I guess that means that the media feels no particular ongoing duty to actually explain things so that more people are in the "pay grade" that can understand them.

Ya know its funny.
Today's journalists are so far alienated from:

-Mainstream thought
-The ability to construct a proper sentence
-Historical understanding
-Basic Fucking Reporting

that as far as I'm concerned it is a happy thought that they think they are still in control of the masses.

Shhhh
Let Rumpelstiltskin slumber.

Thanks for the linkage ... and I have been making lots of damned-blogger-template mods, so please excuse any formatting CFs.
/TJ

Yeah, the first quarter of that article is pretty fascinating, isn't it? That and the rest of it pretty much confirms everything Maha Rushi said about the filibuster and Social Security reform back when all this stuff was being fought out in real time.

That word was ''framing.'' Exactly what it means to ''frame'' issues seems to depend on which Democrat you are talking to...

I think it reads better if you use the more accurate word.

That word was ''lying.'' Exactly what it means to ''lie" about issues seems to depend on which Democrat you are talking to...

voila!

Good one Dave.
'Framing' is the Dems new office fad.

Personally I think they should try to dynamically interface with the American people, and form a synergistic relationship with reality. The potential for this innovative paradigm exists but it hasn't been actualized yet.

a revealing blueprint of Democratic efforts to control the hearts and minds of a public they view as being ignorant and beneath contempt.

I have yet to see mentioned in any discussion of this point that Liberals believe that they largely have changed the hearts and minds of us all, and in a way they have. Because they have changed the sexual mores of this country (an easy thing to do), have so warped the justice system that they have made the streets of this country safe for ciminals, and have shoved "equality" and "affirmative action" (government sponsored racism against white people) down all of our throats by sheer force, (to the point where they've made it verboten to even speak about) they believe that they have "changed the world" for the better and this justifies everything they do. It is their reason for existence and gives them license to do all the shitty things they do, i.e., because they are on the side of good and the "upward ascent of mankind" while anyone who opposes them is evil, and part of the "extra chromosone wing of the Republican party" as Al Gore famously said.

But the truth is quite different. The "sexual revoloution" has been a catastrophe for everyone, especially children. All they really suceeded in doing was largely unraveling marrige and creating an epidemic of divorce. The whole thrust of the 60's civil rights protection of criminals' "rights" has produced an explosion of crime that has torn apart the world we live in and made fear of death or injury at the hands of violent criminals a day to day reality. Liberals have passed laws and set in motion government sponsored racism against white people and created a climate of fear such that no one even dares to even speak about it anymore. (Incidentally, they also believe that they, and they alone, are responsible for the 8 hr work day, child labor laws, health care and enviromental protection, all ideas whose time had come and would've been passed with or without them.)

From this point of view, they have changed the hearts and minds of the public and manipulated public opinion. Largely by demonizing their opponents, creating negative stereotypes through the Liberal Media and offering "free" goodies to certain segments of the public, they have changed this country, and not for the better.

Most importantly, Liberals believe they are totally justified because they have created a better world, that the public is too stupid and ignorant to know what is good for itself, and that they must do it for us whether or not we agree. Scary, isn't it?

Don't 72 just make you want to open a vein sometimes?

Hello, world, here's the song that we’re singin’
C’mon get happy!

A whole lot of lovin’ is what we’ll be bringin’
We’ll make you happy!

Most importantly, Liberals believe they are totally justified because they have created a better world, that the public is too stupid and ignorant to know what is good for itself, and that they must do it for us whether or not we agree. Scary, isn't it?

Yeah, it is. It is couched in the language of feelings and emotions. I don't doubt some of them thought their motivations were good (they don't like admitting their results suck), although there's a fair bit of vote-pimping that goes along with it.

It deserves to be confronted.

lauraw

Writing to make us happy is not the point, we must face the real truth whether we like it or not before confronting and changing it. After that we can use ridicule and laughter to boost our spirits and as a means to an end. But ignoring and hiding from the truth is one of the ways that we've gotten into the fucked up mess we are in today.

Look, nobody wants to whitewash anything; but I tend to believe that this nation is more resilient than you do.
I don't disagree that there are problems, but 'fucked up mess' is not how I'd characterize life in the US today.

lauraw

I hate to mention it, but I must be older than you for I remember vividly when things were not like this. As restrictive as the atmosphere of the times I grew up in seemed, in very important ways it was a much better world than the one we live in today. And having watched it all go from bad to worse and knowing there is no end to Liberal destruction unless we stop it, I try to make people aware of the danger we are facing, wheter they like it or not.

lauraw

PS - It need not be the same for you and younger people. You are already part of the soloution. And when you look back on what has happened, you can be proud that you took part in a tidal wave of change for the better. I wish you all the luck.

Just for curiosity's sake- how old are you? I'm 35.

Older than 35.

Bastard
LOL
Honesty gets you nowhere on the internet. Unless you're a shaved teenage whore, of course.

lauraw

Been awhile since I've had a shaved teenage whore. Perhaps before the Peloponnesian War.

lauraw

Been awhile since I've had a shaved teenage whore. Perhaps before the Peloponnesian War.

Bastard!

And i waited all day for your reply so I could ask you if you were up for the job!