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Frank Zappa interview in 1989 and his thoughts on CNN ....
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:02 am
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:02 am
Stumbled on this jewel from 30 years ago. Please note that Frank Z was always "a progressive thinker in all of his affairs" but not always in the traditional manner so take it for what it's worth but...
Go to the 5:20 mark on this long lost video and get Frank Zappa take on CNN, the media and politics in 1989
Oh my.... how far we have come!!
Frank Zappa on "CNN" in 1989
Go to the 5:20 mark on this long lost video and get Frank Zappa take on CNN, the media and politics in 1989
Oh my.... how far we have come!!
Frank Zappa on "CNN" in 1989
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 10:03 am
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Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:05 am to Crow Pie
Grew up loving FZ music and his intellect. Did not always agree with him but music transcends politics.
Thanks for sharing this.
Times have definitely changed.
Going to listen to the guitar solo from Inca Roads off One Side Fits All then maybe Dinah Moe Hum.
Thanks for sharing this.
Times have definitely changed.
Going to listen to the guitar solo from Inca Roads off One Side Fits All then maybe Dinah Moe Hum.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:11 am to IslandBuckeye
quote:
Times have definitely changed.
"pay to see CNN's right wing hogwash"
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:22 am to Crow Pie
He’s a fricking moron. CNN was NEVER anywhere near a millimeter right of center.
Naming his kid “Moon Unit’ should tell you all you need to know about his intellect.
Naming his kid “Moon Unit’ should tell you all you need to know about his intellect.
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 10:26 am
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:29 am to Crow Pie
Zappa's song, "I'm The Slime", reflects his thoughts on mainstream media.
And believe it or not, Frank was a conservative. He states this ~3 minute mark in the interview linked below.
Zappa regarding censorship:
Crossfire Interview - 1986
And believe it or not, Frank was a conservative. He states this ~3 minute mark in the interview linked below.
Zappa regarding censorship:
Crossfire Interview - 1986
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 11:24 am
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:55 am to Crow Pie
I’ve seen plenty of liberals label CNN as centrist and of course more far left like Europeans think they’re right wing. So that view still hasn’t changed from the views of many on the left.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 10:59 am to 1BamaRTR
It is amazing how different people views on various topics can be. The political spectrum is wide and deep.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:13 am to Crow Pie
Which is weird why politics are seen as a simple straight line
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:23 am to griswold
quote:Not true. They were very much a centrist/slightly right of center organization right through their coverage of the first Gulf War which is what put them on the map (bear in mind the linked FZ interview was mere months after Bush 41 was sworn in).
He’s a fricking moron. CNN was NEVER anywhere near a millimeter right of center.
As a matter of fact, they were marketed as being an ideological counterpoint to the liberal news bureaus at the major networks. Of course when they took off in the ratings in early '91 due to the war, they had the wherewithal to hire more mainstream (read: liberal) journalists, finally culminating in the hiring of uber-leftist Rick Kaplan to run the network in 1997.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:48 am to FearlessFreep
quote:
He’s a fricking moron. CNN was NEVER anywhere near a millimeter right of center. Not true. They were very much a centrist/slightly right of center organization right through their coverage of the first Gulf War which is what put them on the map (bear in mind the linked FZ interview was mere months after Bush 41 was sworn in).
I agree with Griswold on this. And I started watching CNN when it was created, long before Gulf War I. They were centrist from the beginning, not right of center at all. Of course, that seems right wing compared to left wing networks. But their talent hires were journalists like today who leaned heavily Dem and were more critical of GOP.
The time frame when they became extreme left wing is foggy. I'd put it 15-20 years ago.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:51 am to Crow Pie
Dinah Moe Humm is not a love song? 
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:51 am to Crow Pie
Thanks for posting.
Hint for future:
Right click on the video and select "Copy video URL at current time" and it will start at that time when you go to the link.
LINK at 5:20
Hint for future:
Right click on the video and select "Copy video URL at current time" and it will start at that time when you go to the link.
LINK at 5:20
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:54 am to Zach
quote:On Dec 7 1991 CNN commemorated the 50th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor by interviewing a survivor...
The time frame when they became extreme left wing is foggy. I'd put it 15-20 years ago
Of Hiroshima.
That's right, to remember the day which will live in infamy they chose to promote the idea of Japan as victim.
That was a turning point for me, and the way I see the MSM
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:57 am to griswold
quote:one the most under appreciated and overlooked Austin Power's jokes
Naming his kid “Moon Unit’ should tell you all you need to know about his intellect.
Posted on 5/12/19 at 11:57 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
quote:
Dinah Moe Humm is not a love song?
It is.
But Dinah Moe is a ho.
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 5/12/19 at 12:02 pm to Crow Pie
quote:
"pay to see CNN's right wing hogwash"
CNN has never been right wing hogwash. Never, not ever.
ETA: CNN was founded by Ted Turner, one of the biggest Globalists to ever walk the planet. He has also donated billions of dollars to the UN, so this should tell you all you need to know about CNN (other than being the propaganda apparatus for Bill Clinton during his presidency).
This post was edited on 5/13/19 at 7:36 am
Posted on 5/12/19 at 1:29 pm to griswold
quote:Correct.
He’s a fricking moron. CNN was NEVER anywhere near a millimeter right of center.
Their excuse for an anti-American bent back in the day was the "need to protect CNN's international reporters."
Posted on 5/12/19 at 1:44 pm to griswold
quote:
He’s a fricking moron.
Nah. Zappa was one of the few free thinkers that made it to the 80s.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shite, then you deserve it.”
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 5/12/19 at 1:49 pm to NC_Tigah
Lou Dobbs must have been on CNN back then
Posted on 5/12/19 at 2:39 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
He would know. Frank's father worked for the military-industrial complex.
quote:
My father started out as a teacher of History at Loyola College in Maryland. And after that he went to work for the government as a meteorologist. He was working at a place called uh, Edgewood Arsenal during World War II, which made poison gas. -Frank Zappa, 1967
The man had wisdom way beyond his years.
This post was edited on 5/12/19 at 2:44 pm
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