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Jerome a Paris on April 23, 2007 - 5:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The thing is, many of the people making decisions in DC live in bubble chambers, or mirrored rooms, or ivory towers, or have perfected self-delusion to an art form. They simply repeat what is said among themselves until it becomes reality - like the rose petal welcome the Iraqis were expected to give to their American liberators. And when events don't go as expected, then obviously, the messenger is to blame.

That's spot on. The problem is that the bubble now includes most of the "serious" pundits of the media, thus their world view becomes conventional wisdom on a much wider scale as it is endlessly rehashed and repeated in the media, and most people genuinely believe that to be true, simply because they hear it from reputable sources.

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dissident on April 23, 2007 - 8:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

America needs a regime change and quick. The Nazis were also living in a bubble of delusion and that made them dangerous to humanity. But the UK establishment is not far behind in wallowing in its own drivel. Together they are shifting their hate focus on Russia. Do these f*cktards really believe that Russia will be a cakewalk and that the physical damage will be outside their borders?

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DelusionaL on April 23, 2007 - 9:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As one reporter said( I do not remember who) you can be invited to dinners and parties or not it depends on what you report afterwards as to which list you go on.

It is easier to get along and it pays the same as long as you are good looking, I see very few common looking newsreporters anymore. Twist Ben Franklins famous statement to match current US attitudes.
"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance"

Seriously, how many americans want to hear things where they have to change thier lives to less of everything?

"The show must go on" or "On with the show" "Charge(it)"

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