Rolling Stone Savages RFK Jr. For Suspecting CIA in JFKA

[Pamela Brown]

12 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

Anticipated, by RFKJR.  

Which means he is deliberately throwing himself to the wolves...just like his father did. 

[Pamela Brown]

I don't see the CIA per se as responsible for the Kennedy assassinations, as much as certain well-placed people within it, who may be keeping their intentions secret from the others...

[Matt Allison]

I would assume RFK Jr has hired extensive security to protect himself.

At the moment he's not considered a good bet to win the Dem nomination, but there's still the usual threat faced by politically active Kennedys in public by some random whack job, of which the U.S. has no shortage of; Squeaky Fromme types persist.

 

4 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Meanwhile, Larry, is your Fox/Tucker Carlson contact the producer (McCaskill?) who just got sacked for pushing the ridiculous "Biden is a Wannabe Dictator" trope on Faux News?

Just heard about this;

https://www.alternet.org/fox-ousts-producer-wannabee-dictator/?cx_testId=1&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EXDEXBKK1F00#cxrecs_s

[Benjamin Cole]

8 hours ago, Lawrence Schnapf said:

If anyone has questions about RFK Jr's real views on vaccines, i urge you to listen to his 3-hour Rogan interview. This interview should make it clear that the anti-vaxxer label is a hit job from the liberal press as part of the policitization of this topic.  His issue is with Big Pharma.  

There was a time when independent observers were generally skeptical of relations between Wall Street, Big Ag, Aerospace-Defense, Big Pharma, Big Media, multinationals and the federal government.

"Regulatory capture" is the norm in Washington, not the exception. 

Large powerful enterprises or interest groups are organized, have financial resources, hire lobbyists, finance campaigns, buy off media. They control how an industry is governed. 

What is jarring today is that so many former liberals have essentially said, "If you can't beat them, join them." 

We now see tight alliances among liberals, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, Big Media,   multinationals and defense-intel industries. 

Note how the entire D-Party has gone mute regarding the Biden Administration snuff job on the JFK Records. 

This is unbelievable---but a fact, before our eyes every day. 

This hardly makes the R-Party appealing. 

But it makes RFK Jr. very much worth supporting. 

[Douglas Caddy]

Daavid Talbot just posted this on Facebook:

Reader beware -- Once upon a time, Rolling Stone was the voice of its generation. Sure, founder Jann Wenner got lots of dooky from radicals who thought he had sold out. He did. He became a millionaire off the counterculture's music. But Wenner was also kind of one of us. In the early years, Rolling Stone covered traumatic events like the violent Altamont concert, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and Watergate, as well as the deep thoughts of musical icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan and Pete Townshend. Wenner published writers like Hunter Thompson, Joe Eszterhas, Richard Goodwin ad Tom Hayden. He made photographer Annie Leibovitz a star. Rolling Stone, for all its creeping commercialism, was important.

That’s why I was honored when Jann Wenner agreed to serve on my board at Salon. By then, he had moved RS to New York, but Salon had the feisty, early spirit of the San Francisco-era Rolling Stone. One afternoon in the early 2000s, I was meeting with Wenner in his sunny New York office on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, when he wheeled around to the computer on his desk and said, “I’ve got to come up with a headline for this article by Bobby Kennedy.” RFK Jr. – one of the country’s leading environmental lawyers at the time – had written a scathing essay for the magazine about how polluters and other corporations had captured Washington’s regulatory system, the network of federal agencies that are supposed to protect the American worker and consumer.

“Call it ‘Crimes Against Nature,’” I suggested. And that became not only the title of Kennedy’s story, but also his 2005 book.

As I said, Rolling Stone used to be important. But no more. In 2017, an aging Wenner finally cashed out and sold his media creation to Jay Penske, son of billionaire Roger Penske, the former racecar driver who built a transportation empire. The young Penske added Rolling Stone to his fledgling media empire – formerly prosperous brands that were now distressed, like Variety, Hollywood Reporter and even the once alternative SXSW festival in Austin. The overnight media mogul was suddenly hailed as “the Rupert Murdoch of the entertainment world.”

Did Jay Penske turn to his rich daddy to crown himself king of the entertainment media? No, Penske went to hedge fund trader Dan Loeb, a financial backer of the charter school movement, conservative Democrats like New York Mayor Eric Adams and some Republican politicians too. In other words, public officials who advance Loeb’s corporatist agenda.

Penske also took blood money from Saudi Arabia’s royalty.

That’s how he built a media empire that includes Rolling Stone.

Instead of advancing alternative viewpoints, Penske has given the CIA a platform at the annual SXSW conference to recruit young techies and hungry artists.

That’s what the Rupert Murdoch of entertainment media stands for.

And instead of featuring Robert Kennedy Jr. as a regular contributor, as Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone used to, Penske now uses the magazine to smear RFK Jr.

As for Salon, the online publication I founded in 1995, it too has fallen into sketchy hands. Salon now regularly attacks RFK Jr. when in my day we would’ve welcomed his presidential candidacy as one of the most important political insurgencies in many years. For the record, I don’t even know who owns Salon at this point. I never held the financial reins of the publication and I certainly didn’t profit handsomely from its sale as Wenner did with Rolling Stone.

RFK Jr. is reportedly using podcasts as his alternative media platform. Rising quicky in the polls to some 20% of Democratic voters, and boasting a favorability rating that beats Biden and Trump, whatever media strategy he’s pursuing seems to be working.

Whatever it is, he realizes that publications like Rolling Stone and Salon are no longer part of the solution – they’re part of the problem.

PS CIA officials did kill JFK. Somebody break it gently to Rolling Stone.

[Ron Bulman]

Outstanding.  Thank you, Douglas, for posting this.  Talbot is a national treasure; all should read for perspective.

Wener was a bit of a turd.  But I've still got a few older and later copies stashed back.

 Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine: Hagan, Joe: 9781101874370: Amazon.com: Books

If this doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will.  Dedicated to David Talbot, thanks for your work, sir.

 

[James DiEugenio]

I will have something up about this Rolling Stone article soon.

Just terrible what has happened to the zine that printed Carl Bernstein's exposure of "The CIA and the Media."

[Benjamin Cole]

4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

I will have something up about this Rolling Stone article soon.

Just terrible what has happened to the zine that printed Carl Bernstein's exposure of "The CIA and the Media."

Operation Mockingbird has become Operation B-52. 

The CIA's-intel state's presence in media and government is that much larger. 

 

[David Andrews]

RFK Jr.'s poll numbers are said to mean that because he's less known, he's less hated.  Though not in the MSM, which seeks a level field:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/06/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tops-biden-trump-in-new-favorability-poll/?sh=215c41243958

[Karl Kinaski]

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Edited June 20, 2023 by Karl Kinaski