While the US was riveted and divided by OJ, the GOP used the distraction to takeover Congress.
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They know exactly how to work quietly under the radar for some parts of their agenda, at the same time they are loudly and cynically pressing an opportunistic narrative in the corporate media.
Just a warning for those who didn't live through this before, and a reminder for those who did.
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Yep, I'm absurd for not believing that the GOP used its mind meld machine to convince OJ to murder some people....and then trickily use it to win the congressional elections in 1994.
Per wikipedia, the 1994 World Cup was June 17-July 17....right after the murders happened. What in the HELL does that have to do with an election in November...where nobody pays attention until September at the earliest? btw....Pasadena isn't LA ( "World Cup events in Los Angeles" )
I'm going to try and slip some info underneath your tin foil cap:
The republicans nationilized the election.
That's it.
It was very effective, it took the democrats off guard, and both parties have been trying to do the same ever since.
Somehow I don't think you'll believe me - and continue to marginalize our political process by claiming it is a continuing series of conspiracies.
His tragic death an injustice is just a symptom of the division and disease the 1% have mitigated on the rest, through control of the media.
Its good for private security companies the NRA, and more division.
I know what that implies but think about it. They are only a pawn in their game.
A South politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than blacks, don't complain
You're better than them, you been born with white skin" they explain
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
To avoid talking Snowden and NSA and prism. Now they can't and the damn story refuses to die
because, to me, we can multitask. Those of us who choose to be informed, that is, like those of us here at DU.
We can recognize manipulation that underlies most of which occurs, especially in media, but also see the need to pay attention to this particular media focus because it COULD lead to an important national conversation.
We can do that AND pay attention to the man behind the curtain. 
I apologize for being dense here...I am missing the point.
that most of us find ourselves in makes being informed -- let alone doing something about it -- very challenging.
Of course, that's by design as well.
No, none of it is easy. 
