Ministry of Truth spin on Israel

[JackNewtown]

The Ministry of Truth's (with the flagship Faux network leading the way) spin, with O'Reilly and a few others overtly saying it, and "reporters" implictly saying it, is the following (this applies at all times, not just the current crisis): Israel is a "good guy"; the Palestinians and other Arabs are the "bad guys." Israel wants peace and is just defending itself. Israel is our friend. We must support our friend. Israel is a democracy like us. We should always support a democracy in the Middle East.

The right-wing, Faux and co. spin is the worst but the rest of the MSM is only slightly more nuanced. I am not even going to get into the glaring holes in that spin. The propaganda is what is the most stunning to me. How can such a complex conflict be simplified to such a stunning degree??? 1984 is here, only they were more clever about it in 1984...

[Lindsay]

1. They've had plenty of practice

covering up the truth about Bush's America.

[JackNewtown]

5. We distort, you comply! nt

[Poll_Blind]

2. The primary reason it is simplified is for American consumption.

  It is very important both financially and from a technology standpoint for Israel to continually manufacture consent of the American people who, arguably, are victims of an under-funded educational system.

  The rest of the world, which is a little leaner and hungrier, intellectually, don't consider the peanut butter and jelly descriptions Americans receive as a five-course meal. Let's face it, if most Americans even know the name of the Israeli PM that puts them, what, in the fifth percentile of American political thought. That's scary.

  It's not that Americans are any less-intellectually-capable, of course, ignorance just helps grease the gears of military/industrial/infotainment complex.

PB

[JackNewtown]

4. Right nt

[niallmac]

3. That which comforts me in DU

is hearing others express the same exasperation I feel.
At work I am surrounded by kool aid Fox News idiots.

This is why I fly fish even though I'm not very good at it.
It's a farce that gives me meaning.

[JackNewtown]

6. Same here. I felt like Winston Smith today before DU nt