Mass Media's influence in political campaigning and other disgusting acts

[Buster's Uncle]

If nobody speaks up to object real fast, I'm gonna do that right after I post this news article that's actually on-topic...

[vonbach]

You could always split the topics into two separate threads.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay; good idea.

[Sleezebag] wins backing of former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
David Duke endorses Donald [Sleezebag] and praises his stand on immigration
The Telegraph
By  David Millward, US Correspondent  12:11AM BST 26 Aug 2015



David Duke Photo: AP



Donald [Sleezebag]’s campaign to win the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election has been endorsed by David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

The billionaire’s outspoken remarks on immigration have already alarmed the Republican establishment and the public backing offered by Mr Duke, is likely to cause further embarrassment to Mr [Sleezebag] and the party as a whole.

Mr Duke hosts a website which is blatantly anti-Semitic, railing against “Jewish terrorism against Arabs”, “Jewish interests” and “The real Jewish Role in the Crucifixion”.

There is no suggestion that Mr [Sleezebag] shares in any way these views,

Separately, Mr [Sleezebag] has angered many with his description of Mexican immigrants as drug runners, criminals and racists.

Speaking on his own radio show, Mr Duke said Mr [Sleezebag] "understands the real sentiment of America" and praised the billionaire mogul and reality show TV host for "talking about the immigration issue."

"He has really said some incredibly great things recently.

"I really like the fact that he's speaking out on this greatest immediate threat to the American people."

Mr Duke’s endorsement was less than wholehearted, however.

“Although we can’t trust him to do what he says, the other Republican candidates won’t even say what he says.

"So he’s certainly the best of the lot. And he’s certainly somebody that we should get behind in terms ... raising the image of this thing”

-wins-backing-of-former-grand-wizard-of-the-Ku-Klux-Klan.html]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11824412/[Sleezebag]-wins-backing-of-former-grand-wizard-of-the-Ku-Klux-Klan.html

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My buncle powers inform me that FOX will probably report this story, to say the least.  More than once in passing.  Mr. Murdock's propaganda channel will, no doubt, not be alone in this.

[vonbach]

Gee their calling [Sleezebag] a racist I didn't see that one coming lol.
Watch his poll numbers go up now.

[Buster's Uncle]

Gee their calling [Sleezebag] a racist I didn't see that one coming lol.
Watch his poll numbers go up now.

He wouldn't be the first to capitalize on the racist vote.



(I feel a joke frenzy coming on - sometimes, it's just asking for it, nothin' personal.)

Maybe something to do with his racist statements?

You were blinded by racism, or you'd have seen it walking up Fifth Avenue?

Nobody wants to watch the Pig's poll go up.

-But I bet it does at the thought of pulling that KKK vote.

[Buster's Uncle]

...The mod tools here are a teeny bit inadequate sometimes, to say the least - when we started here, I could dupe a post, which made some of this thread surgery a lot easier w/o garbling one or both threads over posts that addressed both the original topic and the drift.  I want that function back...

[vonbach]

He wouldn't be the first to capitalize on the racist vote.

Racist simply means white person. Besides thats not why his poll numbers will grow.
People are so sick of the media and the way politicians and celebrities grovel to apologize
any time they are attacked. So the more [Sleezebag] stand his ground gets attacked the more support he gets.
Basically this the political pendulum swinging  the other way like people on the right have been
expecting for 40 years.

[Buster's Uncle]

He wouldn't be the first to capitalize on the racist vote.

Racist simply means white person. Besides thats not why his poll numbers will grow.
People are so sick of the media and the way politicians and celebrities grovel to apologize
any time they are attacked. So the more [Sleezebag] stand his ground gets attacked the more support he gets.
Basically this the political pendulum swinging  the other way like people on the right have been
expecting for 40 years.

Factually *made up* phrases struck.

[vonbach]

Racist simply means white person.

Yes thats what it means. Its  simply a verbal club to beat white people into line with.
It was invented by Leon Trotsky.

Basically this the political pendulum swinging  the other way

The USA is essentially Weimar Germany look at the backlash that happened there.
Politics goes in cycles and the left wont be on top forever.

[Buster's Uncle]

Does Elvis talk to you?

[BU Admin]

Please drop the racial comments.  I'm not asking again.

[Rusty Edge]

On the subject of SSRI's I'd heard the theory years ago. The data was a little thin then.
It seems that more of these tragedies are associated with them than I'd previously been informed.

I didn't go to college, or take college statistics. Still, I'm thinking that an incidence of violence that is an order of magnitude or greater relative to other drugs is significant.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think in the main, Lori had it exactly right.

People with serious emotional balance problems often take drugs for it.  People with emotional problems also are more likely to take desperate measures.  The measures can include all sorts of senseless violent crime.

The causal connection being hypothesized with the drugs may have it backwards.

[BeSevenPhy]

Just google it it even made that trash rag the huffington post.
This has been known for years. They even finally started putting
warning labels on them.

http://www.sott.net/article/279716-Nearly-every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-one-thing-in-common-and-it-isnt-weapons

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more then a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior. One need only Google relevant key words or phrases to see for themselves. www.ssristories.com is one popular site that has documented over 4500 " Mainstream Media " reported cases from around the World of aberrant or violent behavior by those taking these powerful drugs...

...On to the list of mass shooters and the stark link to psychotropic drugs:

Eric Harris, age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold, aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public.

Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

Mathew Miller, age 13, hanged himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.

Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) - school shooting in El Cajon, California.

Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

The use of SSRIs have been promoted with the erroneous marketing mantra that serotonin is the happiness hormone. That simplistic narrative has many gullible people convinced that it most be good to take SSRIs and anything else the medical business tells them to take.

Yet a sizable volume of research studies demonstrated that increasing serotonin (and tryptophan) with drugs or supplements is linked to brain dysfunction, stress hormone release, cognitive deficits, inflammation, impaired blood circulation in the brain, hypertension, sexual dysfunction, cancer, and other less than "happy" effects - http://www.supplements-and-health.com/tryptophan-side-effects.html

Undoubtedly, the serotonin-happiness mantra seems to be almost entirely an all-too convenient highly lucrative invention of the medical-pharma business.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hi, B7!

...This is such a relief; a new signup already posting in a political thread when I spotted had me worried that we'd drawn a polititroll...

How did you find us?

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On-topic, I'd say to never attribute to malice what can be put down to incompetence.  It stands to reason that fooling with the body and brain's chemical balance is not something to do casually, and it's pretty well established that medical science is not at its strongest when it comes to subtle long-term effects of anything.