Think Hard
It is time to take a careful and critical look at mass media -- and fight back

If you yet doubt that Roger Ailes is a political genius, think again.

Like Goebbels before him, the chief of FOX News has succeeded this day in not only changing the way an entire nation -- in this case America, not Germany -- looks at elective politics, but the way other networks treat the political and policy news about the most powerful economic and military nation in history.

Think about it -- and think hard.
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THE PARTY'S OVER

What happened on November 5, 2002 was the culmination of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party that began more than a decade ago under the leadership of a group of conservatives, corporadoes, and con men who convinced their political colleagues that the salvation of the party lay in destroying its purpose.

Called "moving to the center," the recipe had certain similarities to a Saturday Night Live sketch in which an actor pretends to be George Bush or Trent Lott, but unlike the sketch, it was neither funny nor convincing. It was conceived by the "Democratic Leadership Council," a group whose underlying message was not leadership but abandon ship and which chose as its agent a conservative governor of Arkansas of salesman-like charm and
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