Monsters live in the dark

I was reading THE JEFFERSON MUZZLES the other day and it brought back a Dr. Phil quote from a couple years ago that has stuck with me, and it goes to the heart of secrecy.

The thing that protects our liberties and freedoms most of all is the free speech principles of the First Amendment, which is responsible for keeping the government out in the open for all to observe, and thereby keeping it honest. If the government is permitted to operate under a veil, then it will most certainly be corrupt. One of the underlying themes of our form of government is distrust. Maintain a healthy distrust for the government, because when you start to trust it to provide for you, it will take away from you. Freedoms, liberties and money.

But wait. That's already happening!

News vs. Lies

When a popular voice tells a lie, the passive majority among us will begin to promote it until it is perceived as the truth. Inundate sheep with manure long enough and they'll wallow in it.

Case in point: A recent poll indicated most people believed weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq and that the dictator had indeed been linked to the 9-11 terrorists. While facts showed otherwise, popular media, through vague and ambiguous "analysis",
propagated those perceptions.

Walter Cronkite was once quoted as saying, "The news is what I saw the
news is."  That seemingly arrogant remark has been taken several steps
further by today's so-called news organizations.  Just because you report
it, people do believe it.  There are a growing number of
"analysts" who purport to be "journalists", and while news
and commentary were once divided, today, opinion-based content is pervasive in
popular media.

Diane Sawyer was on Letterman recently and she made a comment that everyone
should hear: "Journalists don't make commentaries."  Thank you,
Diane!

"The Fox Commentary Channel" would be a much more fitting name for
Murdock's conservative media property.  href="mailto:danny@radiowiseguys.com">What do you think?

First Bubba, then Howie. Am I next?

How long will Clear Channel tolerate my style of broadcasting?  When
will Mark Mays announce a zero-tolerance policy against the likes of me and my
standards?  When will "href="http://www.greaseman.org/wp_19970515.html" target="_blank">Greaseman"
be heard in our market?