Same goes for the fashionable bigotry of anti-Americanism abroad. Propaganda works.
Major media outlets throughout the world present a one-note narrative of ceaseless American wickedness, focusing exclusively and hysterically on this nation’s shortcomings, some real but many imagined. Then the ginned up animus of is offered — sometimes by political opportunists here at home — as ‘proof’ of American waywardness.
What a shakedown. Too many Americans can’t tell the difference between constructive criticism and contrived outrage aimed at provoking their reflex reactions of guilt and shame. The same folks who assume Americans have been bamboozled into a trance by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, take a face value the sentiments of a screaming mob in some third world sh*thole whose only information about the world comes from state-controlled media.
Hey venividivici: Great pen names happen to the best of us, eh?
