THERE IS BREAKING NEWS, THEN THERE IS BROKEN NEWS.
AND THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE APPARENTLY BELIEVE OUR ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA
IS BROKEN.
THOSE ARE STRONG WORDS, I WILL BACK THEM UP WITH
NUMBERS.
THERE IS A NEW POLL OUT FROM SOME BIG PLAYERS, SOME
STUNNING RESULTS --
THAT IS THE SURVEY I REFERRED TO.
BY THE WAY, TO BE FAIR,
CONGRESS DOES COME IN LOWER.
THEY HAVE BROKEN A RECENT RECORD
BY COMING IN AT 7% APPROVAL RATING.
ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY,
IT IS 4%.
GEE, I WONDER IF THERE IS A REVOLUTION IN PLAY?
NO,
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
THESE ARE HONORABLE GENTLEMEN WHO ARE
HAVING HONEST DEBATE IN CONGRESS.
THE MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS GIVEN TO THEM BY THEIR DONORS DON'T AFFECT THEM AT ALL.
THAT IS WHAT THE MEDIA TELLS YOU, THAT IS WHY WE DON'T
BELIEVE THE MEDIA EITHER.
THE MEDIA TELLS YOU THAT THEY ARE
HAVING HONEST DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES AND THAT THEY HAVE
DIFFERENCES IN POLICY AND PRINCIPLES.
THE REALITY IS THEY
DO WHAT THEIR DONORS SAY, BUT THE MEDIA DOES NOT TELL YOU
THAT.
BECAUSE THE MONEY GETS FUNNELED TO THE MEDIA IN TV
ADVERTISEMENTS, THAT IS WHY WE HAVE LOST TRUST IN THEM.
SO NOW
EVEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHO SANCTIONS THIS HAS FOUND ABSURD
REASONS TO EXPLAIN IT, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THEY WILL SAY IS
PEOPLE ARE BIASED, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FACTS, THEY JUST
WANT THEIR OWN OPINIONS REGURGITATED BACK TO THEM.
I HAVE HEARD THAT A HALF-DOZEN TIMES.
SO --
SO NO, IT IS NOT THAT THEY DON'T WANT ACCURATE INFORMATION.
THEY DO.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA IS NOT
GIVING THEM ACCURATE INFORMATION.
BUT THEY CAN'T GET
THEMSELVES TO SEE IT.
SO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GOES, WELL,
THERE WAS THAT ROLLING STONE ARTICLE ABOUT THE RAPE THAT
WASN'T A RAPE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
WE RIPPED INTO THAT
HERE AT YOUNG TURKS, THAT WAS A TERRIBLE ARTICLE, YOU THINK THAT
IS WHY APPROVAL RATINGS FOR THE MEDIA IS AT 6%? BECAUSE OF A
ROLLING STONE ARTICLE?
WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?
THE OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT ARTICLE.
YOU
WANT TO TALK ABOUT MAKING EXCUSES?
THEN THEY GO,
REPUBLICANS BASH THE MEDIA ALL THE TIME, THAT IS PROBABLY IT.
NO, PROGRESSIVES DON'T LIKE THE MEDIA EITHER, ESPECIALLY
TELEVISION.
IT IS THE CORPORATE MEDIA.
THE MEDIA, WHO ARE SO NOT
TRUSTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THEY LAUGHED AT THAT.
"CORPORATE
MEDIA," SOUNDS LIKE A CONSPIRACY.
WAIT, WHO OWNS YOU?
GIANT
CORPORATIONS.
THEY THINK WE ARE THE CORPORATE MEDIA BECAUSE
CORPORATIONS OWN US -- YES, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS.
LIKE COMCAST
WOULD HAVE OTHER INTERESTS LIKE KILLING NET NEUTRALITY OR
GETTING THEIR MERGERS APPROVED?
THEY WOULD.
LIKE WE WOULD BE
INFLUENCED BY THE DOLLARS COMING IN FOR TV ADS, THE SAME ADS THAT
ARE PAID FOR BY THE CORRUPTION WHERE YOU CAN LEGALLY BRIBE
POLITICIANS?
THAT IS THE SAME MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT GOES
INTO THESE COMPANIES.
WHY DO THEY WANT TO DISMISS THAT LIKE
IT IS FUNNY?
BECAUSE THEY ARE THE CORPORATE MEDIA, THEY ARE
THE ESTABLISHMENT THAT THIS REVOLUTION IS AGAINST.
THEY ARE
THE POWERFUL, AND IN THE CASE OF THE EXECUTIVES, THE RICH AND
POWERFUL OF THESE CORPORATIONS, WHO DECIDE WHO THEY WANT TO
HIRE.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO ROCK THE BOAT THEN YOU WILL NOT GET
ON ONE OF THE STATIONS.
