No more broken hearts
We’re better off apart let’s give it a try
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
Little Lies – Fleetwood Mac
In her winning post the this week, NPR’s carefully crafted tales — and why I don’t listen anymore, Bookworm Room writes about about the the little lies that moved her to decide that she was “better off apart” from NPR.
The problem is that, once you realize that a narrator is comfortable abandoning the truth, you start to wonder, ” Where does that end? I know NPR is lying when it tries to make a moral relativism argument re Israel or, worse, when it presents the Israeli military as an out-of-control killing machine, so I have to wonder if itâs lying about other things too.â
After 9/11, I got some further reality checks regarding the NPR world view. I didnât like the way NPR kept trying to exculpate Islam from the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. That made no sense to me. I also didnât like NPRâs relentless negative war coverage. I actually agreed with Bush: when a nation supports mass murderers, you bring war to that nation. I also had a hard time understanding how, despite the fact that Bush spent a year begging the UN for help, eventually ending up with a coalition, NPR could keep selling little story packages that presented Bush as an out-of-control, go-it-alone cowboy. The spin was inconsistent with the facts on the ground.
On the non-council side, I had to cast the deciding vote between two fine entries. In the end I cast my vote for In Praise of Irrational Exuberance at Big Questions Online. Like the council winner, this essay also deals with a measure of dishonesty, or perhaps I should call it delusion. In this case the dishonesty is good thing for society.
All this delusion can, of course, become destructive. But thereâs more to it than mere foolishness. The illusions that spur entrepreneurial ventures and consumer daydreams point to the nonmaterial side of markets. Markets not only expand health and comfort, providing a sustaining material existence. They also spur ambition and imagination, the quest for achievement and the pursuit of meaning. They give us an opportunity to exercise our creativity, to enjoy the satisfactions of absorbing, productive work, and to fashion and express our identities.
Council Winners
First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Bookworm Room - NPR’s carefully crafted tales — and why I don’t listen anymore
Second place with 2 votes – The Glittering Eye – Tyrant For a Day
Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes - Right Truth – Changes in Fighting Terrorism and the Conservative Tsunami
Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes - Simply Jews – The dull, throbbing anxiety of Jonathan Franzen’s potential reader
Fourth place with 1 vote - The Razor – Life in the Echo Chamber
Fifth place with 2/3 vote - GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Miss Beautiful Morals
Sixth place with 1/3 vote - Rhymes With Right – A Quick Note On Texas Poll Watchers Standing Behind Voters
Non Council Winners
* First place with 2Â 2/3 votes! – Big Questions Online - In Praise of Irrational Exuberance submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
Second place with 1 2/3 votes – RedState – Pretending The Union Money Doesnât Exist submitted by Rhymes With Right
Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – HillBuzz -An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh and His Listeners â With Notes on the Democrat Civil War Already In Progress submitted by Joshuapundit
Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -The Daily Bail – When The Big Banks Come Crawling Back, Screw ‘Em! Talking Points for the Anti-Bank Bailout Revolution submitted by The Glittering Eye
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – FrontPageMag – Thomas Sowell -Legacy of Lies submitted by The Razor
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Abu Muqawama – An Open Letter to the Washington Post submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - YouTube/Team CrazyTalk -We Are The Ones: O RLY? submitted by Bookworm Room
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - RedState – A Special Note to Our Democrat Readers in Washington submitted by VA Right
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Contentions - Some Historical Perspective on Negative Campaigning submitted by The Watcher
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - FrontPageMag â Bin Ladenâs Iranian Protectors submitted by Right Truth
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Article written by: Tom White
About Tom White
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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