[Duckdog]

I read that when the South Koreans catch a North Korean spy(they are assign to a small area and told it is one of the rich areas)they put the spy in a car with a few other people and drive him around. They let him tell him when and where to turn and go where he wants. After a while the spy understands that everything he had been told his hole life was a lie, then they usually turn against their former bosses.

[MrB]

All those choices are just the corporations manipulating and taking advantage of the consumer!

(actual argument I’ve heard from a leftist)

[Gen.Blather]

A Russian told me that the thing that collapsed the Soviet Union was the TV show “Dallas.” He said that Russians believed the characters, with their huge houses and exotic cars, represented America. When he got out and was first relocated to Italy on his way to America, he and his wife saw a big food store. “We snuck back at 2:00 am to peer through window. We thought all food was propaganda and they’d remove it after we saw it.”

[Kartographer]

And yet the likes of Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Janeane Garofalo, Barrack Hussin Obama and others who readily partake deeply in this country’s horn of plenty are so deeply enamored by socialism.

The term ‘Usefull Idiots’ seems way to inadequate to describe them.

[1riot1ranger]

Good article. Did the Houston Chronicle have that story?

[DiogenesLamp]

Reagan was a Genius. I hope Cruz can be as clever.

[driftless2]

I read a similar story concerning a Russian jet pilot who defected to the U.S. in the seventies. After a period of time debriefing him, some gov. handlers took him on a tour of his new country.

One of the first places they took him to was a supermarket somewhere in Maryland. The Russky thought it was all a trick. There's no way an average grocery store could have the amount and variety of goods he saw in that grocery store.

It took subsequent trips to other grocery stores and clothing stores to convince the guy that they were for real and that like all the other Soviet citizens, he had been duped by his government.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“As Reagan once said, if he could just have the opportunity meet with the average Ivan (and his family) and show them how Americans truly lived, and our actual standard of living -not what the USSR told them- he felt his point would be made, and perhaps the Cold War resolved.”

Reagan got so much; so right.

He was actually helping to “get government off our backs”. He could articulate why big government was bad.
I really haven’t heard anyone else do that except for Sarah Palin.

Reagan was one of the very best Presidents we have ever had. The left’s hero FDR; in comparison; isn’t worthy to shine Reagan’s shoes.

Had Reagan been in charge during the 30’s; the Depression would have likely lasted only about 2 years.

[Freelance Warrior]

Pudding pops

Unlikely that was about them. The supermarket was probably the place where Yeltsin found Jack Daniels which he indulged so much afterwards.