You May be Brainwashed by Corporate Media if You:

[libertypirate]

... believe the 5 corporations who own almost all of the media in the U.S. are liberal.

... believe $300 billion of U.S. tax money, allocated for the war and reconstruction in Iraq is actually going to Iraq .


... are unaware Iraq had 650 million barrels of oil in reserve just before the war in Iraq .


http://www.independent-media.tv/itemprint.cfm?fmedia_id=11058&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

[lebkuchen]

1. These are a standout...

... believe Halliburton's no-bid contracts have nothing to do with former CEO, now Vice President Dick Cheney.


... are unaware that the Iraq war is the biggest case of war profiteering in human history.


... believe Saddam Hussein or Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.

[otohara]

2. ... believe wealthy, warmongers can also be true Christians.

this one's good!

[Karenina]

3. Kick!

:kick:

[freedomburn]

4. Further examples that may have been brainwashed by the corporate media

...you believe that nineteen Islamic hijackers are soley responsible for the destruction caused on 9/11.

...you believe that promoting freedom and democracy are the real reasons for invading Iraq.

...you believe that scientific discoveries will magically save us from the Peak Oil trauma.

[Catchawave]

5. Believe that offshore banking

is good for the World economy !

[NMMNG]

6. I saw this earlier on Beliefnet

Of course some of shrubbies sycophants tried to claim it was bullsh*t but couldn't discredit any of the information...

[Kerrytravelers]

10. They can never defend their positions because it's never *their* position.

It's the "positions" of the puppetmaster to whom they listen with baited breath, never asking questions or thinking for themselves.

[bloom]

7. ...

... are unaware our founding fathers intentionally made sure that corporations had no power over people or our government.


... are unaware 'less government' means paying corporate contractors three times what we pay government workers to do the same work.


... are unaware 'Free Trade' means 'Slave Wages' to poor people in Honduras, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, El Salvador, Guatemala, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and others.

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I was reading yesterday that people are paid 1.6 cents to make an embriodered Harvard baseball type cap - that is sold in the US for $17.00.

[bloom]

8. other faves...

... are unaware Tort Reform will absolve corporations of massive negligent liabilities for things like asbestos exposure, pollution, mercury poisoning, hazardous waste, mad cow disease and all sorts of dangerous products and practices.


... are unaware mercury pollution (mostly from coal fired power plants and medical vaccines) has caused an epidemic of Autism, ADD and ADHD in the U.S.


... believe global warming is a rumor or conspiracy.

[Kerrytravelers]

9. Some of my personal faves:

... believe America is hated all over the world because of our freedom.

... are unaware stem cell research threatens the pharmaceutical industry by curing and preventing diseases which drug companies profit from by treating with drugs.

... are unaware the Boston Tea party was a protest against corporate corruption (East India Company).


... are unaware our founding fathers intentionally made sure that corporations had no power over people or our government.

... are unaware the Food and Drug Administration does NO testing of food or drugs. They only set guidelines and review the testing corporations do of their own products.


... are unaware the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act has been 're- estimated' to cost U.S. taxpayers $1.3 Trillion (not the original $243 billion or the 'adjusted' $400 billion), and only pharmaceutical corporations and HMOs benefit from the increase.

... believe the UN scandals could have taken place without the largest, most influential member and host nation being involved.

... believe the Michael Jackson trial deserved more news coverage than the genocide of 400,000 people in Darfur , Sudan.

[arthur_d]

11. if you

believe that individual rights are something that can be denied if it's better for the 'greater good'

[idlisambar]

12. more

... believe that "globalization" is "inevitable".
... take government economic statistics at face value.
... believe that stock market prices are a good measure of economic well-being.

[RedCloud]

13. ....

.... do not know that Iraqi oil is six times cheaper to extract than other sources.

.... think we live in a nation. We have behaved like an empire for more than a century.

.... buy the line that liberal is bad. Almost all good things have come from progressive thinkers with stiff opposition from conservative zealots.