[SparkyBass]

"In the mysterious soup of motives that sustains her supporters, enthusiasm for effective governance does not seem a very major ingredient."

Ever read C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength?

Young Mr. Studdock is employed to write articles for newspapers explaining everything... making the news, forming the nation's opinion for the unwitting masses.

This article (and many, many like them) ring of ideological control of newspapers. Articles intended to "say it enough times and it will be true". This really is sad. And Lewis saw it in the '40's.

[grey_whiskers]

Ever read C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength? Young Mr. Studdock is employed to write articles for newspapers explaining everything... making the news, forming the nation's opinion for the unwitting masses.

"He approved of vivisection, but he had never worked in a dissecting room. He recommended that certain classes of people should be gradually eliminated: but he had never been there when a small shopkeeper went to the workhouse or a starved old woman of the governess type came to the very last day and hour and minute in the cold attic. He knew nothing about the last half cup of cocoa drunk slowly ten days before...
"He was a man a straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling. And his head ached so terribly and he felt so sick. Luckily he now kept a bottle of whisky in his room A stiff one enabled him to shave and dress."

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

"Mark Gainsby Frum, it is my duty to arrest you for the smearing of Sarah Palin." /sarc>

Cheers!