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   TomR said on 2/28/2007 @ 3:14pm PT: [Permalink]

   Wolf Blitzer is a complete and utter, unmitigated moron of indescribable proportions. Rivaled only in his utter and embarrassing cluelessness by Chris Wallace…

   C’mon Brad. Quit sugarcoating it and tell us what you really think!

   Write a book Brad and gear it toward the 2008 election. Then you’ll get asked onto The Daily Show, Colbert Report, etc. and you won’t need to scrounge. Maybe Mark Crispin Miller can give you some pointers if you like. Just a thought…

   – Tom 😉

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   Larry Bergan said on 3/1/2007 @ 1:40am PT: [Permalink]

   It is a complete travesty that all truth telling journalists have to beg for money while the liars have a tall podium which is paid for by monthly payments of millions of subscribers for cable systems and newspapers that are unopposed by competition.

   I think Wolf screwed the name up on purpose to confuse the issue.

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   Dredd said on 3/1/2007 @ 5:40am PT: [Permalink]

   That is life in the deceit lane. I like Noam Chompsky’s take on it and his observation about “the institutionalization of deceit” in America:

   One of the most important comments on deceit, I think, was made by Adam Smith. He pointed out that a major goal of business is to deceive and oppress the public.

   And one of the striking features of the modern period is the institutionalization of that process, so that we now have huge industries deceiving the public“”and they’re very conscious about it, the public relations industry. Interestingly, this developed in the freest countries””in Britain and the US””roughly around time of WWI, when it was recognized that enough freedom had been won that people could no longer be controlled by force. So modes of deception and manipulation had to be developed in order to keep them under control.

   And by now these are huge industries. They not only dominate marketing of commodities, but they also control the political system. As anyone who watches a US election knows, it’s marketing. It’s the same techniques that are used to market toothpaste.

   And, of course, there are power systems in place to facilitate this. Throughout history it’s been mostly the property holders or the educated classes who’ve tended to support power systems. And that’s a large part of what I think education is””it’s a form of indoctrination. You have to reconstruct a picture of the world in order to be conducive to the interests and concerns of the educated classes, and this involves a lot of self-deceit.

   (Link here, emphasis added).

   Those institutions of deceit, e.g. the MSM, are not really concerned about reality, instead they market a product that Colbert calls “truthiness”.

   “War is peace” (Orwell, “1984”).