PATRICE GREANVILLE
Margaret Brennan, just a few years ago a reporter with Bloomberg, has cut quite a career as a sycophant for Obama while serving as “White House correspondent” for CBS, a job that has long degenerated into little more than a lapdog propagandist for presidential policies, rarely uttering so much as mild criticism, let alone in depth interpretation of the news, something now left to supposed senior “specialists” such as Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent with CBS News and Correspondent at Large with National Journal, which is no help at all. (A man of impeccable conservative credentials, prior to joining National Journal he was the senior White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel). Long gone are the days when mavericks like Helen Thomas could actually come close to questioning “the leader of the Free World”, forcing at least an uncomfortable pause in their usual barrage of self-serving lies and platitudes.
Since professional journalists at the highest levels (especially on American television) are normally shallow presstitutes ensconced in a culture of mutually-reinforced disinformation and grotesque ignorance favorable to the status quo, that is, global imperialism and capitalist power (virtually congruent tasks), it is therefore not surprising to watch all the major on-camera talent for CBS (and other networks), and Brennan, of course, furiously pushing the line that fits the Deep State’s script, which in this case is easy to sum up:
(a) Hound Trump to cave in to the plutocracy’s Clintonian vision for American foreign policy, a continuation and expansion of Obama’s own criminal and irresponsible line, advising more aggressive wars of intervention and “decisive” checks on “Russian Aggression”, and the emergence of rival powers anywhere, especially in Asia (Target: China) or the Mideast and Central Asia (Iran and Russia, again). The fact that there is no real Russian aggression makes no difference to the disinformers. For they are accustomed to manufacturing reality via the most hideous, vast, sanctimonious, and hypocritical system of mass manipulation ever seen in history.
(b) As inevitable corollary to the above, the USA must maintain and possibly expand NATO, a dangerous, warmongering and superfluous “defence alliance” (dangerous and anachronistic to the 99% of humanity who yearn for peace), now courting disaster by pestering and challenging Russia in her own backyard.
The below clip must be read with this in mind. Obama’s European tour is nothing but this treacherous leader’s last service to the empire, a glorified extended photo-op for the benefit of American audiences, and an assist to the craven, prostituted leaders allied with the US in Washington’s Russian lynching project. To buttress the central lie, American audiences are—as the clip illustrates— once again injected with the spurious idea that people all over are pissing their pants in fear of the horrible non-existent Russian Threat. And that our holy covenant with God and unbreakable righteous resolve to maintain “peace” and “goodness” on earth, in strictly Orwellian terms, will continue no matter what even if requires us to incinerate the planet to a smouldering cinder.
By the way, notice the virtual uniformity in the reporting of this propaganda bit.
For those who pay any attention, the journalist impersonators are easy to spot. Just turn on the tube or pick up any major newspaper, and they are there. As night follows day, well, at least so far.
—Patrice Greanville is editor in chief of The Greanville Post. He has been observing US politics and media chicanery—with profound (and if possible mounting) disgust— for decades. He founded in 1982 the nation’s first radical media review, Cyrano’s Journal.
Obama tries to reassure Europe on final international trip
