Hey people, listen up: it's not just FOX News that's faux news -- it's all of them. CNN sells its own mythology hammered out at the daily news meetings, as does MSNBC, The New York Times, and all the rest too numerous to name. I'm so tired of hearing that FOX is the only bad boy when they are all the same. It all comes down to whose fantasy are you willing to support?
Yesterday marked the end of a four-year friendship I endured with a woman who instantly believes everything she hears from the left-leaning media, never allowing anything from "the other side" to slip into her tiny brain. After all, there's just so much room inside some people's heads.
Oblivious to the fact that there are two sides to every story, she blindly accepts the pap delivered by Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow and all the rest of the folks who now are bolstering a doddering old fool who stretches the truth, doesn't know where he is half the time ("Arizona is one of our greatest cities!") and wasn't much good when he was young and energetic. Her pick for president was and still is Marianne Williamson, because "she knows important things about life." She has never watched FOX News.
She knows someone who knows someone who lives in Portland, Oregon who told her that the protests there are mostly all peaceful and it's only that Trump made things worse by sending in law enforcers.
My ex-friend doesn't read books as a rule, yet she rushed out and got the new puff-piece putdown of Trump scrawled in no time by his niece (who is still pissed she never got invited to Mar-a-Lago and hated Ivanka when they were growing up because she was so much prettier than her) and swallowed it whole. So now she thinks she knows everything there is to know about the President. She thinks putting a Black Lives Matter sign in her front yard means she is not racist, even though she's never had a black friend. But no matter, she now tells everyone, repeatedly, that black journalist and CNN contributor Van Jones is "a visionary."
The problem in America is the laziness of its citizens who don't do the work and instead use Cliff Notes to cram for the final exam, which in this case is our election in November. No wonder this country is failing.
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| One of those peaceful protests in Portland. |
Oblivious to the fact that there are two sides to every story, she blindly accepts the pap delivered by Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow and all the rest of the folks who now are bolstering a doddering old fool who stretches the truth, doesn't know where he is half the time ("Arizona is one of our greatest cities!") and wasn't much good when he was young and energetic. Her pick for president was and still is Marianne Williamson, because "she knows important things about life." She has never watched FOX News.
She knows someone who knows someone who lives in Portland, Oregon who told her that the protests there are mostly all peaceful and it's only that Trump made things worse by sending in law enforcers.
My ex-friend doesn't read books as a rule, yet she rushed out and got the new puff-piece putdown of Trump scrawled in no time by his niece (who is still pissed she never got invited to Mar-a-Lago and hated Ivanka when they were growing up because she was so much prettier than her) and swallowed it whole. So now she thinks she knows everything there is to know about the President. She thinks putting a Black Lives Matter sign in her front yard means she is not racist, even though she's never had a black friend. But no matter, she now tells everyone, repeatedly, that black journalist and CNN contributor Van Jones is "a visionary."
The problem in America is the laziness of its citizens who don't do the work and instead use Cliff Notes to cram for the final exam, which in this case is our election in November. No wonder this country is failing.
I wish I could un hear and un see it all but I can't
ReplyDeletevery good observation . . . we are using cliff notes for the final exam . . . I am afraid for most people its even worse: they haven't even read the cliff notes themselves, a friend summarized those for them 😱😱
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