Something smells bad in the state of the United States of America..We need a new TV show…” How the Media Makes Us Dumb Ass Meat Puppets” I doubt we’d get much viewership..Without the addition of cleavage and perfunctory rotting corpses ( CSI is the most popular TV show in history)..our demographic might be minuscule..
If we let these bozos lead us down the garden path again we don’t deserve Health Care Reform and decent education..
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090909_a_perfect_storm_of_idiocy/
A Perfect Storm of Idiocy
Posted on Sep 9, 2009By Joe Conason
The wild furor over President Barack Obama’s speech to the nation’s schoolchildren raises many questions, but there is only one that really matters. How did America surrender its political discourse—not to mention the news cycle—to the most unreasonable and unstable elements of the far right?
Not so many years ago, nobody would have imagined that a bland presidential address to young students, urging them to remain in school, study hard and nurture their aspirations for success, could engender a raging national controversy. Nobody would have believed that such an ordinary event could excite suspicions among a significant part of the population that the chief executive is “indoctrinating” their children in a “socialist ideology,” or that the fate of the republic depended on parents keeping their innocents away from the classrooms, lest they hear his words. And nobody would have believed that the resulting wave of paranoia, supercharged by talk radio and cable television, could actually grip the attention of the public at a time when real issues demand action.
When the nation’s first African-American president proposes to urge children, and in particular those children who regard him as a role model, to behave wisely and avoid self-destructive behavior, liberals and conservatives alike ought to be expected to applaud him. Indeed, conservatives especially should be clapping loudly, since they have so often bemoaned the cultural barriers to advancement faced by poor and minority students.
