Win/Lose, etc.
type Binary Emotional Rhetoric Communication
System promoted by Conservatives and the Right
in the United States to put down liberals and
anything liberal and make savants of the weak
minded, who are unable to think for themselves
so that they will be easily controlled and do as
they are told; therefore these savants find a
home at the Fox News Propaganda Network.

Fox News is not news, it is brainwashing propaganda,  for the mentally lazy and ignorant. Fox Fraudcasting-Hannity, Beck, Savage, Doocy and other Foxites have successfully brainwashed millions of people.

Goebbels: “The essence of propaganda is winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.”

The so-called republicans are in every sense of the word Fascists-totalitarian, corrupt, and incompetent that have adopted the “Big Lie” of Herr Hitler and Herr Goebbels—tell lies, even preposterous lies, and repeat them over and over on a 24/7 basis. Fox Fraudcasting and hate radio have also adopteed the “Big Lie” propaganda.

Judging from personal experience, I would say that Fox appeals to people who
never learned—or refused to accept—the idea of nuances, relativity.  Life
comes at them in either black or white, and even at that, life is still
overwhelmingly complex.  Rather than deal with the complexities it is easier to
listen while someone tells you which box to put this in, and which box is where
that belongs.  Fox is a great simplifier and that is its appeal. 

Once the mind gels it’s very difficult to open it because the first requirement is
“give up your emotional security.”

Oh, great. That explains everything.

I am smiling. Knowing FOX exists, I need a constant supply of reason.

Less stress through subjectivity and ignorance will
inevitably cause more stress when the actuality of
objective reality sneaks up on faux news watchers. 
It would be better if there was no propaganda
network(s), just lots of comedy with Jon Stewart
and Stephen Colbert.