Russ Baker--The Disinformation Machine

[Tom Bigg]

For more than half a century, the combined American thought establishment (media, publishing, film, academia, and the like) have been cranking out a steady stream of books, articles, films, plays and more that present a completely false picture of what the assassination of John F. Kennedy was about — including who was behind it, and why.No mention of the tremendous animus massed against John and Robert Kennedy from every quarter, including but hardly limited to Wall Street, the oil industry, the steel industry, the armaments industry, big publishers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the Mob, the John Birchers. They all hated John and Robert Kennedy and wanted them out. They said it to each other, and virtually spat it in the brothers’ faces. Ruthless men, men who found violence a necessary tool of success.Yet, who killed John F. Kennedy? We are told that it was one angry, unstable man. Forget that the evidence — massively documented in hundreds of books, government papers and more — is that Oswald was nothing like the way he was portrayed, but instead, a focused, deliberate individual with a history that almost certainly involved participation with American intelligence.One can debate that forever, though the assembled evidence is that it was not Oswald at all who wanted Kennedy dead, not Oswald who shot him. More important, however, is the evidence, everywhere, of a coverup — from hanky-panky in the autopsy room to a shockingly premature termination of any efforts to seriously investigate. Was the coverup itself not proof of more going on? Of course it was.***If this were Stalinist Russia or 1984, we could understand who was behind this giant hoax perpetrated against the people. But this is the Land of the Free. How is it that a Big Lie of such magnitude could roll along, unflinchingly, after half a century? Yet, let’s consider the tremendous output of this well-oiled machine, and ask ourselves: How does this work?Though polls have shown varying majorities of the public (sometimes more than 80 percent) disbelieving the “lone nut” story over the years, and though the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy’s death was the result of a probable conspiracy, the establishment continues to produce and approve, with a few controversial and flawed exceptions, narratives that support the “Oswald done it” school.It would seem there are more people who believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny than who believe Oswald did it alone. Nevertheless, the propaganda keeps coming. The entire establishment spectrum, from “liberals” to arch-conservatives, has continually backed the Warren Commission’s discredited version. For example, liberal TV host Chris Matthews of MSNBC has repeatedly promoted the Lone Nut angle on his own show, on other shows, Access Hollywood, for example, and in interviews, such as this one with the Los Angeles Times.Below we begin with only a few choice examples to demonstrate the chicanery involved in selling the Lone Nut theory. The first is about the manipulating and cropping of an interview by CBS to make a witness appear to say something he did not. The second demonstrates a deceptive presentation of Kennedy’s posture in a computer simulation by Emmy-Award winner Dale Myers, to promote the single-bullet theory. The third is about a high tech show that made the gory head shot appear to support the official line.http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/11/24/the-my ... formation/

[Bob Jonas]

Tom Bigg wrote:The entire establishment spectrum, from “liberals” to arch-conservatives, has continually backed the Warren Commission’s discredited version. For example, liberal TV host Chris Matthews of MSNBC has repeatedly promoted the Lone Nut angle on his own show, on other shows, Access Hollywood, for example, and in interviews...This is perhaps the most puzzling thing about the on-going support of the lone nut theory. On one hand you have the hard-core liberals such as Matthews, Cronkite, Rather, etc. pushing the Warren Commission and yet at the other end of the spectrum, Bill O'Reilly doing the same. You'd think that one side of the political spectrum would be out for the truth. But I guess it holds to the truth of the event itself which involved folks from the left (LBJ) and the right (Nixon) with their hands in the stew to some degree. It was, and continues to be, a non-partisan assassination.

[JDB4JFK]

It's not puzzling when you know who owns the media! The CIA owns and runs the major media today. The major media is a ministry of propaganda for Washington. If they can control everything the public sees, hears, and reads on a regular basis, than they can control the majority. Remember when David Atlee Phillips told someone that he could kill more people with a pen than they could with a gun!Here's a quote from ex-CIA Director William Colby, "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" Soon after that statement he was found floating dead in his canoe. He also said, "We knew we did our job at the CIA when everything the public thought they knew was false"Also, there are 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations, and 2400 publishers owned by six corporations!Now are you puzzled!

[Bob]

Excellent post, Tom. You know I agree with the essence of it, that's for sure. The entire article by Russ Baker and Milicent Cranor was absolutely spot on!