After years of being mocked by the establishment and the majority of the herd, today millions of “conspiracy theorists” can pat themselves on the back because this Pulitzer’s for you. Well, technically it is for the Guardian and WaPo, since these were the media outlets that Edward Snowden picked to release his trove of whistleblowing treasures, which the Pulitzer committee decided were “worthy” of the prize for their “revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security.”
And while Edward Snowden did not directly win anything, he did comment from his new residence – where he is not wanted for three felony counts filed by the US Department of “Justice” – a few hundred miles from the unfolding events in the Ukraine, and from the CIA director’s secret weekend visit:
“Today’s decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance.”
Things got a little more awkward when the media whose sole purpose is to serve the statist masters – and to lie whenever the facade of the status quo is threatened – had to chime in: “It’s clear to me that we are all better off knowing the extent of government surveillance—-even the President has, reluctantly, admitted that,” David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, told POLITICO. “It’s a prize well-earned, and it seems to me the Pulitzer committee came to the right decision. It’s precisely because a different kind of society—-Putin’s Russia, say—-could never imagine this kind of journalism that we should value and honor it.”
The president may indeed have reluctantly admitted that. Which perhaps explains why his response was to unreluctantly make the NSA even bigger.
As for Mr. Remnick’s comment about Putin’s Russia, perhaps he should check what country the person who is responsible for today’s Pulitzer win is currently living in.
Others dared to suggest that had Obama made a phone call here and there, that the credibility of the Pulitzer prize would have been diminished: “There are times when a nominee is bigger than a prize. This was such a time,” Mitchell Stephens, a Professor of Journalism at New York University’s Carter Institute, said. “The Pulitzer Prizes would have been diminished had they not recognized the Snowden revelations. Fortunately, they did.”
Others were outright angry such as republican neocon Peter King who tweeted that “Awarding the Pulitzer to Snowden enablers is a disgrace.” Luckily nobody cares what King thinks.
Bottom line: as lie after lie falls to the wayside, and as factual evidence disproving what had been decades of engrained, institutionalized fraud is disclosed by disgruntled whistleblowing cogs of a corrupt, bloated government that is is cracking and falling apart under its own unsustainable weight, the winner, as the lies that have kept the broken system together for so long are revealed to all, is the average person. And, of course, all those what were formerly known as “conspiracy theorists” and knew all along just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1kTLXcG Tyler Durden