What "Indoctrination" Really Looks Like

This is about as creepy as it gets. I hope.

Fear of a Black President

This is required reading for anyone with a brain. Click here and enjoy. One of my favorite paragraphs:

America has a robust and colorful history of parents pulling their children out of school to prevent them from being exposed to a black person -- far more history of that than of being outraged--outraged I tell you!-- at exposing children to their President. It is unclear what, exactly, terrifies them so much. From the level of drama, one can only presume that Obama will be reading passages from the fabled Negronomicon.

Health Scare, part 3

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Rachel really does a nice job of breaking down exactly who is behind these fake grass roots uprisings. If only the mainstream media would spend this much time researching and reporting reality.

Here is a must read quote from the video clip:

To talk about these town hall events as some organic outpouring of average American folks who have concerns about health care is to be willfully blind to what is really going on, which is professional P.R. operatives generating exploitative, manufactured, strategically deployed outrage in order to line their own pocket.

These P.R. spin misters get paid a lot of money for doing it. The corporations they work for get to kill legislation that would hurt their profits. And the real people who they launch into these town hall settings after they're told that health care reform is a secret commie plot to kill old people and to mandate sex changes, those real people get more, and more, and more and more angry, and more, and more, and more alienated, and ultimately they get left, like the rest of us, with a health care system that is broken and doesn't work in the interest of the American people, but does work in the interest of the corporations that profit from the way the system is now.

This is professional, corporate funded Republican staffed P.R., and it should be reported as such.

Shilling For Dollars

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There's such a fine line between "spontaneous uprising" and "paid operative". I think it's really important to get the word out about exactly who these people disrupting the town hall meetings are and who is behind it. Remember, too many people form their understanding of reality based on a twenty second video clip and/or sound bite. That leaves entirely too much room for the spread of misinformation. Which is exactly what these people want. Let's protect our more gullible brethren and help expose these bastards for who they really are.

Health Scare, part 2

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I posted a few months ago about how interesting it would be to follow the money during the health care debate to see the relationship between how much money each Senator and Congressman received from the health care industry and how strenuously they objected and stood in the way of passing new legislation. This video serves as a good follow up to that post.

Four Dead in U-S-A

Let's see, that's 2 Pittsburgh cops, a doctor, and a security guard, who have been killed so far. All since this ridiculous, laughable, insulting DHS memo was released.

Here's what Gingrich had to say about the report at the time:
The person who drafted the outrageous homeland security memo smearing veterans and conservatives should be fired
1:40 PM Apr 14th from TwitterBerry

Sure, Newt. Kill the messenger. As I said on Facebook last night, rather than acknowledge the merits of the report, Gingrich and company twisted what the report actually said and tried to make people believe that it was a smear job on veterans and conservatives. It wasn't. In fact, the report never once even used the word "conservative". But when blowhards like Gingrich read the phrase "far right-wing extremist", for some bizarre reason, they think it means "conservative". Chew on that for a minute.

This led to an endless beating of the drum by Beck, Limbaugh, etc. which served to fire up and encourage the very extremist fringe that the report was talking about, even more. The result, four dead and counting while the right-wing talking heads continue to spew their hate while refusing to accept any blame for the harm that their words are inspiring their unstable listeners to cause.

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