bills944
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That is a hard question to answer. When John Kerry was running for president he said it was the Republican attack machine. But it's more complicated and sophisticated than that. It's a combination of the economic and political system and who owns and controls the media.
The media is basically owned and controlled by large corporations and for the most part they are controlled or run by Republicans or conservatives. In my opinion, they're interested in satisfying their personal interests which for the most part is to make money, to maximize profits and for the corporations to pay as little taxes as possible. Most people who are wealthy, I don't believe they like to pay taxes either, it's only recently that billionaires like Bill Gates have become philanthropic.
In a nutshell, without going into too much detail, because to answer the question you really have to do the research to prove it, I guess they just don't really have an interest in asking and getting answers to the hard questions. It's not really worth it to them. Look at Maureen Dowd, she works for the New York Times and she went to jail in order to protect her source. That whole thing about Lewis Libby being indicted and Valerie Plame being leaked that she works for the CIA undercover. Reporters really don't have a right to keep their sources secret. So what happens is whistleblowers don't want to go to jail for telling the truth or lose their jobs either. And, reporters don't like to go to jail.
I guess the real truth is that Americans really don't have as much rights and freedoms as they think they do, especially under the Bush administration. John Dean wrote a book called worse than Watergate. Richard Nixon was a president who used wiretapping just like Bush. And now, with the patriot act it's worse than ever. And you know, by the way, that is a really phony issue, this crap about the patriot act and Bush saying Democrats are soft on terror because they don't support the patriot act. What a bunch of crap.
The truth is they can do whatever they want right away without going to court and they have three days to go to court to justify whatever it is they want to do as far is wire tapping goes. And 99.9% of the judges have approved whatever they wanted to do anyways. It's just a phony issue to trick people so Republicans can fire up their base and get reelected. And people aren't very bright and they fall for it. That's why Bush is talking about the war on terror all the time now rather than the war in Iraq which he knows is a major disaster for Iraqis and Americans. It won't be too much longer and half a $ trillion or $500 billion will have been wasted on that stupidity. So they really could wiretap and protect people if it's necessary within the rules of the Constitution but they just make it a phony issue to get votes.
Basically, the Republicans are bullies. They will go after and attack anyone who disagrees with them and smear them. Just like they did to John Kerry. They said he couldn't be trusted and they swift boated him. But the truth is John Kerry is a war hero and he did two tours in Vietnam and came back with purple hearts. Bush didn't go to Vietnam because he went to the National Guard in order to avoid Vietnam and Dick Cheney got 5 deferments so he didn't have to go either. That's why some people call them chicken hawks. If Bush thinks this war is so great when don't his daughters go over there and fight?
They smeared Max Cleland who ran for the Senate in Georgia too and he came back from Vietnam having both legs amputated. Can you imagine having both legs amputated fighting for your country in a war and having your patriotism challenged?
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