Reply #112: Please don't buy into the manipulation

[Montauk6]

There have been dozens of anti-peace efforts that probably you or I don't even know about because such projects get blacked out by the Corporate Media.

So, now you've got some adhocsters, two to be exact, doin' the humpty-hump to end the war, big deal. No problem.

What IS the problem is how the MSM takes this ONE element of a HUGE movement and school of thought and gives it the significance of an AP news story

Limbaugh used to do this all the time with his Updates back in the 80s; I know because I'm a recovering dittohead. His team of producers would comb the news stories far and wide to pick out the most outlandish copy and present that as what's going on in the Peace or AIDS or Environmental movement. And idiots like me would, of course, suck it all in while guffawing at the way Rush would skewer these people with his sharp wit (y'know, I guess it's much easier to win a debate against a news story as opposed to the actual participants, whom he'd never had on his show) while walking away CONVINCED that the wackiness defines the movement.

The right-wing keeps this up whenever they want to cry "political correctness" or speak out against the "war on Christmas" and so forth.