On Apr 23, 6:09 am, David wrote:
On 22 Apr 2007 19:41:47 -0700, Cato wrote:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/pol/314920789.html
http://www.cei.org/pdf/ait/app.pdf
Al Gore...... quite an interesting guy! Made an interesting
little socialist propoganda film called "An Inconvenient Truth" as
most of us know.
He's been up here in Toronto, Canada a few times giving talks
to the "True Believers" of this new Global Warming, Climate Change,
"It's All Our Fault" religion. Signed a lot of autographs for left
wing Canadians that admire him. I guess he is one of the High Priests,
just like that Dr. David Suzuki guy. He is a real Prophet of Doom in
this new faith too. The web site URL's above show Lies & Distortions
in his film. Quite interesting.
Cato
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SOURCEWATCH -- a Left - Socialist Organization that attacks
Conservatism and Libertarianism. They tend to strongly support Left-
Liberal-Socialist values.
So, sure, Ya, like I'm going to listen to them. Right.
Ya! Right... Well I guess if Socialist organizations lend support
to Stauber and Rampton then I know what side of the fence they are
sitting on, don't I?
Alan Caruba, a corporate public relations
campaigner and vocal global warming skeptic, writes "Source Watch is a
project of the Center of Media & Democracy, a left-wing organization
that devotes a lot of time to attacking the public relations
profession in general and conservative writers in particular."
Center for Media & Democracy
520 University Avenue, Suite 310, Madison, WI 53703
Phone 608-260-9713 | Fax 608-260-9714 | Email
The Center for Media & Democracy (CMD) is a counterculture public
relations effort disguised as an independent media organization. CMD
isn't really a center, it would be more accurate to call it a
partnership, since it is essentially a two-person operation.
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber operate, as do most self-anointed
progressive watchdogs, from the presumption that any communication
issued from a corporate headquarters must be viewed with a jaundiced
eye. In their own quarterly PR Watch newsletter, they recently
referred to corporate PR as a propaganda industry, misleading citizens
and manipulating minds in the service of special interests.
Ironically, Rampton and Stauber have elected to dip into the deep
pockets of multi-million-dollar foundations with special interest
agendas of their own.
Their books Mad Cow U.S.A. and Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! were
produced and promoted using grant monies from the Foundation for Deep
Ecology ($25,000) and the Education Foundation of America ($20,000),
among others. Along with the more recent Trust Us: We're Experts,
these books are scare-mongering tales about a corporate culture out of
control, and each implies that the public needs rescuing. Guess who
the heroes in this fantasy are?
Despite his wild claims that federal agencies have covered up U.S. mad
cow disease cases, John Stauber has become a quotable celebrity on the
subject. In 1997, at the height of the initial mad-cow panic, a CMD
press release warned: Evidence suggests there may already be a mad-cow-
type of disease infecting both U.S. pigs and cattle. Rampton and
Stauber have never provided any documentation to back up this reckless
claim; no cases of mad-cow disease have ever been documented in U.S.
livestock. John Stauber was one of only four mad-cow experts offered
to reporters by Fenton Communications' media arm, Environmental Media
Services.
As the liberal Village Voice commented in April 2001, "These guys come
from the far side of liberal." Seen through this dynamic duo's
socialist lens, society's major problems are capitalism in general and
corporations in particular. If someone in a shirt and tie dares make a
profit (especially if food or chemicals are involved), Rampton and
Stauber are bound to have a problem with it. Unless, of course, that
food is vegetarian, organic, certified fair-trade, shade-grown,
biodynamic, or biotech-free - in which case, the sky's the limit!
Rampton and Stauber's latest book (Trust Us, We're Experts! ) was
delivered to the media with a slick press kit, citing favorable
reviews from media experts. The packet also included a prewritten list
of questions for reporters to ask when interviewing the authors. The
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blew the whistle, though, noting that "a
somewhat sheepish Stauber" offered the following feeble excuse: "What
you see is a true PR campaign around our book. This is how book
publishing is done. I think it's bad. I hate it."
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