Kill Your Television

It's not just Fox News.

Hardly anything good comes out of the cyclops in your living room. It's essentially a brainwashing machine in the service of the corporatocracy. Watch it with a critical eye and you'll soon understand how Americans got to be as dumb as they are now.

For example, after previously debunking Palin's "death panels" claim for the stinking lie that it is, ABC News chose to treat the uproar over this fleck of dreck as a genuine debate and difference of opinion.

On the August 13 edition of Good Morning America, correspondent Kate Snow characterized the "disagreement" this way:

Sarah Palin is taking on President Obama in the battle over health care. In a new Facebook posting, the former governor says the president is, quote, making light of concerns about a provision in the House bill that would pay doctors for consulting with patients about end-of-life care. Palin says because of pressure to reduce health care spending, it's no wonder some might view those consultations as a way to minimize end-of-life care. But the president contends the provision is voluntary, and no one will force a senior to make choices based on cost.

Less than an hour before this rancid example of "it's no wonder," ABC's medical editor was explaining on air that the provision Snow referred to makes end-of-life counseling "entirely voluntary."

Billions for weapons, guaranteeing our taxes go to support a warfare state, but no universal guarantee of health care. That's us, the class idiot at the back of the room in the U.N. And it's no wonder.

One of the reasons we're the world's idiot is because that box in your living room has become a sewer pipe for fascist propaganda. So kill your television, and while you're at it stay away from McDonald's. This country doesn't need any more round morons, with arteries full of grease and heads full of right-wing garbage. We've already got a surplus.

Image: "Radio Propaganda" by Boris Artzybasheff, Russian-American (1899-1965); unknown medium.