That question continues to remain unanswered.
In spite of the well known animosity between the
press and the Clinton administration, the press continues to deny
that they had anything to do with the death of
Virginia Kelley, mother of the former President.
By refusing to ask the justice department to name
an independent prosecutor to look into the matter, and by continuing
to stonewall allegations of wrongdoing, the press
has turned a seemingly small scandal into one involving the potential
abuse of the First Amendment.
Even in the unlikely event that the press does
call for an investigation into allegations against itself, the justice
department
will probably claim that they can't appoint one
because there is no longer a special prosecutor law on the books.
They might also claim that the special prosecutor
law was meant to facilitate investigations into government culpability,
not media crimes. If it were argued that the
press as presently constituted in the United States is actually a wing
of
the government, it is probable that the Justice
Department will fall back on another defense, claiming that before
you appoint a special prosecutor, you have to
actually charge someone with a crime.
Barney Frank (D. Mass) wants to revive the independent
counsel law, ramming it through the House without allowing
a vote on whether it should cover Congress as
well as the Executive branch. Noble as his intentions may be, that law
could actually help a cover-up of press involvement
in the death of Mrs. Kelley, because a "Lawrence Walsh style"
prosecutor could keep vital documents that may
link the press to this death under wraps for years.
But, in spite of these problems, some say that
appointing a special prosecutor to look into these charges is necessary.
"These charges are far too serious and the credibility
of the press is so damaged that only an impartial special prosecutor
can clear the press in the mind of the public,"
someone like Bob Dole might say if he were asked. "We can't let these procedural
details get in the way."
DISTURBING COINCIDENCE ...
There is a long history of media involvement with
Mrs. Kelley. Members of the press have been seen lurking around her
ever since her son began seeking office. Many
of these same reporters were also close to JFK, Martin Luther King, and
Robert Kennedy in the months before they were assassinated, thus raising
disturbing questions about the possibility of a
link between these events!
New questions are now being raised about the death
of former Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neil, who also
died suddenly, just one day before the unexpected
death of Virginia Kelley. As a mathematician from NASA might
have stated, "The odds of these two people dying
within hours of each other could be as high as a million to one."
Odds like this could raise the question of a
media assassination conspiracy.
The trail does not end there. In Vince Foster's
suicide note, this long-time friend and colleague of the Clintons clearly
stated that the press had caused him to seek
oblivion in death. Knowing that, can one continue to doubt that pressure
from the press may have contributed to the death
of Mrs. Kelley? There is no evidence, yet, to link these two deaths.
But serious questions about such press-related
deaths continue to dog reporters and to cut into the media's ability to
influence and control the minds of the public.
The Vince Foster suicide followed the untimely
death of the father of former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This death occurred during the crucial period
when the First Lady was formulating the Clinton health care plan,
a plan that many members of the press oppose.
No "smoking gun" evidence linking the press with
the death of the First Lady's father, has surfaced -- yet.
But questions have been asked, and they demand
answers.
Some researchers may conclude that the timing
of these deaths is merely a coincidence. But many people find it hard
to believe that all of these people, each one
the target of a continual onslaught of press scrutiny, just "happened"
to
die within a short and politically important
period of time.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF PRESS-RELATED ASSASSINATIONS ...
If it were concluded that the press were linked
to the so called "Clinton Cluster" deaths, the implications would be
staggering. What kind of a society would we have
if press death squads roamed the streets eliminating their political
opposition and maintaining full control of the
news we read, watch, or listen to every day?. How would we ever know
what was true or not? Under a tightly controlled
media working in unison to spin events to the benefit of unseen and
unknown masters, how could we call America a
free society?
In the early days of the Soviet Union, Lenin might
have said, "The first step in a revolution is to seize the Telegraph."
Is that what has happened here? Is this a prelude
to a Coup d'Etat? Are we citizens just guinea pigs in a vast mind
control experiment? And doesn't the prospect
of press-related assassination threaten democracy and freedom as
we know it? Is it possible for the news media,
to tell a lie often enough, convincingly enough, to convince whole
populations that what they are promoting is true?
