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Re: Mother Jones on the Corbett Report: Click here.
Corbett Response: Click here.
Posted at Mother Jones in the Comment Section:
Ladies & Gentlemen:
What an extraordinary smear job – and highly irresponsible reporting.
I am a Corbett Report subscriber. I have listened to many of Corbett’s reports and invited him to join me on the Solari Report.
First of all, Corbett’s Youtube’s posts are not monetized. Your headline is factually incorrect.
Second of all, Corbett’s videos are documented – there are often extensive links supporting the material. When there is no conclusion, Corbett asks great questions. If a listener or subscriber has a question, Corbett has a practice of listening and responding.
Third of all, there is a long way from asking questions or pointing out facts that do not fit with the “official reality” and participating in “White Supremacy.” I have never seen or heard one scintilla of behavior to suggest that James Corbett is a “supremacist” of any kind. If anything is believes in the power of the human mind and spirit. I would describe him as believing in the possibilities of the supremely human. Apparently, you simply make things up and smear people with your invective.
I was asked to join the Federal Reserve as a governor during the George H. W. Bush Administration. Based on my experience with the Fed and the financial system, I suspect that Corbett’s coverage of the Fed is more accurate than most. I also suspect that Mother Jones‘ failure to cover the financial corruption at the Fed and the US government is part of the reason that progressive politics have failed in America – degenerating into vague name-calling.
Your article looks like an increasing effort to destroy free speech. Since when did Mother Jones become a journalistic battering ram for central control and suppression of the hearts and minds of the people?
If James Corbett has nothing worth hearing, people will not listen. Perhaps your challenge is that more and more people who formerly read Mother Jones are listening to The Corbett Report.
I know I am,
Catherine Austin Fitts
Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I
Publisher, The Solari Report
Great reply Catherine. I stopped subscribing to MJ over 15 years ago. The muckraking progressive magazine has become a shill for centrist corporate neoliberal chronies. This has not gone unnoticed. A 2016 commentary in Paste Magazine aptly summarizes the dramatic shift the magazine has taken. https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/the-legacy-of-mother-jones-is-haunting-mother-jone.html
Excerpt:
“While the original Mother Jones was someone who was known for uniting disparate political groups, [Editor-in-Chief Clara] Jeffery and Drum are constantly voicing their disdain for millennials (which is a very bad tactic if they were genuinely interested in strengthening a left-leaning political movement),” said Robert Oakes, a community organizer and DSA member from Austin, Texas.
“For me, what the publication using the name ”Mother Jones” has turned into, is more than just a disrespectful sleight to the labor organizer known by the same name. The fact that what much of the publication comes out with these days—centrist, neoliberal, bourgeois-minded pieces—is anything but radical, presents a huge problem for leftists and organizers that would hold the original Mother Jones in high regard,” Oakes said.
They attacked Corbett for white supremacy. He lives in Japan. His wife is Japanese. His child is half-Japanese. Simply unbelievable.
Spot on. Corbett is an inspiring example of rigor and critical thinking. Grim to observe how low formerly independent media have sunk.