Who is Destroying America?
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| Thu, 10-22-2009 - 9:58am |
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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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RE: Chamber of Commerce. I live on the other side of the nation. Our local COC's ARE "old school." They started taking a hit before Obama ever took office. Local business people stopped giving them their hard earned money because they weren't getting enough bang for their buck. The two COC's from the two towns next to each other had to blend together in order to stay afloat, they could no longer afford to run as two separate entities. They have cut their hours and are no ;onger open on weekends, which is when tourists come into the region and would actually seek out some of their services.
***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. ***
We're having a budget crisis here. Hellooooo!! In the event you are "opting out" on funds, let us know, so we can direct them in another way.
Maybe what the problem people have is that the new admin is trying to run things like a business, without a bunch of a$$ kissing and game playing. Ever been in business? You only stroke someones ego and play games,
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Strange...
Obama addresses those who are in opposition to his proposals, and it is called "knee capping." Apparently presidents have been "knee capping" for years and years. Oh well...I guess that no matter how much those opposed to Obama's proposals misrepresent and lobby against them, they will be "knee capped." Too bad for them. It sounds like what has been going on for years and years.
Exactly.
Kim Strassel is a conservative and on the board of editors of the Wall Street journal. Everything she has written about this administration has been negative. Like her conservative peers she is against healthcare, loves big business, and finds nothing good about Obama.
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Who ARE the White House 'targets' the she refers to? The healthcare business?
"It's the number of people who can't seem to distinguish fantasy from reality."
I second the emotion - reality tv also plays a part because eventhough it is "reality" tv .. lots of the actions and dialogue is phoney .. so the line gets blurry for some people .. I guess.
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