As I noted elsewhere, it is outrageously predictable that the subjective whims of one British company, infected with a transparently progressive bias and working without any proper supervision, could affect the corporate decision-making process of Microsoft in such a sweeping way, leaving conservatives only with an after-the-fact appeal.
But then that’s only one link in the chain: the State Department — our federal government, using taxpayer money — funded GDI to the tune of $200,000. GDI in turn cranked out a list (based on phony “scholarly studies” brought forth by academia and the likes of the Brookings Institute) of “disinformation websites” that conveniently included a slew of mainstream ones, while GDI and its peers continue to tell the government that the First Amendment is a Bigger Problem Than Ever and, incidentally, they need more money. It’s an ouroboros of multi-industry self-dealing and corruption, a mutually reinforcing web of dependencies and benefits weaving itself together into a new power center in the American media complex. And the parties — all of whom feel threatened by various unruly external factors in society — are all consenting in full to the exchange.
Today we got lucky because the Examiner made its case. Tomorrow we may not …
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