Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00482)

"kpauljohnson " wrote:
> So now, seeing what is (deservedly IMO) happening with media coverage 
> of Lott, and the Kissinger resignation, and the firings of Pitt, 
> Lindsey, and O'Neill, I find it hard to jump for schadenfreude. 
> Because while for now the other side is targeted by the negative, 
> cynical, sensationalistic media, I know that as soon as Democrats get 
> back into power the same forces will immediately target them.
> 
> Isn't the essence of rising from kama-manas t buddhi-manas seeing your 
> personal reversals as part of a pattern that affects everyone?

And you have a news media that wants to simplify everything, to a
right-wing vs. left wing, and trying to push forward the idea that if
you don't want to toe either party line, then you are for nothing. 

Bart Lidofsky