[Peace-discuss] L.O.A.D.

[C. G. Estabrook]

[From the WH POV, the "phony debates around unthreatening policy poles" in 
regard to healthcare also have the inestimable advantage of keeping the 
administration's expansion of the Mideast war out of the national consciousness. 
--CGE]

	Health Care Rats Come Out of the Woodwork
	Posted by Matt Taibbi, True/Slant at 12:00 PM on August 20, 2009.

...There are some days when it almost seems like the national press is making a 
conscious effort to prove Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent gospel. If the 
national commercial media really did exist solely to perpetuate the attitudes of 
the political elite, and to create phony debates around unthreatening policy 
poles, endlessly pitting a conservative/reactionary status quo against an 
"acceptable" position of dissent -- if that thesis were the absolute truth, then 
you'd see just what we're seeing now in the coverage of the health care debate...

Full article at

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/142095/health_care_rats_come_out_of_the_woodwork/