Interfering with the electoral process — does not seem to bother the folks at AP

© 2016 Peter Free

09 June 2016

 

Speaking of the arguably scumbagging cretins over at the Associated Press . . .

The Associated Press’s Hillary Clinton pocket-lackeys called the Democratic nomination for her before California voted. Weeks before the Party’s super delegates announced their own corrupt say at the Democratic convention.

Glenn Greenwald wrote:

 

This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization — incredibly — conceals.

The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. [See explanation here.]

But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that its nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward, and undemocratic sputter.

© 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media, The Intercept (07 June 2016) (extracts)

 

With the alleged foundations of American democracy in mind . . .

What is especially irritating about the AP’s performance is how well it mirrors the Mainstream Media’s sniveling obsequiousness at the feet of power. The American press has become a propaganda arm for Government and the plutocratic Establishment that bought it.

This toadying runs contrary to historical expectation. A free press — in its wide variety of competing biases — was supposed to expose corruption and the abuse of power. It was, as a totality, to diligently inform those privileged to vote, not hoodwink them.

Today, corporate media not only actively participate in bagging our heads, they urge the totalitarian trend on.

Tom Paine would be mortified at how his American experiment has turned out.

 

The moral? — Oh well, tomorrow’s another day

Or some such culturally representative drivel.