Media Scandal Just the Tip of the Iceberg

The News Corporation Phone Hacking Scandal has faded from sight.  The coverage was almost nonexistent here, but for a reason.  Our relation with the press goes a long way back to the First Amendment.  Back then it was in its infancy doing what it was supposed to do: keep the politicians accountable and reporting the news that’s fit to print. Our media has its color; some of the commentators look like eighth graders or characters from the Doonesbury comic strip.  The stable of blonds at FOX is most distracting.  The antics of the hosts don’t help either.  Throwing a football in front of the camera or verbally beating a guy to a pulp is not my idea of news reporting.  That’s the innocent part as predictable as the rising sun. 

Scant are the accumulated lessons from memory, experience, and critical thought.  It may come as a shock to the newer IPod, Facebook, and Twitter generations that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill Lincoln.  There are Silent Majority Americans who remember when the U.S. population was 150,000,000 and the day when they got electricity.  We’ve seen what really goes down because we’re old enough to have observed the nature of man and politics. 

There has been a checkered development of our “public utility.”  The American Media has created Presidents, removed them from office, and reversed an election.  They controlled presidential succession, covered up an assassination, undermined the Vietnam War, begun other wars, and gained control of the vote tabulation process.  Our Media has championed the worst elements, filtered out opposing viewpoints, elevated from obscurity the worst elements, popularized the basest leanings, made heroes of criminals, ridiculed and attacked nearly every institution: Christianity, the family, the military, marriage, law.  They are the quintessential preservers of the race card and enablers for the ascension of depravities like drug use.  The Media is the mother ship for restless intellectuals.  They are also a haven for our politicians who have become dependent on electronic publicity, not the citizens they are supposed to represent – a conflict of interest as wide as the Grand Canyon.  Politicians flock to the Media’s lucrative warm embrace as consultants. 

To say that the Media is the “press” is to ignore its institutional development.  We were not surprised by scandal in the United Kingdom.  It is the norm here.  They think we do not know that our media, the most revolutionary class in America, has become the government. 

Debt Crisis Inching Its Way Upward

I saw on TV a sad story of how corporate executives were affected by the Crash of 2008 and had to start all over again.  The main character had to give up his Porsche, his country club membership, and assume the paltry salary of $65,000 per year.  The show was remarkable because its theme had finally touched the consciousness of the Media whose job is to report what’s going on in America although the economic cracking and popping of the national superstructure has been going on for decades.

I don’t recall any similar concern when the Silent Majority endured the Crash of 1982 which was much worse not only in numbers, but in the hiring and salary handicaps that became the norm.  I remember them well: changing hiring job titles to lower salaries (coordinator), offering a 37.5 hour work week to avoid “full time” benefits, making uncompensated working hours a condition of employment, de-funding key corporate duties of health care and pensions, and finally, the most dramatic of all, the periodic culling of the work force by the tens of thousands in “lay offs” to prevent employee vesting in order to pocket their salaries.

The story and trauma of 26 million Americans remains a silent one because the chicken that was being plucked was not very glamorous and did not own a Porsche.

Missing the Forrest for the Trees

Another poll of Americans reflecting their deep seated alienation with government has the experts scratching their heads.  It’s not surprising because they never ask the Silent Majority anything. If they did, we would tell them about our old memories: the unresolved assassination of a president; the displacement of moral values; the ousting of a vice-president, president, and the resulting reversal of an election; the toleration of drugs; the silencing of dissenting voices; and the seizure of the election/tabulation process by the Media that has eclipsed government.

Our current era fairs no better: an economic crash: unimaginable economic crimes against the state; endless wars; unemployment; class warfare in the form of threats against Social Security and Medicare; the elevation of the worst elements - gangs, miscreant celebrities, criminals, homosexuals; the election of a president who promoted a New World Order, one who enthroned sexual pleasure, another who was mentally unstable; and the disenfranchisement of one-third of the electorate by the two-party system and vote fraud on a national scale.

If the Media never gives the Silent Majority credit for anything else, let them at least acknowledge our lifetime of observation.

The Splitting of the Social Fabric

Our economic woes finally touched the sacrosanct topics of Social Security and Medicare, two of the most important tenants of the Social Contract that exists between those that are ruled and those who rule.  The younger members of the Silent Majority are being conditioned to accept the inevitability of the demise of these two bulwarks of social stability.  The guarantee to preserve both for older Americans effectively splits the outrage and trivializes the larger question.

The Social Contract is omitted by a conspicuous silence by those above who seem to deny that it exists or has ever existed.  Perhaps a meaningful discourse is lost in the preoccupation of television with sex scandals, murders, and the trials and tribulations of criminals, transvestites, drug dealers, and en vogue politicians.

The good news is that the worse things get, the more ordinary people begin to rethink their place in the America they built.  Maybe they will re-discover that those who govern do so by the consent of the governed or resolve the question of who is more important, the prince or the private who comprises the worker bees, fights the wars, and preserves the peace for commerce and prevents the nationalization of industry. 

Third Party Participation Impossible

It is impossible for the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party activists to form a viable third party alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. 

The first reason is the difficulty and expense of third party ballot access controlled by Republican and Democrat secretaries of state.  Secondly, state election machinery is in the hands of the same people guarding strategic states like Ohio, Michigan, and Florida.  Thirdly, when a dark horse like Perot got too threatening the Media denied him commercial buys.  It’s in the Media’s interest to preserve the two party billion dollar income stream.  Fourthly is the vote fraud fueled by the un-auditable electrical impulses of the touch screen.  Fifthly is the failure of officials at all levels to punish major vote fraudsters.  Sixthly, blocked access to the “private” Presidential Debates proves that charismatic dark horses have outlived their usefulness as spoilers. Lastly, the Media, the recipient of the billion dollars, tabulates the vote by private companies, a conflict of interest.

