How do we know what we think we know?

[Atticus]

I am not at all sure I can say this in a way that fully conveys my meaning.

We(some of us)are currently either depressed or agitated because of what numerous people we do not know have said about the November election. We sit slack-jawed and rapt as some of the same people who told us how easy the conquest of Iraq would be now tell us how badly we are going to get our collective asses kicked the fall.

The corporate media is comprised of either politically motivated whores or others who simply don't care that they are aiding and abetting internal enemies of our country. A few of them are very blatant about their bias. They gleefully toss out heaping helpings of red meat to the froth-at-the-mouth wing of the wingnut brigade. Others, though, are more subtle. They simply fail to fully and accurately report good and positive news about Democrats and progressives and they exaggerate and repeat the slightest good news about the GOP and the Tea Party.

Normally, they have no effect on us: the informed citizens. Their goal is to influence and control the attitudes and the votes of the "marginally informed" or uninformed voters. By sheer repetition of buzzwords and carefully crafted emotional appeals, they hope to elect their puppets and destroy any who oppose lower taxes, cheap labor and corporate citizenhood, their Holy Trinity.

These were the people who told us about "WMDs" and how the 9-11 terrorists were trained in Iraq.

These were the people who told us about the mobile labs; the purchase of "yellow cake" by Iraq; how Iraq would pay for its own reconstruction; and, how we would be welcomed as liberators by the Iraqi people.

They told us that Bush won the 2000 election; that Bush won Ohio fair and square in 2004; and, that Bush was not a sock puppet.

In 2008, these same people spent the last several weeks before the election telling us how very, very close the election would be

And, now, these same mentally deficient and morally bankrupt ass-wipes are being paid to tell us about the "Republican Tsunami" that's coming this November.

IF it happens, it will be as much because WE believed that it would as any other factor.

Think about it: what do you know as opposed to what you've been told?

[lonestarnot]

1. Do you believe everything you are told?

[shraby]

2. My common sense tells me that the gop has been reduced

to the nutty fringe and I cannot see how anyone with a lick of brains could or would vote for them. Not only has the right wing brought this counry to it's knees, but for them to expect us to forget and give them back the reins of power to finish us off would be total insanity.
No matter how much money the pundits are getting to promote the idea that they will gain multitudes of seats in November, it's wasted money. They can catapult all the propaganda they want, but we've been there, done that and don't want to do it again.

[True Earthling]

3. In the information age it's amazing how much mis-information is out there. n/t

[RandomThoughts]

4. Why would you need to know?

If you knew for sure, you would never actually choose anything based on what you think and feel is best.

And what you are told is the data, what it might mean or how it is told can be the function.

So there are ways to look at those things also.


Your comment goes to function not data.

[babylonsister]

5. I take most everything the media says with a grain of salt; Jon

Stewart proved that in spades tonight.

It ain't over til it's over, so keep on keeping on and don't believe the naysayers. That's my opinion anyway. If we're defeated, we go on from there.

Mortos had a few threads recently; he brought us out of our funk (or tried to) after Kerry 'lost'; he did a fine job.

It's worth fighting for; the more we're aware of how complicit the media is, the better.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. I know I'm voting for Patty. n/t