Posted on 06/10/2002 7:30:57 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I am not wise, but know when someome isn't. Why do you think you are?
I detest the way the media have been so diligent to portray the actions of people and countries in terms of games, as if any given response is just an equivocally-valued response to the most recent event from the other side.
Through such (conscious and reflexive, I believe) portrayals, the media would leave the citizenry apathetic (as is the aim of totalitarian regimes). This pattern surfaces most typically in the "all politicians are bad"-kind of comment. "He did that, but his opponent responded by doing something equally bad."
With the above headline, the AP has no qualms leaving the masses with the impression that "Terror may be bad, but Bush is willing to be bad first, just so he has a better chance to win the game."
I very much appreciate the 10,000-word-value cartoon I saw here on FR recently. It had a portrayal of a feminized donkey-prostitute with a banner hawking various prices for such things as Lincoln bedrooms, WH coffee klatches, etc., all in the tens-of-thousands of dollars range, with a modest female elephant sitting behind a sign reading "Bush photos, $150." The donkey-hooker calls the little elephant "SLUT!" (Somebody will help me out here, with a link. (?))
Of course, this is what the Carvile and Begala's of Clinton-dumb will always try to do (given what little with which they have to work), that is, try to build reflexive responses among their constituencies to assuage the hestitations any of them might have had about believing Clinton-type fund-raising to be "over-line-corruption-line" by "Everybody (and certainly the Republicans) do it!"
Clearly, in the long-term, moral upbringing, education toward fact-gathering, analysis and interpretation, and always actively siding with "doing what's right" is what we need to instill in the citizenry, especially the young. The demonrats' purposes and actions are anti-thetical to this paradigm, and their successes must be reversed, or we're all in for increasing if not overwhelming troubles.
They must be overcome! That is, voted out of office by intelligent citizens.
HF
Check Out the site referred to in the article. And oh yeah President Bush rocks when he says we must strike terrorists first!!!
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