Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
Watching Trump castigate the media barons and their henchmen—media stars, top editors and tv producers— is sweet indeed, a refreshing, truly unprecedented spectacle, and these bastards deserve every ounce of venom The Donald is hurling at them. Fully complicit in horrendous crimes, including devastating wars and plotting more, they should be flogged in the public square. That said, let us never lose sight of the fact that Trump represents just one wing of the plutocracy, currently in conflict with the other wing (the one still licking its wounds) supporting Hillary and the Media/MIC establishment and its Neocon project of constant wars and US hegemony at any cost, an enterprise that until Nov. 8 vociferously included the entire whorish liberal commentariat and their numerous ramifications throughout American culture.
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Yea, Trump is no champion of the working class, not by a long shot, but a pampered egotist who, in this case, is nonetheless justified in being irate at the treatment he received from the media whores. While the tongue lashing he already gave them is well deserved, and more may come when he meets with the supremos of the New York Times and WaPo, two enormous engines of imperial hypocrisy and disinformation, eventually we bet that class interests will prevail and make for nice nice among them, or else Trump will move out of their orbit into no man’s land with completely unpredictable consequences. Indeed Trump’s “more rational” voices are already joining the system-wide “normalization” effort on behalf of Trump and his momentary opponents. In all cases, let us keep calm, flexible in our responses, and remember that the enemy of my enemy may not necessarily be my friend. Ergo, we must NOT let our guard down. Trump, a plutocrat with autocratic tendencies illustrates the wisdom of this maxim in glowing technicolor. Let him show us the money before believing an iota of what he says.
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All the above notwithstanding, from the start of his campaign Trump has broken all rules of Omertá holding the filthy secrets of the plutocratic establishment within its carefully hidden folds. That’s what happens when ruling class factions clash: some truth manages to bubble up to the surface, where the hoi polloi, at last, can get a measure of reality about the situation confronting them. —PG
Media scum troop up to Trump Tower to pay obeisance and meet with the new man in charge.
CNN’s Zucker: one of the top media scoundrels in the Western media sphere. On Monday, around two dozen television media bosses and anchors visited the president-elect in Trump Tower for an off-the-record meeting. Was it to kiss the ring they once cursed? According to the New York Post, it was a “f…ing firing squad,” Trump unloading on attendees. He blasted CNN president Jeff Zucker. According to an unnamed source, he said “I hate your network. Everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed.”
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
