I think it is likely the latter. I have no faith in the news givers. All lies anymore. We have only methods like those we discuss here to know the truth and it is up to each individual to find these things out.
We have only methods like those we discuss here to know the truth and it is up to each individual to find these things out.<<<
I have gotten a fine education from fellow Freepers, in many subjects.
>>>>I have no faith in the news givers. All lies anymore.<<<<
I hate to break this to you guys, but taint nothin new...
The first time I REALLY understood that politicians would lie through their teeth to you was in December 1962...
I was in the Army, and we had been mobilized to Homestead AFB in Florida - When JFK and Jackie came down there and welcomed all the cuban refugees - (Press reported Jackie’s welcome that was in Spanish as the big news) I had a top secret and cryptographic clearance along with most of the others in my ASA outfit. I was one of the ones who was selected to be posted about 20 feet from the podium with my trusty M1 Carbine..... Anyway, I heard what was said - not just over the PA system, I was close enough to hear their voices... Well, JFK invited all the patriotic Cubans to go to the tables that were set up around the perimeter and sign up for a force that we would arm, equip and train to invade and liberate Cuba... They did by the hundreds and hundreds...
Well, a few of the papers added his invitation after they swooned over Jackie’s Spanish sentence. Immediately, there was a huge denial that he had said any such thing, he was being mis-quoted in the press - Guess what... for the next two weeks, that whole base was in a state of turmoil - trying to muster all the Cubans OUT of the Army - Oh, yes it does take longer to get someone out than in.....
Events in Dallas and the School Book Depository and Jack Ruby, etc... I don’t trust newspaper reports on that...
Then there was Lyndon Baines Johnson - I had some insider information on some of the shenanigans pulled down in Johnson County... like ballot boxes somehow fell off the back of the pickup from outlying (non-supporting of LBJ) polls on the way to the Court House to be counted... (and never found) Then there was another election that was contested and before the ballots could be recounted - wouldn’t you know - the Courthouse burned to the ground - with the ballots all inside. Gee - dimocrats won again...
But, I swear, I don’t know about voters either, even when they know the backgrounds, they gravitate to the ‘good ole boy’ in a race... I once campaigned for a candidate who was running for County Judge for Parker County... He was a young, smart, straight thinking fella with a Law Degree and was working in his father’s law firm - the opponent was a kid who had been kicked out of 3 different colleges (party boy) had never succeeded at anything.. His Daddy who owned the local Cotton Gin was trying to find something he could do - ANYTHING he could do besides partying... Guess who won... Yep. Partyboy by a landslide. Oh, he was a dimocrat.
You may have heard of the lawyers family.... His mother was Mary Martin (remember Peter Pan) and his brother was Larry Hagman (Remember Dallas TV program)..... Yep, Lawyer Gary Hagman didn’t have a chance for County Judge - Party Boy partied for years in office...
LOL See Wneighbor - Lloyd isn’t the only one who gets that way....... ;-)