“It should be noted that the MacArthur-funded Nation, for which Corn is a staff writer, has ties back to the CIA and its former director William Casey, and the Manhattan Institute, and Chief Editor Katrina vanden Heuval’s father was involved in “Operation Mockingbird”, a CIA project originating in the early days of the Cold War to buy influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and put reporters on the CIA payroll. Solomon is the Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington and is the ostensible head of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, Working Assets group, and the Schumann…”

—  Charles Shaw in “The Gate-Keepers of the So-Called Left”

Comment

I originally included the part on Michael Ruppert in the excerpt above. But I haven’t read a lot of Ruppert, and his take on a number of things about which I do know a bit (such as, the bail-out) is very different from mine, so I decided not to include the reference, in case I should seem to be endorsing him.

Of course, I do post pieces on this blog, with which I don’t always agree.  But usually they’re about things I can make a judgment on.  I can tell if what I’m posting is completely off the wall, possible, plausible, or convincing.

I haven’t mastered enough of the facts about 9-11 to make that kind of judgment. Ergo, no Ruppert.

But I certainly do resent the way discussions about 9-11 are censored, directed elsewhere, or regarded as disreputable or pointless. It’s one thing to decide you’re not the best person to discuss an issue. It’s another thing to stifle discussion from conformity, fear, or plain pig-headedness. Anyway, with or without Ruppert, the post was meant to bring up the issue of “gate-keeping” among progressive outlets.

(There’s no such thing among right-wing outlets? Discussion for another post..)