The New Dark Age

Fox News had broadcast a part of RT correspondent Anastasia Churkinas interview with Mr. Ayers, in which the professor said: We have to get the United States to participate in the world. The idea that we have been a force for good for the last six decades is nonsense.

Without delay OReilly commented: Dont you just want to slap him? while the guests on his show could be heard giggling off screen. You saw the Russian interviewer dozing off like this. She had no idea. She didnt even speak English.

[RT would like to note that aside from the fact that the Ayers interview was entirely conducted in English after spending almost ten years studying in Belgium, Canada, and the US, RTs international correspondent Anastasia Churkina speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish in addition to her native Russian.]

So how much should the network that lauds itself as the most trusted name in news be trusted?

It is part of what you call a shtick, explains independent filmmaker and media critic Danny Schechter. He [Bill OReilly] goes to Rupert Murdoch, his boss, and he says: Look, I’ve just upset the whole of Russia, and Murdoch says Great! and O’Reilly says: Please remember this when it’s time to give salary increases, and give me a bonus.

Thankfully, not all Russians have borne the brunt of Bill O’Reillys wrath. Russian blonde Marina Orlova, creator of the web site Hotforwords.com, at which she teaches the origins of English words, had obviously charmed the rightwing hothead.

Earlier this week, another widely watched Fox News show Hannity also took a jab at RT’s interview with Bill Ayers.

I have nothing to say about Bill Ayers. He is insignificant. Insignificant, a guest in Fox studio was saying.

Ayers insignificance was so considerable, however, that the so-called Great American Panel on Hannitys show dedicated four minutes of prime time to talk about it.

As Americans begin to wake up to the thought that what their mainstream media says is often detached from reality, the question rises as to whether the US medias ever-increasing attention-grabbing tactics could cause its credibility to fly out the window.

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We are the biggest military behemoth ever created on Earth – Bill Ayers
15 December, 2009, 14:24

The US can step down from a trillion military budget and stop being a militarized country, which does not fit with its self-image but is true by any objective measure, said US scholar Bill Ayers.

Ayers pointed out that in the condition of a deep economic crisis, as the US currently is, the American people are not going to back multi-billion war expenses, it is going to take a very short time for the American people to turn against it.

What we need to do now, is we need to build the biggest and widest and most profound anti-war force that this country ever seen. We need to force government not only to leave Afghanistan and Iraq but to begin to shut down military bases that we have scattered throughout the world, particularly in the Central Asia, to withdraw our trillion military budget and become a nation among nations.

We have to get the United States to participate in the world. The idea that we have been a force for good for the last six decades is nonsense. We wont sign the most basic international treaties: for nuclear disarmament, against landmines, we wont sign a childrens rights statement. Only the US and Somalia are in opposition to the declaration of childrens rights, he concluded.