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HammaTime
post 10/03/08 11:55pm
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All I can say is, Wow.

I just finished reading a piece that will be published in the October 16 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine on the life of John McCain. It quickly becomes painfully obvious that an awful lot of his former friends, associates and fellow POW's really detest the man.

It is a brutal, brutal take on the man and his legend:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstor...eal_john_mccain
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post 10/07/08 1:54pm
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I also don't see how you can think a society now where the average household has MULTIPLE televisions, computers, and cable/satelite compares to the 1940's where almost nobody had a television. Yet alone cable. This comes from wikipedia so obviously it might not be 100% accurate but I'm too lazy to dig too hard to find other sources.

"After the U.S. entry into World War II, the FCC reduced the required minimum air time for commercial television stations from 15 hours per week to 4 hours. Most TV stations suspended broadcasting. On the few that remained, programs included entertainment such as boxing and plays, events at Madison Square Garden, and illustrated war news as well as training for air raid wardens and first aid providers. In 1942, there were 5,000 sets in operation, but production of new TVs, radios, and other broadcasting equipment for civilian purposes was suspended from April 1942 to August 1945 (Dunlap)"

So you want to tell me a society with 5000 t.v. sets is getting the same bombardment and level of coverage we do today? Here are examples of what these people were seeing.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=owne...=0&start=10.

If you can compare that to what we see more power to you. I personally see it a different way.


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HammaTime   McCain - unfit to lead?   10/03/08 11:55pm
Robert   I'm surprised you hadn't seen that before,...   10/04/08 9:45am
HammaTime   I had missed it completely. Guess that's what ...   10/04/08 3:12pm
Robert   You've mentioned politico.com before, I'm ...   10/04/08 4:46pm
Blitz   John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Accou...   10/04/08 5:09pm
HammaTime   Okay, Robert shamed me into looking around a bit m...   10/05/08 10:19am
Robert   As I said earlier, I'm not a big McCain fan bu...   10/05/08 2:50pm
HammaTime   Interesting thoughts. I would disagree over the i...   10/05/08 5:23pm
Robert   Palin wasn't in a position to vote for earmark...   10/05/08 7:06pm
HammaTime   Robert, I'm surprised that you would stoop to ...   10/05/08 10:16pm
Robert   Unfortunately a line item veto will never happen s...   10/06/08 5:54am
Hellfighter   ........ But that's okay because we still hav...   10/06/08 6:44am
HammaTime   That is not the politics of "Change" th...   10/06/08 9:08am
Genocide Junkie   I certainly hope SOMEONE is able to investigate...   10/07/08 2:45am
HammaTime   By your response, I'll assume you didn't b...   10/07/08 9:14am
Robert   The whole Change an Hope slogan is nothing but emp...   10/06/08 7:45am
Robert   I'm distrustful of anyone who has had so man...   10/06/08 12:22pm
HammaTime   Watch the 60 Minutes story! I'm beginning...   10/06/08 2:05pm
Robert   I don't know what to think of the 60 minute pi...   10/07/08 12:19pm
Genocide Junkie   A few journalist vs the amount of media now is a j...   10/07/08 1:36pm
Genocide Junkie   I also don't see how you can think a society n...   10/07/08 1:54pm
Robert   I would at least partially agree with Geno. There ...   10/07/08 2:34pm
HammaTime   Geno, perhaps you'd like to familiarize yourse...   10/07/08 4:28pm


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