Fid, normally you at least remain consistent. Here you relegate the video words to the waste-bin and then agree with his main point. Sadly, you follow this with the clearly inaccurate implied correlation between corporate influence and union influence. This type of media meme is all too often parroted and all too seldom examined.
And then to suggest that the ignorant will be influenced even more places the ‘blame’ on the victims rather than the perpetrators. Perhaps your fanaticized ‘political intelligence test’ for voting will include some sort of ethos testing for those who rule on the law, buy both the media and politicians as well as the politicians themselves… for clearly the ignorant (read: stupid) at least have an innate ‘excuse’…the others, well, I’ll leave it to you to create the test. However, surely it would include the need for an IQ above 120, right? Perhaps even a religious test…all theists being excluded. Am I getting warm? It would be interesting to learn how you would place the 170,000,000 or so currently registered voters so that they could ‘earn’ the right to vote too…perhaps in the military? Perhaps handing out political handbills? Perhaps paging for congress? I’m sure we could repopulate our National Guard to some extent too. Last decade W could have had a lot of brush cleared. Of course, there would have to be exemptions for the wealthy and influential. As to the media having finally ‘elected’ a president by which we all ‘suffered’, I wonder what happened to the money that has been spent on the media by political parties for countless decades now. As far as I know, commercials are nothing new and IF they weren’t effective, wouldn’t cost so much. Evidence suggests this truth. Evidence also suggests that ‘bribes’ are nothing new either. Oh, and political editorials by the different forms of media, while deceptively shrouded in apparent objectivity in the past, have existed for, well, perhaps almost as long as the country has. The only ‘new’ thing here is the stripping away of any limit of monies corporations can spend on elections…something that you at least agree is ‘terrible’ and will have a ‘serious detrimental effect’ on the US. Perhaps Keith wasn’t so off base after all. Perhaps as he suggests Rush and his ilk haven’t quite grasped the consequences yet either. On Jan 23, 11:59 pm, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > Anything said by Olberman can be safely relegated to the waste-bin > along with Limbaugh's comments, both are shills that refuse to see any > point but that of the most far removed from centre in their respective > directions. > > Sadly, I do feel that this decision is terrible and will have a > serious detrimental effect on America. With corporations having no > restrictions on truth,lies, or spending for the republicans and unions > having no restrictions on these either for the democrats... > As so many in this nation keep themselves utterly ignorant of issues, > politicians, and science they will be influenced to a degree even > worse than they have been. > > I have long been a proponent of some form of political intelligence > test for voting, or perhaps "earning" the right to vote by service. > This would be the only way to insure an intelligent and reality based > elections process in a nation where both the left and right have so > much mental sway. We have just suffered the first election of a > president by the media alone, and now all that will matter is who buys > (bribes) the most broadcasters and buys the most commercial time in > election years. > > On Jan 23, 10:06 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > While a bit on the hyperbolic side, this video of a special comment by > > Keith Olbermann on this week’s US Supreme Court decision points out > > much that quite logically follows from said legal decision. Perhaps > > those who appreciate democracy have a comment?...or even those who > > don’t appreciate it?... > > >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/34985508#34985508- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
