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In reply to the discussion: Ever wonder when the GOP figured out they could lie right into Americans faces and get away with it? [View all]FightForChange
(44 posts)29. I guess when they realized they served the same people as the media
They are bought by big business and so is the American media. Why not team up and blatantly lie to the American people. A lot of people don't realize that the news stations are full of shit and don't bother to look at who's funding them. Like the oil tycoon, Al-Waleed bin Talal, who is Fox News' fourth biggest investor. Yes, a channel who often portrays Arabs as the sole terrorists in the world (because according to the media you're only a terrorist if you're not white), is actually funded by a Saudi Arabian tycoon. Ironic, huh?
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Ever wonder when the GOP figured out they could lie right into Americans faces and get away with it? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Apr 2012
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Historical note: Karl Rove got his start as one of Donald Segretti's
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#20
They figured it out after the "Lone Gunman and No Shots from the Grassy Knoll"
ThomThom
Apr 2012
#10
Or a smoldering fire on the 80th floor, in steel frame building, can suddenly pancake it
RC
Apr 2012
#11
In the late thirties, when American business was IN LOVE WITH the Nazis "efficiency and order"
saras
Apr 2012
#17
Bingo. The GOP today resembles nothing more than the 1920s-1030s Fascists of Italy, Spain, & Germany
TahitiNut
Apr 2012
#39
SAUDI Prince Alalweed bin Talal, 2nd largest block of News Corp stock, a.k.a. Fox News
patrice
Apr 2012
#32
The focus-grouping techniques that produced "Morning in America" are an application
patrice
Apr 2012
#31