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March 11, 2011
March 10th - 100,000 Dead in Japan - Over 1 Million Homeless
March 10th - 100,000 dead in Japan. Over a million homeless. In 6 months, 250,000 Japanese will die from radiation.
Sounds pretty bad, right? CNN has got you glued to your television, which is where they want you. Because this didn't happen on March 10th, 2011. It happened on March 10th, 1945.
On March 9th-10th, 1945, the U.S. Army Air Corps firebombed Tokyo, incinerating 100,000 people and leaving a million people homeless.
CNN, the fear-mongering network would have us believe that this is the worst tragedy ever to befall Japan. They repeatedly talk about this being the "biggest earthquake in Japan's history". OK. Fair enough. Probably true. But it's not like its the biggest calamity to ever befall that country.
Now, I'm not saying Japan didn't get what was coming to them. They attacked us first, and the Bible talks about reaping what you sow. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
My only point is that, this is not the end of days. It's not like the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are going to come riding into the picture any time soon. Japan will bounce back from this. They've been through MUCH worse than this before. That's the voice of reason that's missing on CNN, IMHO.
Update: It's a fair point that CNN, MSNBC, and FOX are all fundamentally similar in that they're all adrenaline-crazed fear mongers. I singled out CNN because FOX was more focused yesterday on separating employees from the unfunded pyramid scheme that is the WI public sector.
CNN and MSNBC are worse than FOX news, in my mind, because, in addition to peddling fear, they're selling a socialist agenda, while pretending to be politically unbiased. If the counter-argument is that FOX is doing the same thing, but shilling for the right, it should be noted that FOX network wouldn't exist if the MSM had not been so liberally biased from the gitgo. If the MSM had done fair and balanced honest journalism, instead of selling socialism to the unwashed massed, then there would have been no need for FOX news to exist.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 11, 2011 at 11:48 PM
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