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I'm a psychologist, and earlier in my career I didn't buy into the idea of "Freudian slips", the concept that people subconsciously let slip out a statement that reveals their true feelings. Unlike right wing authoritarians, I have leaned that I CAN be wrong. Carlson's comments pretty well prove it. Glenn, I agree completely that "success" in our pseudo-journalistic class is defined as "the ability to be spoon-fed sound bites at the pleaure of the powerful". My only question is how much of this is due to financial incentives, job security, etc. vs. a self-selection process where the perpetual hangers-on wih the cool group in high school rise to the top... as science has demonstrated, s**t floats!
