Corporate Media Smears Medina For Expressing View Shared By Majority Of Americans

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 12, 2010

The attack dog corporate media, in cahoots with loathsome phony neo-con crybaby Glenn Beck, are once again attempting to manufacture reality by smearing Debra Medina for expressing a view shared by the vast majority of Americans in an effort to purge her from the Texas gubernatorial race.

Fox News blowhard Glenn Beck attempted to set up Medina on his radio show yesterday by asking her if she believed the U.S. government was involved in 9/11.

“I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard,” Medina said. “There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that.”

Medina’s response was measured and even less vehement that than six of the ten 9/11 commissioners, who have all gone on the record to discuss how the government lied about the official story.

Furthermore, in merely refusing to completely accept the official version of events, Medina stands firmly with the majority of Americans. An October 2006 CBS/New York Times poll found that only 16% of Americans thought the government told the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks. Medina is in agreement with no less than 84% of Americans who do not readily accept the official story as true.

Callers to 570 KLIF were unanimous in their response to the non-issue, agreeing that Medina’s answer was perfectly acceptable, accurate, and that they wouldn’t change their vote for her.

The following clip is astounding in the fact that it completely unveils how the establishment media has once again brazenly tried, but failed, to dictate reality by claiming that Medina’s campaign is now over, despite the fact that the vast majority of Texans completely agree with her position on 9/11.

Watch the clip.

However, Medina’s statements were immediately seized upon by a political establishment transparently desperate to derail her accelerating poll numbers as she closes in on globalist stooges Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

All of a sudden, every viewpoint and every opinion of every individual Medina had talked to suddenly became attributed to her as the media aggressively tried to shift the debate away from the issues that have made her so popular in an attempt to tear her down. Beck subsequently expressed his desire to “french kiss” Rick Perry and the fix was in.

Medina has never even talked about 9/11 as part of her platform, but that didn’t stop Hutchinson and Perry operatives flooding Twitter with hoax controversies about her supposed mental instability for daring to say that Americans have the right to question their government.

Within an hour of her appearance on Beck’s show, robo-calls from the Perry and Hutchinson campaigns went out attacking Medina as a “9/11 truther”.

“Wow!! Isn’t that interesting,” wrote one respondent to an Austin-American Statesman story. “How was Mr. Perry’s team so ready to start a massive robo blitz with this new Truther news so quick? Looks like someone is getting scared, and that he had a little help from a friend.”

Indeed, for such calls to be launched so soon after Medina’s appearance, it’s blatant that Beck’s ambush journalism was carefully planned from the very beginning. Perry and Hutchinson were primed to capitalize upon the fake controversy before it even happened.

But unfortunately for the establishment, it seems like the people are not buying the hoax. Just like the KLIF callers, the majority of respondents to the Statesman story expressed their support for Medina and denounced the cheap shots pulled by Glenn Beck.

“Medina raised more than $50,000 yesterday. I doubt that she has “nullified herself”. Her popularity is actually soaring and Beck is receiving thousands of angry emails,” wrote one.

“I just donated $350 to her campaign,” added another, pointing out that Medina has never wavered from her campaign which is based on states’ rights, securing the border, gun owners’ rights and replacing the unconstitutional property tax – all issues which both Perry and Hutchinson have completely abandoned in favor of toadying up to the political elite that owns them.

“The real travesty is the hatchet job perpetrated by this reporter and the rest of the pack of corporate owned media running dogs who pose as journalists,” added another, highlighting the fact that a candidate in the mould of Medina poses a threat to both Democrats and Republicans across the country and the entire two party monopoly that Glenn Beck shills for on a routine basis.

“What Medina said is that there are unanswered questions posed to the government about 911,” states another. “This is 100% true and accurate. The 911 Commission’s report stated that the government withheld evidence and therefore the report was incomplete with unanswered questions.”

For taking a stance similar to six of the ten 9/11 Commissioners, who have all publicly stated that the official story surrounding the attacks is impossible, Medina is being witch hunted by the establishment in a savage McCarthyesque purge.

Medina was gaining on both Perry and Hutchinson at a rate of several points a week. The establishment was straining at the leash to find some mud to sling at her and since they could come up with nothing, they had to engineer a fake spectacle by way of the nationally despised slime ball turncoat Glenn Beck, the neo-con who poses as a libertarian, the man who supported the bailout under Bush and then claimed he had opposed it all along when Obama got in office, the man who ceaselesslycalls for more taxes on the American people while posing as a demagogue of the Tea Party movement which is supposed to stand against new taxes.

As little as seven months ago, Rick Perry and John Cornyn were being booed in Texas at Tea Party events. Now Perry has learned to don a cowboy hat and pretend to be a grass roots populist while selling out Texas’ very infrastructure to foreign companies that Texans will pay tolls to. The Tea Party movement has been hijacked by phony neo-cons like Sarah Palin who endorse Perry while the only real Constitutionalist in the race, Debra Medina, is the victim of an organized smear campaign.

Fine, if Republicans want to continue to pay rising property taxes and fees on toll roads to foreign-owned companies, if they want the border to continue to be wide open, then go ahead and and vote for Bilderberger Rick Perry – you deserve everything you get.

