Corporate Tools & Unpaid Fools

Found this comment on last night's Daily Show, which discussed Google's betrayal of net neutrality, Dick Armey's pretentious and dishonest definition of "tyranny" and Congressman Louie Gohmert's hissy fit on Anderson Cooper 360 when asked to provide evidence of his "research" on "terror baby threat". It touches on apprehensions I share with most people who don't have any agenda other than intellectual honesty, basic human decency, and fairness.

"I'm depressed.

When a little known issue like Net Neutrality is brought up, liberals tend to know a lot more about it than conservatives.

Why? I can only guess it's because honest people who care about politics tend to be liberal, while paid corporate tools / unpaid fools only know enough talking points to misinform the public in a way that paints their puppet-masters in a better light.

When liberals point out that they know the issues better, they get called elitist, despite the fact that progressive policies favor all at the expense of the top 1%. The rich have money to spare on buying up news outlets in what amounts to a bought-and-paid-for propaganda campaign to convince working voters to vote for corporate welfare and against social welfare.

Fox News has daily memos to all of its reporters telling them what to report on and with what slant, yet they dare to call themselves "fair and balanced." The rich take Americans for schmucks. They think they can lie to our faces and we'll praise them for it.

And we do."