Amazing …
Met a conservative (non) fox watching, tea-party supporting, small business (that survives on 75+% governmental contracts) owning, “the government can’t do anything right” golf-buddy for drinks last night. As usual, the discussion turned to politics, specifically, all the “scandals” that President Obama is facing.
I was completely expecting him to declare the “scandals” are actually scandals; but he surprised me when he launched into a CT that I thought was just to wacky, even for him … I guess he has left fox for alexjones/infowars (wait … aren’t they pretty much the same these days?)
Here is his theory:
All of the “scandals” were a part of a larger plan to get the American people to NOT trust the media! You see … each of these “scandals” was reported by the media as the absolute and complete truth; then, little by little, as more information was dripped out, the “scandals” proved ridiculous.
So now the public (left and right) has been/is conditioned to wait for more information (all coming from the government) before forming an opinion. IOW, the media reports something as the absolute truth, we believe it/form an opinion on it/get out-raged by it; then, the government proves the media reports wrong, and we have egg on our face for believing the media reports.
Now here’s the really wacky part …
This was all done because the government knew this NSA/Snowden thing was coming out … So part of the public just doesn’t trust the media reporting (the government wins), others of us (having learned from the other “scandals” are willing to believe the government because the media has proven so unreliable (government wins), and the rest of us are waiting to decide what the “facts” are (government wins).
I fear we are in for some very dark days.
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thanks for taking one for the team though! 