Could this be the beginning of the end of freedom on planet Earth?
The possibilities are chilling indeed!
A HISTORY OF DECEPTION ...
Compounding the effect of these charges is a history
of misleading information originating in the news media. With the
ethical standard of the press and public opinion
of press ethics at all time lows, more people than ever before are likely
to believe allegations such as these, in spite
of the fact that there isn't a shred of hard evidence connecting the press
with any these deaths -- yet.
The public's current distrust of the press may
have its roots back in the 1992 elections, when reporters seemingly
conspired in an attempt to distract the public
from the real issues of the presidential campaign. This apparent conspiracy
may have started with the "Flowers Affair," when
a tabloid newspaper called "The Star" briefly turned away from
reporting alleged sightings of Elvis Presley
and paid a woman known as Gennifer Flowers $150,000 to say that she
had sex with then-Governor Clinton.
This story opened the door to a new journalistic
tactic, "leveraged reporting." Leveraged reporting occurs when
reporters for reputable media outlets want to
cover a scandal-based story that by itself simply isn't credible enough
to publish, so they get a "shady" publisher to
run with the story, and then report that the other publication ran a
scandalous story and then give the full details
of the scandal to their readers. Not only does leveraged reporting
allow political bias to be expressed under cover
of news-gathering, it saves leg-work for reporters, as each press
organization covers what was in the others' reports,
until the story becomes self-perpetuating and the press is
essentially self-feeding.
One example of the awesome power of the self-feeding
story was the Clinton haircut hoax. When this story broke,
the media dived in like flies on their favorite
food. The coverage, in news articles, editorial pages, and opinion columns,
went on for weeks, until "Newsday" broke the
story that none of it was true. Once this happened, the story instantly
disappeared with barely a word of correction, much less an apology.
By mid-1993, it seems, the combination of leveraged
reporting and self-feeding stories presented the press with a
temptation they could not put aside in the name
of ethics. The media had tasted power -- and wanted more!
Wily reporters probably realized at this point
that they had within their grasp the potential to control public thought.
It no longer mattered if what they said was fact,
as long as they could get someone to say it was, and they could
write a believable story about it. It was as
if the press had suddenly awakened from a decades-long dream that its
mission was to present truth, realized that it
had the power to change reality -- and decided that it liked that power.
Vince Foster's only crime was that he was inexperienced
at damage control. But to the press he was like a deer
about to be devoured by a pride of lions -- themselves.
In the last days before his suicide, Foster knew the press
was closing in on him. His final message to the
living make it clear that it was the press who drove him to his death.
Of course, the press had to report the death,
and a troop of well-trained morgue-jockeys handled the story with
the media's characteristic blend of unctuous
tact and simulated shock. Foster's suicide note, however, posed a real
problem for the press. Suicide notes always make
good copy, but the press didn't rush to print Foster's message
because the idea of the public seeing blood on
their hands disturbed them. This is something they had to cover up!
THE COVER UP ...
To try to conceal the real reasons for the Foster
suicide, press spin doctors may have had to come up with a new
explanation for the death that absolved them
-- and was believable enough to sell to the public. That explanation
seems to have been the "Whitewater scandal".
If so, the Whitewater scandal became big news
not in its own right, but because it redefined the reason for Vince
Foster's death. Key reporters could well have
decided to cover over the implications raised by Foster's press-related
death by simply getting together and saying,
"Let's raise questions about his death. Let's say that it was a suspicious
death. Let's create a cloud over this man by
declaring that he was hiding some secret knowledge about the Clintons."
If this were so, the media could kill two birds
with one stone. They could conceal their relationship to Foster's death
and attack the President at the same time.
A MOTIVE FOR MURDER?
"But why," a patient reader may ask, "would the press do this? What would motivate the press to go as far as murder?"
Even though there isn't a single piece of hard
evidence other than the Foster suicide note that directly links the press
to
any deaths among President Clinton's family and
friends, people cannot be stopped from asking the question, "Why?"
Why? Is it greed? Is it power? Or is it BOTH?
