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Nearly all MPs scream in anger, papers condemn, families of Blackwatch condemn, it's mentioned the timing is excellent for the November election for Bush Jr.
The head of an Aid Agency is kidnapped, with a no-doubt saddingly predictable end to that story.
A bomb goes of yesterday killing & injuring over 100 Iraqis, busy enjoying the freedom and happiness brought on by our invasion.
And what's in the papers and news?
BORIS JOHNSON ANGERS SCALLIES!!!!!!!!!!!
HUNTLEY'S VOODOO RITUALS!!!!!!
COLDEST MONDAY SINCE TIME BEGAN!!!!!!!!
Is anybody actually buying this diversion horseshit?
Or are some, even if just some, people saying "Hey hang on a moment here, Blair refuses to apologise for leading us into a phony war based on inaccurate and fabricated evidence, as reported by the CIA-headed investigation. Why is nobody burning down the streets in anger over this?"
*shakes head*
As the proverb goes "The bigger the lie, the more people believe it"
But hey, enjoy your X-Factor/Celebrity Pigwanking/Soap Operas/Tabloids implicitly helping to keep us stupid and glass-eyed, obsessed with footballers and the asinine "sex secrets" of whomever-the-hell-this-week.
2004 - The Middle Ages with shinier hovels.
Several RAF bases too.
Religion is the opiate of the masses? If Karl Marx had read the tabloids he would have revised that opinion...
But then that's the general feeling of the entire board - newspapers (specifically the Daily Mail) are crap and so is most TV. Hard to fault the theory.
> Okay. I know this isn't really what the topic is about but as I
> don't watch TV or read the papers. What is that?
I missed the hog being jacked off too. It took 5 minutes to fully empty its tank. Or so I was told.
> So entertainment now involves watching somebody earn their 15mins by
> bringing a pig to ejaculation. On national television.
So nice to know my TV licence money isn't going to waste :(
> Anybody that watched/watches that crap is too stupid to vote or have
> kids.
> New rule.
Seconded!
BBC2 - 10pm "The Power of Nightmares"
A new series exploring the idea that the threat of a global terror network is a myth. The story starts in 1949 with the rise of the American Neoconservatives, and a radical Islamist whose ideas would go on to inspire the 9/11 attacks.
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=today&service_id=4224&filename=20041020/20041020_2100_4224_40078_60[/URL]
If you ever thought "Hmmmm" at RICINDEATHBOMBKILLARAB!!! stories, or refused to believe that behind every Middle Eastern is a slavering terroristmadmanevilhitler waiting to do crimes to your nice white lifestyle, check it out.
Or it could just be propoganda from whiny lefty communists who want you to be slack and neglectful, when DIRTYARABMUSLIMTERRORDEATH will no doubt strike.
Oh, and if you're one of those people stupid enough to believe Iraq was about "freeing the people" or "combatting the Axis of Evil", then stick to "Wackiest Home Videos" or something equally sedative.
Wow, BBC2 commissioning a programme that seems to hold a similar world view and distrust of major media conglomerates to Goatboy...there's a turn up, guess it might not just be me who's sick to death of being told to be afraid of anybody foreign or being told to stock up on bottled water and tins of food in case some vague, unidentifiable threat puts non-existent WMD in my cereal.
Yet, millions buy The Sun/Mail but ah well. They're stupid anyway.