Obama speech on "misinformation" at Stanford U -- Why? Why now? Who benefits?
Obama stopped chooming long enough to utter an incoherent speech to gullible Stanford students on the topic of "misinformation" ... but why?
We all know Obama is lazy as hell. And we know that the media made him out to be a great orator, and yet no one remembers a single line from any of his speeches. And we know Obama would much rather smoke dope than work. “Chooming”, his buds in Hawaii called it back in the day. This is why it’s nonsense to think Obama (or his beefy wife) will ever run for office.
Moreover, we’re well aware of the great lengths the Obama administration went to engage in systematic mal/mis/disinformation — Tea Party suppression, IRS databases, massive NSA 702 violations, Russiagate, spying on AP reporters, and on and on and on.
Yes, the Deep State has existed for 100 years, but Obama really, uh, lit it up.
So, why did His Highness put down the jay long enough yesterday to deliver an odd speech accusing free speech advocates of misinformation?
My read on it as as follows:
Deep State encompasses Big Tech to an extent that you can’t discern one from the other. Bongino calls this the “symbiosis” of Big Gov’t and Big Tech.
Deep State players seek control; individual liberties impede their efforts.
Free speech is the cornerstone of liberty. It is, after all, enshrined in the first amendment.
Big Tech’s turn to censorship began, naturally enough, in the Obama era. This is the era where the Intel community was encouraged to run amok. An article from January 27, 2012 highlights the beginnings of Twitter’s content filtering process that inexorably led to Trump’s ban and the Hunter Biden laptop being memory-holed. Virtually all such activity favors the Deep State by labeling counternarratives as “misleading”.
Musk’s bid for Twitter is shaking the Deep State/Big Tech players to the core.
Obama Himself was dispatched to put out the fire.
Twitter, big as it is, is the smallest of the Big 3 Big Tech censorship regimes — Google and Facebook dwarf the little blue bird. Nevertheless, Twitter has an outsized impact on Deep State propaganda mechanisms in that it is the optimal vehicle by which real-time, consensus-forming, free-expression-quashing narratives take hold.
Deep State intel community types need their little bird. Twitter is the cornerstone of their disinformation regime.
Bear in mind that Elon Musk has some big tech players harmonizing with his lamentations regarding the censorious state of the little bird — and, by extension, of Big Tech itself (and, therefore, Deep State). There’s Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who recently appears to be reverting to form — the pre-January 27, 2021 form — where Twitter was freewheeling, open, and inviting of all opinions. Dorsey seems to regret the turn Twitter took; hence his departure. Then there’s Marc Andreesen, a big name out here in Silicon Valley, who openly laments the censorship regime. Peter Thiel, another Silicon Valley bigwig, has been on this bandwagon for a while.
It’s almost as if there’s a core group of legacy Internet titans who seek to undo the Deep State control over Big Tech, and Musk provides just the vehicle (get it?) to get it down.
It begins with Twitter. The Deep State fears it will not end there.
This is why, now, Obama stopped chooming long enough to deliver a meandering speech labeling all who dare desire free speech as dangerous spreaders of misinformation.
You see other elements of the campaign against XXXinformation under way now. Beyond Obama’s incoherency at Stanford, you have the circus at the University of Chicago so-called disinformation event the other week — you know, the one where freshmen students posed actual questions to Anne Applebaum and Brian Steltzer, who didn’t come off so good in their responses. Not good at all!!!
I won’t bore you with Hillary’s tweets on the same topic — she, the mastermind of Russiagate, the biggest disinformation campaign ever.
And then there’s the letter I spoke of in my most recent post signed by none other than James Clapper and Leon Penetta laughably warning Congress of the perils of … disinformation.
It’s clearly a defensive posture for Deep Staters to have to tap Obama so soon. They nevertheless benefit from the smokescreen Obama’s speech will cause. They can use it to springboard other efforts to raise the stakes — and attempt to turn public opinion away from Musk and his move (with others) to enable free speech that clashes with the approved narrative.
Everyone’s eyes are on Musk’s tender offer to buy the primary propaganda and narrative-shaping tool in the Deep State arsenal.
And not one soul will remember a single line of Obama’s speech.
Oops. It's Brian Stelter; no 'z'. Jeez.
Good article