Comment Re:Wonder why NSA didn't go to Fox network first ? (Score 1) 504
Good explanation, thank you. It's always seemed from this side of the pond that American politicians have had the bone removed from their head that makes them able to compromise, empathize or sympathize with anyone outside their immediate circle, which they populated by order of campaign contribution totals.
My spidey-sense tingled when everyone was saying how blatant this propaganda piece appears to them. Usually when something biased airs here in the UK you can tell who it was aimed at by looking at it's newspaper and radio coverage the next day - the least moderate and most inflammatory coverage is the bullseye, work it backwards from there to that outlet's audience and you can usually pick out it's intended recipients.
It seems that one thing people on both sides of the Atlantic have in common is that they react to bullsh*t far more passionately than reasoned, moderated debate, and almost not at all to anything positive. No wonder we're all drowning in vicious rhetoric. And I'm watching with fascinated interest to see what the NSA's next play will be, because that one seemed to have sucked - options seem to be some kind of Hail Mary reversal, some weird kind of land mine long play, or their spin doctors update their LinkedIn profiles with "Unemployed".