Bill Frantz wrote: > At 10:19 AM -0800 2/2/03, Tim May wrote:
> >Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an "information" slug at > >the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: "Columbia was traveling 18 > >times faster than the speed of light." > "Please mister spaceman, won't you please take me along for a ride." > - J. McGuinn In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling at "Mock 18." Clearly, the guy who did the legendary "Nigger Innis" interview is still employed. The nonsense we are hearing about the danger of the shuttle debris is typical of the new "truth" as defined by the religious and political right wing. "Truth" is no longer the opposite of false. It is what makes the Sheeple act according to the morality of the day. Thus, "liquid nitrogen on the shuttle debris can combine with atmospheric oxygen to produce oxides of nitrogen which are fatal when inhaled" is "true" because it keeps people from touching shuttle debris. "This is your brain on drugs" is "true" because it keeps people from smoking pot. "There are 100,000 pay child porn sites on the Web" is "true," because it causes people to exaggerate a problem for which the government wants zero tolerance. Similarly "The Islamic world is mad at at us because they hate our freedom" is "true." "If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists" is "true." etc... You see, there are "real facts," and then there are "good facts." Orwell would be pleased. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
