Discussion: Trump Sends Aides To Government-Funded Broadcaster Voice Of America

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“We distort, you comply!”

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[quote]Voice of America director Amanda Bennett told Politico that she has not been influence by the Trump administration.

“I know that everyone is looking to say that we’re being manipulated by the Trump administration, we’re absolutely not,” she said.[/quote]

Give it time, honey, the Trumpler Youth have only just been dispatched.

Once they get there with the jackboots and nightsticks, it might just be different.

Uncle Vlad is paying their salaries, so expect a change in focus, too.

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Ya Check 
 Those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it.

From a speech by the little Austrian fellow when he took over the Reichtag

Simultaneously with this political purification of our public life, the Reich Government intends to undertake a thorough moral purging of the German Volkskörper. The entire system of education, the theater, the cinema, literature, the press, and radio-they all will be used as a means to this end and valued accordingly. They must all work to preserve the eternal values residing in the essential character of our Volk. Art will always remain the expression and mirror of the yearning and the reality of an era. The cosmopolitan contemplative attitude is rapidly disappearing. Heroism is arising passionately as the future shaper and leader of political destinies. The task of art is to give expression to this determining spirit of the age. Blut and Rasse will once more become the source of artistic intuition. The task of the government, particularly in an age of limited political power, is to ensure that the internal value of life and the will of the nation to live are given that much more monumental artistic expression in culture. This resolve entails the obligation to grateful appreciation of our great past. The gap between this past and the future must be bridged in all sectors of our historical and cultural life. Reverence for the Great Men must be instilled once more in German youth as a sacred inheritance. In being determined to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, the government is creating and securing the requirements for a genuinely profound return to religious life.

Read the whole thing for yourself here. And ya I went all Goodwin on ya

http://worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/hitlerenablingact.htm

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The Reichstag? Where’s the fire?

The analogy is inane.

making alternative Facts available everywhere


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Nazi comparisons are imprecise at best.

You have a very sweet demeanor and seem to know at least one fact about the Reichstag.

What @sickneffintired is referring to is the coordination of all media, in fact of all organizations, under the Nazis. (They even had a special German word for it, Gleichschaltung: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung)

The analogy is, if anything, obvious, not inane.

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and this following the proposed Defunding of the NEA and the proposed defunding of Public Broadcasting 
do we see a pattern here boys and girls , moms and dads?
PBS and NPR have always been perceived as liberal outlets by virtue of the fact they provide fact based reporting and literate programming.
Time to fix that

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“open, transparent and seamless” – meaning closed, shadowy and disjointed.

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Even the bold print escapes you, you’re so bent on your terse little moments of antagonism here. What’s your damage?

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You know, “Ignorance is strength” and all that


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Sort of like “Arbeit macht frei”


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Wow an interesting headline to read after last night my 22 year old son recommending to my 14 year old daughter that she should read 1984!

Edit: he wasn’t alone!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sales-of-’1984’-surge-after-conway-talks-‘alternative-facts’/ar-AAmaPs8?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Edit: Then I flip a special about Rachel Carson on WUNC tv last night after hearing about the opening up of the pipelines in the evening news. As well as the controversy of accusing scientist and companies of doing something that might not be good was the fact that she was a woman
 with only a BS accusing men with postgraduate degrees!

http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Silent_Spring-Rachel_Carson-1962.pdf

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“I know that everyone is looking to say that we’re being manipulated by the Trump administration, we’re absolutely not,” she said.

Bennett also said that the Trump aides will not be involved in decisions about content produced by Voice of America.

So, to summarize what Bennett is saying: Voice of America will be manipulated by the Trump administration, and Trump aides will have veto power and input over content.

Just to be clear.
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There’s this too


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and this perspective which I found interesting

Robert Reich: Trump’s Two-Step Strategy to Take Over the Truth
The new president has this all figured out.

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So, now we have a “Ministry of Information?”

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Funny.

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I’m sure that the Groper in Chief’s lackeys will bring the lessons learned from Radio Moscow.

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