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OT - Media Fairyland by George Monbiot |
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
18/1/2005
Media Fairyland
Filed under: media politics
The US media is creating a world of make believe.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 18th January 2005
On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be re-crowned. He was
elected on a platform suspended in mid air by the power of
imagination. He is the leader of a band of men who walk through
ghostly realms unvisited by reality. And he remains the most powerful
person on earth.
How did this happen? How did a fantasy president from a world of make
believe come to govern a country whose power was built on hard-headed
materialism? To find out, take a look at two squalid little stories
which have been concluded over the past ten days.
The first involves the broadcaster CBS. In September, its 60 Minutes
programme ran an investigation into how George Bush avoided the
Vietnam draft. It produced memos which appeared to show that his
squadron commander in the Texas National Guard had been persuaded to
“sugarcoat” his service record. The programme’s allegations were
immediately and convincingly refuted: Republicans were able to point
to evidence suggesting the memos had been faked. Last week, following
an inquiry into the programme, the producer was sacked, and three CBS
executives were forced to resign.
The incident couldn’t have been more helpful to Bush. Though there is
no question that he managed to avoid serving in Vietnam, the collapse
of CBS’s story suggested that all the allegations made about his war
record were false, and the issue dropped out of the news. CBS was
furiously denounced by the rightwing pundits, with the result that
between then and the election, hardly any broadcaster dared to
criticise George Bush. Mary Mapes, the producer whom CBS fired, was
the network’s most effective investigative journalist: she was the
person who helped bring the Abu Ghraib photos to public attention. If
the memos were faked, the forger was either a moron or a very smart
operator.
It’s true, of course, that CBS should have taken more care. But I
think it is safe to assume that if the network had instead broadcast
unsustainable allegations about John Kerry, none of its executives
would now be looking for work. How many people have lost their jobs,
at CBS or anywhere else, for repeating bogus stories released by the
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about Kerry’s record in Vietnam? How
many were sacked for misreporting the Jessica Lynch affair? Or for
claiming that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme
in 2003? Or that he was buying uranium from Niger, or using mobile
biological weapons labs, or had a hand in 9/11? How many people were
sacked, during Clinton’s presidency, for broadcasting outright lies
about the Whitewater affair? The answer, in all cases, is none.
You can say what you like in the US media, as long as it helps a
Republican president. But slip up once while questioning him, and you
will be torn to shreds. Even the most grovelling affirmations of
loyalty won’t help. The presenter of 60 Minutes, Dan Rather, is the
man who once told his audience, “George Bush is the President, he
makes the decisions and, you know, as just one American, he wants me
to line up, just tell me where”.(1) CBS is owned by the conglomerate
Viacom, whose chairman told reporters “we believe the election of a
Republican administration is better for our company.”(2) But for Fox
News and the shockjocks syndicated by ClearChannel, Rather’s faltering
attempt at investigative journalism is further evidence of “a liberal
media conspiracy”.
This is not the first time something like this has happened. In 1998,
CNN made a programme which claimed that, during the Vietnam war, US
special forces dropped sarin gas on defectors who had fled to Laos.(3)
In this case, there was plenty of evidence to support the story. But
after four weeks of furious denunciations, the network’s owner, Ted
Turner, publicly apologised in terms you would expect to hear during a
showtrial in North Korea: “I’ll take my shirt off and beat myself
bloody on the back”. CNN had erred, he said, by broadcasting the
allegations when “we didn’t have evidence beyond a reasonable
doubt.”(4) As the website wsws.org has pointed out, it’s hard to think
of a single investigative story – Watergate, the My Lai massacre,
Britain’s arms to Iraq scandal – which could have been proved at the
time by journalists “beyond a reasonable doubt”.(5) But Turner did
what was demanded of him, with the result that, in media fairyland,
the atrocity is now deemed not to have happened.
The other squalid little story broke three days before the CBS people
were sacked. A US newspaper discovered that Armstrong Williams, a
television presenter who (among other jobs) had a weekly slot on a
syndicated TV show called America’s Black Forum, had secretly signed a
$240,000 contract with the US Department of Education.(6) The contract
required him “to regularly comment” on George Bush’s education bill
“during the course of his broadcasts” and to ensure that “Secretary
Paige [the Education Secretary] and other department officials shall
have the option of appearing from time to time as studio guests”.(7)
It’s hard to see why the administration bothered to pay him. Williams
has described as his “mentors” Lee Atwater – the man who, under
Reagan’s presidency, brought a new viciousness to Republican
campaigning – and the segregationist senator Strom Thurmond.(8) His
broadcasting career has been dedicated to promoting extreme Republican
causes and attacking civil rights campaigns.
