Suicide by Media
when are we finally gonna tell MSM to tie it in a knot?!
Ever noticed that people believe what you tell them about yourself; whether your behavior demonstrates you believe you are worthy of respect or worthy of derision and mistreatment. That’s why the much-maligned First Impression remains so strong; it is the moment when people grasp how you feel about yourself which informs and guides them in how they relate to you.
Despite the whinging of “It’s not faaair,” no one is going give the same chance of continued association to an Armani-suited, well groomed and relaxed man as he would to a urine-soaked bum screeching about the government failing to fix his underwear. Sure Armani-man has faults, has made mistakes, is imperfect; but I believe he believes he is making every effort to do the Right Thing and to live by his principles. The other fella? What is there to give me any indication that he even has principles, much less expends any effort to match his actions to them; he can’t manage to summon the will to get out of his own urine stream.
It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.
How is this not pissing ourselves? And whoinhell do we expect to come along and clean US up?
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