Non-violent grass roots reform and Democracy: Media coverage of Oprah Winfrey demonstrates opposition to democracy!

Did you notice that on the morning after the Golden Globe Awards when the entire media establishment started talking about how Oprah Winfrey might be running for president at the same time it virtually proved that they were coordinating their propaganda?

Did you notice that for all practical purposes they might as well have admitted that only wealthy celebrities are entitled to get the coverage they need to run for higher office?

Did you notice that the same people trying to take credit for leading the way to defend women's rights are the people that clearly must have known about it years ago but, at best looked the other way, or in some cases helped cover it up and even promoted politicians that were involved in it?

We're supposed to live in a country where anyone can grow up and become president, governor or at least a senator or representative or some other office that serves the public's interests.

Or at least that's what the propaganda they repeat over and over again tells us; but it's an obvious load of crap and the recent surge of coverage skyrocketing Oprah's presidential ambitions should make it even more obvious. For all practical purposes they seem to have declared that Mitt Romney has already won the Senate seat from Utah, even though Hatch only recently declared he wouldn't run and few others had a chance to declare they would even consider it.

This has been standard operating procedure for decades; in 1999 the declared that Al Gore and George Bush would win their respective nominees then provided the obsession coverage they needed to make this come true; and when John McCain had a surprise victory in New Hampshire they resorted to obsessive amounts of dirty tricks, especially in the states that respond to appeals to emotion the most to ensure that the candidates would be limited to those approved by the media.

In 2016, despite all the propaganda they provided saying Trump was an anti-establishment candidate they provided him the obsession coverage he needed when they to get name recognition and attract the most foolish of the electorate even though his lies weren't even any good; but by rigging the nomination for Hillary Clinton with the entire political and media establishment, including Oprah, who said "You don't have to like her," they gave him an opponent so pathetic that he could win!

The mainstream media is a master at propaganda trying to convince people that their candidates have grassroots support, which is part of the way they rigged the nomination for Hillary Clinton; but in this case they were incredibly sloppy and a large percentage of the public saw right through it.

Another classic propaganda tactic is to take a simple principle that the masses can understand, or at least pretend to understand, and repeat it over and over again, until it is perceived as fact, without scrutiny! This is some of what they did with their so-called movement to stand up to sexual harassment by all wearing black.

How does telling people to wear black prevent sexual harassment?

It doesn't, of course, although they could claim it draws attention to it, at least for a little while, which might be true but it does little or nothing more than that and distracts from efforts that might be more effective.

Why are they referring to this as a grassroots movement?

Did this idea come from a small movement of lower or middle class people then move from one city to another until it went viral, perhaps with the help of the internet?

Highly unlikely, it is far more likely that a small number of leading celebrities came up with the idea or perhaps it was suggested to them by others involved in the political establishment for one reason or another.

The real reason they're portraying this as grassroots is because they want to convince the public to follow celebrities which can be controlled by the most powerful people in the political establishment. I don't need inside information to figure out all this, since they can't keep their propaganda tactics secret sine it has to be presented to the public, I just have to understand these propaganda tactics and recognize them when they're being put into practice; and it helps to be familiar with the history of how the political and media establishment has been working.

Rumors about this going on were going on long before any of us were born but they've always been at the grassroots, and the political and media establishment have publicly acted as if it is just disgruntled people trying to smear hard working celebrities, or something like that as indicated in the following article, including comments from George Clooney, who famously held a fund raiser for the incredibly phony Hilary Clinton that was obviously selling out to the financial establishment:

The rumor is, she slept with him to get the part. The reality is uglier. 10/10/2017

This is one of the narratives emerging from the heaps of allegations piling up against Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein, who is the subject of two bombshell investigations, one by the New York Times and one by the New Yorker, which collectively reveal a pattern of Weinstein’s sexual harassment, abuse, and assault dating back decades. Tuesday afternoon, harrowing allegations came down from two of the entertainment industry’s most successful, established female stars: Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

Paltrow was 22 years old when Weinstein “summoned her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a work meeting” that culminated in Weinstein touching her, “suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages,” the Times reports. Paltrow was “petrified,” she says, and alerted her then-boyfriend, Brad Pitt, who in turn confronted Weinstein, who then came back to Paltrow to threaten her to tell no one else. Weinstein allegedly “made unwanted advances” on Jolie, also in a hotel room, in the late 1990s. As she told the Times in an email, “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.”

