tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post4468156466804976861..comments2023-10-31T09:14:26.930-05:00Comments on Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: Iranians Are Showing Major Juevos -- Unlike "Murkans"Manifesto Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-29381181227228942782009-06-16T11:23:45.525-05:002009-06-16T11:23:45.525-05:00It'll all be different when everyone has their...It'll all be different when everyone has their own atomic bomb. Whether it'll be worth watching on CNN is another matter.Ron Southernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604305014713612990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-6908141692798520592009-06-16T09:29:23.112-05:002009-06-16T09:29:23.112-05:00Alas, our MSM has been a CORPORATIST media for man...Alas, our MSM has been a CORPORATIST media for many, many years now, and theyir owners, by and large, WANTED W to win. This "Murka" we now live in is, at times, a pretty pathetic place. We run with sound bites rather than doing careful, detailed examination and analysis. 24/7/366 cable and satellite news, rather than being broad and all-encompassing, is spectacle or conflict-driven, overly simplistic, shallow, and very repetitive. We are slaves to entertainment, constantly bowing and praying to the neon gods we've made, to paraphrase Paul Simon. We pay relatively little attention to the rest of the world and know little about it, and that's why people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Il Doofus, Bolton, and Rupert Murdoch easily talk us into ridiculously imperialistic wars. We are obsessed with ourselves and unless something hits us or our family directly in the pocketbook, we often do not respond at all. We are drowning in hedonism and narcissism. <br /><br />I applaud the courage of the Iranian opposition in their fight for a true outcome to that obviously stolen election. I hope they will be successful in their protest, as were the Ukrainians recently, and will not end up brutally repressed as were the Chinese in 1989, the Chileans in 1973, the Czechs in 1968, or the Hungarians in 1956.Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-22278934434609684882009-06-16T02:58:40.849-05:002009-06-16T02:58:40.849-05:00This article sums up exactly the way I've been...This article sums up exactly the way I've been feeling lately, while watching the latest news reports from Iran. I find it interesting how the same MSM, which snoozed through the 2000 and 2004 stolen U.S. elections, is now all over this story.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.com