No, there's no vast, mainstream liberal media machine churning away valiantly in defense of the rights of regular people who are just human beings. There's not enough profit to be made in making sure we mere people have the basics for the bodies in which we are all stuck inhabiting: water, food, shelter, and, when the bodies break down, medical care. No money there.
You'd think there would be plenty enough profit in providing things like that for us all, but, in greed, there is never enough: Greed is a journey without destination -- wanting more begets only the want of more. See, the real money comes from tearing hell out of the Earth or building paper-wealth towers -- that's the real fuel of media, not from any desire to help The People live or survive.
As Wrong-Wing, wrong-headed, hot-button myths go, the one about a vast liberal media are especially cruel: Liberal causes, the ones that originally built and made this country so great, have been attacked, hacked to pieces, and beaten back by wealth-mad profiteers. You remember them, the One Percenters -- their poor, zillion-dollar patience so sorely taxed by paying less in tax than do those who slave to pump higher their tall millions and billions -- such inconvenient facts.
In a system of money like Capitalism, the kind we have here -- our own special blend of predatory, financial perversion and torment to real flesh-and-blood people -- only money rules, only money talks and walks, and everything else can go running straight into hell. Remember: Corporations are just people, too -- have a heart! Funny, we don't see any corporations being forced through the buzz-saw gamut we force real people to run in their daily thrill-seeker try at survival...
And, court rulings have all OK'd lies, fine to lie your ass clean off your body, it's protected by freedom of speech! People and media are under no obligation to Truth, and, get this, vast oceans of money? All just speech, too! Life's getting tougher for us flesh-and-blood types, but things are really looking up for the packs and bushels of liars chomping at the bit to lie their way to more wealth. Look for the new book, soon! Lie Your Way to More Wealth in Mere Minutes a Day! There will be thousands of authors, of course -- look around now.
You'll never hear of any corporate greed or lies or murders via corporate media, are you mad? Mega-corporations are the prime-time, primeval conduits and sponsorship sluiceway-channels of cash to keep this circus and charade and mad merry-go-round keep whirring in circles.
The stakes are too great, there's too much money to be made now in everything, especially in endless speculations, constantly re-trading bits of paper back and forth, round and round, over and over, thirsty for oil -- how crude can we get? You kidding me? Leave the news and the media to The People, to the little people, to all those whiners about what their bodies might need? You kidding me? You feeling all right?
Not worth mentioning, then, that we're not using the oil that we already have, that we are, in actual point of fact, shipping it away from us as fast as we can, away from this country. None of that's on the teleprompter for shouting-head hosts to yell at us, that's not what the men behind the curtain are saying to us, those are not the right settings for the gauges and dials they've all set for themselves and all their inside-track pals.
Run those 30- and 60-second commercial spots -- hey, what's the percentage of lies in those things? Whatever it is, gotta be less than the hundred-percent crud-and-crude in these political ads. Meanwhile, the one takeaway message from the news today for all of us is simple, said in many ways, stuffed into the media fire-hoses, jammed into the mainstream pipelines: It's a nervous, fearful, jittery time again! Oil supplies are so scary-low! War with Iran will fix everything, though, you betcha! Drilling in the arctic will, too!
Who cares the oil companies haven't yet touched the oil leases they've already weaseled? What global-anything crisis? Goddammit, everything's fine! Welcome to the lost and found, hit or miss, lies-and-damn-lies, new and improved, hide-and-seek news.
Thanks for that report on those adorable barnyard ballerinas, Wanda! Coming up next -- Why that pesky, weird little Iran, and scary-dangerous-low oil supplies, will be forcing up your gas prices, for sure! I'm Helena Hann-Baskit.
And I'm Oliver Hellenbach -- we'll be right back, after this break, on Hide-and-Seek News!
AND: Roll spot. Roll, spot, roll.
Roll over, spot -- now, fade to black: Time to play dead.