WHERE IS CHRIS HEDGES?
WHERE IS PHIL
DONAHUE?
HE HAD THE NUMBER ONE SHOW ON MSNBC.
REMOVED.
YOU ARE
ROCKING THE BOAT.
WHERE IS DAVID SIROTA?
GLENN GREENWALD?
I COULD
KEEP GOING.
ALL THE GUYS WHO WOULD CHALLENGE THE
ESTABLISHMENT, THE POWERFUL.
YOU WILL NOT GET A JOB ON TV.
ALL
THE GUYS WHO ARE HAPPY TO BE NEUTRAL -- NEUTRALITY FAVORS THE
STATUS QUO.
LET'S KEEP GOING THE EXACT SAME WAY.
YOU NEED WOLF
BLITZER TO READ A SCRIPT THAT IS WRITTEN BY THE SAME GUYS?
HE
WILL READ ANYTHING IN THE PROMPTER.
THAT IS WHY THEY DON'T
TRUST YOU, THE WHOLE COUNTRY DOES NOT TRUST YOU BECAUSE THEY
ARE ACTUALLY CORRECT.
THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE CORPORATE
MEDIA WORKS FOR THE CORPORATIONS.
THE SAME PEOPLE
WHO RIGGED THE RULES TO BUY OFF POLITICIANS AND CORRUPT
THE SYSTEM.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE EXCUSES ALL DAY LONG, TELL
YOURSELF PRETTY LITTLE LIES.
IT IS NOT LIKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN MISLED INTO THINKING THE MEDIA IS WRONG.
THEY ARE NOT
MISLED, YOU'RE MISLED.
SO I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SENSE WHEN I SAY
REVOLUTION.
THE CORPORATE MEDIA WILL SAY THAT IS RADICAL,
UNACCEPTABLE TALK.
WHEN WE HAD THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, ABOUT
ONE THIRD OF THE COLONISTS WANTED REVOLUTION, ONE THIRD
WERE UNSURE, AND A THIRD WANTED TO STAY WITH THE CROWN.
A THIRD
THOUGHT KING GEORGE WAS GREAT AND WE SHOULD BE LOYAL TO HIM.
NOW, THE UNPOPULARITY OF OUR OWN CONGRESS AND OUR OWN MEDIA IS
FAR WORSE THAN KING GEORGE'S UNFAVORABLITY WHEN WE HAD THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
WE WANT A POLITICAL REVOLUTION.
SOME
BELIEVE BERNIE SANDERS IS A WAY TO DO POLITICAL REVOLUTION, I
THINK WOLF-PAC.COM IS A WAY TO DO POLITICAL REVOLUTION, BUT THE
REST OF THE MEDIA WILL BE LIKE, I DO DECLARE, HE JUST MENTIONED
A PAC THAT IS DESIGNED TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
THAT IS
NOT NEUTRAL AT ALL.
THAT GUY SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT THE NEWS,
UNACCEPTABLE.
SURE, HIRE PEOPLE WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE
NEWS.
YOU KNOW WHAT ANDERSON COOPER SAID?
HE SAID HE PROBABLY
WON'T VOTE.
HE WOULD NOT WANT TO BOTHER HIS PRETTY LITTLE HEAD
WITH POLICIES THAT HE COVERS EVERY DAY.
ANDERSON, YOU DON'T
THINK ABOUT THE NEWS?
YOU HAVEN'T FORMED AN OPINION?
YOU
HAVE BEEN COVERING THE NEWS FOR ALL THESE YEARS AND YOU NEVER
GAVE IT ANY THOUGHT?
THAT IS SO SAD.
NO, IT WOULD BE BIASED TO
DRAW CONCLUSIONS.
IT WOULD BE NONHUMAN NOT TO DRAW
CONCLUSIONS.
DONALD TRUMP'S TAX PLAN WILL CUT REVENUE BY 9 1/2
TRILLION DOLLARS AND FUNNEL MOST OF IT TO THE RICH, I HAVE NO
OPINION ON THAT.
I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T CARE.
HE WOULD
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST MUSLIMS, GAYS, MEXICANS, YOU NAME IT --
I HAVE NO OPINION ON THAT.
HE SAID/SHE SAID.
I'M NEUTRAL.
I WONDER WHY YOU LOST THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THEY KNOW
YOU HAVE OPINIONS.
THAT SAME ANDERSON COOPER GIVES A POLL
ABOUT HOW BERNIE SANDERS IS MORE ELECTABLE, CNN'S OWN POLL, THEN
TURNS AROUND AND SAYS HILLARY IS MORE ELECTABLE.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE
YOU DO HAVE AN OPINION, BUT YOU HIDE IT.