Gore Vidal: The war against lies

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A growing number of Americans see the election as a chance to reclaim the truth

Since the US media are controlled by that corporate America which provides us with political candidates, an informed electorate is not possible. What the media do well is not analyse, or even inform, but personalise a series of evil enemies, who accumulate weapons of mass destruction (as we constantly do) to annihilate us in the night out of sheer meanness.

How, then, will a people grown accustomed to being lied to about serious matters behave during an actual presidential election, in which billions of dollars have been raised to give us a generally false view of the state of our - their? - union. Right off, half the electorate will not vote for president. Those who do vote sometimes exhibit unanticipated trends. In all the recent polls (easily, alas, rigged by the way the questions are posed) the conquest of Iraq is more and more regarded as an expensive mistake: the $87bn (£48bn) that the President has now asked for to repair that country and which Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joyously knocked down in order - it now appears - for his colleague, vice-president Dick Cheney's company Halliburton to rebuild. Americans in general seem to have got the point of the exercise. So during this primary season - a rehearsal for the November election - is anything happening politically? Quite a lot for those who know how to read the Pravda-like Murdochian media.

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1. I'm glad Al Gore is related to this guy

I hope they BOTH gore Bush's bull...

[lovedems]

2. It's a pretty long article but he states he was at a protest in Hollywood

and there were about 1,000 people there and the press made it seem as if there weren't very many.

I am glad he points out that not all americans are stupid and they are the ones who want their country back. Like we here on DU!

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3. 100,000 (not 1,000)

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4. God! This is my second mistake tonight! I must be losing it.

Thanks for pointing that out, I am in idiot mode for the rest of the night!:hi:

[bobbieinok]

5. WOW......'a leftist, the word used for any thoughtful conservative'

"Dennis Kucinich....is already shaping up as a leader of an as-yet-unborn progressive alliance. Naturally, he is branded a leftist, the word used for any thoughtful conservative. Actually, we have never had a left or even a conscious right. We divide between up and down. The downs may now be on the rise."