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geckosfeet

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1. Just because some media owner trots his RW mouth pieces out onto his network every day,
Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:28 PM
Nov 2012

does not make them a majority - or even morally and ethically legitimate.

The problem is, that people who watch television assume that since these talking heads are ON television, that they are somehow legitimate. THEY ARE NOT! They are simply paid shills.

But simply by putting a shill on the air next to a token liberal, democrat or what have you - simply by putting them on the same stage and making it look like they are equally legitimate, you have successfully presented and sold the idea that there is in fact some equivalency there. The sheeple who pay to watch these networks every day, are for the most part not able to make the distinction between legitimate political, social and cultural positions and RW extremist hate infotainment.

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