Look, People . . the fact that we're even talking about this woman's tears

[Ron Green]

shows that the corporate message delivery and mental environment control system is in place and working well. Anything that's like a soap opera will automatically trump all other stories, because that's what the masses will watch. Even a bleeding catastrophe quickly gives up its "human interest" angles, as the minions of the "press" probe into the feelings and crushed hopes of newly-minted teevee faces.

As long as the lower chakras are more powerful than the upper, we're screwed as a nation.

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. I can't understand what the big deal is: one woman cries now

but if he's confirmed, hundreds of thousands will cry later. Simple as that!

[StellaBlue]

24. YOU MUST SEND THIS TO JON STEWART

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxsolomon]

2. did you know Angelina is pregnant?

its just too depressing to think about all those horrible wars & scandals, and there's nothing i can do about it anyway. i have my type 2 diabetes to worry about.

i think i'll quote a TV show's catchphrase to express my feelings!

"O no you dit'nt!"

[Ron Green]

6. I think the previous "opiates of the masses" were less harmful than

the one we've got now.

[maxsolomon]

16. i'm re-reading my Guy Debord

and i'm getting pissed off.

[Ron Green]

18. Hey, thanks! I wasn't hip to the Situationist group, and I'm checking

it out now. I've read Neil Postman on these matters, but you've opened another door for me.

[maxsolomon]

23. you may regret opening that door

Guy Debord killed himself in the 90s.

[Ron Green]

25. Yeah, I noticed as soon as I started on his bio. I think it takes a

certain amount of courage to confront the dire truths he was facing, and still decide to go on fighting the good fight.

[madmom]

3. Even Chelsea didn't cry (in public) when they called her ugly.

[Crazy Dave]

5. She's a fox now

Hubba! Hubba!

[ContraBass Black]

10. Always has been.

I'm young enough to say it.

[Crazy Dave]

22. I really meant that

I never thought of her as ugly. ;)

[Beaverhausen]

13. She wasn't sitting behind Rush when he said what he said

Do you think she didn't cry in private?

[Crazy Dave]

4. Very good point

:thumbsup:

[sandnsea]

7. Happens every time

You can beg people to talk about the important issues, like the mentally retarded young man or the strip search or the ammonia in the water, but it'll always be whatever's on the teevee. Part of the reason we can't get a message out.

[stopbush]

8. Funny how just last week the MSM was telling us that the Alito

and Abramoff stories were barely registering with the public. Then, Alito's wife cries for a few seconds and you'd think that it was 9/11 all over again.

Why is that?

[Ron Green]

11. It's a guaranteed formula, I tells ya . . .

Fear, sentimentality, name-calling . . . = RATINGS
Reason, measured discourse, policy . . . = LOSER

[txindy]

15. It triggers a reaction from their base.

Gets some people here all fired up, too.

Too bad. We see that the media is helping the Scalitos (and their admin. handlers) in manipulating the public. If other people can't see it, too bad. I've got my eyes wide open.

As for the Abramoff case registering,... We've just scratched the surface of that cesspool. :evilgrin:

[orwell]

9. Same as it ever was...

...human nature hasn't changed.

If it bleeds it leads.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Astroturfing, astroturfing, astroturfing, astroturfing, astroturfing.

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

[kentuck]

14. Bingo!

And that's the way it has always been... The working classes have been under the control of businesses and corporations for the history of this nation...Show me one time that it was not true.

[Ron Green]

17. Of course the Labor movement immediately comes to mind, but look what

happened to the big unions: charismatic leaders, corruption at the top, exploitation of the workers all over again. It points to the bigger issue, which is: can people govern themselves? Plato said No, at least not directly. The problem now is: Who will be our wisest and best? Dick Cheney or Dennis Kucinich? The lower chakras want Dick.

[CityDem]

19. Mrs. Alito in tears was the story of the day

MSM loves an emotional crying fit more than a substantive debate over the nominees positions. Years from now, more people will remember her crying than any other aspect of this hearing.

[bvar22]

20. I'm gonna cry when the Dems help seat this FASCIST !

Can I get on TV?


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans,
family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."--- Senator Paul Wellstone

In EVERY case, "Barriers to Trade" and "Restrictions on Corporations" were created to protect something valuable!

The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

[Ron Green]

21. I'm gonna scream like Howard Dean. . .

. . .so you'll have to wait your turn.
:P