Sunday, March 9, 2014

"‘Suffocating pressure’: Former ThinkProgress writer describes White House ‘censorship’"

"Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda."
Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russia’s invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) — an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow — and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions.

In a post titled, ”How Working in Washington Taught Me We’re All A Little Like RT America,” Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin — leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.

The blogger never assumed he would agree with everything pushed by the Center for American Progress’s Action Fund when he joined the 501(c)(4) nonprofit to write about national security in 2009. But he soon discovered that one topic in particular was entirely shielded from criticism — the war in Afghanistan, which President Obama was then in the process of escalating.

“One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan.,” he wrote. “CAP had decided not to protest Obama’s surge, so most of our writing on the topic was simply neutral — we weren’t supposed to take a strong stand.”

That was tough for Jilani, a strong opponent of the war. read more
As we are learning via the Lois Lerner's 5fh, if the IRS could be manipulated to short circuit the tea parties, before the 2012 election, wouldn't it be prudent to ask, where else did the Obama administration used the enormous apparatus of the government to further their political agenda?

ADDED: Instapundit writes: DUDE, YOU’RE WRITING FOR IZVESTIA... Next you’ll be expecting political independence at Media Matters.

Daily Caller.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov would be proud.

edutcher said...

The most partisan Senator and a disciple of Uncle Saul?

Of course, life is one big lie.

Dr Goebbels nods.

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Unknown said...

It's not just Obama. A majority of the democrat party elite have lost their minds. They are blinded by money soaked ambition. They are all corrupt power seeking frauds.

The democrat party is dead. What has taken its place is not democracy - it's authoritarian neo-fascist leftism.
The new progressive left can hide behind their phony war on women, their own racism, and Gosnellian abortion, but they cannot escape the rules of the cause and effect, and karma.

I am happy to see that at least some self-proclaimed progressives actually have enough of a conscience to admit the truth.

Unknown said...

Media Matters is radical far far far radical left left left, no?
Guess who stated Media Matters?

Hillary Clinton.

I get so perturbed with anyone on the side of liberty thinking that Hillary would be any better than the current fraud.

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