In the meantime, true Constitutionalists, true conservatives and true patriots will continue to support the people’s candidate – Debra Medina – redoubling our efforts in order to expose this entire farce for what it really is – an artificially engineered hatchet job conducted by one of the most loathsome, un-American, big government worshipping corporate media whores ever to open his big mouth – Glenn Beck – the man who fakes crying on demand for photo shoots and proclaims his love for America while selling out every single idea that made America great, the right to dissent, the right to question, and the right to exercise the liberties enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, all things that Debra Medina stands for, and all things that Perry and Hutchinson have abandoned.

“The most important political office is that of the private citizen”
Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Were it not clear before yesterday in the manner which Glenn Beck sandbagged and set a trap for surging Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina who was rising in the polls and closing in on establishment insiders Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, it should be clear now that Glenn Beck is an inside job, an establishment status quo shill masquerading and posing as a revolutionary. His job is to obfuscate the truth, to serve as an outlet for the supremely misguided and ill informed in America, a master manipulator, a minister of disinformation and propaganda telling authorized truths as a card carrying member of America’s propaganda matrix.

Since I’m a SMU grad and I’m very disappointed in these ratings. I expected students at my Alma mater to recognize true liberty… Debra Medina is the ONLY choice, and owned the other 2 in the debates! What’s going on since I left?

By Elisabeth Brubaker
ebrubake@smu.edu

SMU Professor Dr. Rita Kirk held a focus group in Umphrey Lee Friday night to study the Republican reaction to the Belo debate. Kirk recruited 30 Republicans- both first time and repeat voters to participate in the focus group during the GOP Debate.

Kirk has been doing research for over 20 years. CNN first hired Kirk for the debates during the presidential election primaries. This past weekend she brought her research back to the Hilltop only one day after going to Ohio to dial test the President’s State of the Union address.

The focus groups are used to “dial test” a particular speech or event. Each participant is given a dial to record their perceptions of the candidates (or the President) at any moment throughout the speech or debate.

Kirk loves analyzing the data afterwards. During the candidates’ closing statements Kirk was able to see who did the best overall. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison had the highest rating with 73 out of 100. Governor Rick Perry got a 67 and Debra Medina got a 63.

Some participants offered their opinions of the dial testing and candidates after the debate. Watch the videos for their reactions.

(Editor’s note: Elisabeth Brubaker is a student assistant for Dr. Kirk’s research study.)

One participant said this about the “jeopardy” portion of the debate:

Another participant discussed how she reads the candidates.

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“If there is no access to the small towns, it will change the face of the state.”
— Will Lowrance, Hillsboro Mayor MORE>>

It will connect to Interstate and other major highways. However, by design it will not provide easy, if any, access to the communities it passes by. It will not spur commercial development along its frontage like our Interstate Highways. There will be no frontage. There will be no opportunity for the owners of property it abuts to develop new or expanded businesses with access to the Corridor. Moreover, it has provisions in the plan and the law to place all possible traveler services on the corridor itself.

Every mile of Corridor will consume 146 acres of land. That’s property that will become state owned land – removed from county and school district tax rolls everywhere it extends.

“If it is done the way it’s proposed, it will hurt us eventually …”
— Carlos Vigil, Cooke County Community Development Director MORE>>

Communities with travel and tourism based economies will lose access to those travelers. If the Corridor is successful in attracting traffic away from existing highways communities will suffer significant economic loses.

“With a right-of-way approximately 1,200-feet-wide, the proposed corridor
could change the face of agriculture in Texas forever as it
swallows up thousands of production acres of farmland.”
— Juliet Briskin, Country World News (November 4, 2004) [link]

Where will they build the Corridor?

“The Trans Texas Corridor is a state of mind, not an alignment on a map.”
— Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson
(March 25, 2003) [citation] [full text]

The plan adopted by the Texas Transportation Commission outlines 4,000 miles of Corridor to crisscross the entire state. Four of those Corridors have been identified by the Texas Department of Transportation as Priority Corridors to be constructed first (shown below in orange). No effort has been made by the state to identify the specific placement of the Corridors. There are however some known constraints. The Corridors do not directly connect large cities. In fact they go around major urban areas for three prime reasons: one, to keep traffic away from existing urban congestion; two, to keep vehicle air pollution out of urban areas; and three, to provide new routes for the transportation of hazardous materials. Topography will also be very important because of the high-speed rail component of the Corridor. It will be necessary that the Corridor be as straight and level as possible (no uphill or downhill grades or sharp turns).

Note: The Priority Routes alone total 4,000 miles;
the complete TTC Plan totals 8,000 miles.

How did the Trans-Texas Corridor get started?

