Here is an excellent article from The Guardian that lays out one major reason US politics is so out of whack with the rest of the western world. In a nutshell - we have an army of pundits with no respect for the truth or facts, who are paid to warp, spin, and twist anything they can into one-line misinformation. And they let them masquerade as journalists (or quasi-journalist talk-show hosts) while they do it.
One of my Scottish friends brought this to my attention - and expressed his incredulity as follows: "They let a JOURNALIST (not a politician or something) on CNN (which is the main, mainstream source of TV news in the US yeah) call a boring centrist politician like Obama a MARXIST? Do people get away with this kind of total nonesense regularly?"
In any case, here's the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/31/uselections2008.barackobama
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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