that the authors of this junk could be attempting to manipulate YOU to make YOU loyal foot soldier in their cause?

What cause, Steveo? The cause of truth? Of searching for the truth in the barrage of propaganda we are fed as 'news'? If you don't care to fight the good fight, that's your choice, buddy. You can always surf over to CNN and go back to sleep.

sorry, I didn't realize that I was in the presence of the final arbiter right and wrong, truth and fiction.

my mistake, obviously.

Will the two of you kindly take it outside. To Steveo, no one reads this shit so why the fuck do you take it seriously. To Johnboy, don't underestimate teh ability of IMC readers to make up their own mind. If they were not critical readers in the first place they might just as well be happy with the shit in the NYT.

I'm sure there is a nice web site where the two of you can be happy for many years. Why don't you go find it?