GOP Meme today - Bush has not lost popularity. Russert et all. Insist,

[applegrove]

on this voting day, that Bush is not unpopular. Why is it voters, and today is a voting day, are not allowed to see their feelings (anger at the cons) reflected back at them.

Surely the news story of the day is actually - that Bush is unpopular and what will that mean at the polls.

That is news.

Why do the GOP mouthpieces insist on making voters who may be feeling part of a group - angry at the GOP - why do newsmen & newswomen insist today to not let people who feel that - see that on their T.Vs?

Sociopaths try to control thinking by controlling the environment of the groups they covet & control. They do not allow people to "reality test" something they do not want to be believed or accepted as reality.

Why are journalists playing this role of "controlling how voters reality test their feelings on the direction of the country and massive Bush unpopularity". Why cannot the 55 % (or whatever the number of unhappy with the Bush WH & direction) not see THEIR PERSONAL VOTING STORY on the news.

They are after all the majority?

[lebkuchen]

1. b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t

What more can one say?

[applegrove]

3. That doesn't tell me if you agree or disagree. That is vague.

[central scrutinizer]

2. Russert is a tool

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[katty]

4. cultists do this all the time-it's their stock&trade-lie,repeat as

necessary, lie, repeat as necessary.....and on and on and on

[Brotherjohn]

5. Not unpopular, eh? Last four polls average at 37% approve / 58% disapprove

Pew 36% approval 55% disapproval
AP-Ipsos 37% approval 59% disapproval
ABC/Wash. Post 39% approval 60% disapproval
CBS 35% approval 57% disapproval

http://pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

[applegrove]

6. Exactly. But will journalists like Russert accomplish making the odd

Dem voter (and perhaps someone who voted for Bush before) feel alone and axiety ridden for their feelings.

Will it affect the vote?

[AX10]

8. It's a form of psycological torture/warfare.

Russert is a Fascist POS. He should be brought before the Hague too.

[melody]

7. No, Russert is right - Bush isn't unpopular, he's universally DESPISED n/t

[blm]

9. The media's been pushing Bush on America for 6yrs. They ain't gonna stop

just because the facts are starting to catch up to them. They may cover their own asses here and there, but will still keep propping him up where they can.

[spindrifter]

10. More important than popularity

are his credibility and ability to lead--both of which are in the toilet. Some Americans are smart enough not to like it when the Pres. lies, lets his minions lie and acts like a dummy at home and abroad.

[Uncle Joe]

11. The media whores that control the "Matrix"

do not want the people to wake up. There strategy is to dumb down or put to sleep anyone restlessly showing signs of consciousness. That's why they can look in the camera and without batting an eye say 35% is not unpopular and for the people still living in the Matrix, (usually these people are not connected to the internet) that becomes part of their reality.

[applegrove]

12. Okay - do not like matix movies - could not watch the first one. But

I take it you are calling them sheep rather than cold-hearted lying patsy journalists.

Then again - I don't understand the matrix allusion.

[Uncle Joe]

13. The powers that be have created a Matrix for the American People

to live in.

In the movie version: a giant advanced computer/robot enslaved humanity by creating a false reality for the humans to live in, while in fact they were actually in a deep sleep, all the while this computer lived off of the energy created by the heat of millions of humans kept in suspended animation.

In real life, the corpwhorate owned MSM has created a Matrix for the American People to live in. The purpose of this Matrix is to dumb down the American People so that we are easier to control and manipulate. They use different strategies to obtain this goal such as with holding vital information, obfuscating said information if it does seep out to the people, out right lying to the people or character assassination etc.

Any living human can be brainwashed, the American People are no different. The only reason that the vast majority of the American People believed at one time that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 was not because of anything that Bush said but because of what the people's trusted "fourth estate watchdog" corpwhorate owned MSM said and did not say regarding the evidence to said accusation. The only reason that a sizable percentage of the American People thought that Al Gore actually claimed to have invented the internet (as if he were in a laboratory) was not because Dick Armey came out with his Republican talking point which alluded to that, it was because the corpwhorate owned MSM echo chamber repeated this slander over and over again in one form or another until some people took it for fact.
The only reason that so many people thought Bush was either compassionate or conservative (of which he is neither) or that he would instill integrity and honor back to the White House in 2000 is because the corpwhorate owned MSM gave him a free pass while at the same time slandering Al Gore.

The biggest threat to the Matrix is the internet it self, this is why they will spend 24/7 trying to figure out how to take over or control it, so as the people can not have too much unfiltered information.

[applegrove]

16. I'm sorry. I know there is much truth in science fiction. I just cannot

take it. A bugaboo of mine.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Most all really good science fiction or even ancient mythology

have many lessons and much wisdom in them that can be gleaned about the human condition. Some people might call George Orwell's book 1984 science fiction, but the doublespeak that he writes of is alive and well in Washington. This is why Bush's "no child left behind" leaves children behind and why his "healthy forests" are those where the trees get cut down, his "clean (or clear I forget which) skies" are where the industries can pollute at will.

Science fiction is not for everybody, but it has been a pleasure talking to you.
:)

[Czolgosz]

14. Bush has not lost popularity; he's finally uniting the country

[radio4progressives]

15. This is an Excellent Question ... Please publish in letters to the editor

and to all the broadcast and cable news shows...

this is the question that everyone should be asking news co. directly.