Gene Lyons: Simple story fails public

[mooseandsquirrel]

Watching the national news media struggle to cover the economic crisis lately, one could be forgiven the fear that the United States had grown too ignorant and lazy to govern itself.

Between mis- and disinformation, cheap political posturing and crowdpleasing histrionics masquerading as commentary, the public has been inundated by a flood of dangerous nonsense. Cable news networks must think their audiences have the attention span of fruit flies.

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http://moose-and-squirrel.com/gene/gene.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Glad Gene pointed out that the 'dentist' would lose $67,900 in income to avoid paying an additional

$2100 in taxes.