Yeah, it's really that bad. And as usual, mass corporate media plays the leading role in spewing disinformation and creating mass confusion. This is from another GD post currently on the first page:
From yesterday's NY Daily News:"We've come through some pretty rough times, but things are goin' great now," he (Bush) told an old friend recently.
Like his father, Bush has always embraced the half-full view of life and politics. But longtime Bush-watchers report that even by that genetically rosy standard - critics might suggest Pollyannaish - his cheerfulness of late is remarkable.
"You'd think he'd just be happy to be getting the hell out of a place he can't stand," a close pal told the Daily News. "But he's really up. I'm amazed how up."
Bush's inner tranquility mainly derives from a profound sense of vindication regarding the Iraq war. The success of the troop surge he launched a year ago has given him the last laugh over the skeptics, Bush believes.
"He thinks we're not just winning in Iraq," says someone who speaks with Bush often, "he thinks we're routing them. He believes we're doing 10 times better than everybody else perceives."
So one of the most widely distributed US papers, owned by man of the people Mort Zuckerman, the 188th richest American (Forbes, 2007), accepts uncritically the crazy and wrong BushCo talking point that the "surge" -- or, in English, the escalation -- is a success.
Evidence to the contrary is all over the
http://212.187.153.30/usa/story/0,,2223700,00.html">international press and
even the US press on the net, but the secret's safe here in the insular land of the information averse who prefer D-list celebrity gossip to anything remotely relevant to their weird little lives.
At least the article raises the possibility that Bush is completely insane when it quotes his old pal saying Bush believes "we're routing them" and that "...we're doing 10 times better than everybody else perceives." Bush and cognitive dissonance are old drinking buddies.
But if we don't enforce anti-trust legislation now on the books, and if we continue to reward mass media trash purveyors for their criminality by supporting their sponsors, we're on track to withdraw completely from the fact-based world and live in some demented fantasy version of fortress America.
And another two-sentence post turns into a novella.
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