Sipsey Street Irregulars: Greenwald Exposes NPR, NSA, & Media Matters

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Greenwald Exposes NPR, NSA, & Media Matters

Received this email and accompanying links from a faithful reader:

What happened to the George W Bush days when leftists were supposedly against Big Brother and mocked the neo-cons for fear mongering with the terrorism threat?

"NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting."

NPR aired a report that terrorists have been able to defeat NSA spying attempts thanks to the Snowden reporting. The only problem? NPR neglected to mention that the company that was the source for the report receives millions of dollars from the CIA and federal government!

NPR defenders might say it was just sloppy reporting, but the article demonstrates that she already knew this from a report two years ago. What is also unfortunate for the "reporter" is that the Snowden docs themselves detail how years before any leak by Snowden that terrorists knew about NSA monitoring and had developed encryption techniques. No wonder why the government and media did not want these files revealed! What BS artist likes to be proven wrong?

Lastly, I thought the left also opposed questioning patriotism and loyalty to one's nation from the Red Scare era or the Bush era? The regime loving and 2nd amendment hating Media Matters pulled off an impressive display of mccarthyism with these tweets attacking Greenwald and Snowden from the creepy Oliver Willis:

"he should be hugging the russian flag, or maybe putin himself"

"Putin approved! Hope u get a nice place in Crimea"

Here are the hilarious Greenwald responses on twitter:

"Media Matters employee: one-stop shop for McCarthyite innuendo & stupidity…"

"Media Matters employee: we determine who is and is not a Real American"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: The best aspect of the Snowden leak story is not that the NSA was caught spying on everyone, but instead showing the close relationship between the federal government and the media. How many times have major media figures been caught blatantly lying about the NSA story?

NPR being the American Pravda is no huge surprise, but seeing Media Matters resort to Russia Baiting to distract from what Dear Leader is doing with the NSA is hysterical!; August 14, 2014 at 3:04 AM
Paul X said...: NPR, your #1 source for refined and elegant propaganda.; August 15, 2014 at 11:18 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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