Wednesday, September 10, 2003

The Cause Of Censorship QUOTE OF THE DAY "What is it . . . which delivers the leaders of a great nation into such an excess of hysteria that they fear and actually assert their power to prohibit the utterance of any word which may be spoken in opposition to their purposes? - - Dalton Trumbo,  ( from his "Time of the Toad") KNOW YOUR HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 10th 1976 -- Author, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo dies. He wrote the antiwar novel "Johnny Got His Gun". The most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement, he was blacklisted & spent 11 months in prison. After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms. Dalton Trumbo Bio http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumbo.htm "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist" http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html "Redirecting the Canon - Red Hollywood" http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html RHINO HERE: What lengths are world leaders willing to go to, to have the stories they want told, true or not, get out?  And what lengths are they willing to go to, to have the stories they don't want out, get  buried? Would they bribe a journalist? Would they threaten him/her? Would they ruin a reputation? Would they falsely accuse & detain? Would they kill? What about an entire network or publication; would they shut it down? Would they blow it up? It's all been done before in the cause of censorship. But now, Karl Rove has a new trick. Just make up a story about our currently embattled President; make him smart & courageous & even sexy. Show it to the voters on TV, where they go to get hypnotized. Actually it's been done before too. Remember "Mississippi Burning?" The flick in which the FBI agents were the good guys fighting against the racist Southerners. Or "Thunderheart", where one rogue FBI agent in cahoots with some vigilante Indians was the cause of all  the killing that went on in the 1970's at Pine Ridge. They call it revisionist history. But with the upcoming cable movie about shrub's  actions in the days following 9/11/01, you can be sure that the feasibility & believability factors which. screenwriters usually toil with, will have been loosened way up figuring that  most Americans will be too comfortable in their couches to question. Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE ponders some of this, but goes even farther. It asks, "given what the shrub gang has been willing to do to get what they want, how far are they willing to go to get 4 more years? " (Rhino gags & snorts)  But 1st, an amazing summary of a new book on target called, "Into The Buzzsaw." Media Cover-up Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press This is a two-page summary of fascinating accounts by 18 award-winning journalists from the book Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson. All of these writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major, incredibly revealing news. Some were even fired or laid off. These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Help to create a better world. Spread this news across the land... http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up Order Into the Buzzsaw in any major bookstore or at http://www.intothebuzzsaw.com For a 10-page summary of this book , http://www.wanttoknow.info/buzzsaw10pg 8:01:14 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Oval Office Outrages Just Keep Coming Oval Office Outrages Just Keep Coming Harley Sorensen, SF Gate, 9/8/ 03 Suppose you were a screenwriter and you used the Bush administration as a model for a screenplay. Do you think anyone in Hollywood would buy it? "Not a chance," would say Steven Spielberg. "Too outlandish. Nobody would believe anything as ridiculously far-fetched as that." "Too violent," would say Quentin Tarantino. "Too much blood, too much gore." "Far too Machiavellian," would say Oliver Stone. "The way the backroom guys take advantage of your Colin Powell character and that Condoleezza Rice character goes beyond belief. And whoever heard of a name like 'Condoleezza' in the first place? Get real." "It has possibilities," would say the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. "There certainly is a lot of gallows humor in it. Trouble is, the humor isn't funny." And so on. Nobody in Hollywood would touch such a bizarre screenplay. Take the latest chapter of the George W. Bush saga, in which Mr. Bush and his cronies have finally realized what the rest of the world knew long before they attacked Iraq, that the war part would be relatively easy, but the aftermath would be impossible. Now that the Bushies acknowledge that, they have the incredible chutzpah to go to the United Nations, hat in hand, and ask for help. This is the same United Nations, bear in mind, that the Bushies said represented "old Europe" before the Iraq fiasco got under way. It is the same United Nations that was deemed irrelevant by the Bushies -- out of touch, tired and not up to 21st-century standards. The Bushies told the U.N. to flake off. Who needs it? We are America, they said, the world's only superpower, the land of the free and home of the brave. We have God on our side. What else matters? What they called "the coalition of the committed" would go it alone, the Bushies said. Their message was, "We can handle it." But they couldn't, and now they have the audacity to ask the U.N. for help. "Sorry we dissed you, fellows, but, heh-heh, we wuz just kiddin'. That's what we dude ranchers in Crawford, Texas, do. We kid a lot."  What is going on now between the Bushies and the United Nations is just the latest example of the most outrageous administration in American history... ITS ALL AT: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/09/08/hsorensen.DTL "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 7:25:30 AM    comment

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