Once again, we have been innocently, comically and completely misled by the mainstream media. Thank goodness for the internet. If you haven't read the Deadspin.com article on Manti Te'o, it is an absolute must.
All humans tend to be 'go-along' consumers of news. If it is said and heard enough times with a reasonable tone, we buy it. When it is proven to be untrue and suddenly blows up, nobody can believe they were duped. They swear it won't happen again. Until it inevitably does.
When significant sections of your own government fabricate or perpetuate a dishonest narrative, the ultimate result is a corrosion of our ability to believe anything. Or worse. Do you think every German or Japanese citizen in World War 2 was evil? Of course not. Do you think their leaders did everything they could to make them believe?
My friends on the left are consumed by the idea that our biggest problem right now is access to "assault rifles," lack of federal backgound checks, and high capacity magazines. Ugly images of "military-style" weaponry conjoin with the horror of the events at Sandy Hook Elementary. Now, they say, our main focus should be to restrict access to tools that efficiently kill. Trouble is, those same tools are designed to defend and whether you like the wording or not, their ownership is afforded protection by our constitution.
Consider 9-11. Not 2001, but 2012. It is a fact that one of our ambassadors and his colleagues were murdered on this sacred anniversary. A week later, a direct representative of our government was publically spinning the story that the violence in Libya that day was a result of a Youtube video. Innocent mistake or lie, it was, we now know, not true. No doubt, though, one more conscious effort to get us all to believe.
