Liberal Media at Work
Newsweek has a new article: Is Obama The Antichrist?
It notes that the winning lottery number in Illinois was recently 666 and that "The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts..."
The "perhaps" in that sentence really does it for me.
It notes that the winning lottery number in Illinois was recently 666 and that "The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts..."
The "perhaps" in that sentence really does it for me.
posted by Matt Bors at
11:29 AM
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I think the "but they're not nuts..." bit does it for me. In what way are people who fear that Obama is the anti-christ "not nuts"? Where exactly is the rational component to this fear? How is this grounded in reality?
Let's go back to speculations about the dog, eh?
Here's the full quote: "The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts: 'They are expressing a concern and a fear that is widely shared,' Staver says."
See, if a LOT of people fear it, it must have some kernel of truth. Mass hysteria, anyone?
This seriously got published? I guess this is what I should expect from mouth-breathers that can't wait for the end of the world, ie "Rapture Ready."
One of the first people quoted in the article is Victoria Jackson. Did I miss something? Does owning a ukele qualify someone as a political commentator?
I can't help but laugh at this technique, mastered by Fox News no less, of implanting an idea into the general public's mass head-steria by stating an out-and-out lie and following it up with a question mark. Sociologists have long known that punctuation and context are not necessarily deposited into the memory bank. The core of the headline, whether or not it is pro/con is what is remembered. A free press is wonderful, but a free corporate press has created the antithesis of a knowledge based society inside the US borders.
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