{"id":12679,"date":"2014-05-03T00:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2014-05-03T00:42:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T07:42:55","slug":"why-sheeple-stay-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/why-sheeple-stay-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sheeple Stay Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While President Barack Obama was dealing with important matters of State, John \u201cAgent Orange\u201d Boehner (R-OH) was busy scheming the next waste of Congress\u2019 time and Taxpayers\u2019 money reinvestigating a phony Republican scandal that has already been thoroughly debunked.&#160; Meanwhile the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, helped make sure that sheeple stay stupid, by pulling coverage from the President to plug the deceptive Republican meme.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FoxSheep\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FoxSheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FoxSheep.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"261\" \/>Fox News stopped airing President Barack Obama&#8217;s joint press conference Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel because, the network said, reporters weren&#8217;t asking him about Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>The topic has animated the conservative news network, and especially so Friday because Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had just announced the House will <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/john-boehner-select-committee-benghazi\" target=\"_blank\">vote to establish<\/a> a select committee to investigate the Obama administration&#8217;s response to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate that left four Americans dead.<\/p>\n<p>When cutting away from the news conference, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner was quite blunt about the fact that <strong>Benghazi was all Fox wanted to discuss at that moment<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/fox-news-obama-press-conference-benghazi\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHHJt_bIIWI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Being denied serious news in favor of propaganda is why sheeple stay stupid.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ask sheeple a serious question.&#160; They will consult the <em>Koch Suckers Handbook<\/em> and say, \u201cBA-A-A-A-A!\u201d&#160; Then they will check the <em>Koch Suckers Handbook<\/em> again and parrot that nobody told them what to say, that \u201cBA-A-A-A-A!\u201d is their own idea.&#160; No wonder Faux Noise viewers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/business_insider\/2014\/01\/30\/does_watching_fox_news_make_you_less_informed.html\" target=\"_blank\">less informed than those who watch no news at all<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While President Barack Obama was dealing with important matters of State, John \u201cAgent Orange\u201d Boehner (R-OH) was busy scheming the next waste of Congress\u2019 time and Taxpayers\u2019 money reinvestigating a phony Republican scandal that has already been thoroughly debunked.&#160; Meanwhile the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, helped make sure that sheeple stay stupid, by <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/why-sheeple-stay-stupid\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}