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  • From: Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] More to it; was RE: Welcome to the United Socialist States
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:31:54 -0800


Rebecca here... I was checking the blog of a favorite radio talkshow host in
the Seattle area, and then popped over here to see that the same subject was
being discussed. Click the first link to hear the statement that is causing
the ruckus, then click the second to hear the entire segment. Took the
sinister out of it for me, but maybe I'm just naive.

Most people in the area think of Dave Ross as being as being right down the
middle of the road, though he does lean a bit to the left on many issues.
Here's the blog excerpt from The Dave Ross Show, KIRO 710 am--he makes a good
point in the use of technology and creative editing to produce propaganda:

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Congressman Moronized by You Tube?
Monday,
Georgia Republican congressman Paul Broun said he was worried about
Barack Obama's promise to set up a "civilian national security force."
That, said the congressman, is "exactly what Hitler did in Nazi
Germany..."
The only excuse for this statement I can come up with is that Rep
Broun saw this widely circulated YouTube excerpt of a speech made in
Colorado Springs on July 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDoHZ0hVUY
He isn't alone: more than a million people have seen it -- doctored in
various ways.
Maybe Rep Broun was in a time crunch, but it wouldn't have been that
hard to find what came before the excerpt that's been getting all the
play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0oxqV_k2Gs
As for the Tubers who have edited this speech to remove the fact
that Obama was talking about the CCC and the Peace Corps, and who imply
that this type of national service is similar to the Gestapo -- they
slander every American who served their country through these
organizations.
I use this rule of thumb: the truth of a video is directly
proportional to its length, and inversely proportional to the number of
edits.
But I acknowledge that in a free country, you have the right to try
to moronize as many people as technology permits, and YouTube is making
it easier than ever.****************************


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