Category: propaganda
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Kirk Cameron staring pensively at monuments
The co-star of the Dudley Moore classic “Like Father, Like Son” presents the fundamentalist take on America’s founding.
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How’s the weather in N. Korea?
Very sad, according to the the official newspaper of North Korea’s Workers’ Party (via Slate): -Snow Falling from Clear Sky Mysterious snow fell at Mt.Paektu Secret Camp from 7 p.m. on Dec. 18 to 7 a.m. on 19. In general, snow falls from an overcast sky, but at Mt. Paektu Secret Camp snow fell from the…
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‘An excruciating combination of bombast and whining’
According to the conservative New York Post, the new Sarah Palin movie is the Ishtar of political propaganda films. “[It’s] so outlandishly partisan that it makes Richard Nixon look likeAbraham Lincoln and its febrile rush of images — not excluding earthquakes, car wrecks, volcanic eruption and attacking Rottweilers — reminded me of the brainwash movie…
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Propagandart
I’ll never understand artists who suck up to Communists. [Pianist] Lang [Liang] played a Chinese household song called “My Motherland” at the function to welcome President Hu Jintao. It was the theme music of a 1956 movie named Shangganling Battle, which depicted the fighting of Chinese troops against US troops during the Korean War (1950-53).…
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you can’t save lives AND money
A federally appointed public health task force recommends turning *medical convention on its ear, yet no specialists were consulted. The task force acknowledged that mammograms can save lives and fear their new guidelines may be misinterpreted. “We aren’t against screening women in their 40s, we just don’t think it should be routine,” Petitti said. Such…
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