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Veggie Meathead Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:30 PM
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The Rise of the Mediocrities and the Knownothings.
This describes our situation since Bush was installed in office by a
group of conspirators with the connivance of the Supreme Court. The media appears to have abandoned any pretense of its traditional role of questioning authority and enlightening the public on what its rulers are up to.Its motto can be summed up this way: When I sits, I just sits;when I thinks, I falls asleep. Nice way to live if you are not sentient.Come to think of it, that may be the best explanation I have come up with for our media's collaboration in keeping us ignorant.
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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:34 PM
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1. The national discourse got dumbed down
When Ronald Reagan came on the scene in 1980.

Since then, a culture has been fostered that treats ignorance as a virtue, and intellectualism as something to be disdained.

Without Reagan setting the bar so low, someone like W. Bush wouldn't have even thought about running for President.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:52 PM
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3. I totally agree. nt
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:20 PM
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5. Yup.
It was like turning a switch.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:35 PM
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2. Great motto
it is perfect for the media but also for the populace. Listening to the things that are said by the public leads me to believe that many Americans are not sentient.
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:00 PM
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4. I still love that picture!
I don't know if I can handle seeing that vermin Rove on the front page again. It's worse than * and a tie with Cheney for most disgusting visage of the decade.
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