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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:58 PM
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Anyone note a "tickle" on government deception on CM?
I walked in the door after having to travel. The TV was on CNN. There was a "tickle" about whether or not deception is being imposed upon our people BY THE DOD/MILITARY.

I caught merely a snip. But, a snip really perked me up!!!

Anyone else catch it?
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:00 PM
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1. Unfortunately,
... the story will probably be spun that no, in fact we aren't being decieved and that us freakin' commie liberals are even more whacked out then the rest of the world thought we were. So go shopping America, and have some more Kool Aid. Your fearless leader has everything under control.

Sigh. :(
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:27 PM
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5. Awww,..."sweet leader" only fooled half of those who are active.
And that half that he fooled only represents 62.3% of those who participated.

Try to avoid giving this human being more power (outside the political game) than he really possesses.

He is merely a facade. No more, no less.

There is a growing awareness of his "facade" and of his neoCONspirator-possessed administration's calculated deception.

It takes time, as do all things. Please, be patient and persistent.

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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:09 PM
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2. Sounds like what was done about the internet on NightLine
This was on the evening before the inauguration. Koppel and his hair came on and portentously began by asking whether the belief expressed "on the internet" that the election was stolen had any justification. He cherry-picked part of a single reply to a single post on DU which had language like "Stallinesque" so as to impress his audience with how extreme we are but left out all the actual evidence which was also alluded to elsewhere in the same post. (He did not acknowledge that the post was from DU.)

So that was his strategy to smear "internet" reliability - ask the question and then make noise that seems to answer that indeed, it would be silly to trust anything outside the oh-so-reliable corporate media. A self-serving, misleading distortion all around.

I'm betting this story wanted to play down rumors of corporate media unreliability. The stories about Bush-bought jouralists had gotten some play, and other rumors have been floating around. They're trying to dispel that - it's bad for their business.

It's fascinating, though, as the Nightline internet story choice was - sounds like they're aware that not everyone is totally brainwashed all the time. I hope someone who saw the whole thing or a followup can add more about the framing of your "tickle."
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satya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:54 PM
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6. "Koppel and his hair came on..." LOL! n/t
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:11 PM
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3. Pentagon sites: Journalism or propaganda?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:18 PM
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4. Ah Ha,...they are calling it "information warfare" websites!!!!
Sponsored by the DoD outside and within the United States!!!

Hey,...now, that is a pretty AWESOME revelation by one of our CM!

:bounce:
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