Who is Destroying America?

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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 9:58am

1. Obama's safe-schools boss sponsors radical porn


2. Why left loves tyrants, terrorists


3.  Democrats see no possibility of Afghan victory 


4.  How to stockpile food for survival


5.  Author: Attack by 'minions' proves 'Obama Nation'


6.  Want to send Barack Obama a message?
'Where's the birth certificate?' postcards available now


7. Where did Obama learn to destroy America?


Want more insanity?  Go here http://www.wnd.com/


I am amazed and apalled not so much by the content of this material (which I place in the same journalistic category as The Inquirer or The Star), but by how many people seem to read this trash as gospel. Even on an entertainment scale these stories are pathetically poor.  They are nothing but propaganda created to instigate distrust, unrest, and hate among us. 


What  has happened to America?!?!?  When did we become an US vs THEM culture within our own country?  I don't know whether to be sad, angry, nauseated or disgusted by this utter abuse of journalism. This is an example of taking a Constitution Right and literally turning it on the very people who believe in it.


But like I said, it's not what is written that bothers me. It's the number of people who can't seem to distinguish fantasy from reality. If it's on the internet it must be true. I'll make a wild guess and say that 90% of information on the internet is poorly researched, bogus, factually insufficient, severely slanted, and/or downright dangerous.  Any radical nut-monkey can create a website and float his own brand of whatever he's selling. That doesn't mean it's legitimate. And that doesn't mean that just because we read it it must be true.


We've all read Alice In Wonderland, but I don't think too many of us believe in rabbits with pocketwatches. That's because most of us have the ability to recognize truth and untruth. But when truth and untruth blur, when information is twisted or presented in such a way as to confuse the public (think War of the Worlds) we end up with a segment of the population that can't find the thin line that separates the two.


The above article titles that I listed from World Net Daily (which I only discovered this morning) don't bother me because I consider them silly, outlandish, and hate-mongering. Had I not been following up on something else I'd read, I wouldn't have given this site the time of day. But I know it's the not the only one of its kind and I wonder why the purpose is behind these types of sites.  Do they honestly WANT to destroy America?  Why do they seem obssessed with creating divisions among us and causing disorder, malevolence and fear?


And sadly, have we become so dumbed down we've started following rabbits with pocketwatches?

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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 4:31pm

((It's the number of people who can't seem to distinguish fantasy from reality. ))

Do you have the numbers? Links please. TIA

((I am amazed and apalled not so much by the content of this material (which I place in the same journalistic category as The Inquirer or The Star), but by how many people seem to read this trash as gospel.))

Just how many people? Links? Just because they read it...it doesn't mean they take it as gospel.

Are these your assumptions of people believing this stuff? Or do you have actual numbers and stats?

Just because you found some ultra-right wing blog sights, doesn't mean that most of America believes it as gospel.

There are just as many ultra-left wing blog sights that spew hate-mongering, fear, craziness, etc.

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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 7:37pm

What

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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 8:02pm

"We were all brought together as one nation until Bush started in with the "You're either with us or against us" mentality."

Sort of like Obama with his "enemies list" that is being created.

"It grew uglier as normal, everyday American citizens began to question the Bush administration, only to be told they were traitors, put on blacklists and lost their jobs, credibility,etc."

Wow...that sounds terribly familiar....tea party demonstrators, town hall citizens, etc.

"Now...it's just an ugly free for all. Name calling, finger pointing, etc. "They" say it's all politics, but I've never seen things so bad as they are now."

I totally agree!

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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 9:39pm

Sort of like Obama with his "enemies list" that is being created.


LOL That's funny! Have you been listening to Glenn Beck?


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Thu, 10-22-2009 - 11:06pm

((Have you been listening to Glenn Beck?))

Nope. Actually, it was MSNBC.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33414587/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

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Fri, 10-23-2009 - 12:19am

~is being created~

~MSNBC~

No. From your link: "Don't start..."




Edited 10/23/2009 2:26 am ET by cup.kate
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Fri, 10-23-2009 - 12:23am
You've got to give the mythical liberal media credit. They (MSNBC) reported on Republican, Lamar Alexander's warning/assertion. They didn't say that Alexander's warnings/assertions had merit. They just reported them. In order to suggest how just horrible Obama might become, Republican Lamar Alexander brings up a previous Republican president. Strange.

