Beware the high-spin diet

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 19, 2007 | Ellen Makkai

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Many Americans pride themselves on being discriminating foodies, avoiding excessive salt, sugar and fat. However, discriminating listeners we are not. We’ll scarf down anything as long as it sounds good or vaguely logical.

The once straight-talking America prefers truth-lite, and we’re big into sound-bites. Spin is slathered on with a spatula to make less marketable concepts palatable, even tasty.

Presidential campaigns gave our brain cells a vigorous workout that kept us intellectually fit. Candidates waxed eloquent, but astute voters knew candidates accentuate the positive and sweeten the poison. No more.

Rudy Guiliani told us “illegal immigration isn’t a crime.” There was nary a challenge to that nonsensical remark. Ditto for Hillary Clinton who won’t raise taxes but wants to ditch tax cuts and raise revenues. Christopher Dodd fed us his Iraq cut-and-run position as “terminate that participation.” Audiences lapped it up.