One hypothetical reason for the apparent animosity
between the press and the President -- an animosity so strong it might
lead to murder -- was recently described in the
following letter to the editor that appeared in the "Springfield News Leader."
Even a dog knows the difference between being
kicked and being tripped over. In watching the coverage of the latest
so-called Clinton Scandal, it is clear to me
that the national press corps hates Clinton. Their coverage is so
unprofessional that they have to spend one third
of each report trying to justify their contention that this story
isn't as sloppy as it appears on the surface.
The real question is, "Why are they doing this?"
Could it be that they are upset because Clinton is different than other
presidents in that he is a genius? In the past,
reporters have been used to presidents who were less intelligent than
they were. The last two presidents, in particular,
made reporters think that they were mental giants.
But now there is someone in the White house who
is operating at a level that is beyond their comprehension. Not only
that, President Clinton identifies himself personally
as being a Small Town Good Ole Boy Country Hick. And this hick
isn't providing the kind of perks that previous
presidents have used to express their respect for the fact that the media
have the power to crush their public image on
a whim. "How dare he!"
"What I want to see is stories about our future
and what we as a society can do to advance ourselves. How to solve
the problems we, as a nation, face together.
I'm not interested in Bill Clinton's (or Michael Jackson's) crotch. I don't
care to see the heinous crimes that occurred
that day. I think it's time for the national press to take a long, hard,
sober look at themselves and ask the question,
"Just what is it that a journalist is supposed to do - really?"
If the points the author makes are true, then
the motive could be as simple -- and as complex -- as a violent culture
clash.
The realization that a country hick from Arkansas
is smarter than many in the New York/Washington insider culture may
be enough to drive certain reporters to the brink
of cultural warfare, leading them to initiate their own brand of "ethnic
cleansing," as it were. Of course, that letter only represents one person's
opinion. It may or may not be true.
Other people might look to simpler, less ideological
motives.
One of these simple motives is money. Inside the
Washington Beltway, wages for the press are rather high. Many
journalists' salaries run into the millions of
dollars and it is this income category that the Clinton tax increase hits
the
hardest. President Clinton has taken a lot of
money out of reporters' pockets and some journalists are none too
happy about that. And it's common knowledge that
when money is involved, people end up dead.
A third possible motive, and a notably controversial
one, is the so-called "Brass Check" theory. According to the
writings of former California gubernatorial candidate
Upton Sinclair -- himself both an apostate reporter and the victim
of numerous failed press-assassination attempts
-- reporters are a species of prostitute. As Sinclair described it, in
his
youth, when a bordello customer paid the house
madame for the sexual services he was about to receive, he was given
a brass check, a metal token designating the
room of the prostitute who would serve him. The prostitute herself did
not
receive money from the customer, and if one were
to look only at the transaction between the customer and the whore,
it would appear as if no money had changed hands.
So it is, said Sinclair, with advertisers, publishers, and reporters:
the advertiser pays the publisher, not the journalist,
but the journalist serves the advertiser as readily as the whore
does her john.
On the one hand, Brass Check journalism can prevent
reporters from covering stories unfavorable to their corporate
media sponsors; on the other hand, it can result
in trained packs of attack-journalists baying at the heels of those
whom the corporate sponsors see fit to demolish.
Have the Clintons angered some powerful corporate
media sponsor? And if they have, would the press obey such
a master to the extent of committing murder?
The first question may never be answered, but
the second was, decades ago, when George Seldes, an internationally
acclaimed reporter, blew the whistle on his own
profession with his classic investigation of publisher William Randolph
Hearst's involvement in the press-death of Italy's
Senor Fiat.
Murder-by-media has been committed in the past.
Without the eternal vigilance of the American public, it can be
committed in the future. No reasonable person
could deny that given sufficient motivation, the press can indeed kill.
NOT GUILTY. . . BY REASON OF DIMINISHED COMPETENCE?
Of course, establishing a number of possible motives
and making a series of allegations doesn't prove anything.
The deaths listed above may be mere coincidences
and the media's low taste for scandal may simply be evidence
of mass stupidity.
