Misleading
Have you noticed how many times a day you hear this word
used in the media. Misleading is a misleading way to say you lied. But
euphemisms are more politically correct. It has become a f**king epidemic of
accusations of misleading, or f--- it, lying. And it is not because we have a
Presidential Campaign going on. Misleading has been used from the Michael
Jackson child abuse allegations, to Martha Stewart, to the Passion. Everything
is misleading.
The problem is not that the media has found a new word, or a
substitute for an old one. It is an attempt to, well…mislead us.
Instead of using the
motherf--- ing word lie, and has
no credibility, we use misleading. Even commercials are misleading. Have you
seen the Prilosec OTC commercial with the couple in the huge bus? You know the
original “Heartburn Couple.” The commercial is downright a lie. Prilosec OTC
does not start working for four days after you start taking it and it says so
on the box. But in the commercial, the white Honky couple, as my friend would call
them, lied to a black woman in the supermarket.
We now have the government of the great Liar himself, has
been caught misleading the public with an ad which the General Accounting
Office calls “propaganda.” Which is illegal.
Hold it, hold it. How come the Bush campaign (and Kerry campaign) can
lie to the American public and it is misleading, but the phony commercial is
“propaganda.” And it is being investigated. The Bush Administration has a long
history of lying. Just plain not telling the truth. Hey, that’s how we got in
this fix to begin with; The War.
In all fairness, President Bush is not the only President to
lie to the American Public. We have Bill Clinton’s famous “I did not have
sexual relations with that woman…” pronouncement. But shit, he was lying to his
wife about a blow job. Every guy does that. And of course there is Richard
Nixon’s, “Your President is no crook.” He was!
But lying about weapons of mass destruction to get us into a
useless war, where thousands of people have died, that is criminal. Martha
Stewart is going to jail for few years for lying to the FBI, about an issue
which could not be proofed, but George Bush lies to us everyday, people die
everyday, and the media calls it misleading.
This administration has no shame. The day after he, the
President, proposed to cut assistance for combat duty to our soldiers in his
war, he went to and Army base to sell his campaign to the same people he
proposes to screw. Check out his budget. Support our guys and write to
congress. Bring them home, and stop misleading the public that we are going to
set up an Islamic Jeffersonian democracy.
People with disabilities are not any different. They are
easily misled. I know more people with disabilities that are Republicans, then
Democrats or Independent. This is the
reason we get screwed. Many of us are a part of them. The same people, who want
to cut our services, want to destroy the
Of course, with the great media on his
side, the outcome is not looking too good.
But the only hope in this whole thing is that the great media has been
hit with scandals of “misleading,” and “creating the news.” Recently, the New York Times’ Jayson Blair and Michael Finkel, Stephen
Glass of the
I want to lead
you in on something: how do you know I am not misleading you?