America: Are You F**king Brain Dead?!

[marmar]

from HuffPost:




Steve Young
America: Are You F**king Brain Dead?!
Posted December 10, 2007 | 06:16 AM (EST)



Before the ink on the "No WMD" NIE report had a chance to dry, neo-conservatives hit the talk show circuit and the broadcast Lords of Loud radio right went into overdrive to spin the information into a full scale intel overdrive...

"Who are you going to believe...the NIE intelligence or the President's?"

Neoconworld sent out the hit squad of Podhorertz and Bolton to attack the reports and the firm of Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity echoed the message: "Sham!"

-Sixteen intel agencies are in collusion to embarrass and undermine the President.
-The report was not fact, but agenda, driven.

Alan Dershowtiz called it "Stupid Intelligence," which would seem to be the present condition of the American voter.

In a Rasmussen Poll,
only 18% of voters are buying the report's conclusion with 66% believing Iran is still building WMD. You say that they must have only polled Fox News viewers? Think again while I splash cold water on the idea that a Democratic administration is a Jan 20, 2009 slam dunk.

Only 29% of liberal voters believe the report. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/america-are-you-fking-_b_76030.html

[mmonk]

1. The answer is yes.

[Loge23]

2. If only Oprah would get involved!

America is not brain dead. It just needs some people to tell them what to think.
:sarcasm:

[Angela Shelley]

3. Yes, because if we had an active brain

we would not be able to watch our favorite TV programs 24/7

[rAVES]

4. Thats one sickening statistic alright..

[spanone]

5. god help this country and it's fucking blind ignorance

[Angela Shelley]

8. Sorry to be the one to tell you,

but God is currently visiting an Asian Trade Fair.

She won´t be available until the end of the week.

By the way, she never has and never will cure ignorance, because that´s something people can do on their own.

[tanyev]

6. "Who are you going to believe...the NIE intelligence or the President's?"

Do they really want to ask that question? 'Cause he's been in office seven years and there hasn't been any sign of intelligence yet.

[stillcool]

7. Doesn't the author know...

we are at war?

Netwar refers to information-related conflict at a grand level between nations or societies. It means trying to disrupt, damage, or modify what a target population knows or thinks it knows about itself and the world around it. A netwar may focus on public or elite opinion, or both. It may involve public diplomacy measures, propaganda and psychological campaigns, political and cultural subversion, deception or interference with local media, infiltration of computer networks and databases, and efforts to promote dissident or opposition movements across computer networks. Thus designing a strategy for netwar may mean grouping together from a new perspective a number of measures that have been used before but we're viewed separately … In other words, netwar represents a new entry on the spectrum of conflict that spans economic, political and social, as well as military forms of "war.

In summary, they see netwar as information-based conflict that:

*Disrupts, damages, or changes what a society thinks about itself and the world.
*Targets elite or public opinion based on the political structure of the enemy State.
*Uses all available networks to carry its message to the target audience.

[LynnTheDem]

9. That would be a rhetorical questiion, yes?

I figured the answer was more than obvious when 73% of the US thought Iraq did 911, and with 40% still believing that absolutely incredibly stupid shit, that no other country in the entire world ever believed. Even Tony the bLiar didn't dare try selling that shit to the Brits. But funny thang, george w. bUsh had no problem whatsoever selling it to Americans.