Anderson Cooper is the quintessential elitist propaganda pusher posing as a journalist, which is why he had nothing to say when confronted with the truth recently about a long-standing CIA program.
The video clip below tells you everything you need to know about Cooper and his colleagues in the mainstream corporate media. While they may support or not support various politicians, they can always be counted on to work as “partners” with the unelected powers who make up the administrative state.
So, yes, Operation Mockingbird is a real thing. It was revealed during hearings held by U.S. Senator Frank Church more than 45 years ago.
The Church Committee was a U.S. Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the three-letter agencies, the CIA, NSA, FBI and IRS. These agencies, along with a lot of others that didn’t even exist in 1975, have since then only grown in their size, scope and power over our lives.
Even the left-leaning Daily Beast published an article on July 12, 2017, titled How the CIA paid and threatened journalists to do its work. Much of the Daily Beast’s information came from Carl Bernstein, another journalist with some cachet behind his name, who reported on Operation Mockingbird in 1977 in an article for Rolling Stone.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the Daily Beast article:
Bernstein revealed the workings of Operation Mockingbird, in which many journalists – included Pulitzer Prize winners – joined the CIA’s payroll, writing fake stories to disseminate the agency’s agitprop and providing intelligence. Other journalists were threatened and blackmailed into cooperating with Mockingbird, and many were given falsified or fabricated information about their actions in order to engender their support for the CIA’s mission. The program has never been officially discontinued.
This history of abuse by the three-letter agencies should be taught at every American high school and university, but it’s not. You have to go searching for it.
Surely, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is aware of Bernstein’s reporting about Operation Mockingbird.
But, if we listen to Cooper, we’re led to believe Operation Mockingbird is just a big joke.
All Cooper had to offer to the conversation in the above video clip was, “You’re being ridiculous.”
Not even worth commenting on.
Cooper casts a shame on all legitimate journalists. Because of fraudsters like him, I hate to even call myself a journalist in 2023. He and his ilk have forever tarnished the meaning of the word. They should resign in disgrace for all the damage they’ve done through their false and misleading reports. But they will never do that. They are too well paid and have become too addicted to the access they get to the rich and powerful. If they ever started reporting the truth, they would stop getting invited to all the fancy cocktail parties by the wealthy and politically connected elites in D.C., New York City, L.A., Paris and London.
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In a most uncharacteristic manner, the mockingbird media carried relatively unbiased news about the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel yesterday. Maybe it’s because they couldn’t find any way to put their spin on something so obviously brutal and hellish as the sudden massacre of 300 innocent people by rockets and troop invasions by land, air, and sea.
House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, however, had this to say about it, “No child and family should ever endure this kind of violence and fear, and this violence will not solve the ongoing oppression and occupation in the region.” So in the same breath that she supposedly decried the evil, she used the opportunity to bash the Jewish state.
“Oppression?” To date, there have been no accounts of Israelis sneaking into Gaza to kidnap, knife or shoot men, women, or children, or send rockets into civilian targets. Only repeat attacks upon Israel that have become too familiar since that country was re-born in 1948.
Wars are expensive, so somebody has to fund them. All that equipment and training. Who’s the benefactor of Hamas and the other terrorist factions who couldn’t possibly put up this kind of money? Obviously, oil rich Iran. But it will infuriate and horrify you to know that it’s also been us – the American taxpayers.
In 2016, President Obama refunded Iran for a $400 million payment made to the U.S. by the Shah in the 70s for military equipment they never received, because his government was overthrown. On top of that, interest accumulated over decades on the principal was estimated by both the U.S. and Tehran to be $1.3 billion. Obama said this repayment was an incentive to get Iran to release four American prisoners.
According to a CBS News story from August 2016, that money came from “a little-known fund administered by the Treasury Department for settling litigation claims. The so-called Judgment Fund is taxpayer money Congress has permanently approved in the event it’s needed, allowing the president to bypass direct congressional approval to make a settlement.”
