DISTORTION

It is amazing to me how differently Republicans and Democrats hear each other.  A republican told me he was pleased that Obama is praising Bush, finally, as having done the best thing ever to have gone into Iraq!  It is certainly not what I heard!  Perhaps it is good, finally, to make a more Democratic country out of Iraq, if that ever really happens, but never has Obama actually said that Bush was right to go into Iraq when and the way he did.

What people must never forget is that whenever the President speaks, it goes through the filtered ears of the Republicans, Democrats, Independents and others who hear him.  But that is only the first step toward distortions as they continue to evolve.

Next they make it through the filters of the media, print, radio, and TV.  Here is where the truth so often gets lost.  Lives there anyone who thinks that Fox Cable News and MSNBC will report everything in the same way?  Compare them both sometime and judge for yourself.  As Groucho Marx said, "Are you going to believe what I tell you or your own eyes?"  Too many people do not use their eyes; they simply believe what they are told.  That's why we will always have conspiracy theories and fools who believe them..