(December 11, 2012 at 6:13 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(December 11, 2012 at 12:49 pm)LastPoet Wrote: A Theist, you are a paradigmatic example of a spoiled american,
He's also a good example of the effect of brainwashing and propaganda here in America. Those outside America should understand that to live here these days is to be subjected to a steady diet of propaganda akin to the former Soviet Union and their "Pravda".
It's not just Fox Noise but all the other mainstream sources of media as well. They're ALL owned by a few major corporations who skew our perceptions of what goes on in the outside world and what issues are important, all in favor of their interests. Unlike with Pravda, it isn't a government dictatorship but the corporations that control our information. And then there's hate-talk radio. Glen Beck still has his show. The "serious" Sunday morning talk shows are almost universally structured around the "both sides do it" meme to lend cover for the worst of conservative abuses. There are liberals like Maddow on MSNBC but even these pundits are kept carefully in line. They made a good example out of Olbermann, who's nowhere to be found these days.
If you're an American and want to know what's really going on in the world, you have to go to foreign journalism. Most "low information" voters don't have the time or inclination and so the corporate agenda is served.
People like A-Theist are the other extreme, pumped so full of hate and fear that he now lives in an alternate reality. I wish he could be dismissed but he represents a good third of our voting bloc if not more. That's why clowns like Bachmann and Santorum are serious politicians and not crackpots on a street corner selling pencils, where they surely would be in any rational soceity.
It's nothing less than embarrassing for me as an American to watch.
To paraphrase Jesus, "forgive us world, we know not what we do."
LOL! The lady behind the curtain is right...you're a Dork!
"Inside every Liberal there's a Totalitarian screaming to get out"
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