Does ANYONE here SERIOUSLY believe that DU is full of paid trolls?

[Boreal]

121. Dunno about that

It attracts people who vote and lend their support to one side, just as the Freepers attract the same for the other side. We are target audiences that care about politics and some other major issues, like health and health care, energy, environment, whatever. They aren't going to target the mall rats who have no clue and don't care what's going on in the world. But, wait!!! Just as I wrote that I remembered I heard on the radio that shocked the shit out of me.

It was an AM station which is owned by Clear Channel. All of their promo spots are the same script in every market but tailored to the local market with their call letters and some local stuff thrown in. I know it's the same across the country because I've heard the same spots, using the same voice, on radio stations across the country. These spots are often humorous, talking about weather, traffic and other mundane stuff. This particular spot I heard, which was for morning drive time news and traffic reports, was making fun of people who don't pay attention to the news. There was a young woman's voice in the ad skit, with a kind of dingbat, Valley girl affect. The male voice (the one always used across the country on Clear Channel stations) was talking about important events and staying informed and she would respond with something like "So anyways, like I dunno, I don't listen to the news" airheadedness, and he would come back with something huge which she knew nothing about. It went on for half a minute or so until he said, "Well, did you know that the Russians just shot down a passenger plane killing 298 people?". Mind you, this was all in a humorous tone, making fun people who aren't paying attention to anything but their iPhones but it was not only a blatant lie but a form of brainwashing the the listeners. The message was you're an airhead because you don't know what's going on, followed by a here is what's going on, and it was a LIE, the purpose of which was very transparent: gin up support for the next big war. It could just as easily have been, "Did you hear that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction?" The psychology behind this is that the listener doesn't want to be that dumbbell the girl was playing. They want to be smart and INFORMED like the Clear Channel guy was telling them they needed to be and then he proceeded to pump a lie and an agenda for war straight into their uninformed and full of air heads. VERY slick example of mass mind control and propaganda.

Sorry to get so far afield but when I recalled that I had to relay it!