What makes this story interesting is that the show he worked on was
founded, in 1977, by the radical black activists Glen Ford and Peter
Gamble, to “allow Black reporters to hold politicians and activists of
all persuasions accountable to Black people”.(9) They sold their
shares in 1980, and the programme was later bought by the Uniworld
Group. With Williams’s help, the new owners have reversed its
politics, and turned it into a recruitment vehicle for the Republican
party. Williams appears to have been taking money for doing what he
was doing anyway.
These stories, in other words, are illustrations of the ways in which
the US media is disciplined by corporate America. In the first case
the other corporate broadcasters joined forces to punish a dissenter
in their ranks. In the second case a corporation captured what was
once a dissenting programme and turned it into another means of
engineering conformity.
The role of the media corporations in the United States is similar to
that of repressive state regimes elsewhere: they decide what the
public will and won’t be allowed to hear, and either punish or recruit
the social deviants who insist on telling a different story. The
journalists they employ do what almost all journalists working under
repressive regimes do: they internalise the demands of the censor, and
understand, before anyone has told them, what is permissible and what
is not.
So, when they are faced with a choice between a fable which helps the
Republicans, and a reality which hurts them, they choose the fable. As
their fantasies accumulate, the story they tell about the world veers
further and further from reality. Anyone who tries to bring the people
back down to earth is denounced as a traitor and a fantasist. And
anyone who seeks to become president must first learn to live in
fairyland.
www.monbiot.com
References:
1. Quoted by Michael Massing, 27th September 2001. Press Watch. The
Nation.
2. No author, 24th September 2004. Guess Who’s a GOP Booster? The
Asian Wall Street Journal.
3. CNN, 7th June 1998. The name of the programme was “Valley of
Death”.
4. Barry Grey, 16th July 1998. Why did CNN retract its nerve gas
report? http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/july1998/cnn-j16.shtml
5. ibid.
6. Greg Toppo, 7th January 2005. White House Paid Commentator to
Promote Law. USA Today.
7. David D. Kirkpatrick, 8th January 2005. TV Host Says U.S. Paid Him
To Back Policy. The New York Times.
8. George E. Curry, 17th January 2005. Armstrong Williams: No Money
Left Behind. New Pittsburgh Courier.
9. Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, 12th December 2002. America’s Black
Rightwing Forum. The Black Commentator, Issue 20.
--
epicurus1*at*optusnet*dot*com*dot*au
apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
Chief EAC prophet
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Apatriotism Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatriotism
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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| Title: Re: OT - Media Fairyland by George Monbiot |
20 Jan 2005 06:17:50 AM |
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Jesus loves atheists too. They just don't know it yet.
Celebrate our real Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow!
Our Real Thanksgiving Day Is Tomorrow, January 20, 2005
Tomorrow our current President George Walker Bush will be inaugurated
once again by the people. He will take the solemn oath to defend our
country and to bring us to greatness for four more years. We all must
pause and take a moment to thank God for giving us such a great and
gifted Leader in these perilous times. George W. Bush stood up and
rescued us from the terrorists who attacked us on that terrible day,
September 11, 2001. His courageous leadership led our troops into enemy
territory and avenged our innocent dead by killing thousands of
terrorists, thereby saving our homeland from imminent danger. His
generous spirit brought democracy and freedom to the entire Middle
East, starting with Iraq where a terrible dictator was deposed, his
weapons of mass destruction are no longer a threat, and the people are
now being brought into the modern era. For the very first time in
history, our American power is unchallenged throughout the world.
George W. Bush deserves full credit for this great accomplishment. It
was a clear demonstration of God's will that we were given a great
Leader at the right time, and every freedom-loving American should give
thanks to God that we have a strong and firm Leader who is willing to
protect us from terrorism.
