Reply #8: The Lion makes the Lamb think the lamb is the Lion!?

[dumpster_baby]

You wrote:

I believe in the marketplace of ideas.


Ah, that's grand! Yer quite the egalitarian philosopher, ye are!

You wrote:

I don't want government regulating the content of political shows.


THat is because you don't know what is at stake.


You wrote:


Maybe I've misunderstood the fairness doctrine, but they way I understand is that every political show has to have both sides....



Why only 2 ways?



You wrote:
It just sounds messy and inherently undemocratic and contrary to the idea of free speech.


There ya go with that "philosopher king" schtick again!

You wrote:

It sounds like a clusterfuck waiting to happen.


Sounds like you really slurped that koolaid with gusto.

Look, Big Money is the Lion, you and me, we are the Lambs. We need all the help we can get. The government is our bodyguard, ya see. Just like ya see on them there teevee shows.

Big Money has been able to organize and buy decades of propaganda meant to portray the world in a certain way. Guess what? It portrays a world view that favors Big Money! Sur-prize! Sur-prize! Sur-prize!

People who listen and accept to this propaganda for decades don't have much of a clue about how the world really is. They accept the propaganda-world as it is presented to them. Curmudgeonly contrarians like me eat it up and spit it out just for fun.

Do me a favor: watch the movie _The Truman Show_, and then read the essays here:
http://www.tcfrank.com