This video is like an SNL skit
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:30 am
I sort of felt like I was in the Twilight Zone when I first watched this, it's so incredibly surreal.
This creepy robot-woman is Obama's State Department spokesperson, and... just listen. It's bizarre. I mean, I thought I was fairly jaded and cynical, but listening to this makes me realize just how naive I am, truly, because I was completely shocked at the brazen, flat-out, easily verified lies this woman was spewing. I mean, she's a high-ranking government official and she was just blatantly lying over and over again to a room full of journalists, on video. And only one person dared to challenge her on them. Judging by her attitude she didn't expect to be challenged at all.
So she was answering a question about the recent attempted coup in Venezuela backed by American forces, and she actually said with a straight face that the United States "as a matter of longstanding policy" does not support military coups. She said that. A journalist in the room basically just laughed at her and challenged her on that, and she couldn't even defend herself. I mean, you could easily tell she didn't even believe her own bullshit, she had nothing to say. It wasn't even a fabrication, or hyperbole, or exaggeration, or a misrepresentation. It was just a fucking lie. And yet she just blithely said it. With no feeling, no emotion at all. I mean, watch the video. I feel like I'm in some shitty dystopian flick or something.
The United States has attempted to violently overthrow over fifty governments through non-democratic and illegal means during the relatively short sixty years or so since the end of WWII. This is a commonly accepted fact among educated people. It's not really controversial at all to say that American's backing or instigating of violent coups of governments it doesn't like is a matter of routine. I mean, illegally and violently overthrowing foreign governments is basically all the CIA does. This is easily verified and heavily documented. So you can tell why I think this video is so bizarre - that a government spokesperson can just go up on a podium and blithely state that the United States does not back military coups and only one journalist in the room had the guts or knowledge or challenge it.
Like I said, this is some Twilight Zone shit. These people are not connected to reality at all. They are legitimately delusional. They're living in an entirely separate universe. Only one journalist? A long-standing policy of not supporting coups? We supported a violent unconstitutional coup only one fucking year ago, for fuck's sake! One year is not long-standing! And of course, the fact that this video has not received any play in our media besides Democracy Now sort of speaks volumes by itself.
This is an instance of when reality is more unrealistic than fiction. Governments usually at least try. They deceive, they manipulate, they exaggerate, they distort. They don't typically just fucking lie like that. That was just sloppy. And journalists are pathetic, seriously. Only one challenged her. God this country is fucked.
This creepy robot-woman is Obama's State Department spokesperson, and... just listen. It's bizarre. I mean, I thought I was fairly jaded and cynical, but listening to this makes me realize just how naive I am, truly, because I was completely shocked at the brazen, flat-out, easily verified lies this woman was spewing. I mean, she's a high-ranking government official and she was just blatantly lying over and over again to a room full of journalists, on video. And only one person dared to challenge her on them. Judging by her attitude she didn't expect to be challenged at all.
So she was answering a question about the recent attempted coup in Venezuela backed by American forces, and she actually said with a straight face that the United States "as a matter of longstanding policy" does not support military coups. She said that. A journalist in the room basically just laughed at her and challenged her on that, and she couldn't even defend herself. I mean, you could easily tell she didn't even believe her own bullshit, she had nothing to say. It wasn't even a fabrication, or hyperbole, or exaggeration, or a misrepresentation. It was just a fucking lie. And yet she just blithely said it. With no feeling, no emotion at all. I mean, watch the video. I feel like I'm in some shitty dystopian flick or something.
The United States has attempted to violently overthrow over fifty governments through non-democratic and illegal means during the relatively short sixty years or so since the end of WWII. This is a commonly accepted fact among educated people. It's not really controversial at all to say that American's backing or instigating of violent coups of governments it doesn't like is a matter of routine. I mean, illegally and violently overthrowing foreign governments is basically all the CIA does. This is easily verified and heavily documented. So you can tell why I think this video is so bizarre - that a government spokesperson can just go up on a podium and blithely state that the United States does not back military coups and only one journalist in the room had the guts or knowledge or challenge it.
Like I said, this is some Twilight Zone shit. These people are not connected to reality at all. They are legitimately delusional. They're living in an entirely separate universe. Only one journalist? A long-standing policy of not supporting coups? We supported a violent unconstitutional coup only one fucking year ago, for fuck's sake! One year is not long-standing! And of course, the fact that this video has not received any play in our media besides Democracy Now sort of speaks volumes by itself.
This is an instance of when reality is more unrealistic than fiction. Governments usually at least try. They deceive, they manipulate, they exaggerate, they distort. They don't typically just fucking lie like that. That was just sloppy. And journalists are pathetic, seriously. Only one challenged her. God this country is fucked.