Arianna is very much on the trail of the fox...

[kentuck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/why-we-need-an-epidemic-o_b_28561.html

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Ratcheting up the fear-mongering rhetoric is Plan A. Plan B is Repeat Plan A.

The president officially kicked off the big push to the midterms with a fear-triggering speech last week in which he warned, "If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face terrorists in the streets of our own cities." We've seen this movie before. It's "Be Very Afraid" all over again.

It has, after all, been a frighteningly effective sales pitch. Fear is a powerful, universal emotion -- always there to be exploited. And that's why we need a major counteroffensive -- a wide-ranging campaign to help spread fearlessness so as to inoculate the country against this shameful campaign strategy.

Otherwise, we're going to once again succumb to our lizard brains and keep voting our fears -- even as our logical brains (and the latest polls) tell us that the fearmongers in power have made us all less safe.

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[cornermouse]

1. Commercial that I've seen twice now.

Specifically designed to ratchet up fear by Americaforprogress.org or something like that. Its starting to make me mad.

[darkmaestro019]

2. (head plus desktop)

"If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face terrorists in the streets of our own cities."

I'm guessing you'd go to Gitmo for standing up and bellowing "I CALL BULLSHIT!"

So that's why 9/11 happened, I take it? Because we weren't exploding pieces of Baghdad at the time? You know what that reminds me of? I can't remember which serial killer/mass murderer....I wanna say Manson but that's not right...the one that thought he had to kill X amount of people to prevent a giant earthquake....