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The jew in your living room

anti_marx | 16.01.2003 04:37

anti_marx is laughing out loud its time to fetch the dead jew a shroud. we're sticking the hebe into the ground... dum dee dum dee dum.

THE JEW IN YOUR LIVING ROOM

There is no greater power in the world today than that wielded by
the manipulators of public opinion in America. No king or pope of
old, no conquering general or high priest ever disposed of a power
even remotely approaching that of the few dozen men who control
America's mass media of news and entertainment.

Their power is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into every
home in America, and it works its will during nearly every waking
hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind of virtually
every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated.

The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us
what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know -- or
think we know -- about events outside our own neighborhood or circle
of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly
news magazine, our radio, or our television.

It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories
from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing of history-
distorting TV "docudramas" that characterizes the opinion-
manipulating techniques of the media masters. They exercise both
subtlety and thoroughness in their management of the news and the
entertainment that they present to us.

For example, the way in which the news is covered: which items are
emphasized and which are played down; the reporter's choice of
words, tone of voice, and facial expressions; the wording of
headlines; the choice of illustrations -- all of these things
subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret
what we see or hear.

On top of this, of course, the columnists and editors remove any
remaining doubt from our minds as to just what we are to think about
it all. Employing carefully developed psychological techniques, they
guide our thought and opinion so that we can be in tune with the
"in" crowd, the "beautiful people," the "smart money." They let us
know exactly what our attitudes should be toward various types of
people and behavior by placing those people or that behavior in the
context of a TV drama or situation comedy and having the other TV
characters react in the Politically Correct way.

Molding American Minds

For example, a racially mixed couple will be respected, liked, and
socially sought after by other characters, as will a "take charge"
Black scholar or businessman, or a sensitive and talented
homosexual, or a poor but honest and hardworking illegal alien from
Mexico. On the other hand, a White racist -- that is, any racially
conscious White person who looks askance at miscegenation or at the
rapidly darkening racial situation in America -- is portrayed, at
best, as a despicable bigot who is reviled by the other characters,
or, at worst, as a dangerous psychopath who is fascinated by
firearms and is a menace to all law-abiding citizens. The White
racist "gun nut," in fact, has become a familiar stereotype on TV
shows.

The average American, of whose daily life TV-watching takes such an
unhealthy portion, distinguishes between these fictional situations
and reality only with difficulty, if at all. He responds to the
televised actions, statements, and attitudes of TV actors much as he
does to his own peers in real life. For all too many Americans the
real world has been replaced by the false reality of the TV
environment, and it is to this false reality that his urge to
conform responds. Thus, when a TV scriptwriter expresses approval of
some ideas and actions through the TV characters for whom he is
writing, and disapproval of others, he exerts a powerful pressure on
millions of viewers toward conformity with his own views.

And as it is with TV entertainment, so it is also with the news,
whether televised or printed. The insidious thing about this form of
thought control is that even when we realize that entertainment or
news is biased, the media masters still are able to manipulate most
of us. This is because they not only slant what they present, but
they establish tacit boundaries and ground rules for the permissible
spectrum of opinion.

As an example, consider the media treatment of Middle East news.
Some editors or commentators are slavishly pro-Israel in their every
utterance, while others seem nearly neutral. No one, however, dares
suggest that the U.S. government is backing the wrong side in the
Arab-Jewish conflict and that it served Jewish interests rather than
American interests to send U.S. forces to cripple Iraq, Israel's
principal rival in the Middle East. Thus, a spectrum of permissible
opinion, from pro-Israel to nearly neutral, is established.

Another example is the media treatment of racial issues in the
United States. Some commentators seem almost dispassionate in
reporting news of racial strife, while others are emotionally
partisan -- with the partisanship always on the non-White side. All
of the media spokesmen without exception, however, take the position
that "multiculturalism" and racial mixing are here to stay, and that
they are good things.

Because there are differences in degree, however, most Americans
fail to realize that they are being manipulated. Even the citizen
who complains about "managed news" falls into the trap of thinking
that because he is presented with an apparent spectrum of opinion he
can escape the thought controllers' influence by believing the
editor or commentator of his choice. It's a "heads I win, tails you
lose" situation. Every point on the permissible spectrum of public
opinion is acceptable to the media masters -- and no impermissible
fact or viewpoint is allowed any exposure at all, if they can
prevent it.

The control of the opinion-molding media is nearly monolithic. All
of the controlled media -- television, radio, newspapers, magazines,
books, motion pictures -- speak with a single voice, each
reinforcing the other. Despite the appearance of variety, there is
no real dissent, no alternative source of facts or ideas accessible
to the great mass of people that might allow them to form opinions
at odds with those of the media masters. They are presented with a
single view of the world -- a world in which every voice proclaims
the equality of the races, the inerrant nature of the Jewish
"Holocaust" tale, the wickedness of attempting to halt the flood of
non-White aliens pouring across our borders, the danger of
permitting citizens to keep and bear arms, the moral equivalence of
all sexual orientations, and the desirability of a "pluralistic,"
cosmopolitan society rather than a homogeneous one. It is a view of
the world designed by the media masters to suit their own ends --
and! the pressure to conform to that view is overwhelming. People
adapt their opinions to it, vote in accord with it, and shape their
lives to fit it.

And who are these all-powerful masters of the media? As we shall
see, to a very large extent they are Jews. It isn't simply a matter
of the media being controlled by profit-hungry capitalists, some of
whom happen to be Jews. If that were the case, the ethnicity of the
media masters would reflect, at least approximately, the ratio of
rich Gentiles to rich Jews. The preponderance of Jews in the media
is so overwhelming, however, that we are obliged to assume that it
is due to more than mere happenstance.

anti_marx

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