You know what’s great these days? What’s great is that people everywhere, even in the so-called Main Stream Media, are picking up on "spin" as it happens. In the living room, my wife is howling as John Stewart has a field day with the State of the Union Speech, but even the L.A.Times is calling it. In What isolationism?, Andrew J. Bacevich cuts through Bush’s warning about resisting "isolationism" by pointing out that there’s no such thing. It’s just a made up Straw Man – an attempt to discredit anyone who wants us out of the war in Iraq. Nobody who opposes this ridiculous war is an isolationist.
People are learning to go after the fallacies in the logic and talk about the motives in the distortion, rather than take the bait and get defensive. It’s music to hear it in a syndicated newspaper, instead of just in the blogs [see Bush and the Straw Men from Byron Williams]. It’s a symphony when it’s in both…
I guess the Main Stream Newspapers are getting the hint that selling email listings can get their cofers lined. I just don’t care to register to read their articles, but thanks for your effort. I get enough spam from the purveyors of porn, the mortgage and drug people, and, of course the “mini-investment gurus”without adding newspaper advertisers to my files
I’m really happy to know they are getting into the publication of the truth.
I guess the Main Stream Newspapers are getting the hint that selling email listings can get their cofers lined. I just don’t care to register to read their articles
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Friendly Joe, Are you not getting the “Dear Kind Sir” letters from unfortunates in African cities who just want to use your bank account? Perhaps I could forward them to you so you won’t feel left out!