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Mencken moment

Posted By Mike On Feb 1, 2010 @ 7:29 pm In Government, humor, war | 4 Comments

Nothing raises my hackles more than the suppression of thought, and I often get a kick out of Russian cheekiness. In that vein, and in light of today’s news of a boost in funding for the only nuclear arsenal that has ever been deployed, here is a sample from a poster ad campaign for [1] Russia Today that was rejected by US airports, though it is running in the UK:

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When it comes to major news media, it makes no sense to limit yourself to the outfits of your home nation (and no, Americans, BBC doesn’t really give you another perspective).

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

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