Bewitched Animals and the Muslim Media

[InSearchofGrace]

We all could use a comic relief in debating Muslim-related issues:

Bewitched Animals and the Muslim Media
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[JHow]

I had a Polish relative who really believed that the CIA in the 1950’s used to drop potato-bugs out of planes at night to ruin the Polish potato crops.

It’s called propaganda, and it works.

 

[InSearchofGrace]

I had a Polish relative who really believed that the CIA in the 1950’s used to drop potato-bugs out of planes at night to ruin the Polish potato crops.

It’s called propaganda, and it works.

Oh, I am not surprised if what the Muslim media publishes for its readership is taken seriously.
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[Nine_Two]

I had a Polish relative who really believed that the CIA in the 1950’s used to drop potato-bugs out of planes at night to ruin the Polish potato crops.

It’s called propaganda, and it works.

The CIA dropping pests on polish potato crops is actually within the realm of possibility. Ghost cats who can’t keep their paws to themselves is a little more far fetched.

 

[Being_Brave]

OMIGOSH, that is too funny. I heard about all of those, but totally forgot about them.

 

[FightingFat]

It’s becoming endemic. Everything is Israel’s fault, everything is America’s fault, everything is the West’s fault.

 

[KathleenGee]

It has been America’s fault, the number one Enemy of the World since the cold war.

The KGB has the most sophisticated disinformation propaganda machine ever seen…the horrors of Naziism is brought up continually to the public, but the millions upon millions all the while slaughtered and imprisoned under communism is barely touched on.

America is much much worse than communism. And communism is about to be reborn.

 

[JHow]

The CIA dropping pests on polish potato crops is actually within the realm of possibility…

Possible, but not practical or likely. I mentioned it, though, because it operates from the same paranoid-style world-view. The bugs are a naturally occuring pest, just like the sharks are a naturally occuring hazard in the ocean. To assign their presence/attacks to the agency of some enemy is the common thread, and is the result of propaganda in both cases.

I think the cat guy at gitmo was just one psychologically disturbed individual, from which we can’t conclude too much, other than he is personally nuts.

 

[Nine_Two]

Possible, but not practical or likely. I mentioned it, though, because it operates from the same paranoid-style world-view. The bugs are a naturally occuring pest, just like the sharks are a naturally occuring hazard in the ocean. To assign their presence/attacks to the agency of some enemy is the common thread, and is the result of propaganda in both cases.

I think the cat guy at gitmo was just one psychologically disturbed individual, from which we can’t conclude too much, other than he is personally nuts.

Of course it isn’t practical or likely if you know anything about how the US operates, however your average Polish farmer in the post-belli period is unlikely to have known anything about the US other than that they were the enemy, as I said it was in the realm of possibility. Has the Polish government claimed it was ghosts summoned by American Jews that were coming during the night to eat all the potatos… it wouldn’t be nearly as believable.

 

[KathleenGee]

The intelligencia…how they know how to tweek with people’s phobias…

Scripture says not to look to the left or to the right…each of us have our faithwalk…stay on it…

 

[sedonaman]

We all could use a comic relief in debating Muslim-related issues:…

and from the article linked:

“…imagine if a prime-time CNN program hosted someone who earnestly accused people of witchcraft, talking birds, and rapist cats—all to a sincerely concerned host. What would that suggest about the American mindset?”

Well, the American media might not be as much a simpleton as al-Jezzera, but they are at times just as absurd. A couple of examples:

Silence can be just as ridiculous as comment. The MSM was silent after øbama said, “Your health insurance premiums will go down by 3,000%.”

"The number [of people in prison] went up even though the crime rate continued to fall.” – Peter Jennings reporting on the rise in the prison population.

“What made Peter [Jennings] so great was that he knew there was no such thing as the truth.”-- Barbara Walters eulogizing Jennings after his death.