Another tremendous blessing was bestowed upon us this last November
when a clear majority of Americans voted for the President, thus
ensuring that America will continue to benefit from George W. Bush's
leadership. Judging from his outstanding record in rescuing our economy
from the throes of recession and joblessness and pessimism, the next
four years will bring unparalleled freedom, growth and prosperity. All
the remnants of Marxism will be erased from our land, and every citizen
will enjoy the real American government our founding fathers intended
us to have. America will be the greatest civilization this planet has
ever witnessed, because of its Christian foundation which will be firm,
thanks to our great President who is above all the best Christian man
who has ever occupied the White House.
Please pray for his good health and success. It is the hardest job in
the world, and America needs his stewardship more than ever so we can
continue to have freedom. Please pray for his beautiful wife and
daughters, and his parents who gave us such a great Leader. Please pray
for the government officials and the Congress who work with the
President. We must also pray for the Democrats. They're the lost souls
who went astray, and they've been finally vanquished by the righteous.
We may deride them as our enemies, but we must have pity for them, and
hope that God has mercy on them. It was God's will that they came
before us, but now it is God's will that we are in control so we can
correct their mistakes and restore America to true greatness and real
freedom.
Every American must celebrate tomorrow as our latter-day founding. We
thank Almighty God and our Lord Jesus Christ for George W. Bush, and we
thank George W. Bush for his sacrifice and his great service to
America. Future generations will owe a tremendous debt to him, and we
also thank him on their behalf.
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| User: "Jez" |
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21 Jan 2005 01:29:11 PM |
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wrote:
Jesus loves atheists too. They just don't know it yet.
Jesus, if there was such a person, died over 2,000 years ago.
So he's hardly capable of breathing, let alone loving.
Celebrate our real Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow!
Our Real Thanksgiving Day Is Tomorrow, January 20, 2005
Tomorrow our current President George Walker Bush will be inaugurated
once again by the people. He will take the solemn oath to defend our
country and to bring us to greatness for four more years.
Why the US voted for a war-criminal is beyond me.
But Greg Palast summed it up quite well....
http://www.rense.com/general62/oaf.htm
Best bit...
'Indeed your entire campaign was about American cowardice: "they" are
coming to get us. Americans, scared for their lives, soiled their
underpants and waddled to the polls crying, "Georgie, save us!"'
We all must
pause and take a moment to thank God for giving us such a great and
gifted Leader in these perilous times. George W. Bush stood up and
rescued us from the terrorists who attacked us on that terrible day,
September 11, 2001.
If Georgie boy was doing his job, 9/11 would have been prevented.
But, nope Georgie boy, in spite of warnings, took a holiday !
And you assholes voted him back in !!
Are you totally stupid or what ???????
Rest of your fear-driven retard garbage snipped....
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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21 Jan 2005 01:38:39 PM |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:29:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
hotmale_65@yahoo.com wrote:
Jesus loves atheists too. They just don't know it yet.
Jesus, if there was such a person, died over 2,000 years ago.
So he's hardly capable of breathing, let alone loving.
Celebrate our real Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow!
Our Real Thanksgiving Day Is Tomorrow, January 20, 2005
Tomorrow our current President George Walker Bush will be inaugurated
once again by the people. He will take the solemn oath to defend our
country and to bring us to greatness for four more years.
Why the US voted for a war-criminal is beyond me.
Because 59,054,087 sociopaths don't care that he is.
But Greg Palast summed it up quite well....
http://www.rense.com/general62/oaf.htm
Best bit...
'Indeed your entire campaign was about American cowardice: "they" are
coming to get us. Americans, scared for their lives, soiled their
underpants and waddled to the polls crying, "Georgie, save us!"'
The inauguration was nauseating. Someone else has posted the URL of an
audio clip with laughter superimposed.
I turned off the radion because I found myself shouting at it with
every lie, every bit of hypocrisy.
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| User: "johac" |
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21 Jan 2005 07:54:50 AM |
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In article <1106201870.078055.139350@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
Jesus loves atheists too. They just don't know it yet.
Celebrate our real Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow!
Our Real Thanksgiving Day Is Tomorrow, January 20, 2005
FOAD, *****!
< PLONK! >
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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20 Jan 2005 06:28:43 AM |
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On 19 Jan 2005 22:17:50 -0800, wrote:
Jesus loves atheists too. They just don't know it yet.
Go ***** yourself, moron.
Celebrate our real Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow!
Our Real Thanksgiving Day Is Tomorrow, January 20, 2005
Tomorrow our current President George Walker Bush will be inaugurated
once again by the people. He will take the solemn oath to defend our
country and to bring us to greatness for four more years. We all must
pause and take a moment to thank God for giving us such a great and
You're thanking a figment of Bush's deluded imagination for Bush?