Perhaps the biggest shocker of them all is that the Tea Party and OWS shouldn’t even try to form a third party now because the Republicans and Democrats are doing such a wonderful job of self destruction.

Tea Party Served Its Republican Function

The Tea Party’s blossom is no longer clinging to the vine.  I believe it was but a part of a series of controlled creations essential to the survival of the two-party monopoly. Specifically, Fox News and the Republican Party sought a way to rejuvenate their party after the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush.  Republicans had acted as spoilers before in 1994 with the Contract with America.  The Media and Democrats were doing it again with Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to rejuvenate their cadres. 

Despite all the publicity and the short memory of Americans, the Tea Party is just a shadow of the most revolutionary spoiler in decades, the altruistic reform movement that challenged the status quo in 1992.  The Ross Perot phenomenon was created by the Media and aided by the Democrats to break the twelve-year Reagan Era by splitting the Republican Party.  Talk Radio popularized the populist message and Democrat complicity allowed Perot into the critical presidential debates. Perot made the ballot in twenty one states. On July 16, 1992 he polled enough electoral votes (284) to have won the election and garnered almost 20 million votes in an election that was to be determined by a plurality. After the victory of Bill Clinton the threat was neutralized in 1996 by ridicule, mockery, denial of paid advertising, a ban from the presidential debates, and the Republican Contract with America that repatriated conservatives and led to substantial gains in Congress.  With the passage of the Communications Act of 1996 the media monopolists bought out Talk Radio.  Pat Buchanan was met with equal ferocity when he balanced the party’s economic message with a spiritual tone that resonated with Evangelicals and reached the suburbs in 49 states.

Tea Party activists cannot form a viable third party. It is not allowed.  The difficulty and expense of ballot access controlled by Republican and Democrat secretaries of state is insurmountable.  State election machinery is in the hands of the same people guarding strategic states like Ohio, Michigan, and Florida.  It’s in the Media’s interest to preserve the multi billion dollar income stream flowing from the two parties.  The refinement of the vote fraud option by the un-auditable electrical impulses of the touch screen and modems ended a fair count forever; officials have no incentive to punish vote fraud because they own the system.  Blocked access to the “private” presidential debates ended all opposition. Lastly, the Media, specifically the Associated Press, tabulates the national vote.  Election outcomes have become an option for America’s most revolutionary class.

The Tea Party was not alone; it was one in a series of four recent creations by the Media and manipulated by the major parties to preserve an illusion.  It will not be the last. Republicans and Democrats will never alter the status quo that made them dominant. They have mastered the art of creation, channeling, and neutralization. The Tea Party’s usefulness will expend itself just as did United We Stand America, Contract with America, and the Reform Party.

Journal of the Silent Majority sample bibliography

FYI:  This is a sample bibliography that I used in writing Journal of the Silent Majority.   This explains the 751 footnotes.

“Mad Dog: Recurring Missouri Candidate propounded racist, anti-Semitic beliefs.” The  Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, 16 July, 2004 xx.

Seib, Gerald F. "Perot Voters Roam Political Landscape, Backing Varied Causes" Wall  Street Journal 12 (August 1994): A1.

Professor Alan Dershowitz, Interview by Mike Wallace 20 January 2002, 60 Minutes.  Mr. Dershowitz said he favors "Torture Warrants."  He justifies his position by saying, " . . . experience changes our conception of rights."

U.S. Court of Appeals, Case #98-3323, Sept. 29, 1999

Votescam the Video. Produced and directed by _____60 min., xxxxx, 1992.

NOTES

Larry King, On the Line (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993), pp.

Ron Chernow, The Warburgs (New York: Random House, 1993), pp.

Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah (New York, Regan Books, 1996), pp.

James M. and Kenneth F. Collier (Votescam: The Stealing of America. New York: Victoria House Press, 1992), pp.

Harold Jacobs, ed. Weatherman (Ramparts Press, 1970), pp.

Dennis L. Cuddy, The Globalists (Oklahoma City: Hearthstone Publishing, 2001), pp.

Barry Goldwater, With No Apologies (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1979), pp.

Gary H. Kah, En Route to Global Occupation (Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1992), pp.

Carolyn Barta, Perot and His People (Fort Worth: The Summit Group, 1993), pp.

Patrick J. Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999), pp.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Translated by Thomas P. Whitney The Gulag Archipelago (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), pp.

Ralph Nader, Crashing the Party (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002), pp.

Albert J. Menendez, The Perot Voters & The Future of American Politics (New York: Prometheus Books, 1996), pp.

Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again (New York: Basic Books, 2005), pp.

Mark Crispin Miller, Cruel and Unusual  (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), pp.   

Barry Miles, Hippie (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2004), 11.

Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1968), 11.

David Horowitz, Radical Son (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 11.

David A. Leuthold, Campaign Missouri 1992 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), 11.

K.C. Tessendorf, Kill the Tsar, Youth and Terrorism in Old Russia (New York: Atheneum, 1986), 11.

Ronald Hingley, Nihilists (New York: Delacorte Press, 1967), 11.

Milton Viorst, Fire in the Streets (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), 11.

Tom Hayden, Reunion, A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1988), 11.

Adam B. Ulam, In the Name of the People (New York: The Viking Press, 1977), 11.

Harold Jacobs, ed. Weatherman (Ramparts Press, 1970), 11.

     Peter Collier, and David Horowitz ed. Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties (Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 1989), 11.

     Richard J. Newman, "Operation Fix-My Bifocals," U.S. News and World Report, 3/17/97.

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