Weinstein’s behavior was reportedly an open secret in the industry. While some have come forward to say they did, in fact, know about this all along — or that they, too, had an “audition” with Weinstein that left them feeling “violated” — some have taken a different approach: They knew something, but certainly nothing as bad as this. In an interview with The Daily Beast, George Clooney commented, at length, about the allegations against Weinstein. (Weinstein, as the story notes, gave Clooney his “first major big-screen role.”) Calling the alleged sexual misconduct “indefensible,” Clooney went on to contextualize his reaction to the news.

“I’ve heard rumors, and the rumors in general started back in the ’90s, and they were that certain actresses had slept with Harvey to get a role,” Clooney said. “It seemed like a way to smear the actresses and demean them by saying that they didn’t get the jobs based on their talent, so I took those rumors with a grain of salt.”

He went on, “But the other part of this, the part we’re hearing now about eight women being paid off, I didn’t hear anything about that and I don’t know anyone that did. That’s a whole other level and there’s no way you can reconcile that. There’s nothing to say except that it’s indefensible.” Complete article

George Clooney and the entire celebrity class of people have an incentive to portray the acting field as if it is based entirely on talent, not who you know, or as the old saying "Who you blow" to get their job, but that isn't even close to the truth, although it would be politically incorrect to say it in the circles they travel in. This is something that is probably only whispered in Hollywood, and perhaps for some people that dream about going to Hollywood and find out the hard way what it's like they might speak about it to their friends.

However these rumors weren't news and they didn't start as late as the nineties as Clooney says they've been around much longer, and I heard them as early as when I was a teen; but when I stopped paying attention to celebrity gossip I was less likely to hear the latest rumors. I haven't been the most religious person but those who have have often told their daughters tat they should abandon their dreams of going to Hollywood and get a real job or find a husband, in some cases because those who do are "all whores." I wouldn't go that far but, even though I don't agree with all the views of these pious ladies, some of them might be far closer to the truth than many of us suspected as proven by the disclosure of these scandals.

This attitude isn't new, according to many history books, that often put it more delicately actors or actresses that traveled to do plays in Shakespeare's time were all considered to be trashy women or "whores," and anyone that reads Machiavelli might find that he provides a description of women that is similar, although it helps to consider the biases me clearly had. He often wrote as if many rich men bent over backwards to treat them well, but this is highly unlikely and even if they did buy them stuff at times, it is virtually guaranteed that at others they beat them or raped them to keep them in their place.

I've written numerous times about various research about psychological manipulation tactics that the media political and military establishment have used to control the public, and even if it annoys any regular readers that may have gotten used to it, I'll post a few below for any that haven't read them. The Political establishment has passed down some of their psychological manipulation tactics from generation to generation for thousands of years although, at times they may have been disrupted when empires collapsed; but anyone that has read Machiavelli or other historians knows that past kings or emperors have often had advisers from the educated class to help them control the public; and that research has gotten much more sophisticated since World War II.

This isn't completely secret, a lot of it has been reported in the academic world, alternative media outlets, good library books and sometimes by people who are ridiculed as conspiracy theorists, including some that are incredibly incompetent as the stereotype implies, and others that do far better work, but get less attention; however it is rarely ever mentioned in the traditional press, which portrays all researchers that disagree with them with a broad brush implying they're all fringe.

They've learned how to use the carrots and stick approach and now that all these disclosure have been taking place it is much more reasonable to think there's a good chance that Donald Trump really did pay off an adult film star to keep quit before the election, as recently reported, or intimidate a girl that claimed to have been raped by him to drop her lawsuit shortly before the election as well, which was only reported in a low profile manner at the time.

Weinstein has been exposed using Israeli intelligence to spy on potential victims and use this to intimidate them and offer opportunities for them if they learn to go with the program.

This isn't just wild speculation; it is proven to be true over and over again although the evidence is often only reported in low profile ways. Courtney Love Tried to Warn People About Harvey Weinstein in 2005 when she said, “I’ll get libeled if I say it. .... If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons, don’t go.” This was on camera yet there was no investigation and the media didn't report it until it broke wide open last year, which is probably the only reason she didn't get sued for libel for telling the truth. If Weinstein had sued her it would have drawn more attention and the media was willing to help cover it up.

