Just listened to the parting remarks made by Jon Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watchv=jXmbzLI3pnk&feature=player_embedded will get you there) at the Washington DC Rally for Sanity and was reminded of my history lessons. Were not the court jesters the ones who could tell the absolute truth -or maybe just the inconvenient truths - to the King or the Queen without being punished? The Courtiers had to make things look good and flatter the ruler in order to be kept on and maintain their influence.
The sadness over this state of affairs- that comedians have to step up for SANITY and the truth, while all the supposedly free carriers of the news and the truth are feeding us IN-sanity, comprised mostly of spin and lies, is only outweighed by the comments posted following the youtube clip. How so many people -who apparently read and write well- can miss the point of the rally altogether by such a wide margin is rather incomprehensible to me. Read them and see for yourself.
Case in point on the media's reliability over the last few days, the parcels supposedly filled with explosives sent by freight plane from Yemen (who knows?) and promptly intercepted by our vigilant homeland security department long before they arrived here. If you poke around a bit in the independent news sites you will see that this is an entirely ridiculous story that can be proven wrong and inconsistent very easily. Purpose? To install fear in our not so informed populace - exactly the fear-mongering Stewart's rally was pointing out.
Please inform yourself and THINK. And if you have not voted yet, please do so on the correct side of the ballot. (I know that's hard, but maybe reading Michael Moore's latest essay can help you out.
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