American Samizdat

Thursday, May 16, 2002. *
In hipstep with that last great link via the wonderful Mr. Woods, I give you: Hypocritical Hyperbole via the also wonderful Molly Ivins:
Mahathir Mohamad is a far more brutal ruler than Castro ever dreamed of being. His party has been in power since 1957 (love those free elections). He's been in office since 1981 and the subject of denunciations by human-rights groups the entire time. His ruling faction is far ahead of Castro on bloodshed points. And we're offering Mohamad whatever he wants.
I dare say: hypocrisy is one of the biggest memes of this administration's marketing strategy, yes? Or is it simply unseen because the corporate media machines are not pointing it out? The Amazing Anesthetizing Techniques of the Big Media in America coupled with the US Educational Conformity System are perhaps the number one reason why so many Americans are ignorant of international affairs, thus ethnocentric, apathetic and easily prone to jingo-ism. We need a meme-virus to light their fire--their neuron-fire to go rat-a-tat-tat against that good long nite.
posted by Dr. Menlo at 10:29 PM
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