And are stupid enough to do it on an atheist newsgroup?
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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20 Jan 2005 03:33:18 PM |
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Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
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| User: "Jez" |
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21 Jan 2005 01:30:19 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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21 Jan 2005 02:43:22 PM |
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Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Monbiot is a halfassed propagandist.
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
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| User: "" |
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21 Jan 2005 04:30:40 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Monbiot is a halfassed propagandist.
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
The location of these warehouses is a closely-guarded neocon secret?
Are you seriously suggesting that if Mr. Bush knew about real WMDs, he
would keep it a secret? It is the most potent (incorrectly, I think)
weapon used by his critics of the war.
Or are you privy to information he is not?
Kermit
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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21 Jan 2005 09:13:47 PM |
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wrote in news:1106325040.854567.171640
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Monbiot is a halfassed propagandist.
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
The location of these warehouses is a closely-guarded neocon secret?
Not at all. It's publically available information. Been out there for a
long time. All those laughing jackasses on the left make light of it,
but it's not going away.
Are you seriously suggesting that if Mr. Bush knew about real WMDs, he
would keep it a secret? It is the most potent (incorrectly, I think)
weapon used by his critics of the war.
Yeah, heh, that's the best they've got and it ain't *****.
Or are you privy to information he is not?
I'm not privy to anything special. This information is all published in
publically available documents, including the Duelfer report.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
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| User: "Jez" |
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22 Jan 2005 04:18:52 AM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
unrestrained_hand@hotmail.com wrote in news:1106325040.854567.171640
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Monbiot is a halfassed propagandist.
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
The location of these warehouses is a closely-guarded neocon secret?
Not at all. It's publically available information. Been out there for a
long time. All those laughing jackasses on the left make light of it,
but it's not going away.
Are you seriously suggesting that if Mr. Bush knew about real WMDs, he
would keep it a secret? It is the most potent (incorrectly, I think)
weapon used by his critics of the war.
Yeah, heh, that's the best they've got and it ain't *****.
Or are you privy to information he is not?
I'm not privy to anything special. This information is all published in
publically available documents, including the Duelfer report.
Uh huh.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "Jez" |
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21 Jan 2005 03:10:06 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Meteorite Debris <abuse@optusnet,com.au> wrote in
news:MPG.1c59cadc9137fe16989fed@news.optusnet.com.au:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/18/media-fairyland-/
What a truly amazing piece of doublethink.
Monbiot is a great guy.
Monbiot is a halfassed propagandist.
Another irony-meter explodes !!
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
Uh-huh.
Not surprising war-criminals get re-elected with dumb-fucks like you in
such huge numbers.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "Tukla Ratte" |
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24 Jan 2005 10:47:52 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
< snip >
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
Farmers are fucked, then. They all have ingredients for biological
weapons and explosives. Not to mention methamphetamines.
I'd better call the National Guard.
--
Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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24 Jan 2005 11:31:03 PM |
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Tukla Ratte <tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote in news:35lcbbF4n2njbU1
@individual.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in
news:b56dnWhOKcF6nmzcRVnyvQ@pipex.net:
< snip >
Where's the WMD's Fred ?
In warehouses labeled "insecticide".
Farmers are fucked, then. They all have ingredients for biological
weapons and explosives. Not to mention methamphetamines.
I'd better call the National Guard.
Oh sigh, another one with no bloody sense. Yes, any farmer is likely to
have that sort of stuff around. Which of those farmers is known to have
used it on his neighbors?
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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20 Jan 2005 07:36:17 AM |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:04:52 +1030, Meteorite Debris
<abuse@optusnet,com.au> said in alt.atheism:
So, when they are faced with a choice between a fable which helps the
Republicans, and a reality which hurts them, they choose the fable. As
their fantasies accumulate, the story they tell about the world veers
further and further from reality. Anyone who tries to bring the people
back down to earth is denounced as a traitor and a fantasist. And
anyone who seeks to become president must first learn to live in
fairyland.
I guess we're lucky the US didn't become a dictatorship before the
advent of the WWW.
--
"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be under-
stood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can
comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of
humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
- 1954 or 1955; quoted in Dukas and Hoffman _Albert Einstein the Human Side_, p. 39
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