Mainstream Media Meltdown continues... majority of Americans say Bush lied

[StefanX]

Liar

A majority of American believe the president of the United State deliberately misled the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

You'd think such a fact would, just maybe, have an impact on the press. It might make them a bit curious. It might make the probe a bit deeper. They might be rather stunned that a majority of Americans came to this conclusion despite the fact that very rarely is this opinion actually expressed over the airwaves by any of the guardians of our political discourse.

-- Atrios at Eschaton, 26 July 2005

Hey - I think DU and the rest of the blogosphere / netroots is having an impact!

[OKDem08]

1. I only wish

this realization would have surfaced a few months earlier

[DanCa]

7. Welcome to DU OKDEM08

IT seems alot of americans have alot of appologizing to do to senator kerry.

[OKDem08]

11. Thank you, DanCa

The purple heart band-aids distributed at the Repub convention still sickens me. I wonder if any Republicans ever apologized to him for that.

[DanCa]

13. Yes it's amazing what they will forgive wont they

That what pushed my dad over to kerry this year. He said he'd never serve again because of that stunt.

[Miss Chybil]

2. Just how do you think the majority of Americans came to that conclusion,

by watching cartoons?

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. By noticing reality does not equate with spin

Controlling the propaganda has limits.

[nookiemonster]

9. They really need to get a handle on this.

Cognitive dissonance is a theory of human motivation that asserts that it is psychologically uncomfortable to hold contradictory cognitions. The theory is that dissonance, being unpleasant, motivates a person to change his cognition, attitude, or behavior. This theory was first explored in detail by social psychologist Leon Festinger, who described it this way:

Dissonance and consonance are relations among cognitions that is, among opinions, beliefs, knowledge of the environment, and knowledge of one's own actions and feelings. Two opinions, or beliefs, or items of knowledge are dissonant with each other if they do not fit together; that is, if they are inconsistent, or if, considering only the particular two items, one does not follow from the other (Festinger 1956: 25).

He argued that there are three ways to deal with cognitive dissonance. He did not consider these mutually exclusive.

1.

One may try to change one or more of the beliefs, opinions, or behaviors involved in the dissonance;
2.

One may try to acquire new information or beliefs that will increase the existing consonance and thus cause the total dissonance to be reduced; or,
3.

One may try to forget or reduce the importance of those cognitions that are in a dissonant relationship (Festinger 1956: 25-26).

http://skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html

[Dr Fate]

6. By checking their bank-accounts and reading family e-mail debates...

...that consists of info from the internet.

[DanCa]

8. Welcome to DU Miss Chybil

I don't know maybe everyone once in a while they switch over from Rush to AAR?

[skooooo]

3. What about shark bites??

Been any of those off the coast of Florida lately?

[Dr Fate]

5. As long as no "star" DEMs make that charge, why should they?

Why are we blaming the Republican owned media for not saying what our "star" DEMs should be saying every day?

[libertypirate]

10. The press asleep at the wheel...

I am creating a compilation of documents into one blog.

http://miawmdwtfw.blogspot.com/

If anyone notices anything I might be missing let me know, thanks.

[leftchick]

12. has chimpy** finally jumped the shark??