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May 29, 2005
Fox weighs in on REAL ID
The proapaganda machine is in full swing on the Fox News channel, as usual. Last night I heard one of the "news" anchors talking about how "highly-trained" US snipers were "taking out the bad guys." What a sterling display of journalistic objectivity there. Do you think the language could have been loaded any fuller? One of the other mindless party-line gibberers just gave the official Fox News seal of approval to the REAL ID Act, as well, when one of the straw-man shills who come on the shows to give them weak-argument balloons to pop voiced a "complaint" about the hoops "real Americans" would have to jump through to get licenses, such as having an original birth certificate or a utility bill. "You know what, I don't care," was the mouthpiece's response. "If it makes the country safer," he continued, "we," whoever "we" are, "should do it.
In case you are wondering why I have seen any of this at all, since I, like Thoreau, see no point in counting those damn cats in Zanzibar, I am forced to at least occasionally observe the continued war on American critical-thinking skills by having to pass through rooms where it is being watched by people who ought to know better but still insist this is the America they grew up in.
Posted by Patrick Yancey at May 29, 2005 12:40 PM
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