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I first caught this report on Lou Dobbs and again on Aaron Brown...it's a report about "chatter" on Al Queda websites (sic) with "experts" looking at computer screens and supposedly reading to us what they say.
According to these "experts", these sites are "discussing" attacks on hospitals, schools, airports...the places where large groups of people meet. The report goes further to claim that the terrorists are ready for a big war against the United States and that these attacks are going to be of a scale we can't imagine.
While I have no doubts there are Arab groups that would love to settle scores for our intervention into their culture, and now land, and it's important that we see these threats (a specific website was also singled out), but the big brother message and techniques are what is getting to me.
This morning, I woke up, tossed on CNN (it's that or infomercials at 4am) and sure enough, there was that report again. Not only once, but I caught it a second time before I clicked off to C-SPAN at 6am. You could even see the look of "concern" on the anchorbabe...obviously told to look that way by that little RNC voice in her earpiece.
I wish I was as up on my McLuan and Orwell as I used to be, but there's a definite spin these past couple days of spreading fear and making sure it sticks. For a long time I'd dismiss the charges of CNN being biased, but that was before 9/11...since then, the skew at this network (especially during the day) is getting blatant.
The real scary part is the chicken little game this regime is playing. Should there be an attack (and this include the McVeigh-type nuts who are plentiful) then this regime will hop on it's lying high horse and spin how it's got things under control...and how it's us "libruls" who brought this whole thing on.
Kudos to the many who've posted other strings in recent days noticing the nuanced biases that are being presented on the cable networks, and hopefully others here are starting to view this bias as well...and the evil manipulation that is being done.
To those who say "turn it off"...it's that "see no evil" attitude that allowed the right wing to embed itself so deep into the media and now uses it to dominate through fear.
Sorry to sound so dire on a beautiful morning...just seems it's been getting awfully thick out there the past couple days.
Cheers!
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