RACHEL MADDOW “DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power” | |
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Date | Friday April 13 |
Time | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
Event Type | Speaker |
Organizer/Author | Ken Preston |
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King Middle School 1781 Rose St, Berkeley |
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http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/221594
Added to the calendar on Thursday Mar 8th, 2012 6:58 PM
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Also, judging from her recent (March 29) appearance on The Daily Show, she promotes the idea that U.S. military intervention around the world is well-intentioned; she just wants it to be smarter and more selective.
I doubt that host Max Pringle will challenge her on these issues, or on her general support for Obama and the Democrats. I do hope that the organizers at least allow live questions from the floor, and not just written ones that can be 'selected' so as not to discomfort her and the Obama supporters who are almost certainly a majority among KPFA's paid staff and their allies in the Wellstone Democrats/misnamed SaveKPFA faction.
Another P-E-P (Progressive Except Palestine) -- but Rachel Maddow isn't even _that_, so-called, "liberal".
It will be just another, so-called, "progressive" icon, white liberal racist, LOVE FEST -- and a 1-1/2 hour in-person personal commercial for Rachel Maddow and her cable TV show. I guess _illusory_ heroes and sheroes are better than no _real_ heroes and sheroes -- i.e., or no _real_ heroes and sheroes that get the national corporate TV, broadcast or cable, spotlight -- especially, but not only, on the issue of historic Palestine and Palestinian human rights & liberation.
And yes, KPFA will use tiny little index cards for questions (the tinier, the better) -- to make any questions as noncontextual and, therefore, as unmeaningful as possible and to thus keep the questions as simple and banal as possible and -- to ensure that no one else can ask Maddow any uncomfortable, let alone challenging, questions -- and to sift out the questions KPFA doesn't like. Only questions from 'the political choir' perspective will be permitted. And then Maddow can throw out any B.S. answers she wants.
She'll stick to criticizing the looney Republican candidates to scare all the liberals, progressives and leftists into running as fast as they can right back to 'THE GOOD COP' neoliberal corporatist imperialist mass detentioner-, mass torturer-, war privitizer-, and drone bomber-in-chief (Obama).
So, go prepared with your hidden banners to pull out if you want to say anything challenging, because that's the only way you'll get the chance!
And that's _THE ROLE_ I would _assign_ to all those, so-called, "'left/progressive' _Zionists/pro-Zionist_" icons (like Rachel Maddox) if I were Director of the Israel Ministry of Propaganda or the Israel Lobby: to have those such icons work _within_ and _on_ THE LEFT!
Even Gingrich himself openly and publicly said that it was because of his (Gingrich's) "_very strong_ pro-Israel positions" -- so that fact was the diametric opposite of being any kind of secret or otherwise kept hushed or low-key.
But there was Rachel Maddox engaging in usually the "'left' Zionist" game of _MISDIRECTION_!!: "It's all about Adelson's casino interests", she said.
(This, also like _ANTONIA JUHASZ_, author of "The Tyranny of Oil", and now with Global Exchange in San Francisco, does "explaining" U.S.-Mideast wars, even constantly U.S.-threatened war against Iran!: _"IT'S ALLL ABOUT OIL!"_ ; virtually _NOTHING ABOUT ISRAEL_ -- except for one tiny, single, barely suggested, sentence buried deep in the middle of her book, just so that when someone a lot more politically incisive and intellectually honest criticizes her for that great moral lapse, especially in her live and radio talks, she can claim to have her ass covered [but in her own mealy, squiggly words].)
Also, on her own TV show, Rachel Maddow said nothing about Hana Shalabi (the prominent Palestinian woman hunger striker, almost near death), or any other prominent Palestinian women in the struggle for Palestinian human rights, on International Women's Day. Now, remember, this Maddox is a woman who's _otherwise_ ssso pro-women that she's a proud, open lesbian!!
2) I don't know about Maddow in particular, but many of those in politics and the media who claim to be 'on the left' but spout pro-Zionist propaganda do so not out of conviction but in order to 'get along by going along' with the Zionists who can make life rather difficult for them if they don't. (This also applies to many who don't claim to be on the left.) This is not a defense of such types, but an attempt to understand how Zionist power, and the power of other lobbies, works.
--Can't worry about the pesky little political 'blemishes'.
Anyway, Aaron Aarons, thank you for your clarification (Friday Apr 6th, 2012 9:53 AM) in (1).
HOWEVER, as for (2), while it is true: we can't expect anyone -- whatever their politics/"race"/ethnicity/descent/nationality/gender/orientation/religion/atheism/etc. -- who wants to _advance_ in their profession in the American/Euro-Western mainstream media -- whether in the liberal, pseudo-progressive, "progressive", or right-wing political spectrum -- whether on cable or over-the-air TV (or even in commercial mainstream or PBS/NPR institutions) -- to be anything but -- more or less -- whether or _not_ they would like to toss the Palestinians a few superficial, white liberal-conscious-self-salving crumbs -- _ZIONIST_.
