Try, if you can to not focus on the players.
The play is what is important.

Manipulation of MSM to divert attention has gone on and continues to.


Example; Pre Mexico cartels wasting politicians and cops, DHS showed very few gun smuggling arrests or confiscations. They post DHS news on their website.

Now, they show a couple firearms and say, _____ arrests and 500 auto weapons siezed. Who knows first hand, it really happened. We just take Law Enforcement word for it. Those weapons could have been in the evidence room for years and all they did was take 'em out and dust 'em off. Take a picture, send it to MSM with a fabricated story.

It is proven MSM has been fed false or misleading information by politicians or its agencies to enhance their position with the masses.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.28.04/woolsey-0431.html

Here is part of her story.;

Lynn Woolsey and the American way

By R. V. Scheide

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey has met the enemy, and it is us. To be more specific, it's the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Two years ago, Woolsey, a six-term Democrat who has represented Marin and Sonoma counties in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1992, opposed creation of an overarching federal homeland security department, saying the "attempt at governmental overhaul may take us too far down the wrong road, and may make us less safe."


From the July 28-August 3, 2004 issue of the North Bay Bohemian.


Then, DHS Director Tom Ridge asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate what legal steps would have to be taken in order to postpone November's presidential election in the event of a terrorist attack, Woolsey's worst fears were realized.

Woolsey immediately went into action, penning a letter to Ridge insisting that he "take no further steps to postpone this year's presidential election." She circulated the letter in the House, and by July 15, 191 of her colleagues--190 Democrats and Texas Republican Ron Paul--had signed on. The letter was instrumental in forcing House Republicans to draft a resolution stating that the presidential election would never be canceled because of a terrorist attack.

For Ridge, the controversy over the proposed canceling of the election has added more fuel to the fire of critics such as Woolsey, who charge that the agency's color-coded alert system is ineffective and prone to political manipulation.

For instance, Ridge's early July announcement that al Qaida plans to disrupt this year's election season came right after Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry selected Sen. John Edwards as his running mate, diverting media attention from the Kerry-Edwards story and back to terrorism.

Yet even though Ridge called the threat "credible," DHS didn't raise the alert level from yellow to orange or release any specific information on the threat.


"I am deeply concerned that the Bush administration is copying and pasting old terror alerts that were later found to be fabricated," Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., told the New York Daily News. "This administration has a long track record of using deceptive tactics for political gain.

Down with DHS

Political manipulation?

You say that like you are surprised it happens haha

Not news...it's been happening since the earliest human interactions.