Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Eric the Green]

(10-19-2018, 11:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-19-2018, 07:02 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Humor is the best analysis of news. The deadly-serious treatment of everything in the news on FoX News contrasts to what comedians say about what they see. It is telling that a study of whether people got reality right (that they disagreed with such statements as

1. Saddam Hussein had culpability in the 9/11 attack
2. Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction in violation of the armistice
3. Saddam Hussein was a supporter of international terrorism, and
4. the  rest of the world agreed with the Bush 43 administration)

depended upon the sources that people had for news.    


Those who relied upon the thirty-minute newscasts on network television (the limitations should be obvious) got it all wrong. People who relied upon newspapers, cable news other than FoX, the PBS News Hour (which can telescope sections of news coverage to fit what it sees appropriate to tell the story), or NPR got it right. So did people who watched the Daily Show, a comedic treatment of events.

Those who watched FoX News got it wrong. The problem is that such people watched a huge amount of what they thought was news.

So what was it about the Daily Show? It exposed the ineptitude of Dubya for what it was through parody and mockery.

Funny, I never heard the one about Saddam being involved in the 9/11 attack. I heard about the rest but not that one. How did the blue media outlets know that Saddam had gotten rid of the WMD's ? I have to admit that GW seemed like a wimp compared to Trump when it came to handling the blue media and all its crap.

Brower has it exactly right above. The mainstream media and right-wing media went along with the propaganda that Iraq was a terrorist state with weapons of mass destruction and therefore needed to be overthrown to prevent another 9-11. Those of us who were informed, through public-supported media, knew quite easily that there was no evidence that Iraq had WMDs, that Colin Powell's testimony was a lie, and that Iraq was not involved in any terrorist attacks except supporting Palestinian rebels fighting the terrorist state of Israel. 

But the P-NAC neo-con crowd (which included Bebe Netanyahu) had perpetrated a policy to defend Israel and "spread democracy" by making the Middle East safe for the oil oligarchy, and they knew a new Pearl Harbor would be needed to get public support for this "New American Century" project (P-NAC). They got their Pearl Harbor. So they got the support of many Democrats in congress as well as all the Republicans for this preventive war in Iraq, even though inspectors had already certified there were no WMDs, and even though even Bush admitted they were not responsible for 9-11. The facts did not matter. All that counted was the propaganda, and Bush's decision to avenge Saddam's attack on his Daddy and go forward with PNAC.

And thus came about two huge wars that expanded our national debt, thus making social spending less easy to obtain without increasing spending on debt service, thus fulfilling the Republican red-state goal to reverse the civil rights and great society era.