I made the mistake of perusing the local paper tonight (and it was the "good" one too) only to see the letters section still debating Michael Moore's idiotic 9-11 movie. For heavens sake, why? The guy who liked the film had a paranoid list of U.S. Atrocities and falsehoods that was missing only the fake moon landings and the UFO parts being kept in Roswell. The letter writer in question also knew - for a fact - that the U.S. sunk it's own ship, the USS Maine, as a pretext to start the Spanish American war. They also killed only black sailors in doing so. Don't ask how that's possible, or how the nutjobs come to know these things. They just know, y'know?
Moore's questioning of the president is not a bad thing. But his line of questioning is so weak it must be dismissed. If you can call the president a fascist in the media and not go to jail, you are rather obviously wrong on that point.
Why is no one asking questions about U.S. overreach? About what might happen to Iran in a second Bush term? About what might happen to Taiwan (for example) if the U.S. is seen worldwide as being stretched to the limit by being in Iraq and Afghanistan? There are good questions to be asked.
To return to my point, why do such stupid, ranting accusations continue to get printed? Because very few people in the media actually subscribe to the notion that they have a duty to tell the truth. They see the truth as being irrelevant to what they do. What they do, really, is sell papers. And they will do anything, print anything, say anything, to achieve that end. Under the old paradigm, media outlets sold their credibility, and they had to be wary of what they published lest they sully that reputation.
Letters for and against Moore get people riled up. The sell ads. The merit of Moore's attack on the presided is utterly beside the point. Record companies that sell profane, sexist crap to kids are doing the same thing. So are women's magazine's that scream "you need to buy this" and fill their with sludge extolling the virtues of the products advertised in their pages.
There's a word for people who'll do anything for a buck...
Maybe it's not all their fault. Maybe they were just raised that way.
Brainwashing 101 :: AcademicBias.com
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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