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Vin LoPresti's avatar

The NY Times has become an anopheles mosquito on the psyche of the news hungry public, injecting malarial parasites like Thomas Friedman into the culture-at-large to sicken it by stealing the oxygen supply from the red blood cells of its genuine journalists, who go by names like Johnstone, Greenwald, Blumenthal, Maté, and others. But who languish in relative nutritive deficiency while the parasite and its delivery system bask in the excesses conferred on them by an overwhelmingly infected public that can no longer think clearly in the face of the diminished oxygen supply to its social brain.

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russian_bot's avatar

"... overwhelmingly infected public ..." - yes, but they don't deserve a pass. They're ultimately to blame.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

But please, that's implied. You must participate to become infected. Nobody's giving nobody a pass.

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russian_bot's avatar

Sure. But too many, once they discover they are, fail to take responsibility. They'd rather blame others for getting the virus.

And a large chunk carries it asymptomatically, helping spread it even more.

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ChazLB's avatar

Sorta the way you ignore your own bad behavior patterns or a mirror to enlighten them..

Funny how you type can never see it in yourselves.

Of course you will give some bull shit answers and attack the messenger like a knee jerk response as predictable. Proving the point.

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Mike Fish's avatar

I think that it is appropriate to include Julian Assange in the roster that you provided.

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Paula's avatar

Absolutely!

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Terry Byrne's avatar

VL: news hungry public

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But what "news" do they EVER get? It is all usa/western rank propaganda/lies.

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Paula's avatar

Even two genuine journalists named Johnstone.

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gypsy33's avatar

Extremely well-put, Vin!

That comment deserves some sort of award!

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