On the recently front-paged article Former Senator Webb thinking of running for President…a post about the possiblility of a “peace” candidate running for preznit in 2016…Marie2 posted the following historically quite accurate comment:
In 1972, George McGovern was fifty years old. He had served four years in the US House and ten in the US Senate. He’d supported and worked for Democratic candidates before running for office himself. He wasn’t merely anti-war but pro-peace.
The most qualified DEM POTUS nominee since FDR with integrity as well. But Americans (including the DINO wing of the DEM Party) overwhelmingly preferred the drunk, venal Nixon and his creepy henchmen. It’s been Nixonlandia ever since.
I elaborated on this idea.
Read for the rest of the story.
In 1972 the power of the American PermaGov-owned media was reaching its peak. It had already proven itself by whitewashing the assassination era in the minds of the lumpen publitariat. The media made Nixon president under orders from the PermaGov…it will act the same way under similar orders if an anti-war/pro-peace candidate does surface this year here in Omertica, bet on it… and it broke him when he disobeyed orders from the same interests. “Deep Throat” my royal Irish ass!!! The whole Watergate thing was an intelligence hustle the media segment of which was run through Bob Woodward, an intelligence media asset if ever there was one.
Have things changed now?
Not a chance. Not strategically, anyway. The strategy is to hustle the rubes, just as it’s always been. It’s only in terms of tactics that things are different in the current setup. Tactically the operation has become much more complex. The change is in the media system itself. It’s digital and thus much more dispersed than it was. More complicated. No more 2 or 3 newspapers and 2 or 3 TV networks; now it’s all over the place.
Is that a weakness? Let us pray that it is, but I think that dispersal problem will be overcome as well. they have promoted the Iraq War v.3 pretty damned well, as a cursory look at the top of today’s Google News page will certainly attest. Its lead headline as of 11:30 AM EST, 9/24/14?
From the Amazon-owned Washingtoon Post.
US military leaders: Strikes in Syria are just the start of a prolonged campaign
Riiiiight…
(By the way…Amazon is a CIA business partner if not even deeper in the intelligence mix. Bet on that as well.)
The general result in the minds of the gawping American public?
Geez, Martha!!! It sez right here!!! We’re in it for the long haul. Them lousy ISIS guys!!! They’re gonna get whut’s comin’ to ’em now!!! Betcha!!!
Yup.
About the latest “peace” candidates? We’ll see, won’t we.
Looks like business as usual, to me.
War business.
Calvin Coolidge said “…the chief business of the American people is business.”
Maybe then.
Now?
We’ll see.
On recent evidence? It’s obedience that is their chief business.
Obedience to the media’s dictates.
Watch.
AG
A lifetime subscription to the Washitclean Post?
Please.
Let us all wake the fuck up!!!
AG
It has been said before: war is the business of the USA and will always be or will be at least for the foreseeable future. And it doesn’t do that especially well, does it, inspite of all the fancy talking and hardware? The right hand doesn’t know what the left one is doing. The whole world sits around waiting for US guidance on the way to democracy and corporatism. The whole thing is pathetic. Think Hill and Bill.
Actually, the left and right hands of the bipartisan War Party know exactly what they are both doing.
Jerking off the American public.
Bet on it.
The U.S. cannot afford to “win” wars. To really win one you have to break almost everything. Colin Powell invoked “the Pottery Barn rule” [just before the Iraq II invasion], while John Kerry pledged his allegiance to it during his first presidential debate.
These guys know what they are doing. They are attempting to break their cake and not have to eat it, too. They are breaking things with no intention of paying for them, or at the very least paying as little as possible for the privilege. But you can only go so far before the rest of the world recoils in horror and then attacks in self-defense. Therein lies the problem for the U.S. PermaGov and its (richer than hell and mostly whiter than snow) NATO allies. How can it best continue in the militarily-supported pursuit of power in oil-rich nations without having to face the wrath of other superpowers and their own satrapies.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” goes the old proverb. It would be nice if these homicidal monsters paid attention to W. C. Fields’s variation.
But of course…they don’t.
Why?
Because so far they think that they have gotten away with it and they are making enormous profits.
But…watch out!!!
Karma is a bitch and them chickens always come home to roost.
Always.
Bet on that as well.
It’s only a matter of time.
Watch.
Gotta go now…tonight I am playing withgsome of the descendants of the Coltrane musict hat is up on the front page in an effort to create at least a little reverse karma in the opposite direction.
Pray for us.
And while you’re at it…pray for yourselves as well. When we support the PermaGov…in any form, including ObamaGov…we are forced to take on some of its karma.
Think on it.
Later…
AG
A claim such as this one betrays a naive understanding of how institutions operate. That they have separate turfs and don’t act in concert with each, either intra-institution or inter-institution. That’s not to say that factions/operations within institutions never have similar goals/agendas.
For example, the Republican J Edgar Hoover and his FBI COINTELPRO (which appears to have continued to live on to this day) has been instrumental in reducing political competition from the left. But in 1960 it was competing with Operation Mockingbird and the latter ended up winning. So, we could say that the (mockingbird) media made JFK President. But by 1964 and through 1972, they were probably on the same page. Both had fallen apart by late 1976 and thus, Carter slipped through during the breach. Other than Ben Bradlee, all the major players were gone or dead by then. Including:
J Edgar Hoover
Allen Dulles
Frank Wisner
Phil Graham
Cord Meyer
James Angleton
Watergate was a team Nixon operation and neither fake nor concocted by the FBI or CIA to take down Nixon. The real break in the case didn’t come from Felt or whoever else Woodward may have been getting tips from, but by the trial of the Watergate burglars and initial sentencing by Maximum John Sirica. That’s what led to the Senate Watergate hearings.
I disagree. Certainly there are rival factions within what I call the PermaGov, just as there are rival factions within all large institutions. You are correct regarding the FBI and CIA during that post-war period. They were at odds strategically about which direction the country should take and tactically regarding how to steer the population in their particular desired direction. I often use the term “the left wing of the right wing” to describe the CIA and its related intelligence apparati. That “left wing” won the battle.
But to say that by 1976 the CIA’s domestic media operations had “fallen apart” is more than just naive. It is totally blindered. The major newspapers and news networks that had the power to channel popular opinion were fully active then, controlled the same way by well-placed intelligence assets and remain active in other forms right to this day.
You say :
That’s like saying the Hollywood didn’t continue to use the star system in the ’70s because the stars and studio operators of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s were no longer active.
Whether Watergate was a thoroughly Nixonian effort or a well-constructed plot to get rid of him begs the qiestion. No one who is going to say anything from a position of real knowledge is going to say a word about that because it would be a suicidal mission. We will probably never know the machinations that went into that scam any more than we will really know the true story of the various assassinations, the Lewinsky coup…it was, y’know, although it was an agonizingly slow one, the election fixes that finished it off or 9/11. What we do know is that the major media lockstepped into concerted action…just as they are today regarding Obama’s Iraq War v.3…when the cover stories were ordered to be sent out. That is the one piece of evidence regarding this control system of which I speak that is absolutely undeniable. If the various mass media were truly uncontrolled, journalistic wars would be occurring as the various media entities competed for the prize. But these wars never happen. Lockstep City happens instead. Is this sheer coincidnece? I do not believe it, myself. Not a bit of it.
You do?
That’s what makes horseraces.
But…there are no horseraces in the media regarding truly major PermaGov policy initiatives. Just a polite trot to the next stable.
Stability is the name of the PermaGov hustle game.
It plays that game very well.
The velvet glove over the iron fist.
Bet on it.
AG
And then there was this key fact. George McGovern was a World War II combat veteran.
Richard Nixon however: