Suspicion and conspiracy have become a way of life. Today is the anniversary of the crash of TWA Flight 800 which, July 17, 1996, blew up over the Atlantic. Countless theories have emerged about the event and a movie was produced recently describing a popular notion that the plane was shot down by a missile and evidence actively suppressed by the government. Kennedy was killed by the CIA, the Mafia, the Cubans, by Lyndon Johnson. Black helicopters are everywhere. How could this mindset of disbelief and suspicion emerge and become mainstream? How could we have become so uncertain?
An atmosphere of mendacity. Overt mendacity by people we should trust leads to an atmosphere of distrust.
MSNBC is here remembering George Wallace and his symbolic stand in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent two young black students from attending, a great moment in the history of state's rights, constitutional denial and bigotry.
Denial and bigotry are apparently still alive. Ditto stupidity. Wallace was not a Republican. Either MSNBC is too incompetent to know that or.....
Of course the recent revelation that NBC doctored the Martin-Zimmerman 911 call for a racial effect might make one suspicious that NBC has a bigger motive, a motive perhaps obscure to us working slugs.
Do not forget, Goebbels might have been cynical about the specifics but he was dead sold on the big picture.
Sometimes sincere and greater motives must rise above Truth.
An atmosphere of mendacity. Overt mendacity by people we should trust leads to an atmosphere of distrust.
MSNBC is here remembering George Wallace and his symbolic stand in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent two young black students from attending, a great moment in the history of state's rights, constitutional denial and bigotry.
Denial and bigotry are apparently still alive. Ditto stupidity. Wallace was not a Republican. Either MSNBC is too incompetent to know that or.....
Of course the recent revelation that NBC doctored the Martin-Zimmerman 911 call for a racial effect might make one suspicious that NBC has a bigger motive, a motive perhaps obscure to us working slugs.
Do not forget, Goebbels might have been cynical about the specifics but he was dead sold on the big picture.
Sometimes sincere and greater motives must rise above Truth.
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