"Culture of Liars"

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The "Culture of Liars" meme just got the Oprah Makeover!

Live on Oprah, Frank Rich just connected the bookclub scandal to how every section of society is overwhelmed by a culture of lying.

He mentioned the WMD lie as just one of many great lies.

"From advertising, to government, to entertainment...

When you find out one piece is untrue, you start to disbelieve every other part of the story...

We need truth in this country"

Watch out 'W' ... Truth is gonna getcha!!

on edit: link fixed! :)

[Angry Girl]

1. corrected link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey

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2. Fixed, thanks!

So why are you angry anyway? ;)

Does a culture of lying in America make you angry?

[Angry Girl]

3. I wasn't really angry until November 2004

I voted for the first time in my life then, for Kerry. Hey, anything except Bush! I found it un-frickin-believable that so many people could fall for that scumbag's cheap media tricks.

Then I watched our votes get stolen. And I watched as reams of statistical evidence were presented, along with eye witness reports of disenfranchisement, ballot box tampering, and worse. And not a single corporate newspaper said a damned thing. And of the politicians, only Conyers and Lautenberg spoke out - the rest ducked inside their air-conditioned offices with theri plush carpetting and carried on with their business as usual.

And I guess that was the day American Democracy died for me. (Now I believe it was much, much earlier but that's how I felt at the time.)

So now I'm angry that greedy, murderous religious extremists run the country like some primitive backyard dictatorship, destroying SO many lives around the world, and plunging us into an economic abyss from which we shall never recover.

The mainstream press, who is supposed to inform the public for the greater good, disgusts me the most. Politicians? You expect them to be after money and power. I mean, politicians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen -- everybody knows that. But journalists? Used to be they went into their profession because they were idealistic, they believed that information should be free and available to all because the truth allows for transparent and honest government.

But true journalists are now being hunted and killed. All we get on TV anymore are toothy actors reading the Official Truth from hastily written scripts. Newspapers and radio are now simply echo chambers for the Bushies. It's all a huge, Orwellian lie and, yes, dammit, I'm mad as hell about it but, unlike poor Mr. Beale, I HAVE to take it -- at least as long as I live in this country....

Oy. I must now go play DDR before I explode....
Peace, out!

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4. Reality hurts, huh?

:(

The good news is "anger is an energy" ... energy that leaders need at every level...

the 1775 crowd may have had a few folks who'd say they "HAVE to take it -- at least as long as I live in this country" ... but 1776 showed those people that there IS another option other than "love it" or "leave it" ... I think its closer to Howie Mandel's new show "Deal or No Deal"!!

Kerry is standing up. Kennedy is standing up.

Anger has a way of instilling backbone.

I'm so happy for your anger AG! :>

If you want to put some anger to good energy, it looks like the vote hacking exposure in Florida is hitting people hard enough to make them cry! State election administrators can't help but gulp when they see the results of the mock vote and a simple hack changing everything. For these admins their "religion" is the inviolability and TRUST that the machines passed "all examinations" and were unhackable.

Do you know the contact info for your local election administrators? Remember its EVERY machine in the system, not just the touchscreens, but also the optical readers AND ESPECIALLY the tabulators.

Its been reported the hack was a level 1 out of 3 ... 3 requiring the sophistication of a Nation-State ... so if 1 is wide open, then 3 is not even there -- and you might get angry thinking that maybe FOREIGN INTERESTS might be taking advantage of the trust the state election admins give to the machine manufacturers "blind trust" promises.

I would cry if I was there to see that moment of total destruction of democracy.

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