Ethel the Blog
on the gullibility of the media:
Let’s see. They’re getting more truth out of Baghdad than the Pentagon, but only because the Pentagon
is much more savvy about spreading lies than is Baghdad. That is, both sides are lying, but the
Pentagon is much cleverer and better at it. Then, in the very next sentence, the same source – when
wondering whether the Pentagon is lying about events because it’s really clever at lying, or because
it’s just incompetent and has no idea what the hell is going on – the source chooses the latter. After
all, they’re just a pack of good ol’ boys who are getting confused by all the clever lies being
propagated by Baghdad, who the source has already established is much better at lying than
is…er…golly, now I’m getting confused.Observing such antinomial blithering is extremely entertaining. The lengthy and ongoing propaganda
avalanche to embed the “Iraq is evil and nothing but, but the Pentagon is Jesus in fatigues” meme in
the minds of the proles has apparently been so successful that even when someone actually looks at the
evidence and figures out that the Pentagon pretty much lies whenever its lips move, they still can’t or
won’t believe the evidence over the conditioning.