How the Media's Proud Know-Nothingism Helped Create the American Idiocracy by David Sirota

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The term "idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots - and the term idiot is defined as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" and/or a "person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old." There are many reasons to conclude that America has become a full-fledged Idiocracy - bad decisions after bad decisions after bad decisions really have suggested that the last decade has seen the ascension of utterly foolish, senseless people of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation. And yet, as I show in my newspaper column out today, if there was still any shred of doubt that we had avoided becoming an Idiocracy, it was only fully snuffed out in the last week by David Broder and Jackson Diehl - two of the alleged "deans" of the Washington media intelligentsia. Here is Broder attacking President Obama for taking the time to carefully consider whether to send an additional 40,000 American troops into an increasingly Vietnam-like Afghanistan quagmire:
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  1. #1    Had Obama made a rapid decision, the reich wing media would have criticized him for not taking his time or consulting the generals. Idiocracy is the right description.
    written by protect_democracy since 79 days 19 hours 8 minutesprotect_democracy
  2. #2    Alas, the dumbing down of America has been going on for a long time. Reality TV, Gossip magazines like People, and 24/7-sports-as-the-reason-for-living are all responsible for so many Americans shifting their brains into neutral. News? They stare glassy-eyed at it, and swallow the BS put out by FOX, NBC, and all the others. All they know how to do is parrot the lies. Want them to pay attention? Focus on a missing child, an amazing accident (or near miss) - - over and over. You'll have their attention. Try to focus on real issues? THeir eyes glaze over or they leave the room. The dumbing down of America. Rupert Murdoch started and perfected it. GE, Disney, et. al are learning it.
    written by AmericanTeacher since 78 days 20 hours 28 minutesAmericanTeacher
  3. #3    the "American idiocracy" is simplicity itself: it is AN ALIGNMENT of the THREE MAJOR FAITHS in America - Protestant, Jewish, & Catholic - WITH the Radical Right-Wing "tax cuts for rich, DEREGULATE financial markets, NO OVERSIGHT bailouts, EXPANDING WARS, police-state in America, SUPPORT foreign DICTATORS agenda.
    Even Buzzflash (AND HuffPost) are extremely RELUCTANT to go after the Neo-Con ("mostly Jewish") component of this IDIOCY - EVEN HuffPost & Buzzflash PRETEND there is a magic "firewall" between the corporate/Financial Neo-Cons like, GOLDDAMN-SACHS's Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Greenspan, Bernanke; and the WARMONGERING, pro-wars, police-state powers Neo-Cons like BILL KRISTOL, PAUL WOLFOWITZ, and Joe Lieberman.
    written by veracity since 78 days 8 hours 6 minutesveracity
  4. #4    #3, continued -
    Hello? In the persons of Lieberman, Wolfowitz, Kristol, AND RAHM EMANUEL, the "Big Finance" Golddamn-Sachsers, and the LIKUDNIK WARMONGERS, are ONE AND THE SAME!!
    Joe Lieberman, the SHILL for INSURANCE industry, CREDIT-CARD bankers, MORTGAGE bankers, and all the other GoldmanSachs allied financial lobbies, is ALSO the very Likudnik "SENATOR FROM ISRAEL" THE BIGGEST WAR-MONGER IN all of CONGRESS shill!
    ditto Paul Wolfowitz: not only is he the uber- Likudnik uber-warmonger "ARCHITECT of the IRAQ WAR," but as reward for his services rendered pushing & botching that war, President Bush selected Wolfo to be... head of the __WORL...

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    written by veracity since 78 days 7 hours 57 minutesveracity
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