I have had it with the out right fear mongering over ISIS and Ebola. What exactly is fear mongering?
- Fear mongering (or scaremongering or scare tactics) is the use of fear to influence the opinions and actions of others towards some specific end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_mongering
One of my favorite "entertainer" fake news persons is Jon Stewart. Thursday night on The Daily Show, Jon blasted the GOP over their hypocritical fear mongering. Please view the clip here if you haven't yet seen it:
The GOP are demanding that President Obama do everything possible to strengthen our borders and protect us from ISIS and Ebola!!!! Yet, they are forgetting that 88 Americans die everyday from GUNS!!!! What about all the people dying from heart disease and lung cancer and drunk drivers? Oh, no!! We have to worry about ISIS and Ebola! It's pretty obvious to me that the GOP and their right wing media outlets are shamelessly using this to scare their base and get out the GOP vote. They even tell their people that the government cannot be trusted to give them the facts. So we can't send them to: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/30/cdc-confirms-first-case-ebola-diagnosed-us
They won't accept it. But we can educate ourselves and refuse to be manipulated by the media. They live and die by ratings; so, of course, they are going to sensationalize issues. It is up to us to be intelligent consumers of information. You know, it is possible, no likely, that the GOP would much rather voters talk about ISIS and Ebola than about the economy! Well, here are a few links that may help: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/03/1334101/-The-biggest-lesson-of-Ebola (we need to revitalize and grow a public-sector health research and production capacity which is not beholden to the profit margins of the big pharma companies)
In case you missed it, back in July I posted a blog about how GOP would use propaganda machine to influence voters before the election. See: http://pageposts1123.blogspot.com/2014/07/beware-propaganda-machine.html
Just please be careful what you give credence to and pass on to others on social media. We don't want to assist the GOP in their efforts to scare the Hell out of people!
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