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[QUOTE=&quot;Rickideemus, post: 211816, member: 12677&quot;]I agree 100%, and I think you need to spend as much time with a neutral source (Wikipedia is OK) to get the background to interpret the headlines. But I'm not sure it was much better 30 years ago. The news seemed more matter of fact back then, because there was no counterpoint to the liberal bias, so no need to fight, and more time for background. They all agreed Nixon was the devil incarnate, and Johnson's &quot;Great Society&quot; was truly great. It took me 20 years to figure out that Nixon was a pretty good, though flawed, president, and Johnson lied this country right down the river.As Rev mentioned above, the reason for the lie makes all the difference. Nixon's reasons were small-minded. Johnson's reasons were truly evil. The press destroyed Nixon and went along with Johnson in the face of clear and convincing evidence that he lied to get us into Vietnam.It's better now. It's not fun to find out how corrupt the whole process is, but we have to be better off knowing -- even if it means revolution and bloodshed within the NEXT 30 years.Rick[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 211816, member: 12677"]I agree 100%, and I think you need to spend as much time with a neutral source (Wikipedia is OK) to get the background to interpret the headlines. But I'm not sure it was much better 30 years ago. The news [I]seemed[/I] more matter of fact back then, because there was no counterpoint to the liberal bias, so no need to fight, and more time for background. They all agreed Nixon was the devil incarnate, and Johnson's "Great Society" was truly great. It took me 20 years to figure out that Nixon was a pretty good, though flawed, president, and Johnson lied this country right down the river. As Rev mentioned above, the [U]reason[/U] for the lie makes all the difference. Nixon's reasons were small-minded. Johnson's reasons were truly evil. The press destroyed Nixon and went along with Johnson in the face of clear and convincing evidence that he lied to get us into Vietnam. It's better now. It's not fun to find out how corrupt the whole process is, but we have to be better off knowing -- even if it means revolution and bloodshed within the NEXT 30 years. Rick[/QUOTE]

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