________________________________ Doug Henwood (Mon, August 23, 2010 3:23:04 PM) cites:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=9D4FB06C-18FE-70B2-A816122D08B32D83
Obama in Disinformationland By: Neal Gabler August 23, 2010 04:28 AM EDT
". . .But higher education rates and easier access to information have been undermined by what amounts to a vast and insidious revolutionary force — a kind of anti-Enlightenment in which facts yield to rumor, reason to uninformed opinion and objectivity to proudly declared subjectivity. . . ."
Now do you call the initial wide belief in Colin Powell's speech to the UN about the Iraqi anthrax program rumor, uninformed opinion, or proudly declared subjectivity? How about Greenspan's assurance that there wasn't a housing bubble? How about the current administration's virtually daily announcements that we're galloping up the road to recovery? How about the constantly repeated facts, reason, and objectivity that indicates that our grandchildren will all starve to death in slavery if we retain the New Deal/Great Society social safety nets.
Poor Gabler -- having to live in a country that's so "willfully democratic". I'm sorry for myself for a totally different reason -- having to live in a propaganda state.