The clear implication, along with all these "non-disclosure agreements" is that the truth can be a commodity that is bought and sold or negotiated by lawyers based on political power not evidence or the free exchange of ideas.

For one reason or another, one exception that got an enormous amount of coverage back in the nineties was the sexual harassment accusation against Bill Clinton, which were public all along, yet the entire media establishment from the left downplayed it. It first, they said that at least he stopped when girls said no and that the scandals that turned out to be true were at least consensual; but when it became one scandal after another and some of them clearly weren't so consensual Hollywood still went along with efforts to down play it.

Thinking back it should be clear that we probably never should have nominated Bill Clinton in the first place let alone elected him, instead supporting someone like Jerry Brown who at least seemed better at the time; but even he was from e the political establishment. It would actually have been much better if we had a diverse media back then that covered much more issues and candidates. But by the time Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016, they clearly picked her long before the public had any say about it and not only did the entire Democratic Political Party line up to support her announcing that they wouldn't run but so did the entire celebrity class despite the fact that the public hated her and her attacks on women that had legitimate complaints were well known to anyone that wanted to know about them including Oprah Winfrey and Meryl Streep who are now trying to portray themselves as heroes with the help of the political class that enables them.

The real victims are the people that believe all this propaganda and try to get the easy way to fame and fortune by going to Hollywood and spend all their money trying to become rich and famous only to find out these rumors about sleeping to the top are at least partly true!

In addition to blindly supporting the political establishment and making an emotional appeal about something bold happening when Barack Oabama was elected and remaining silent and remaining silent when he caved on one issue after another to support Wall Street including mass incarceration Oprah also has a history of reporting war propaganda as Stephen Lendman points out in Oprah Winfrey for President in 2020? 01/10/2018

Phil Rockstroh also points out how she's used her charisma, celebrity status and connections to manipulate people in Thus Spake Oprah As The New York Times Spots UFOs Over The Comb Over Empire 01/11/2018, although he takes some literary licence with some of it he's close to the truth. She didn't rise to the top by exposing all the scams the media has been involved in; she rose to the top by helping them with them.

Oprah Winfrey has used her charisma to push weight loss scams which can easily be exposed by searching the internet to find Oprah Winfrey & Kirstie Alley Weight Loss Scams Revealed? 01/23/2016 where they observe that "Oprah’s fans are like a cult." which the media almost never reports; and on the only occassion that I remember them mentioning this they had a gleeful fan of Oprah say something like, "Some people call Oprah's followers a cult; if this is true it's a cult that I want to be part of," with a big smile on her face as if blindly following the leader is a good idea as long as it's the great and glorious Oprah.

Oprah also gave Dr. Phil his start on her show repeatedly recommending him as if he was a great psychologist. The truth is that I've never like him but once I learned more about indoctrination tactics and the way they escalate from early use of authoritarian upbringing including corporal punishment it has been even more obvious that he's a fraud. Recently Evan Allen and David Armstrong exposed him for the fraud he is setting his TV patients up for failure so that he could get good ratings for his reality TV show and sell his treatment plans or those that he affiliates with even if he tries to maintain plausible deniability when they get exposed.

In all fairness just googling around for picture of Harvey Weinstein with Hollywood women doesn't automatically mean they're complicit, especially if it happens to be one that the progressive movement likes like Susan Sarandon who was the only high profile person to consistently speak out against Hillary Clinton that I know of and she was demonized by a large portion of the political and Hollywood establishment; just like when the Dixie Chicks were demonized for speaking out against the Iraq war when it was obviously based on lies.

The political and media establishment has done an enormous amount of research into the herd mentality and how it can be manipulated by propaganda, especially when a shocking percentage of the public worships celebrities even though they're involved in one scam after another.

By refusing to cover anyone but the celebrities that go along with the program they make it extremely difficult for a small percentage of the public that is better educated about the issues to get their point across and the majority follow one cult or another!

In the case of the Dixie Chicks, even though they're far better than the majority of celebrities they also have a history of proving their own war propaganda like "Travelin' Soldier" which sounds very romantic and is a great song; but it glorifies war indirectly by glorifying the soldier without discussing the true cost of war and that it isn't so glorious. I don't want to demonize veterans that intended to do what's best for their country but fell for the propaganda anymore than I want to demonize the enablers that started out as victims but the most effective way to end this abuse of power involves exposing these tactics even when it it means facing facts that many may not want to acknowledge.