“What started out as a campaign promise is now in the fast lane.”
— Rudy Koski, KVUE News, Austin (March 16, 2004)

In 2002 Governor Perry announced his Corridor vision and instructed TxDOT to prepare an action plan to build the Trans-Texas Corridor. Within six-months TxDOT had completed the plan and presented it to the Transportation Commission. Without any substantive discussion or debate and without public comment the Commission approved the plan as presented on June 27, 2002. [the plan]

“Once the Governor decided that this is where we needed to head,
he wanted to remove it from the political flow of the state,
he wanted it to become policy as opposed to politics,
and that was one of the reasons he asked us to move so fast,
and we’ve done an admirable job….”
— Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson
(June 27, 2002) [full text]

“If this is the governor’s plan,
I’d like to have the governor come down and explain it to us.”
— Ed Janecka, Fayette County Judge MORE>>

“The Trans-Texas Corridor plan is not the product of transportation professionals, urban planners, sociologists and environmentalists hammering out affordable infrastructure to meet our 21st Century needs. Rather, it was hatched in a smoke-filled room where nobody worried about the needs of ordinary Texans.”
— Dick Kallerman, Transportation Issue Coordinator, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter [more]

Since the plan was developed a series of state laws have been put into place drastically changing the highway construction and financing rules — giving the Texas Transportation Commission unprecedented authority and power. The most significant of these new laws is known as House Bill 3588. [HB-3588]

The Legislature “threw the door wide open . . . and we intend to use it.”
— Transportation Commissioner Robert L. Nichols
(Texas Good Roads Annual Meeting: June 30, 2003)

“It [HB-3588] gives us all of the authority and all of the power we need on a state level to move forward on the Trans-Texas Corridor, plus some.”
— Phillip Russell, Director, Texas Turnpike Authority Division
(August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

The Commission may acquire, in the name of the state, public or private real property as they determine to be necessary or convenient for the construction, enlargement or operation of the Trans Texas Corridor.

The Commission can lease or sell part of the property, for any purpose, including placing on the adjoining right-of-way a gas station, garage, store, hotel, restaurant, parking facility, railroad track, or billboard under terms they set. They can even lease it back to the original owner or any other public or private entity for unrelated commercial or industrial purposes.

“The Governor, the Texas Transportation Commission, the TxDOT, the administration — our staff — we are all committed to implementing this plan. We believe it is real.” — Commissioner Robert Nichols, Texas Transportation Commission (August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

If you’re thinking that this won’t happen for several years into the  future, you’re kidding yourself. The draft agenda for the Transportation Commission’s December 2004 meeting includes as item number 11, “Turnpike Project / Various Counties – Approve the selection of the best value proposal for the planning, development, acquisition, design, construction, financing, maintenance, and operation of the Oklahoma-Mexico priority element of the Trans-Texas Corridor system generally paralleling IH 35 (TTC-35); and authorize the department to execute a comprehensive development agreement with the chosen developer.” [link]

“. . . we are very aggressive, we’re very serious about it,
and we are going to move forward on it.”
— Phillip Russell, Director, Texas Turnpike Authority Division
(August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

It has been their plan for more than a year . . .

“Our goal is to award — our plan is to award and execute the CDA by late 2004. We stand committed to that schedule, and we’re going to work very hard to try to maintain that schedule.” — Edward Pensock, Director of Corridor Planning & Development, Texas Turnpike Authority Division (August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

“That’s our commitment to you, and that’s our promise.” — Edward Pensock, Director of Corridor Planning & Development, Texas Turnpike Authority Division (August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

“. . . I think you see that trend of a Governor and of a Commission and of a Department that’s going to be very aggressive moving forward. We don’t want any grass to grow under our feet, and so we will be moving very, very aggressively forward on this project. You know, the goal here really is, from the Governor and the Commission on down, is they want a contract executed — a developer selected and a contract executed next year. And they want to get down to the business of this as soon as possible.” — Phillip Russell, Director, Texas Turnpike Authority Division (August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

The official Trans-Texas Corridor Plan reads,

“. . . acquiring property for all components must begin as soon as possible.” [plan page 44]

“The truth is this is a 50-year plan with an emphasis on the first ten years to get moving
and to focus on the primary corridors as quickly as possible to relieve congestion and
move hazardous material out of our current urbanized areas.”
— Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson
(June 27, 2002) [full text]

“. . . we are very aggressive, we’re very serious about it, and we are going to move forward on it.” — Phillip Russell, Director, Texas Turnpike Authority
(August 20, 2003) [citation] [full text]

“You can’t say the idea is a joke when you’ve got three international companies proposing
multibillion-dollar investments in the first piece.”
— Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson
(July 4, 2004) [link]

If you take comfort in the lengthy environmental process and public hearings for a highway project of this massive size, you’re in for a rude awakening.  The Federal Highway Administration announced on March 16, 2004, that the first segment of the Trans Texas Corridor (Hillsboro to San Antonio) has been granted ‘experimental project’ status and construction can begin before the environmental study is complete. MORE>>

“Under the streamlined process, public hearings  would still be conducted,
but they would not have to be completed before work started.”
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram (March 16, 2004) MORE>>

“I think definitely the Trans-Texas Corridor project as a whole, and even any one corridor … potentially has enormous environmental impacts.”
— Ken Kramer, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter MORE>>

There are hundreds of flaws in the plan that one journalist has called, “Perry’s Imperial Corridor.” There are so many problems its hard to know where to start.