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What can and cannot be spoken on television
Americans are subjected to a narrow and highly controlled range of opinion regarding Iraq and the U.S. occupation.
Glenn Greenwald [2008-03-26]

  • Some have been acutely observant of media propaganda for many decades

    From Frank Zappa's 1973 Overnight Sensation

    'I'm The Slime'

    I am gross and perverted

    I'm obsessed 'n deranged

    I have existed for years

    But very little had changed

    I am the tool of the Government

    And industry too

    For I am destined to rule

    And regulate you

    I may be vile and pernicious

    But you can't look away

    I make you think I'm delicious

    With the stuff that I say

    I am the best you can get

    Have you guessed me yet?

    I am the slime oozin' out

    From your TV set

    You will obey me while I lead you

    And eat the garbage that I feed you

    Until the day that we don't need you

    Don't got for help...no one will heed you

    Your mind is totally controlled

    It has been stuffed into my mold

    And you will do as you are told

    Until the rights to you are sold

    That's right, folks..

    Don't touch that dial

    Well, I am the slime from your video

    Oozin' along on your livin'room floor

    I am the slime from your video

    Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

    -- Northwestwoods
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 06:07 AM
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