__BUT__!!: You, Aaron, have NO PROOF, OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE, INDICATION, OR EVEN THE SLIGHTEST SUGGESTION from Maddow that shows that Rachel Maddow _DOESN'T_ BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE WORD SHE SAYS.
Therefore, Aaron, you are SPECULATING about Maddow's supposedly acting "not out of conviction".
You and others have even pointed out how she's a liberal-hawk pro-imperialist -- and that "she's _actually_ little more than _A TALENTED SHILL_ for the Democratic Party."
In fact, the mainstream media promotion process NATURALLY SELECTS AND CULLS for such individuals/politics/tendacies -- just like the selection and promotion process NATURALLY SELECTS for liberals/"progressives" who believe that the U.S. govt only errs in the _management_ of its [imperialist] wars and horrendously massacring _hundreds of thousands_ or even _millions_ of innocent men, women and children (including those indigenous people, _patriots_, defending their own land from imperialism or colonialism), _NOT_ in the U.S. govt's "noble causes" for _going_ to war -- or for individuals who actually _believe_ in "the War on Terror" or "the War on Drugs" -- just like the selection and promotion process NATURALLY SELECTS for liberals/"progressives" who actually believe that we ever had a true "democracy" to "take back!" -- or believe in "the fundamental goodness" of the U.S. govt -- or that there are only "a few bad apples" in the police department or FBI -- and even Gloria Steinam once spoke of "back in the days when the CIA did good work"(!!) -- or that _"THE JEWS NEED A LAND OF THEIR OWN"_ -- these are white people (or their people of color sellouts/compradors!) who have _a psychological investment_ in such beliefs -- and therefore journalistically pursues stories no deeper than that: THE CORPORATE MSM BOSSES DON'T NEED TO SELECT -- _RISK_ -- INDIVIDUALS ACTING / SPEAKING "_NOT_ OUT OF CONVICTION".
If Maddow were not acting out of conviction, then SHE WOULDN'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING AT ALL ON THIS -- or, _if_ she even has to at all, then just the absolute minimum -- she wouldn't even have to select it as her show topic (just ignore it, like I'm sure she ignores criticism of the Israel lobby, or like she ignores prominent, contemporary Palestinian _women_ in the indigenous Palestinian 75-year anti-colonial struggle against ideological Jewish-supremacy in historic Palestine) -- let alone be so _STRONG_, PERKY, even ENTHUSIASTIC in her convictions about Israel -- and the absolutely BOGUS HISTORY she spun right out of ISRAEL'S MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA -- and about Palestine, the Palestinians, Hamas ("Israel is _RESPONDING_ to rockets"), etc.
Rachel Maddow was observed and got tested _alll along the way_ -- to see if she was going to, underneath all the "hip" facade, _"BEHAVE"_ -- and even then extremely well-vetted long before she was promoted to _THE CORPORATE CABLE MEDIA BIG TIME_ [just like Obama was in politics] in this post-9-11 America.
I've seen such behavior, before, move media-talented "progressive" voices right from community radio to NPR to big-time cable TV. Such people generally have to look and/or seem more "hip" -- and _who's_ more hip than _metro-lesbian_ "hipsters", just the right degree between "femme" and "butch" (sort of "tomboyish femme") in how they look and what they wear -- and they _have_ to be more verbally "articulate", and look, and act more sophisticated if they're on "the left". This is because we "progressives/leftists" don't accept the buffoonery of a Rush Limbaugh, or the sheer ignorance/"truthiness" of a Sarah Palin (excused as being a white right-wing / Tea Party male's MILF ex-beauty pageant fantasy), or the macho, aggressive boorishness of a Bill O'Reilly.
NOT even the male correspondent that she interviewed was as _absolutely_ all-out unreserved in Israeli propaganda as Maddow was. Maddow gets an "A+" for the day from the Israel lobby. I mean this is to the right of even most, so-called, "'left' Zionists" these days. RACHEL'S GONE _LIKUNIK_!!
So, the only thing we can do is embarrass those supposed "progressives/leftist" icons for their great moral, political and 'intellectual' LAPSES and FAILINGS -- AND EXPOSE THEM FOR THE "PROGRESSSIVE / LEFTIST" _SHILLS_ THAT THEY ARE -- WHETHER FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, IMPERIALISM, OR ISRAEL.
I heard Maddow's fawning reports as an embedded reporter when she did a road show in Iraq, I think it was. Disgusting. Sad that people who should know better swallow the hype that she's a liberal. She may be good at criticizing the Republicans, and maybe even an occasional jab at the Dems. (I can't remember right now, but I doubt she's criticized the Dems anywhere nearly as strongly as she does the Republicans.) Critical thinking is very sparse amongst the population, no less so amongst the supposedly enlightened denizens of the 'peoples' republic of Berkeley'.
Mike Malloy's show has been pushed off all the liberal networks, he's doing an indie webcast now. He [rightfully] vilifies Israeli, US and all militarism and religious hucksterism. I'll be tuning in to Mike Malloy's show rather than even think of wasting money on seeing Maddow.
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