It's funny the way words get used. I'm thinking about the words "terrorism" and "terrorist" right now. If you watch the news or listen to any politican, or really anyone who's trying to make a point about anything, you'll notice that anybody that does anything that anyone else disapproves of is a "terrorist". Absolutely everything bad is linked to "terrorism". But really, that's nothing new. Go back a while, and it was "communism" and "communist". Before that, it was "anarchist". Heck, go back far enough, say to the late 1700s, and "democrat" was an epithet flung around by the politicos to describe people whose politics they didn't like. Do I have a point? No, not really. It's convenient to have a central bogeyman to blame everything on. Politicians have used the strategy since time immemorial. I really would expect better from the news media, however. They're getting paid to tell us the objective, unbiased truth. It's a deriliction of duty for them to parrot the junk coming out of the talk shows and the government. Another reason why I don't watch TV news much anymore. They're easily the worst. At least when I read it online, I can skip past the empty parts.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 6:44 PM
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