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1. “new era of propaganda” ie. Still some non-liberal news sources out there that must be smashed.

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2. . . . Hillary’s staff vetting reporters’ stories, partially writing them by insisting they use particular words and phrases, banning certain others . . .

   . . . Obama’s staff saying that things like using Obama’s middle name or the term “Obamacare” are racist, excluding Fox News from press events . . .

   Yeah, sure: we’re entering a totally new era.

   Flashback: Newsweek’s Adulatory 2008 Obama Cover Portraits
   By Brent Baker | August 9, 2011
   http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/08/09/flashback-newsweek-s-adulatory-2008-obama-covers

   With outrage from right to left over Newsweek’s “Queen of Rage” cover story photo of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in which she looks crazy, or at least empty-headed, a look back at how during the last campaign the magazine, under previous ownership, made sure candidate Barack Obama always looked presidential.

   The image below was collated for the “Scrapbook” page in the July 28, 2008 Weekly Standard, which dubbed Newsweek “Obamaweek” and illustrated the media’s infatuation with Obama by displaying images of six Newsweek covers featuring Obama.

   Newsweek Cover Depicts President Obama As ‘God of All Things’
   November 21, 2010
   http://www.examiner.com/article/newsweek-cover-depicts-president-obama-as-god-of-all-things

   Newsweek magazine is well known for its support of President Obama.

   But a recent cover headline declares “God of All Things”, superimposed on an image of the President with seven arms balancing on one leg. In each hand, he carries a different policy issue.

   . . .

   The image is reminiscent of depictions of the Hindu deity, Shiva.

   Shiva is known as the destroyer of the world in the Hindu religion.

   But the depiction has upset some in the Hindu community.

   Fox News reports:

   Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in Nevada, told the English-language Sify News in India that Nataraja is highly revered and meant to be worshipped, not indecorously thrown around. Zed, who is known for his work on interfaith dialogue, said it is not OK to use Hindu concepts and symbols for profit or self-serving purposes.

   The accompanying article is intended to show the job of President is so daunting, it is difficult for one man to do alone, but how that translates to “god of all things” is puzzling. Perhaps Newsweek is hinting at the ‘need’ for an even larger, more intrusive and tyrannical government. Remember, this is the magazine that declared, “We are all socialists now”.

   American Presidents are generally not depicted as deities, but history shows that dictators like Julius Caesar often required their subjects to worship them as a god.

   But a search of the President with a halo on Google images produced over 750,000 results, with various images and photographs of the President or First Lady with a halo – clearly an attempt to give the man a godlike persona. Many of the pictures are parodies meant to poke fun at the medias’ worship of the President, while some are meant as an outright protest. But many were produced by professional photographers to be used by so-called mainstream news organizations or campaign events.

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3. We no longer need to fear censorship of the press.
   We now have censorship BY the press.
   – hat tip to G.K. Chesterton

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