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PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof?
mytrip writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that a supposed amateur video posted to YouTube.com may have actually been designed and posted by a Republican public relations firm called DCI. From the article: "Public relations firms have long used computer technology to create bogus grassroots campaigns, which are called 'Astroturf.' Now these firms are being hired to push illusions on the Internet to create the false impression of real people blogging, e-mailing and making films."
No one takes Al Gore for Serial guys. Come on, he invented the internet, we need to trust him!
"Without the disclosure, it's really ethically questionable," said Diane Farsetta, a senior researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy.
Let's talk about disclosure...Mr Gore used over 450,000 pounds of aviation fuel to attend a converence in Japan recently. So much for reducing our fossil fuel usage. That wasn't fully disclosed by Mr Gore, of course. But, he's an honest man, I swear. In fact, so honest, that he invented the internet! Amazing!!
They do that every day and every moment, it's the only way they get voters to support them. Lie to them, scar them, deceive them into believing their bullshit.
Yeah but Republicans have turned manipulating the American public into an art form. Then again you can't really blame the Republicans; it's really the public's fault for being so easily manipulated.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
As an anonymous coward , after not watching this video, I would like to say that I do not give a flying-fuck (Flash is for mouth-breathers).
What's new here is that they now see the blogosphere as important enough to merit attention.
They see Youtube as important enough to merit attention. The self-important hacks who post their maturbatory drivel to various websites and then have the arrogance to rename their collective efforts the "blogosphere", as if what they did were somehow different or more important than what any other wanker has been doing since the '90's, these folks still don't count for shit outside the cirlcle-jerks that they and their admirers live in.
Max
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> The way I see it, each party is as bad as the other. One's just better at it than the other one. Both try to exploit human characteristics
> in order to gain and hold power.
But the Republicans specialise in using fear to manipulate. Remember all those terrorist alerts (i.e. "Threat Levels") that used to
be issued by the Bush Administration? In particular when Bush has political problems or when there is an upcomming election?
Speaking of penguins, did you know Al Gore invented Linux? ;)
Actually, it has been proven that almost every fact he uses in his movies are twisted lies and propoganda. Almost every single one can be proven to be completely made up, or an actual fact that he twisted to make his point. The reason he hasn't been sued for libel or slander is because of freedom of speech.
Mr. Moore relies on people being too lazy to look up facts for themselves, allowing those people to be tricked by his propoganda and lies. In fact, Mr. Moore has made millions of dollars tricking people and telling people what they want to hear. I would not want be surprised if Mr. Moore was hired by the Democratic party but no one will ever know, and do you know why? Because at the moment, it is cool to be a Democrat. The media has done a very good job of creating a bandwagon of GOP haters. It is easier for people to join what they think to be the larger and stronger cause, hence mob mentality. The media has become so one sided, that Democrats can get away with murder and Republicans can't get away with not crossing a t.
Allow me to back up my argument for a moment with a few quick facts about Fahrenheit 9/11: 1)During the movie, Mr. Moore flashes a newspaper article stating "Latest Flordia Recount shows Gore Won Election". Later it was found out that there never was any headline such as that, but rather he re-typeset a letter to the editor of a newspaper with that title onto the front page of the newspaper. 2) Mr. Moore states that the bin Laden clan was flown out of the country right after 9/11, however the 9/11 committee report states "first, we found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals, domestic or international, took place before the reopenning of national airspace on the morning of September 13, 2001. To the contrary, every flight we have identified occurred after national airspace reopened. Second, we found no evidence of any political intervention. (Discussion of how decision was made by Richard Clarke in coordination with the FBI)." There are millions of inconsistancies such as these in his movie, a few of them documented here: http://www.mooreexposed.com/911.html. I would consider these "inconsistances" as lies.
By the way, I am not out to change your political views. I respect everyone's opinion, even those who disagree with my own. Political conflict is one of the things that make our nation great. All I ask is that you see things from my point of view.
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The oil corps love Al Gore, look at how much fuel the jet flights, limos and SUVs he drives / rides in use. Don't forget all the energy required to heat his multiple large homes or the millions he has invested in energy sector stocks and bonds.
Al Gore talks the talk but by no means does he walk the walk.
i hate to point out the obviuos. but arent both parties guilty of doing astroturf?
this clip is insulting to republicans as well as linux users. it says that red staters would rather watch the x-men than learn about actual events in the world.
I don't know about the X Men specifically, but it's pretty freaking obvious that, in general, red staters would rather do *anything* than learn about actual events in the world. It's not an insult, it's a simple statement of fact. How else do you explain their support for setting up torture and murder camps all over the world while bleating moronic lies about how much they love freedom?
Oh come on. Al Gore is more in bed with the oil companies than any of you socialists care to admit. http://www.pirate-king.com/episode/1383
there is a difference between what the terms conservative and liberal has meant over the past 160 years. In fact the terms have changed so much that when referring to liberals in the 1860's you would call them "classical liberals", which are basically the same as conservatives today. Duriong the 1930's communists tried co'optd the term to mean "socially progressive" policies which were implemented under FDR's "New Deal", which were an attempt to "control the laws of supply and demand". Needless to say aside from his brilliance as a president in a time of war, his economic policiies were a such a disacster that we are still recovering from them today.
So in short, what made someone conservatie in the south, by and large does not exsist as political philosphy anymore, that died out and was replaced by Marxist/Kenyanist ideals. While Classical Liberalism embodied by the Republican party, has not changed much since in its inception in 1856.
Alright then, what program did FDR create tbat had any lasting positive effect on the Economy?
Answer: None
FDR's economic policies prolonged the depression, and account for a great deal of current political, economic and social problems we have today, from welfare to Social Seucirty to the polotics that lead to the Medicaid/Medicare fiasco, which currently consume 62% of our federal budget. Next time you look at your paycheck's deductions, 62% of that (and growing) is going to pay for stupid programs concived in the hubris of the 1930's marxist/kenyanist class warfare social policies.
The only thing that brought us out of the depression was WW2. None of this is controversial, but accepted as fact by historians and economists.