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The media, once a tool for exposing and testing issue-durability is itself a “Trojan” adversary. The public no longer has a mechanism for truth-assessment, an ally in fact-based discernment. It becomes quite easy for a President, or any commentator for that matter, to leverage the importance of their position by simply stating that the matter is steeped in the cauldron defined simply as “American Interests”. An example of the ever expanding and always elusive domain of what I refer to as Slither-Etiquette; the medium which states the following: “You can tell them whatever you like so long as you never tell them exactly what it is.”  Read more...