Although the $400 million principal was all in cash – euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies – it’s unknown if the $1.3 billion in interest also was, because as CBS stated:
“…a senior U.S. official involved in the negotiations said the interest payments were made to Iran in a “fairly above-board way,” using a foreign central bank. But the official, who wasn’t authorized to be quoted by name and demanded anonymity, wouldn’t say if the interest was delivered to Iran in physical cash, as with the $400 million principal, or via a more regular banking mechanism.”
Cash is king if you’re Iran and want to stay in the shadows while you wage a proxy war against another nation.
The Biden administration recently negotiated a prisoner swap with Iran, lifting a freeze on $6 billion in Iranian funds.
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Ok I’ve followed you for a long time and shared your articles as well and appreciate what you’re doing. Always trusted the link you post to read entire article. However, I was not happy about this link leading to video ad about financial freedom that locked my screen so I couldn’t exit ad forcing me to watch it only to watch some guy pestering Anderson with the same questions, with no response. Yes we all know operation mockingbird is real, but this was baseless and sheds no light on the subject, so I will not be sharing.
I understand you need financial support and I have donated in the past, I think (poor memory), but I deleted my PayPal account, as did many, when they went woke. So please provide another platform in which to donate. I’ll give you a pass on this article, lol, but keep up the good work.
Thanks again for your work.
Robert Peagler
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Robert, I have not posted a PayPal link on this site for nearly a year. I switched to GiveSendGo when the whole thing came out about PayPal’s evil user’s agreement. As for the ad in the Anderson Cooper video, I have no control over that but I’m sorry about it locking up your phone. By the way, my donations starting around June of this year have fallen way off. I guess that should tell us about the state of our economy (Bidenomics?). If donations don’t pick up soon I may need to shut down this website, or let it go dormant, and just focus on my Substack while finding a part time job to pay the bills. Thanks for weighing in brother.
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All I saw was the “donate” button and thought that was PayPal’s button. Glad you pointed that out. I’m sorry donations are down. I pray that changes and I’ll do what I can. Thanks again
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Thank you Robert. That’s very kind and supportive. And generous. I really appreciate it.
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The liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) network has controlled the US govt and the media since WW2. Propaganda is their specialty.
Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA “Operation Mockingbird”, was a CFR director for 40 years. Most of the CIA directors from Dulles to Burns, including William Casey, were CFR members. See charts: https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
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Thank God TVs come with an off switch…
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Wasn’t it one of the three-letter agencies that coined the term conspiracy theorist as a means of discrediting anyone who came close to the truth? What’s particularly amazing is that we live in the so-called “information age,” yet people are less informed – often by choice – than ever before.
They simply parrot whatever their preferred media figures and politicians (but I repeat myself) tell them to say. About any subject. And then people wonder how the scapegoating of certain groups in other societies, culminating in horrific results, could happen.
It’s happening here, whether it was people actively cheering for vaccine skeptics to be fired from jobs or banned from participating in benign activities, or the sitting president who continues demonizing half the population. When you start to believe that anyone not like you is evil or a threat to “our democracy,” then it’s not hard to envision the potential atrocities that can follow. Once you’ve made it acceptable to abuse certain people, the idea of limits to that abuse goes out the window.
My own professional life began in the news biz, on the tv side. It was a much different time. People disagreed but they could be civil about it. Even then, there were accusations of a left-leaning bias and that’s probably true, but it was not a bias disconnected from reality, the type that would insist that people refer to an obvious man as ‘she.’ The people who gripe about Fox or talk radio have never understood how those entities came to be successful, much as the legacy media refuses to understand why it is gradually being overtaken by a new crowd.
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Alex – “When you start to believe that anyone not like you is evil or a threat to “our democracy,” then it’s not hard to envision the potential atrocities that can follow.
Well spoken, Alex. For those who take this “moral” high ground, the end justifies the means. History is repeating itself in the human heart. Coupling the herd instinct with the ability to snuff out your conscience to make atrocities palatable. But most of the population has been born after World War II, so they have no memories to help them see that potential side of themselves.
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I agree, Anna. And this has all been timed well, to coincide with the post-WWII generations reaching voting age.
