Originally posted by: Craig234
I'll tae one for the team and watch it until the first nutty thing. I'll summarize the non-nutty points up to that point, if any. This shouldn't take long. Sort of a 'live blog', here goes:
OK, first few minutes are filled with the usual paranoia - video of some kids in some coreographed routine saying 'Yes we can', a screenshot of the news coverage of Obama and Hillary having a 'secret meeting' before the election with the phrase 'secret meeting' highlighted and circled, the seeing eye from the dollar photoshopped on top of the White House, a quote of 'world order' out of context, and so on.
One good clip though - Dennis Kucinich saying to treasury, 'we don't question that you are working hard. Our question is, who are you working for?'
They did get one good dig in, with a treasury secretary quote saying the $700 figure wasn't based on data, but 'they just wanted a big number'.
That doesn't make it wrong, though, it just seems to accurately portray the chaos of the situation and what was needed. OK, back to the video.
Oh, this is good. A hip hop artist making an analogy about getting a cold burger and returning it. 'First, the courts. That's the cashier. Then the manager, that's the president.'
Immediately followed by Jesse Ventura.
Then a laundry list of this group's oncerns, the 'treasonous North American Union' and such.
Then a claim that Obama promised to get America out of NAFTA and GATT. Not that I recall...
There's the constant 'ominous hum' that helps discredit these sort of documentaries - oooOOOooooOOOoooOOOOoooOOOOOooo goes the sound.
They make one valid criticism - that Obama's administration is overweighted with Wall Street figures.
Bzzzzzt. They treat the claim of JFK's assassination as a conspiracy by the 'monied interests' as fact. Wrong. Though I like the 'JSF was the last real president' statement.
Another nutty claim - 'they're threatening to arrest anyone who criticizes Obama', and this proves 'Obama is the biggest puppet since Jimmy Carter'. Huh??
Then it's on to the legitimate issue of media consolidation, but with the nutty conspiracy approach.
They did get Rahm Emmanuel in a 'Shock Doctrine' quote saying you never want to let a crisis be wasted - when you can 'get things done you normally can't.'
And then it's on to the real conspiracy theory - the masters of the world, The Bilderburg Group.
Then it's on to a long conspiracy theory about the 'secret Obama Hilton meeting', trying to link it to 'The Bilderburg Group', with the ominous sounds oooOOoooOOoooOOOOoooOOO.
Some guy claiming a fire alarm at the Marriott he's at to spy on The Bilderburg Group is definitely all about him, by the people who are always following him. ooOOooOOo
Now it's just getting sad - a long clip of a guy 'following them from the Marriott' who parks and goes into a fast food joint - end of clip.
The 'true future direction of the country was being set behind closed doors'.
Now a guy saying 'secret societies approved Obama to get power'.
OK, I went longer than the first nutty claim. Enough. More than enough. Way more.
What's sad is how the kooks get mixed up with the important real 'alternative media' and make it more difficult for legitimate reporting to get heard.
There are enough actual conspiracies staring us in the face, the simple monied interests lobbying for thngs bad for the country, that they don't need 'secret meetings', as if the only way any communication can be done by these alleged 'puppet masters of the world' is with elaborate secret face to face meetings. Guess they never heard of the telephone.
It's interesting that Socio wasn't swayed at all by years of excellent points made against Bush here, but one nutty video has led him to understand the error of his ways.
Maybe I should keep him up tonight worrying by mentioning that the powers that be no doubt have his information from his IP address for posting this.