 I saw Peter Jennings on a high-school trip to Sacramento
when I was a kid in 1965 or there-abouts. A local-news guy in the California
Capital, I think (who cares?), it was pretty obvious, even to a teen-aged,
predictable, and oblivious moi, that he was one of "fair-haired lot"
on his way up.
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- Hustled onto buses to see him from our sleepy little
town of Elk Grove, I wondered what the big deal was. Verily, when he finished
his talk, I still didn't know.
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- All I heard then was "yadda yadda, blah blah-blah
blah... blah."
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- That's all I heard for two hours last night, too, 40
years later: well traveled, safe, and predicable "yadda" with
oppressive overdoses of the conventional "blah." Such was his
ballyhooed ABC program on the subject of UFOs.
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- Flatly, Jennings took the easy way out, reader, fell
back on the outmoded and invalidated "conventional wisdoms" exacerbating
the cultural hole that we are in, and wiggled his ass for a mainstream
as corrupt as it is canted... as irrelevant as it is fraudulent.
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- What did I expect?
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- I had ~no~ expectations. Like many, though, I had hopes.
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- ...It all seemed to be coming together. An unusual prime-time
news special from the vaunted establishment taken in conjunction with a
likely "discovery" of life on Mars, seemed serendipitous... at
the very least. Are we, perhaps, being prepared for the more expansive
future... I'd wondered.
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- No. Be not fooled...
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- ...And there will be kinder assessments than mine providing
puerile protestations on the validity of ABCs little exercise of manipulative
self-affirmation for the status quo. These will celebrate the "loss
leader" admissions that ABC duplicitously injected so they could pretend
that they were balanced, on balance...
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- They were not. These loss-leaders only serve to support
the big lie. And ABC told the ~big~ lie, Sir and Madam! They contrived
the lie of ~Omission~, folks... baldly, bluntly, and with malice aforethought.
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- Examples?
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- I was grossly disappointed with the obvious bias shown
in several segments, especially the Roswell and Abduction subjects. These
were badly handled, poorly chosen, and explicated incompetently with prejudice.
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- Jennings did no homework. ABC talked extensively, for
months, with the ufological principals... Richard Hall, Dr. Swords, Jerry
Clark et al... they could make their own comparisons to Dr. Shirmer, Mr.
McGaha, Dr. Shostak... and this is ~forgetting~ that the latter have ~ever~
had their HATS handed to them in debate with the former. Jennings and ABC
stacked the deck, dealt from the bottom, and changed games in the middle
of the play over a huge pot! They implied equity between these conflicting
groups, where there IS none!
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- Then, given a back stepping reliance on 19th Century
philosophies/physics, there was ABCs treatment of interstellar travel.
Ludicrous, reader! We could travel between stars right NOW if we wanted
to. Not a NOD to that.
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- Moreover, consider the unchallenged nonsense of the SETI
"Cultists." Guilty of every conceit and mal-intellectualism they
would attribute to a rank "believer," they are studiously blind
to that which they would only pretend to seek! ET can be ~anywhere~ reader,
except here!
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- Additionally, one would think ABC could mention that
Stanton Friedman is a bona fide scientist, a physicist with many degrees
and honors respectably investigating, for over three freaking decades,
the very subject of the program on which he is wrongly vilified! Outraged
astonishment!
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- ...That Jesse Marcel Jr., who saw saucer parts as a boy,
is now a medical doctor, just back from active duty in Iraq as a flight
surgeon!
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- ...That Jesse Marcel Sr., the saucer finder, was the
ranking Intelligence Officer of the only atomic bombing group in the world!
Obviously, not a credulous dummy!
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- ...There was no mention of the literally thousands of
physical trace cases, or of the blacked out FOIA documents obfuscating
more of the truth, or "radar/visual" sightings... persons watching
physical evidence actually being made...
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- Moreover, indicating that Hynek was the only scientist
fighting the battle was patently preposterous... if it was not the very
soul of duplicity, too. Dr. James McDonald (et sig al) did far more than
Hynek ever did on his ~best~ day...
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- Why continue ad nauseum. The reader gets the point.
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- Reader, two of the finest men in the current ufological
struggle were made out plainly to be money-grubbing sensationalists and
opportunists. They chumped Stanton Friedman in this fashion... and made
Peter Davenport look like a freaking nut-ball! More Outrage!
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- Yes, this Peter Jennings/ABC journalistic apostasy was
a complete, if subtle, Hack-Job! It employed all the old discredited prejudices,
subtly made out like ufologists operate, doggedly, on conflicted faith
and are, most likely, mentally ill, misinformed, or misinforming... ...while
Skeptibunkies, on the other hand, are hard nosed realists with the conviction
of "real" science behind them! What nonsense this?
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- All in all, ufologists were given no, hoped for, "hand"
at all, except for the back of one...Outrage beyond incredulity!
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- This program was an opportunity to begin to relearn a
trust in government and the media, but the baffled ufological fence-sitter
was in no way encouraged to ask difficult questions of Government, Institution,
or Agency on this subject. He or she were informed and inculcated otherwise,
again by the hijacked mainstream, that ET is a long-shot, credible evidence
of interaction does not exist , and ET can't get here anyway, largely because
~we~ can't get ~there~... oh, and all is right with the world... our arrogant
hubris is intact. Human Beings remain the center of the universe and the
jewel in God's crown...
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- Crap!
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- I was completely disgusted with this canted partisan
display. No points for Jennings, at all... who should just follow Dan Rather
into some journalistic elephant's graveyard and let his tiny tusks bleach
in the sun.
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- I'm not done. I'm just getting started. ABC doesn't know
who they trifle with. We're righteous piranha and they're dead in the ufological
water. Breaking out of the preceding metaphor, We don't need them... it's
~them~ needs ~us~! As it stands, Peter Jennings and ABC are beneath ~my~
concern, ~my~ consideration and ~my~ contempt.
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