Compare that North Korean piece to the Reuter's document that Stefan Molyneux gorily breaks down here. Like the North Korean "white paper", the Reuter's article is presented as a factual news release, when it's clearly editorializing for political purposes.
My theory is that many Americans are unable to evaluate the objectivity of something based on its contents; the only criteria they have is whether the piece came from something they've been programmed to think of as a "trustworthy" source-- they would recognize the former example as propaganda, but not the latter.
In other words, they almost completely lack independent, critical thinking capabilities.
What's interesting is that people like Chevy Chase have told the American public right to their faces that the media writes its material expressly to push a Leftist political agenda. Mark Dice documented years' worth of painstakingly-cited bias in an entire book. Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews still have jobs.
Regarding the "FISA Memo" specifically, the Democrats and the media have spent days-on-end programming their audience to reject whatever corruption was about to be revealed, by associating the "memo" exclusively as a Republican machination-- hypothesizing that all they need to do is undermine the supposed source, not the contents, to fool their constituents.
This document is the biggest political scandal I could possibly imagine, even by third-world standards, much less in an industrialized country. It's so monumental that it will be the real test of my theory related to how brainwashed Americans really are.
It's also so over-the-top that it will serve the dual purpose of placing the definitive-for-all-time "I'm a total idiot and you should disregard everything I say hereafter" sign on the foreheads of those who dismiss it. This will prove immensely helpful to me and many others.
The saga of this document does not prove that America is a banana republic-- rather, it proves the opposite thanks to the Republican Congressmen and the President. In a real banana republic, this thing would have been put in a sealed vault for all time.
Which begs an additional question: if Obama was still President, or if Hillary would have gotten elected, would this memo have been released? If not, what does that say about them, the country, and their constituents, especially given the lengthy preface above?
Without further ado, what follows are a few excerpts which particularly marveled me. I encourage everyone to read the full document, which is here. Grab the popcorn: time for the wheat and the chaff to separate.