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Thanks, Bonnie. I wanted to give you a “Like” by clicking on the star, as I’ve wanted to do with a lot of other readers’ comments, but I’m still having problems with Word Press. For some reason, WP won’t allow me to give people “likes.” The only software I’ve found more frustrating is Disquis!
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I know! They really should fix that! Go to the WordPress homepage to sign in, and that will work. Took me forever to figure it out, had to get >crazy< frustrated to finally get it!!!
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Bonnie – “Go to the WordPress homepage to sign in, and that will work.”
Woe is me! Didn’t realize I had never logged out of Word Press, but even after I did that and then logged back in, it still didn’t work, no matter how many times I clicked on the “Like” star! 😦
I’m going to recruit my husband to help me AGAIN with Word Press – maybe he’ll figure it out!
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And p.s. I really enjoyed your comment about history repeating itself, and “Coupling the herd instinct with the ability to snuff out your conscience to make atrocities palatable.” The Nazis then, and now, certainly know how to manipulate and control. They’ve got it down to a science. But HA! we have God on our side!
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Bonnie – “But HA! we have God on our side!”
Yes! Looking forward more and more to our homecoming with the Lord!
Bonnie, I think it finally worked – at least partially! When I was in my email, I clicked on the Like button first for your previous comment and it took me to Leo’s website where it said, “Liked by you.” Now I’m going to log out of my email, go online and reopen his website to see if it’s still there.
But the problem is that I can’t give Likes directly on his website, only if I get comments from readers that Word Press sends to my email. That’s because not everyone signs up for having WP send their comments to other people’s email accounts when they post something to Leo’s story. Often I’ll look at one of his stories and see comments posted there by readers that never came to my inbox.
You’re right – it must be a glitch in the software that WP has never fixed.
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Sorry, should’ve thought to tell you this earlier. When you write a comment and sign in, then you can like as much as you like! It’s late and I’m falling asleep on my keyboard, so I can barely think. Good night.🌛
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Bonnie – “When you write a comment and sign in, then you can like as much as you like!”
It’s really late here, too, so this is my last comment for the night.
Unfortunately, I’m still having problems with the Like feature. Instead of showing my Anna name for the up vote I gave you, it still says, “Liked by you” on Leo’s website. However, Likes by other readers show their names. Don’t know why I’m the only one having this problem…will try again, but tomorrow!
Technology – love it or hate it!
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That’s what it’s supposed to say! You’re good! 👍 For you, it says “liked by you” and for me it says the same thing! No more stress, ‘k?
I should have been in bed 2 hrs. ago, but I got distracted listening to Zach Williams so here I am, still. What a powerful voice for God. Now I’m ready to call it a day.
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Thanks again, Bonnie!
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Oh yes, I heard about that one too. The whole thing is maddening! These people sleepwalk all over and digest everything that comes out of the news pipe as if it’s gospel truth when most of it is hogwash. Then those of us who are informed and know what’s what from what’s not….. are looked upon as insane. “Well…. didn’t you hear?! It was on the 5 o’clock news by golly! Where have you been!?” And of course all critical thinking is redefined as ‘conspiracy theory’ so by default must not be true, because we can’t theorize about things like conspiracies…. that everyone knows don’t exist…. because those doing the conspiring have told us so…. because they don’t want the masses figuring out what’s really going on… and like good little sheeple they go along on their way patting their own heads after putting their blind folds on and then their masks. Oh my! I must be in one of those moods… ; D
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Not just the left either. Lots of the MAGA crowd or conservative group believes Fox News and Newsmax. They refuse to hear anything negative about Big Pharma or the FDA because “medicine is good for you.” “Modern medical science is like a miracle. A gift from God.”
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Rachel – “Lots of the MAGA crowd or conservative group believes Fox News and Newsmax.”
I’ve been boycotting Fox since they fired Tucker, and was dismayed to see Newsmax promoting the Covid vaccine in one of their stories because I still use them as one of my sources (“Prepare Now for Flu, RSV and COVID-19 Season,” September 15, 2023).
