Well...

[ferchrissakes]

...last week I watched Faux News for 15 minutes and I counted 37 times in which the "journalists" used rhetoric regarding one particular thing or another that distorted actual events, manipulated facts, or flat-out asserted falsehoods. And so, I went camping over the weekend, and I found out that this one person who I have known for years... turns

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[momus]

With a hammer.

[coco_beans]

How is it that I have seemingly missed your last posts?!?! *gasp* I was going to say Imissed you in a sentimental way, and now it's actually missing you. I missed you! The shame. But, really, I miss your posts. Have you been busy? apathetic to LJ life? I'm Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedy!!!!!
hahaha

I'd like to meet you more than any LJ friend I've had, by the way. Come to Italy. My husband won't mind.

[ferchrissakes]

Well, I think my lack of posting has been a combination of excessive freelance work, being outdoors more now that the weather is nicer, disenchantment with LJ over that friend that turned on me so brazenly (not that that is really an excuse to ignore my other friends on here, like yerself)... I have been trying to make posts at least once every 4 days or so, which I have been fairly good at keeping up on... but yer right, it has slowed down... and I should work on that

you could go over the Bill O'Reilly/FoxNews Procedure:

[intertubes]

The seven propaganda devices include:

* Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence;
* Glittering generalities -- the opposite of name calling;
* Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths;
* Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd;
* Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people";
* Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us to accept; and
* Testimonials -- involving a respected (or disrespected) person endorsing or rejecting an idea or person.