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I used to love to read the newspaper as a kid, this went on until the '80s with me thinking it was all true. They wouldn't lie, after all. I also caught a 24 hour news radio station at night from LA.

Liberal news media was ignoring Rush Limbaugh as a strategy until he made the bold statement that there was not three million homeless in America - the newspapers were lying.

Well, now was their chance! They piled on to Rush with derision and scorn. But the 1990 Census was coming. And it proved there were probably a few hundred thousand. Then it came out that a left wing activist made up the three million number - he admitted it. The newspapers had been lying because they hated Ronald Reagan.

Wow, talk about taking the red pill! I knew, and knowing made it easier to spot the lies.

I left the country for a 4 year deployment. When I returned the bias was glaring. Once you see it you realize the evening news is propaganda from beginning to end. It turned me from a slightly left Democrat into a “farther right than Rush Limbaugh” in weeks. I was (and still am) furious.

WWE...Most people understand that the WWE announcers are part of the entertainment package and just as fake as the wrestling contests.

What people fail to understand is that WWE is a parody of 60 Minutes and Dateline and What Would You Do and similar magazine programs.

The producer or some other person (usually off camera) writes a script and coaches some, but not all, of the players in a game of Let's Play a Fast One on Joey or of Let's You and Him Fight. See Games People Play by Eric Berne, Games Alcoholics Play by Claude Steiner, Games Community Organizations Play by Bob Schmidt. Those books describe the way the games are played.

I've sat in numerous Alinsky Organization meetings where the media and the Organizers negotiate the spin of the story. In some cases the Organization has a great story that is desirable as an exclusive by one network. In other cases the Organization wants desperately to get a non-worthy story on TV, usually to prop up the ego of one of the Leaders.

Depending on the law of supply and demand, one side will agree to provide a young hot babe to sleep with a guy on the other side in exchange for getting what they want. I've seen young hot on-camera babes and young hot interns sleep for a story. And more often, some young, hot welfare mom or community organizer sleeps with an old Harvey Weinstein type power figure in exchange for the story.