It NEVER fails…
Just walked by CNN regurgitating the latest story about Al-Qaeda coming to the US and stopped for second, wondering out loud, “How long before the Terrorists On Monkey Bars Clip comes on…”
We shit you not, 5 seconds later, there it is… You know the one:
It is the universal Al-Qaeda training camp [...]
Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s [...]
Ezra Klein posted this video which could not point out any more lucidly the staggeringly craven hypocrisy of the Frost Family/S-CHIP “outrage” currently dominating the blogosphere.
As Ezra rightly points out, no one staked out their house to verify the story; nobody questioned the family’s qualifications for their suffering; no one smeared this poor girl who’s [...]
Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it [...]
Leslee Unruh, president of National Abstinence Clearinghouse calls new birth control pill that eliminates problematic monthly mentrual periods “pesticide”
The entire discussion is so rife with contradiction and FUD that you almost have to laugh, except that people like Unruh are completely serious.
She actually had the temerity to resort to asking, “So, 12, 13-year-old girls taking [...]