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... the public doesn't even have enough information about the politics of this country to know they're being lied to. As one columnist mentioned in the last few days (and others have in the past), politics in this country is being treated by the media as entertainment, and that it's easy to bend rules of fairness when the news people concentrate on a candidate's choice of clothes, for example.
If that's what the people are getting as "politics," how are they ever going to understand who Doug Feith is and what he does? The Defense Undersecretary for Policy sounds to them like he's sharpening pencils and passing out paperclips, not that he's implementing the creation of a working group, the Office of Special Plans, the reason for which was to embellish and distort (and possibly, forge) intelligence data to be used to take the country to war.
People's perceptions are in part a function of the news they get, and they haven't been getting much news, or time to digest it. If they're just scanning headlines, or looking at Fox's banner at the bottom of the TV screen, has their understanding of the political process improved?
Cheers.
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