http://current.com/items/88988233_video_spin_t_v_footage_you_were_never_supposed_to_see

I just saw this posted on CurrentTV and it absolutely needs to be seen by everyone. This fits right in with the narrative that has arisen regarding the failure and interference of the corporate media. If there is one movie that will drive any sane person screaming from their couch watching cable news to the warm hills of the blogosphere and more people powered media.

Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.

I implore you to watch the first 10 minutes and recommend as soon as your gag reflex fully kicks in. This just demonstrates that our press has been crippled by its own fascination with itself and has been abusing its power for decades now. Just a few gems to be found in this footage:

• Larry King tells Bill Clinton that Ted, his boss is a huge fan and could do a lot to help.
• Several phone callers issue heated criticisms to Pat Robertson, which he responds to with meaningless stories and platitudes. As soon as they cut away to other coverage, we get to watch Robertson proceed to declare everyone who criticized him "total homos", or some other such juvenile nonsense.
• Footage demonstrating how Democratic candidate Larry Agran was rudely and completely snuffed out of the '92 race by the media's circular logic of "you can't have media coverage until you get some media coverage"
• During NBC's 500th Anniversary Propaganza Spectacular Columbus day special, an actual Cherokee Nation history scholar's tried to describe the 2 years of genocide committed by Columbus after his 'discovery' of America. This is then derided off camera by Katie Couric, saying: "They just you know think that he ruined paradise and had no respect for nature and treated the Indians like dog doo..." (did I mention that she's talking about a quarter million dead by 1494 and a tyrant who decreed that all boys who couldn't find gold lost their hand? dog doo??)

I was shocked that this film isn't widely held up and distributed throughout the blogosphere. The ENTIRE documentary is press footage, indicting them with their own words and images. It is impeachable evidence of the traditional media's bias and fealty towards established power and the status quo. Please show this to anyone you can to remind people that all of the issues brought up by McClellan are nothing new, they're the same old game and it needs to change.

Didn't she just lose the inevitable win she spent 2 years telling us about?

Let's not forget that Obama never really went after her on a whole host of skeletons in the Clinton closet, stuff that the Republicans would be more than happy to dredge up--true or not. She has absolutely NOT been vetted, as evidence by the mostly positive campaign that Obama ran. I know the HRC zealots will say that everyone in the media was out to get her and that Barack has sharpened the knives himself, but objective observers of the race would probably agree that Obama only really ever went negative in response to her attacks.

Clinton as VP brings on way more baggage than we need. And frankly, after talking to some of her die hard supporters, the ones who are threatening to abstain or vote for McStain, I say screw em. Any voter who is so obtuse and blindly loyal over the necessity of having a D in the White House is too stupid to court.

The press and political reaction to this has been the predictable "YAWN", but since reading about this and telling all my friends about it the consensus popular reaction has been the total opposite: "YAAAAY!". Even people who are almost completely politically disengaged perked up and were really happy to hear that this has been done. Several even called their representatives for the very first time to urge support for Kucinich.

I'm done waiting for our professional class of democrateers to wake the hell up and realize that a full and open airing of this administrations’ crimes is what this country needs to move forward with our eyes open about the damage that has been done to our national character. Not to mention that these two assholes have a collective approval rating about as high as a hot turd on the sidewalk.

It really boils down to this for me, if lying about a blowjob warrants impeachment, how on EARTH doesn’t lying us into an unnecessary war demand the same treatment?

For those who may think this is an exercise in futility, you should know that Congress lives by the ratio of 1:13000, which means that for every 1 person who contacts them about an issue, they figure there are 12,999 more who care just as much but for whatever reason haven’t bothered to make the call. As we all know politicians are pretty spineless, the only problem is that right now we’re not the ones with our foots on their collective throat. Time to change that.