LA Times fires Ted Rall for criticizing LAPD after saying he lied about them; turns out LAPD lied

[shadowmayor]

17. American Propaganda

Me and my uncle - my Uncle Frank (my favorite) was speaking to my cousins and me about Pravda and Soviet propaganda during the Reagan years. He told us that we were bombarded with just as much propaganda here in the good ol' USA as any other country, only we just didn't know it. The media delivered us messages to soothe the masses and most were unaware. He was not a college educated person, just a hard working WWII vet who had fought at Peleliu, Leyte, Okinawa, and was stationed in Japan after the surrender. He never trusted the right wingers and especially the top brass in the military. He told us what a prick MacArthur was and he constantly reminded us that as weak as the democrats could be, that the Republican party had never done a GD thing for the working man in this country. He lived in the LA area and he told us repeatedly not to believe anything we read in that paper. He passed in the fall of 2003, and his final words on the Bush administration were "These people are fucking incompetent, totally incompetent. Why can't people just see the obvious?" Well propaganda for one. Bottom line - Mr. Rall was correct and again, nothing will change.

The Shadow Mayor