I hope you'll forgive my continued discussion of Colbert's and Stewart's shows. It's just that they're socially relevant in a way perhaps not fully appreciated.
These "terror alerts" and the nefarious plots that occasion them... Each of them has been debunked. I'm no fastidious record keeper; I can't recount for you the deficiencies in each. When a plot is debunked to my satisfaction, I move on. ...And I'm not an historian. I am a comedian. I am not obligated to provide footnotes. My job is to ridicule...and to conduct the occasional psy-op. ...You can certainly shoulder some of the burden for discovering the truth.
Television and print news in this country is garbage. Those media act as conduits for any manila envelope that may magically appear on the desk. That makes journalism pretty easy, I guess.
Considering that every "terrorist" plot trotted out has been debunked within a couple days, these organizations --upon receiving the manila envelope-- should report, "The government claims that this plot exists. Check back in a couple days and we'll let you know if it's true." Instead, they dutifully report that the plot exists.
History has proven that everything from the government is a complete lie --at least on matters of "war," "national security," and "terrorism." Why would you report as "news" the utterances of a known pathological liar? Do you...not _know_ that you're being lied to...or do you simply not care? In either case, you cannot --with a straight face-- claim to be journalists.
These "journalists" are happy to confuse the public by trumpeting the lie, but they ignore the subsequent debunking of it.
And that's where those two comedians come in. They offer the follow-up.
The public service provided by these two shows is far greater than all the "reporting" of all the print and television "news" departments combined.
Your society is in deep, deep trouble when you must rely on filthy, probably hard-drinking and otherwise unrespectable comedians to elevate the public understanding of events.
Hey, journalist types! You're being used! You are the conduits of information in somebody's psychological operation. In a psy-op, truth is not relevant. It's the emotional effect of the information that is desired. The liars in government know that no one in the mainstream news media will follow up on the debunking. When the falsehood is first disseminated, the damage is done.
So knowing this, don't you think --in the interest of disseminating the truth and all-- that you might hold off on splashing the contents of that manila envelope all over the place?
You're not fundamentally bad people... So what's wrong with you? Are you simply stupid...or are you in on it?
I'm convinced that if it were not for these two comedians' shows, that your society would be walking around with state-mandated anal temperature probes, waving ninety-nine-cent flags, boasting about how free you are.
And I thought insanity was something I could safely claim as my own special province...
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