 

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Fri, 10-23-2009 - 12:26am
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Fri, 10-23-2009 - 8:13am

I must have overlooked the "left-wing" sites (not to mention the talk shows) that

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Fri, 10-23-2009 - 9:50am

Here is an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal. I usually don't give opinion pieces too much credit, but this person sure makes an interesting point.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704224004574489563238177126.html

The Chicago Way
The Chamber of Commerce is only the latest target of the Chicago Gang in the White House.

They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way.

–Jim Malone,

"The Untouchables"

When Barack Obama promised to deliver "a new kind of politics" to Washington, most folk didn't picture Rahm Emanuel with a baseball bat. These days, the capital would make David Mamet, who wrote Malone's memorable movie dialogue, proud.

A White House set on kneecapping its opponents isn't, of course, entirely new. (See: Nixon) What is a little novel is the public and bare-knuckle way in which the Obama team is waging these campaigns against the other side.

In recent weeks the Windy City gang added a new name to their list of societal offenders: the Chamber of Commerce. For the cheek of disagreeing with Democrats on climate and financial regulation, it was reported the Oval Office will neuter the business lobby. Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett slammed the outfit as "old school," and warned CEOs they'd be wise to seek better protection.

That was after the president accused the business lobby of false advertising. And that recent black eye for the Chamber (when several companies, all with Democratic ties, quit in a huff)—think that happened on its own? ("Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him! Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand!?")

The Chamber can at least take comfort in crowds. Who isn't on the business end of the White House's sawed-off shotgun? First up were Chrysler bondholders who—upon balking at a White House deal that rewarded only unions—were privately threatened and then publicly excoriated by the president.

Next, every pharmaceutical, hospital and insurance executive in the nation was held out as a prime obstacle to health-care nirvana. And that was their reward for cooperating. When Humana warned customers about cuts to Medicare under "reform," the White House didn't bother to complain. They went straight for the gag order. When the insurance industry criticized the Baucus health bill, the response was this week's bill to strip them of their federal antitrust immunity. ("I want you to find this nancy-boy . . . I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground!")

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Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama
This summer Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl criticized stimulus dollars. Obama cabinet secretaries sent letters to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. One read: "if you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to the state, as Senator Kyl suggests," let us know. The Arizona Republic wrote: "Let's not mince words here: The White House is intent on shutting Kyl up . . . using whatever means necessary." When Sens. Robert Bennett and Lamar Alexander took issue with the administration's czars, the White House singled them out, by name, on its blog. Sen. Alexander was annoyed enough to take to the floor this week to warn the White House off an "enemies list."

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor? Targeted for the sin of being a up-and-coming conservative voice. Though even Mr. Cantor was shoved aside in August so the Chicago gang could target at least seven Democratic senators, via the president's campaign arm, Organizing for America, for not doing more on health care. ("What I'm saying is: What are you prepared to do??!!")

And don't forget Fox News Channel ("nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!"). Fox, like MSNBC, has its share of commentators. But according to Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn, the entire network is "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Many previous White House press officers, when faced with criticism, try this thing called outreach. The Chicago crowd has boycotted Fox altogether.

What makes these efforts notable is that they are not the lashing out of a frustrated political operation. They are calculated campaigns, designed to create bogeymen, to divide the opposition, to frighten players into compliance. The White House sees a once-in-a-generation opportunity on health care and climate. It is obsessed with winning these near-term battles, and will take no prisoners. It knows that CEOs are easily intimidated and (Fox News ratings aside) it is getting some of its way. Besides, roughing up conservatives gives the liberal blogosphere something to write about besides Guantanamo.

The Oval Office might be more concerned with the long term. It is 10 months in; more than three long years to go. The strategy to play dirty now and triangulate later is risky. One day, say when immigration reform comes due, the Chamber might come in handy. That is if the Chamber isn't too far gone.

White House targets also aren't dopes. The corporate community is realizing that playing nice doesn't guarantee safety. The health executives signed up for reform, only to remain the president's political piñatas. It surely grates that the unions—now running their own ads against ObamaCare—haven't been targeted. If the choice is cooperate and get nailed, or oppose and possibly win, some might take that bet.

There's also the little fact that many Americans voted for this president in thrall to his vow to bring the country together. It's hard to do that amid gunfire, and voters might just notice.

("I do not approve of your methods! Yeah, well . . . You're not from Chicago.")

Write to kim@wsj.com

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