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Weâre a nation of 24/7 news media hype machine looking for the next âcrisisâ so they can sell tampons and SUVs to the masses. The sheep who watch that crap are not smarter than the rest of us.
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Donny is rightâŚthe hysteria is looney tunes at its finest. I also find it amusing that the rightie cowards who blast our government all the time now are looking to that same government to âsave themâ even though they have denied proper funding to these same agencies. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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This made me laughâŚI remember this crowd saying the financial collapse was due to the greed express âby all of usâ.
It is worth remembering the word âusâ, to a Manhattan media darling, only refers to other Manhattan media darlings or, perhaps, only other members of the Mourning Joe brain trust.
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Meanwhile, in the echo chamber:
Iâm not quite sure what this âNation of Cowardsâ stuff means, but if it means youâre coming for my guns, buddy, LOOK OUT!
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We are exactly a nation of cowards. Or, at the very least, a nation with a very large population of cowards. People who live in constant fear of anything and everything, and a media that is more than willing to feed that paranoid fear at every turn because that means higher rating and higher ratings means more money. Terrorism, ebola, overreaching government, minorities, gay people, feminists, armed gangs, and the list goes on. âBetter buy a few more guns, better stock up on some canned goods, be a scared little sheep that does exactly as we say.â
It would be nice if more people called out this idiocy.
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It needs to repeated loudly and often. It didnât necessarily start with 9/11 but that accelerated the process. Every single crisis could kill us all!
And Javaman had it right on guns. If you need to carry a huge weapon in public in order to âbe respectedâ or âmake a pointâ you are the biggest bed-wetting cowardly piece of puss ther is.
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Who cares what he has to say? Heâs a talking head on a third rated morning cable news chat show. Why would this make any difference in any world?
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Well both Donny and the AG are right, which of course is why Fox has to go off on their how dare they speak the uncomfortable truth BS. Fox is good at just making up their own crap, or editing anything someone on the left says, so they have something to go hysterical over for another 24 hours.
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Or just falling for the fear factor: Itâs Not Just Ebola: âIf There Is One Thing That Epitomizes The American Spirit, Itâs FEAR!â http://aattp.org/its-not-just-ebola-if-there-is-one-thing-that-epitomizes-the-american-spirit-its-fear/
Ebola: A crash course in fear and how it hurts usâ Ebola is giving Americans a crash course in fear. Yet, theyâre incredibly less likely to get the disease than to get sick worrying about it. First, the reality check: More Americans have married Kim Kardashian⌠http://apne.ws/1rrQShW
Donât fear Ebola, fear fear itself | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: http://thebulletin.org/donât-fear-ebola-fear-fear-itself7745#.VEfW9BchRcM.twitter
The Dangerous Myth of Americaâs Ebola Panic
In reality, twice as many Americans believe in witches as are afraid of Ebola. At what point does the mediaâs coverage of the countryâs âoverreactionâ to the virus become another overreaction? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/twice-as-many-americans-believe-in-witches-as-are-afraid-of-ebola/381682/
Ebola, Americans, and the Psychology of Overreaction-At the height of the 2009 swine flu epidemic, University of Michigan researchers sneezed on unsuspecting people. Hereâs what they learned about hysteria amid outbreaks. http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/10/ebola-americans-and-the-psychology-of-overreaction/381895/
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Actually we are predominately a nation of self-indulgent, soft, intensely possessed by a sense of entitlement, prejudiced pricks!
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Amendment #1: The Fock Snooze Nation is a nation of cowards.
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Indeed. And The Cowardly States of Amurikaâs number one fear is the fear of the truth.
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Not only to save them, but to save them by trouncing all over other peopleâs rights to do so. The RWNJâs have no problems with other peopleâs rights being stripped away from them, as long as it makes them able to crawl out from under their bed and peek outside their front door, without the fear of the scary people getting them.
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Yes. Because there is a faction of this country, the GOP, who are bullies. Bullies usually are cowards.
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Hear Hear. Can we get amen for that statement!!!
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Or, at the very least, a nation with a very large population of cowards and uninformed people.
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Deutchâs comment happens to be true of the large number of people who tell pollsters theyâre âconcernedâ about catching the disease when thereâs no chance in hell that theyâll ever be infected. How does that provide âfodderâ for Fox News?
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Wasnât it a right wing meme during the H1N1 outbreak that the disease was all a government hoax to force law abiding citizens into forced quarantine âcampsâ in FEMA trailers? And now they are the ones begging the government to round up healthy people and force them into quarantine.
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a) Heâs completely right
b) The president of MSNBC should be apologizing momentarily
c) He probably just hosed his career
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