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| longstop | Mar 4 2012, 10:55 PM Post #1 |
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Linked from Big Government. Barack's Love Song To Alinsky http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song Prior to his passing, Andrew Breitbart said that the mission of the Breitbart empire was to exemplify the free and fearless press that our Constitution protects--but which, increasingly, the mainstream media denies us. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – “Who guards the guardians?” Andrew saw himself in that role—as a guardian protecting Americans from the left’s “objective” loyal scribes. Andrew wanted to do what the mainstream media would not. First and foremost: Andrew pledged to vet President Barack H. Obama. Andrew did not want to re-litigate the 2008 election. Nor did he want to let Republicans off the hook. Instead, he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most basic duty: to uncover the truth, and hold those in power accountable, regardless of party. From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president--and his rivals. We begin with a column Andrew wrote last week in preparation for today’s Big relaunch--a story that should swing the first hammer against the glass wall the mainstream media has built around Barack snip New Look Big Government Site http://www.breitbart.com/ Edited by longstop, Mar 5 2012, 12:24 AM.
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| foxglove | Mar 5 2012, 10:34 AM Post #2 |
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Breitbart's article on the Love Song of Saul Alinsky is very interesting. Obama, when a state senator, spoke on a panel discussion after a performance of the play along with leftist radicals. Breitbart gives the background of these radicals. One of the radicals on the panel was Leon Despres. Quoting, "... Despres's wife sat for a portrait with Trotsky pal and Marxist muralist Diego Rivera while Leon took Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo to the movies." The mention of Diego Rivera reminded me of the mural commissioned by the Rockefellers that was to appear at Rockefeller Center. Quite a bit is written about this in the book about the art and architecture of Rockefeller Center. The book is written by Alan Balfour called, "Rockefeller Center Architecture as Theater", published by McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1978. http://www.amazon.com/Rockefeller-Center-Architecture-as-Theatre/dp/007003480X/ref=sr_tc_2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330975754&sr=1-2-ent From the book, "The paradox was that Rivera had an international reputation both as a painter and as a Communist yet was being asked for the "Rockefeller's "Man at the Crossroads Looking With Uncertainty but with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a Course Leading to a New and Better Future". There was no ambiguity in his Communism. The Rockefellers were familiar with his activities and particularly with his highly romantic, revolutionary zeal. (The family had bought Rivera's Russian sketchbook in which he celebrated the first fruits of revolution.) (page 182)" Later, starting on page 184 of the book is the following: "On April 3 Nelson Rockefeller wrote Rivera: 'From all reports I get you are making very rapid progress and everybody is most enthusiastic about the work you are doing. As you know the building opens the 1st of May and it will be tremendously effective to have your mural there to greet people as they come in for the opening.' (35) On April 24 an article appeared in the World Telegram under the title, 'Rivera Paints Scenes of Communist Activity and John D., Jr. Foots the Bill.' It stated: 'Rivera... is completing on the walls of the RCA Building a magnificient fresco that is likely to provoke the greatest sensation of his career... microbes given life by poison gases used in war, germs of infections and hereditary social diseases... so placed as to indicate them as the results of civilization revolving about nightclubs... a Communist demonstration... iron-jawed policemen, one swinging his club.' Also mentioned in the book is that Nelson Rockefeller asked Rivera to change his portrait of Lenin which was part of the mural to 'the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears.'" It seems it is possible that Communists/socialists were well-received by the likes of the Rockefellers, perhaps to be used to achieved their vision of the future. Edited by foxglove, Mar 5 2012, 02:32 PM.
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| foxglove | Mar 6 2012, 06:18 AM Post #3 |
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Thinking back to Andrew Breitbart's speech at CPAC in February, he did point out that his hosts at a dinner, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, were great cooks and had wonderful wine to provide. He questioned that they were perhaps part of the 1%. (IIRC, Bill Ayers' father was a wealthy industrialist who was friends with Mayor Daley). So the question is: who was Ayers representing as a radical and revolutionary? The 99% or the 1%. Especially in light of what looks like the Rockefeller family's seemingly leftist leanings. (Abby Rockefeller was quite the feminist lefty, for example). Perhaps Ayers was more a front person as a radical and revolutionary. Just questioning. It will be interesting to see what else Breitbart had to say about Alinsky and his followers, Ayers and his friendship with Obama, etc. ************* Another interesting angle is the relationship of GE with Rockefeller enterprises. As in, 30 Rockefeller Center is the GE building. GE owns or used to own NBC and MSNBC and NBC offices are at 30 Rock. And we all know how much MSNBC supported Obama. I remember election night in 2008, the set had David Gregory reporting the night of Obama's victory and a photo of the Promethius statue at Rockefeller Center in the background. Edited by foxglove, Mar 6 2012, 06:33 AM.
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| abb | Mar 6 2012, 06:43 AM Post #4 |
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Likely the early relationships were forged for mutual economic benefit. When in the early 30's John D., Jr. needed a prime tenant for Rockefeller Center, RCA fit the bill. For most of the 20th century, RCA was a premier American company. It was the Microsoft/Apple of the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA In 1930 RCA agreed to occupy the yet-to-be-constructed landmark building of the Rockefeller Center complex, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which in 1933 became known as the RCA building, now the GE Building. This critical lease in the massive project enabled it to proceed as a commercially viable venture.[11] http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=nationalbroa The fortunes of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) have always been closely tied to those of its parent company, Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Unlike CBS, which was formed as an independent programming enterprise, NBC came into existence as the subsidiary of an electronics manufacturer which saw programming as a form of marketing, an enticement to purchase radio and television receivers for the home. The power and influence of a national network aided RCA as it lobbied to see its technology adopted as the industry standard, particularly during the early years of television and in the battle over color television. RCA was formed after World War I when General Electric signed an extensive patents cross-licensing agreement with Westinghouse, AT and T, and United Fruit. The product of this alliance, RCA was owned jointly by the four companies and was created for the purpose of marketing radio receivers produced by G. E. and Westinghouse. As the alliance unraveled during the late 1920s and early 1930s, due to internal competition and government antitrust efforts, RCA emerged as an independent company. In November 1926, RCA formed NBC as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Shortly thereafter, RCA added a second network, and the two networks were designated NBC-Red and NBC-Blue. By the mid-1980s NBC generated 43% of RCA's $570 million in earnings--a hugely disproportionate share of the profits for a single division of the conglomerate. In the mergermania of the 1980s, RCA became a ripe target for takeover, particularly given the potential value of the company when broken into its various components. General Electric purchased RCA--and with it NBC--in 1985 for $6.3 billion. When Tinker stepped down in 1986, G.E. chairman John F. Welch, Jr. named former G.E. executive Robert E. Wright as network chairman. Based on the continued success of the series left behind by Tinker, NBC dominated the ratings until the late 1980s--when its ratings and profits suddenly collapsed, leaving losses of $60 million in 1991 and just one show, Cheers, in the Nielsen top 10. |
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| abb | Mar 6 2012, 06:50 AM Post #5 |
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In my opinion, what 'infects' the journalism profession is the personality/political bent of those who choose to go into the field. Conservatives - logical thinkers - naturally gravitate to the hard sciences - engineering, medicine, science, etc. Liberals - emotional reactionaries - don't do well in such fields and become liberal arts types. One of the requirements of a journalism degree is that graduates NOT know how to add and subtract, I almost believe, LOL! |
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