Is Even MSNBC News Putting A Spin on Information to Help Wag the Dog???


Today on MSNBC.com there is an interesting article which people should read entitled

Poll: Relations poor between Muslims, West

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13480121/

Here is a brief quote.

"Terror support dropping.

One of the more surprising findings in the poll was that solid majorities in Indonesia (65 percent), Turkey (59 percent), Egypt (59 percent) and Jordan (53 percent) said they do not believe the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States were carried out by groups of Arabs.

But Muslim support for terrorism is dropping in some countries. In Indonesia, Pakistan and especially in Jordan, there have been declines in the number of people who say suicide bombings can be justified."

What seems to me to be the glaring impropriety is not that the majority in the polled countries don't believe that Arabs did the 9/11 bombings. It is that the % of Muslims who say suicide bombings can be justified. We are informed that the numbers have declined. Not that originally these numbers were more then half the population. We have not been told that. The fact is that this is fact, that more then half of most Arab countries find suicide bombings justified. The fact that most Arab Muslims want to destroyIsraell as well as the Arab Muslim mentality of blaming everything on the United States is mentioned but again without the percentages.

Oh and did I mention that most "Arabs" polled for this article are not in the Middle east.

Here is where they are from exactly.

"The nations in which polling was conducted were China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the United States."

If you are paying attention, seven of these 15 countries supported or currently support the U.S. of A. in Iraq.

If we actually polled Arab Muslims in Arab Middle Eastern countries, How much worse would these percentages be???

CHefdino says "It is not the question of " Who is watching the Watchmen? " anymore citizens, it is "How do you tell the real truth from the facts that are being presented to us and What is the motivation for doing so??"

I am afraid for all of us sometimes.
I am a pretty intelligent person.
I take the time to pay attention to the news.
But what do we do when the news is not informing us but instead is directing us in a direction not of our, the peoples, best interest????
And who is deciding what is in "Our" best interest if its not the informed citizen???

Please think about this.

-CHefdino-

Will someone please tell me why no one has turned me on to Robin Trower until now.

So my buddy Tim says to me a few months ago, "CHefdino, you want to go see Robin Trower at the House of Blues in June with me???" My reply is "Sure, why not." Tim is a man who seems to know good music when he hears it so why not take an opportunity to hear some "New Talent".

New Talent my ass. The guy holding the guitar in the picture above is Robin Trower. When he walked out on stage on thought " Oh my god, this old guy is lost and somehow ended up on the stage. He cant be this Robin guy. This guy couldnt hold a guitar of more then ten minutes let alone for an hour or two for a show. WHat is going on??

Then he strummed the guitar.

And things got magical from there.

A solid 1.5 hour show with non- stop rock/jazz guitar that maybe only two or three people in the world could pull off. And not the self indulgent crap like Ingwie puts out. This stuff was moving, emotion driven, mana from the sky. To top it off his lead singer had a voice like Paul Rogers of Bad Company and could rip out the vocals with a clarity you rarely find in a" Guitar as center of group" type of band.

So what if this guy looked frail and grey. He rocked it better then most "New" music I have heard in the last 20 years.

Thanks for the suggestion Tim. I will have to take more.

-CHefdino-