Flicker Fusion

The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.

The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.

—California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. in a report that found a few ACORN members exhibited bad judgement but didn’t actually commit any crimes. The report goes on to say that the videotapes produced by “undercover” “videographer” and right wing hit-pimp James O’Keefe (currently under investigation for tampering with the phone lines of a US Senator) were highly edited and hardly what you’d call “reality based”.

marco nails it youre not customers youre the

Marco nails it

You’re not customers. You’re the product.

They really hate when you actually read their content. That’s what they’re communicating by distraction-oriented design: “We don’t respect you, and we’re trying to aggravate you as much as possible, but not quite enough that you’ll stop coming.”

As long as the government hid its illegal activities and never said who it spied on, it could spy on anyone illegally. No one could bring a lawsuit, since there was no proof that they had been impacted by the illegal spying.

Then the feds screwed up.

As long as the government hid its illegal activities and never said who it spied on, it could spy on anyone illegally. No one could bring a lawsuit, since there was no proof that they had been impacted by the illegal spying.

Then the feds screwed up.

—A federal judge has ruled that the Bush administration violated wiretapping laws when it approved warrantless wiretaps in 2004.