September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

CBS
the war began" [CNN reporter talks of pressure to be patriotic, David Bauder, Associated Press, May
29, 2008]
“Millions of Americans supported Bush because they believed he would promote family values;
Karmazin threw the support of CBS News behind Bush on the basis that family values were a
campaign mirage, and that Bush had no intention of implementing them into public policy. While Bush
has been president, Stern has continued to shout the same vulgarities and peddle the same sleaze over
the air, but the intense pressure that was applied by the FCC during the Democratic era has not
continued during the “family values” administration.” [Democracy, General Electric Style, David
Podvin and Carolyn Kay, October 23, 2001]
A classic example of CBS killing a story that reflected poorly on the Bush administration
comes from Greg Palast:
“….five months before the election, Katherine Harris, acting under orders from Jeb Bush, knocked
57,000 voters off the rolls. They were suspected of being evildoers and felons and, therefore, not
allowed to vote in Florida. Here's the news: Of the 57,000 people, 97% were innocent of crimes, but
they were guilty of being black. Half of them were African-American or Hispanic-in other words,
Democratic voters. Was the state guessing who the people of color were? In Florida, it's like South
Africa; they list your race right on your registration. There was no guessing. These people not only lost
their vote, but lost their president. BBC figures Gore lost 22,000 votes this way, but you didn't read
that in the U.S. press. You didn't read in the U.S. press that they say they're going to allow the voters
back on in 2003. That means that they were screwed for the election of 2002 as well. I ran the story of
the theft of the election on the BBC. Then a hotshot with CBS News calls me and says, "Oh, that's a
great story, can we have a piece of it? We want something new." I said, "Yeah, I got something for
you: Jeb Bush's office, the governor of Florida, is involved in knocking off the voters too, not just
Katherine Harris, and there's a letter dated September 18, 2000, which directs county-election officials
to deliberately violate the law and not register a bunch of people who are Democrats. These are people
who committed crimes in other states. Jeb can't legally stop them from voting, but he did anyway. And
he knows that these people are Democrats, because there's something about going to jail that turns
people [into] Democrats, about 93% [of ex-cons vote Democrat.]
(Interviewer): So, people who were either black or who had previously gone to jail were just
automatically eliminated?
PALAST: Right. Jeb sent out the letter anyway, September 18, 2000, despite two court orders saying
he couldn't do that. I had an insider in his office, some poor woman, shaking, saying, "I gotta read you
this letter." She knew about the court orders. Okay, so I said, to CBS, "That's a story." CBS News
didn't run the story-one night, two nights. I said, "What happened?" They said, "It didn't stand up." I
said, "How do you know the story didn't stand up?" "Well, we called Jeb Bush's office, and they said,
'We didn't do it.'…: In fact, just so you know, the NAACP took my information, sued Katherine Harris
and the State of Florida; and they won. And you haven’t seen that reported in the American press: they
won. Turns out, by the way, it wasn’t 57,000 people; 94,000 people were targeted to have their names
illegally removed. And the State of Florida said, “You got us.” Katherine Harris has faced up to it,
even though you don’t see it in the papers.” [Greg Palast Interview by Bruce David, Hustler, On-line]
Time Warner and CNN
In 1994, Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Seagram company acquired a 14.5% stake in Time
Warner, and has been a controlling player ever since. The role of Edgar Bronfman in the
larger illicit laundering scandal has been amply detailed throughout this report. Here is
the same individual being one of the key media influencers in the US. Here is at least one
example of their deliberate squelching of the news to support a cover-up.
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