READER COMMENTS ON
"Louisiana Republicans on 'Poor Response to Hurricane Katrina': Heckuva Job, OBAMA!"
(7 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 8/21/2013 @ 11:42 am PT...
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” – H. L. Mencken
The reason is that the brain grows circuits based in large measure on what it wants to believe, inspired by its culture.
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Newman Tomes
said on 8/21/2013 @ 12:58 pm PT...
Tell me again that right wing hate radio and Fox news tells me the truth. Propaganda works for the republican cult.
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 8/21/2013 @ 3:32 pm PT...
These troubling numbers suggest that a daily bombardment of propaganda can be quite effective in creating collective amnesia.
It reflects at least a partial realization of the ominous warnings provided by George Orwell in his classic novel, 1984.
For example, there is this passage covering the tasks performed by the protagonist, Winston Smith, within the Ministry of Truth. One of Smith's tasks was to alter past news articles, though that task, as officially described, was to "rectify" the old articles.
...it appeared from the Times of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet...As it happened, the Eurasian High Command had launched its offensive in South India...It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened.
The vast majority of Louisiana Republicans do not blame GWB for the federal government's dismal performance in the aftermath of Katrina because they are bombarded, 24/7, with relentless propaganda from a vast, right wing echo chamber, which never associates that dismal performance with George "Heck of a job, Brownie" Bush.
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Joe in Syracuse
said on 8/26/2013 @ 10:58 am PT...
They will blame who they're told to blame. As Rush says, 'just sit right back and let me do the thinking for you'....
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luagha
said on 8/26/2013 @ 1:16 pm PT...
There's a reason they call them 'low-information voters.'
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Ancient
said on 8/27/2013 @ 6:27 pm PT...
The FCC needs to correct licensure and declassify faux as news! Propaganda and ignorance clothed as opinion and "news."
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Ancient
said on 8/27/2013 @ 6:29 pm PT...
And the rest of them are circling down the drain.