Some observers, taking the concept of press stupidity
one step further, have claimed that the press is not intelligent
enough to engage in concerted attacks upon the
Clintons and their associates. According to these theorists, reporters
demonstrate a primitive herd instinct and often behave less like human
beings than like a school of fish, moving about
in unison, darting first left then right, seemingly
with no sense of where they are going or what they are doing.
If this is true, the press may not be competent
to stand trial for the deaths of Mrs. Kelley and Mr. Rodham, and its
connection to the death of Vince Foster -- despite
the victim's identification of the perpetrators -- may well be
plea-bargained down to a charge of negligent
homicide.
In the courtroom of public opinion, the jury is still out . . .
by Marc Perkel and Cathrine Yronwode
The above article is fiction . It's a satire of the "Whitewater Scandal"
where I use the same logic that the press is using
to create a fake story out of entirely true facts. This story starts
out fairly unbelievable, but as it progresses it becomes
more and more believable, till at the end, the reader forgets that
it is satire. After reading it several times myself,
even I am beginning to believe it's true.
The idea here is to demonstrate the art of telling a good lie. The best
lie is 100% truth arranged to lead the reader
to an wrong conclusion. A person can take 100 Bibles and arrange them
to spell dirty words. But when criticized
about the dirty word you can counter with, "But it's made out of 100%
Bibles!"
An example of this is a joke I saw on the web. President Clinton and
the Pope were fishing when all of a sudden
a gust of wind blew the Pope hat off and out into the lake. Bill Clinton
got out of the boat, walked across the
surface of the water and returned the Pope's hat. A Washington Times
reporter witnessed the event and the
next day's headlines read, "Bill Clinton can't Swim!"
The article is fiction. Having said that, it is less fiction than the
Clinton Whitewater scandal which is being presented
as nonfiction. My logic and reasoning in this piece is tighter than
what the press is trying to sell to the public.
I just want to expose how this is done.
But this article isn't entirely fiction. As in any satire there is a
point being made here. Although the original premise
that the press killed Virginia Kelley is probably not true, everything
else about this is. I fully believe that there is a
press conspiracy in the works, and this article exposes the mechanism
which they are using to promote this.
What this article, and the Whitewater scandal have in common is that
they are both "Mind Worms."
Mind Worm is a new word that I just made up to describe something that
doesn't have a name -- so I'm giving it a name.
A Mind Worm is a lie that is constructed in such a way that it is mentally
addictive and highly contagious. It is a lie that is designed to spread,
and to undermine a persons perception of reality, causing the collective
consciousness of society as
a whole, to believe something that isn't true. A Mind Worm is to humans,
what a "Computer Virus" is to computers.
An example of a mind worm is the Christmas shopping season. Years ago,
Christmas was considered a religious holiday.
There wasn't a lot of shopping and swapping of presents. But in the
early part of this century, a department store chain, Macey's, introduced
a mind worm into society and created the Christmas shopping season. And
the idea that we are
supposed to shop on Christmas is now ingrained into our very souls
and is now part of who we are as a species.
In the world of computers, there is such a thing as anti-virus software
that protects computers against viruses, and in
some cases, removes existing computer viruses. These programs give
computers a certain amount of protection,
making them less vulnerable to the attacking software.
In the biological world we create vaccinations to protect people against
viruses. A vaccine is often creates by taking
the original virus and making it weaker and injecting it into a person.
The immune system of that person not only defeats
the weakened virus, but also learns how to fight that disease, allowing
it to become immune to the real virus as well.
With that in mind, it occurs to me that if I create a weakened mind
worm, and introduce it into the social fabric, that it
will cause new mental processes to be created in the collective human
mind. This process may result in a higher level of immunity to the attempts
of others, like the press, to create a "Whitewater Scandal" who's real
intention is solely to stop
the progress that President Clinton is making.
It is my theory that if the phrase "Mind Worm" becomes part of societies
vocabulary, and our collective mind
understands this concept, that it will create mental "antibodies" that
will help inoculate the collective consciousness
from future mind worm attacks.