On Friday, March 3, 2017 at 10:26:29 PM UTC-5, Ralph Cinque wrote:
> Let's look at the state of political correctness today concerning the JFK
> assassination. Basically, there is no tolerance for dissent from the
> official story that Oswald did it and did it alone. The only departure
> from it that is semi-tolerated is if you say that it's hard for you to
> believe that Oswald acted alone, that someone may have helped him in some
> way, but you don't know who or how. As long as you leave it vague and
> don't suggest that anyone connected to the US government was involved, you
> may get away with it. After all, the government's own investigators, the
> HSCA, came to that conclusion, and really it is Government Story #2, for
> those who aren't happy with Government Story #1.
>
Do you think it is intolerant to tell somebody they are wrong?
> But, if you try, in any way, shape, or form, to suggest that Oswald was
> innocent, that he didn't do it, then you've had it. You're in trouble. You
> will lose your job. If you work for the federal government, and you are
> vocal about it, you will lose your job.
>
Can you document that anybody has lost their job because they expressed
the opinion that Oswald was innocent?
TV shows get canceled all the time and it is usually do to ratings. Fox
dominates the cable news ratings, far ahead of both CNN and MSNBC so I'm
sure they have high expectations for programming and apparently Judge
Napolitano was not meeting those expectations. The other possibility is
the demographics. Advertisers want the younger viewers not because they
spend more but because they haven't settled on their brand choices to the
degree older viewers have Most 40 year olds don't change what beer they
drink. Advertisers want to get younger viewers hooked because they want
them to settle on their brand.
While Judge Napolitano lost his show, he is still a frequent guest on
their shows. His view are more libertarian as opposed to the mainstream
conservatism which is Fox's core audience. The Fox Business Channel is
where the libertarians seem to gravitate to (Stossel, Kennedy, Dobbs) and
that is where you will see Judge Napolitano appearing quite often.
> They did it because they are a news organization, and 90% of the news is
> government news. What did the government do today? What new law did they
> pass? What new data did they release? What new person did they appoint?
> What new grant did they award? Who'd they kill? That's most of the news.
> Government is what provides news organization with most of their fodder.
> So, news organization tend to be very pro-government,
Right. You certainly see how MSNBC and CNN have jumped on the Trump
bandwagon.
> pro-official-stories, pro-official-explanations, etc. And, there is a lot
> of traffic between government and media. George Stephanopoulos started as
> a campaign operative for Bill Clinton and then, in his administration,
> became his Communications Director and Policy Adviser which he did until
> 1996. Today, he is the top political correspondent for ABC News. The role
> of media today is to spoon-feed government dictums to the people. There is
> no independent media. There is no fourth estate. Look what happened in the
> lead-up to the Gulf War. All the media stations supported George W. Bush's
> war.
That's strange. In all the years George W. Bush was president, I didn't
hear MSNBC say one positive thing about him.
> And if they invited someone on to debate it, to denounce it, who was
> it? An actor like Mike Farrell. A comediane like Jeanene Garofalo. And
> hey, I appreciate what these individuals tried to do, which was stop the
> war. But, they walked into a trap. They were invariably outnumbered and
> made to look fringe, alien, and out of touch. And, I think they held up
> very well under the circumstances. Still, they were used and abused.
>
> But, it wasn't always that way. There were plenty of Northern newspapers-
> not just Southern ones but Northern ones- that denounced Lincoln's war and
> really trashed him for it.
Judge Napolitano is still trashing Lincoln over the Civil War.
> Of course, Lincoln responded by shutting down
> newspapers and locking up editors and throwing away the keys. Habeus
> corpus rights? Forget about it. Chief Justice Roger Taney was so appalled,
> he stated publicly that what Lincoln was doing was unconstitutional. And
> how did Lincoln respond? He ordered U.S. marshals to arrest the Chief
> Justice Taney and haul him off in shackles. Fortunately, the marshals
> refused to do it, and the matter ended there.
>
> There was more tolerance for open debate on the JFK assassination in the
> early days than there is today. The televised debate between Mark Lane and
> William F. Buckley (for which wide sentiment said Lane won) was historic,
> looking back on it.
>
I seriously doubt Lane could hold a candle to Buckley in debate about
anything.
> Do you realize that such a thing could NEVER happen today? No way. Not
> even during the 50th anniversary, when there was a lot of JFK programming,
> did such a thing happen. They invited Cyril Wecht on, who gave his spiel
> about the Single Bullet Theory being impossible, that there was definitely
> a shot from the front, hence multiple shooters, hence conspiracy, but hey,
> that fits with Government Story #2, as I said at the beginning. Cyril
> Wecht NEVER claims Oswald innocence. In fact, he usually expresses his
> acceptance of Oswald being A shooter, but that there had to be someone
> besides Oswald. Cyril Wecht defends Oswald about as much as Joseph Backes
> does, which is to say: not at all. And that's why they put Wecht on tv. He
> is put there as the "opposition" but he espouses most of the official
> story, including the part about Oswald doing it. So, he is really helping
> them because he is helping to paint the picture that the JFK debate
> involves Lone Nut Oswald accusers having it out against
> Oswald-did-it-with-help accusers. Yet, the fact is that most JFK
> conspiracy theorists, today, believe that Oswald was innocent.
>
No one who wants to be taken seriously would claim Oswald was innocent
even if they do believe it was a conspiracy.
> What a nauseating display of tribute to lies the pomp and circumstance in
> Dealey Plaza was for the 50th anniversary. But, behind the barriers were a
> swarm of people protesting that smug exercise in denialism. And that was
> uplifting. The swarm of protesters was uplifting.
>
> There is no doubt about how this is going to end. It's going to end the
> way all State lies eventually end. It was true of the Soviet lies, the
> Nazi lies, and it will be true of U.S. lies too, including the JFK lie.
> The only question is when. But, there is too much already out there to
> doubt that the official story is going to collapse. It's going to end, and
> it's going to end badly. I'm looking forward to it.
Which official story are you referring to, the WC or the HSCA?