3. By the time Joe Shmoe hears it from Jay Leno, it's a funny episode of old white folks harassing the youth. The same principle is being used to make us believe anything that we are being told. From Sara Palin seeing Russia from her house, to Reagan being racist to Bush starting wars for oil.
STATISTS amount to 3 to 5 per cent of the general population, the problem is - they amount to 85 to 90 per cent of the people shaping up our thoughts. Ellsworth Toohey comes to mind. So, unless a regular person starts to question everything that he heard on the news, we will have statists telling us to pay more taxes and be quiet, because "hockey mom" will become a president and will start a nuclear war with Canada over lipstick or something.

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2a. If I observe a project resident robbing an old lady, who fought him off by hitting him on the head with a cane, I will use the first words that will come to my mind. If another project resident will observe the same robbery and subsequent arrest he will use totally different aspects. If a person fresh out of liberal school of journalism, who grew up in white suburbs of Boston, gets on the scene after it happened, she might use all of her journalistic skill to offer the story as an episode of a class war.

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2. Research any piece of news. From any source (except Fox, in some cases) local, international, whatever. The wording will be the same from publication to publication, the reporter might change some of AP's sentences but the substance will be the same. Whichever spin the first reporting agency would like to put, it will be repeated by any media outlet that picks up the story. Since distribution of information is being monopolized by a small group of people, the regular person's view is largely based on the view of the first witness and his/her bias.

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1. I bought two books around the same time. Conservative Manifesto & A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media . Although they are two totally different books, I have found the latter to be of more use. I'll explain.
If you take an intelligent, somewhat educated, reasonable person, gain their attention and recite most of the ideas of Conservative Manifesto I bet the bottom dollar that 80% will agree with its ideas wholeheartedly. If not a 100%. The problem is that general public does not have time or desire to research state of affairs on their own. They base their view of the world on what they know. What do they know? Where do we get our information? From media. No one reads every speech that every politician gave. No one reads every piece of legislature.

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Media-Universities Professoriat-Public Employee Unions is the true "Axis of Evil". And far more dangerous to the survival of this republic.
Between them they control most important aspects of the political system and process: What we learn, what we know and what we elect.

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Do Green Products Make Us Better People is published in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science. Its authors, Canadian psychologists Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong, argue that people who wear what they call the "halo of green consumerism" are less likely to be kind to others, and more likely to cheat and steal. "Virtuous acts can license subsequent asocial and unethical behaviours," they write.
The pair found that those in their study who bought green products appeared less willing to share with others a set amount of money than those who bought conventional products. When the green consumers were given the chance to boost their money by cheating on a computer game and then given the opportunity to lie about it – in other words, steal – they did, while the conventional consumers did not.

Later,in an honour system in which participants were asked to take money froman envelope to pay themselves their spoils, the greens were six timesmore likely to steal than the conventionals.
***********.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/15/green-consumers-more-likely-steal
I thought it was very interesting.. if people on the left are more pre-occupied with the environment, can we extropolate the funding of the study as that people on the left are more likely not to practice traditional values such as love your neighbor (literally -sharing, not advocating it through gov't) and thy shall not steal? (dt)

can we extropolate the funding of the study as that people on the left are more likely not to practice traditional values such as love your neighbor (literally -sharing, not advocating it through gov't) and thy shall not steal?
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the only thing we can extrapolate is that logic has never been your strong suit...

According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by... (how does this not scream bible thumping conservative?) it leads to the "licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour", otherwise known as "moral balancing" or "compensatory ethics".
"Virtuous acts can license subsequent asocial and unethical behaviours,"

:-) well, из песни слов не выкинешь - a study is a study (ch) понимаю не приятно, но факт..(ch)