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Category: News Commentary...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2003 at 07:49 AM [GMT-6]

I'm getting really tired of having to quote James Lileks, but as long as he keeps writing stuff like this, well, I have no choice:

Then Ted Rall wrote a column called “Why We Fight” in the voice of an Iraqi “resistance” fighter. I suppose it’s intended to help us understand the mindset of the enemy. Eh. The French have a saying: his head, it is filled with urine. Or they should have such a saying; I’m sure it would sound elegant and dismissive. These people aren’t the loyal opposition anymore; they’re just the opposition. They may say they love America, but they love some idealized nonexistent America that can never exist as long as there’s individuality and free will. They’re like people who say they love women and beat their wife because she doesn’t look like the Playboy centerfold. I’m sick of the lot of them.

This gem comes after another brilliant whacking of Michael Moore, which in and of itself isn't that hard to do thanks to the plentiful raw material (and I don't necessarily mean Moore's bulkiness), but very few can do it with the practiced nonchalance of our midwestern friend. And, there's much more, so RTWT.

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Free will exists? How about a channel that doesn't lie to the Conservatives? Over 80% of people who watch FOX News believe lies about Iraq... has FOX tried to correct their lie-believing viewers? Of course not.
Compare that to about 25% of PBS/Lehrer watchers who believe any one of the main lies about Iraq.
The incessant lying turns the public into confused sheep, meaning they vote badly (i.e. for national GOP figures like Bush or Chambliss)

Posted by: Josh Narins at November 14, 2003 12:06 PM

Gee, Josh, I don't suppose you'd care to provide some actual citations for the sources of those wonderfully airheaded statistics you threw out?

And what, pray tell, does the media (of any political persuasion) have to do with a person's ability to exercise free will?

I had to read your comment twice before I decided it wasn't mechanically-generated spam...it seems so irrelevant to the post. But, please, feel free to try again.

Posted by: Eric at November 14, 2003 12:24 PM
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