Goes to show you really need to be discerning and can’t believe everything a news outlet says even though it may be labeled as “conservative.” Why does Newsmax have their head in the sand regarding the vaccine, I wonder? There’s plenty of information out there now about its lethality, so they are without excuse!
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“Brought to you by Pfizer.” Roughly half of all ad revenue comes from Big Pharma sponsors. Nobody on TV will take on the drug industry because of this. Even their entertainment venerates western medicine. Doctors are nearly always depicted as heroes. Not just omniscient but full of compassion and holy.
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Yeah, Big Pharma has turned into a crime family. What gets me are those commercials touting their products but then they start listing the side effects as fast as they can.
Rachel, if you have the time, this is a really good Sharyl Attkisson video interview with four doctors and their experiences with Covid clots. One of them is still sold on the vaccines but the others are definitely against it. Anyone who’s had the virus and/or vaccine might find it helpful.
They talk about
§ Spike protein causing the damage
§ Microvascular problems
§ Insufficient venous return
§ Tingling neuropathy
§ Most toxic protein ever unleashed
§ Triple coagulant therapy
I think I’ve been experiencing some of these since the second time I had Covid. Really thankful I didn’t get the shots or it would have been a double dose of the spike proteins!
BTW, I’m still having problems trying to give “Likes” – just tried to give you one on your last comment, but it didn’t seem to take. Will try again!
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Thank God for “our Leo”, one of the few remaining real journalists. The vast majority of others, such as the one featured in this article, have been bribed, bullied, blackmailed (+/or a combination). The same ” propaganda script ” [ Old ladies like me call it the ” Soap Opera Syndrome ” . ] can often be detected every time there is a “breaking news” event, even from “controlled opposition” news outlets. Afterwards, the follow up is a continuation of the first (highly scripted) ” Soap Opera ” episode. [ Isn’t that how the same, fear – mongering, reporting of COVID was spread around the world …. so quickly ? Now, this article connects the dots to the CIA & “Operation Mockingbird”. // Let’s continue to be watchful and sober…..letting no man deceive us….
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Zelda – “Thank God for “our Leo”, one of the few remaining real journalists.”
Amen to that, Zelda! He is such a faithful watchman on the wall, consistently warning us when he sees danger. A good description of this role from Christianity.com (“What Does the Bible Say About the Watchman on the Wall” – 8/8/23):
“The primary duty of a watchman was to function as an early warning system. Positioned at an elevated point, the watchman had a clear view of the surrounding landscape, including roads, approaching armies, and potential dangers…By maintaining constant vigilance, the watchman could promptly identify and report any signs of impending trouble.”
Helping us to see the land mines, and safely maneuver our way around them during these dark times.
He’s also a gifted teacher, because I’ve learned so much since I started following his stories last winter. I’ve been thinking that he would make a great Journalism instructor at a Christian college like Regent University or similar higher ed institution where I know he would inspire his students!
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Leo Hohmann and Dave Knight are my two favorite living news commentators.
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Thanks Leo for standing up and speaking out!
These demons have climbed so high and seem to have pulled their
ladders up there with them. Many were brought up in very expensive elevators, with their super big egos. Their days are coming! God Above has His own Global Reset planned, and satan droppings as pooper cooper or billy goats gates of hell and fat bald ugly schwab or that corpse soros in which refuses to die nor that yuval noah hurrari and etc. will be there, nope!
Not in God’s Holy New Kingdom!
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They won’t be dining on caviar and champagne in Hell. It’s funny how the democidal Pravda quislings still desire to have their egos stroked by those they despise. As they plot to kill and enslave us all.
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Hopefully they will be fed bugs in hell as their main edible source like they were trying to push on the masses.
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Having no tv sure has made me different from most folks. They hardly know how to have a conversation without inserting many references to the tv world, of which I’m almost clueless. They assume I’m ignorant, mentally deficient. That’s ok–thanks & have a nice day you shmux. Not sorry to miss FAKERY of the see-eye-aye. I get my news from you, Leo & others’ analysis.
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I have often wondered if TV was vital to everyday living. I have a computer and get any type news, travel shows and music going back to the 1940’s, old movies, etc.
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