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To: LindyBill who wrote (201851)	4/8/2007 4:22:32 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793682

I didn't mean to suggest that there was a conspiracy, but I believe that like many other things the education system is promoting socialist values, and those with the proper ideology get jobs and help from those with a similar ideology. In Canada where we have a state owned media outlet, most members of news departments are highly socialist in their personal politics, and it just isn't possible to be completely objective when you have a "prejudice" for a particular party. If I watch CNN, they are extremely clear where they stand. On my local station I watched a political call in show, and found myself getting more and more angry with one of the hosts. The station had been independent and was bought out by the Asper family, who are prominent Liberals. Sure enough before I knew it several of the employees were running for positions in the various governments with the Liberal Party. One thing I notice is the photography in newspapers and on TV. It is amazing to me that the more pictures you take, and the more you play with photoshop, you can start to pick out how the shots were framed to influence the viewer. So that a politician will look fine in one paper and always be just a little out of focus or a little pale or a tad squinty in a publication that is not on his side........

To: LindyBill who wrote (201851)	4/8/2007 5:23:31 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793682

Received VIA Email. For those of you who can't place him, he is the man you have often seen on the Visene commercials. Actually he is (was) a journalist. BY: Ben Stein, Open Letter----02/02/2007 Dear Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, in Iraq , in the Middle East theater, in Afghanistan , in the area near Afghanistan , in any base anywhere in the world, and your families: Let me tell you about why you guys own about 90 percent of the backbone in the whole world right now and should be happy with yourselves and proud of whom you are. It was a dazzlingly hot day here in Rancho Mirage today. I did small errands like going to the bank to pay my mortgage, finding a new bed at a price I can afford, practicing driving with my new 5 wood, paying bills for about two hours. I spoke for a long time to a woman who is going through a nasty child custody fight. I got E-mails from a woman who was fired today from he r job for not paying attention. I read about multi-billion-dollar mergers in Europe, Asia , and the Mideast . I noticed how overweight I am, for the millionth time. In other words, I did a lot of nothing. Like every other American who is not a member of the American Armed Forces family, I basically just rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic in my trivial, self-important, meaningless way. Above all, I talked to a friend of more than forty-three years who told me he thought his life had no meaning because all he did was count his money. And, to my friends in the armed forces,I want you to know that this is the story of all of America today. We are doing nothing but treading water while you guys carry on the life or death struggle against worldwide militant Islamic terrorism. Our lives are about nothing: paying bills, going to humdrum jobs, waiting until we can go to sleep, and then do it all again. Our most vivid issues are trivia compared with what you do every day, every minute, every second. Oprah Winfrey talks a lot about "meaning" in life For her, "meaning" is dieting and then having her photo on the cover of her magazine every single month (surely a new world record for egomania). This is not "meaning." Meaning is doing for others. Meaning is risking your life for others. Meaning is putting your bodies and families' peace of mind on the line to defeat the most evil, sick killers the world has ever known. Meaning is leaving the comfort of home to fight to make sure that there still will be a home for your family and for your nation and for free peoples everywhere. Look, soldiers, Marines , sailors and airmen there are six billion people in this world. The whole fate of this world turns on what you people, 1.4 million American Military Men/Women, do every day. The fate of mankind depends on what about 2/100 of one percent of the people in this world do every day and you are those people. And joining you is every policeman, fireman, and Emergency Medical Technician in the country, helping to hold back the tide of chaos in our homeland. Do you know how important you are? Do you know how indispensable you are? Do you know how humbly grateful any of us who has a head on his shoulders is to you? Do you know that if you never do another thing in your lives, you will always still be heroes? That we could live without Hollywood or Wall Street or the NFL, but we cannot live for a week without you? We are on our knees to you and we bless and pray for you every moment. And Oprah Winfrey, if she were a size two, would not have one millionth of your importance, and all of the Wall Street billionaires will never equal what the least of you do, and if Barry Bonds hits hundreds of home runs it would not mean as much as you going on one patrol or driving one truck to the Baghdad airport. You are everything to us, as we go through our little days, and you are in the prayers of the nation and of every decent man and woman on the planet. That's who you are and what you mean. I hope you know that. Love, Ben Stein