BTW I found this odd in the Wikipedia article about Satire:

“Al Capp’s satirical comic strip Li’l Abner was censored in September of 1947. The controversy, as reported in Time, centered around Capp’s portrayal of the US Senate. Said Edward Leech of Scripps-Howard, “We don’t think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks… boobs and undesirables.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of Senator Joe McCarthy, caricatured in his comic strip as “Simple J. Malarky”.”

What the hell happened to the 1st amendment?

I want answers.

Okay, need to get back to work.

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2s of web seaching, more than enough examples of manipulated media in one link:

http://www.newswatch.org/Media_coverups.htm

Give me more time and I’m sure i can find enough to fill a book.

Jeb Bush tampered with the voting rolls removing valid voters from one list and adding fellons on another, by about 50,000 voters. Front page news, except the problem was it was front page news everywhere except America. The margin GWB won by was about 260 votes in Florida (after the supreme court illegally and unconstitutionally stopped the recount). Really really makes you wonder. This was the kind of thing I thought I would only see happen in certain 3rd world African countries, but this election rigging is something that happened in the US. More than a recount was needed, clearly a re-vote. The price of democracy is surely worth the cost of holding a 2nd election in a state? Basically everything about it was criminal, the electoral roll rigging, the court decision, the media cover-up. And this is the shinning example of how wonderful and open and great the US system is? I’m obviously not drinking from the same koolaide.

I guess in these days of terrorism, even in open societies a president can order secret and warrantless wiretaps. You see its all a conspiracy, the judge that gives the warrant might tip off the terrorists, so to keep the wiretap secret so the terrorists don’t know we are on to them (sssshh, don’t tell the terrorists we can secretly wiretap them and its no use to bribe the judges), the wiretaps need to be warrantless…. pleeese. The implication is that judges are traitors and are acting with the terrorists? But, okay, given the number of people on the terrorist watchlist, that doesn’t seem so far fetched… “enemy combatant” .

The secret no-fly terrorist watch list apparently now has over 1,000,000 names on it (according to wikipedia), apparently it previously had Cat Stevens, Nelson Mandela and Ted Kennedy! How are they coming up with this list of terrorists? That’s probably secret too. I think I’m beginning to understand what a free and open society looks like. It’s better than living in communism… damn where is McCarthy when you need him?

The current election is a pretty good circus for keeping everyone distracted and entertained. The cases of parody only make fun of particular people, not really parody of the ideas or decent in terms of really questioning the war or particular policies, it’s dangerous when you go there because you get labeled as unpatriotic, but for me, thats okay because i’m not American.

Take the case of the Dixie chicks, that is straight out of Nazi germany where they had book burning. The parallels to Germany are frightening. DHS + P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act + watch list = stasi. (PATRIOT in the name of the act is an acronym and has nothin