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I tuned in to watch Castle tonight. New show, Scandal, was on. Within the first 10 minutes, one of the main characters stated 'I hate Republicans'. So I turned it off.

In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Party members of Orwell’s futuristic society are forced to watch daily the government’s Two Minutes’ Hate… a film projected on telescreens depicting The Party’s enemies. The purpose was to brainwash its own skeptical citizens and reinforce the rest using emotionally based sound and images. Today, we just call it television. The marriage between the Democrat Party and Hollywood is the new Big Brother. And Big Brother is tasked with indoctrinating a large society into a left wing perspective. The most efficient way is to present a single message to a massive audience and this...

While John Kerry campaigns in blue/swing states out west, Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe and others hit President Bush over the soaring cost of gas ($2.01/gallon) and oil ($42/barrel). Senate Democrats, meanwhile, call on Bush today to begin releasing as many as 60 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a move Treasury Secretary John Snow has already ruled out. While President Bush stays behind to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Laura Bush headlines a GOP rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, and raises cash today at a luncheon in South Dakota for Larry Diedrich,...