Dear Ann,What's an honest man to do when "you can't handle the truth" is the only honest expression of the truth? Listen to Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal giving it to you straight:
"Let's be real. This is what happened the past 10 years. You, for political reasons, both Republicans and Democrats, finagled the mortgage system so that people who make, like, zero dollars a year were given mortgages for $600,000 houses. You got to run around and crow about how under your watch everyone became a homeowner. You shook down the taxpayer and hoped for the best.
Democrats did it because they thought it would make everyone Democrats: 'Look what I give you!' Republicans did it because they thought it would make everyone Republicans: 'I'm a homeowner, I've got a stake, don't raise my property taxes, get off my lawn!' And Wall Street? We went to town, baby. We bundled the mortgages and sold them to fools, or we held them, called them assets, and made believe everyone would pay their mortgage. As if we cared. We invented financial instruments so complicated no one, even the people who sold them, understood what they were.
You're finaglers and we're finaglers. I play for dollars, you play for votes. In our own ways we're all thieves. We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness. If there were any justice, we'd be forced to duel, with the peasants of America holding our cloaks. Only we'd both make sure we missed, wouldn't we?"
In other words, it's now an open secret America's a nation of suckers. 
That's the BIG TRUTH, Obama-voter. 
And are we ever going to get to the bottom of it, in order to get out of it? 
Nope, not a chance. 
Because you can't handle the truth.
See, I'm more of the macho type that'll buffalo my way through, saying we launch a special investigation into the possibility of that celebrities-being-"forced to duel"-idea being implemented, right now, what do you say? 
Sure, it's got a few kinks that need to be ironed out (cable rights and that kind of thing) but it still sounds like just the kind of family-oriented American Idol-type entertainment that could also have a lot of serious political potential these days. 
I'm sure you can see that:
To The People Over Here
To The People Over There
To The People, The People,
The People, People, The People, The People,
People From Everywhere Watching The Show
Paying Top Dollars Because They Know
When We're On The Stage, We're In A Mothafuckin' Rage
So Dre [What up?] Why Don't You Get The 12 Guage [Yeah]
Chuck Woolery enters, stage right. 
See, I'll pay for that. Hell, after you asking about the effect of NewAge conspiracies, I think we just have:
"Oprah, or Oprahism, has often been called a secular religion, and [Kitty] Kelley’s most plausible insight is that Oprah has, from the beginning of her career, been propelled by a nearly messianic belief in herself. 'She did not believe that bad things could happen to good people,' Kelley writes. Her faith in her instincts is immovable, although not immutable. Oprah was close to the Clintons; when she was to receive a lifetime-achievement award at the International Emmys, she asked Hillary to present it, and, from the lectern, said she hoped that Hillary would 'do us a privilege' by running for President. Then Oprah watched Barack Obama deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and her vision changed. In 2005, she approached Obama, standing under a tree at a gospel brunch that she was holding at the Promised Land, her estate in Montecito, California, and asked, 'If someone were to announce one of these days that he was going to run for President, don’t you think this would be a sweet place to hold a fund-raiser?' It was as though she could create a black President through sheer force of will, and maybe she did."
Damn it, don't look at me like that, I told you "you can't handle the truth". That was an accident. It just slipped out.
It's becoming pretty obvious I totally understand it all now.
Except for the question of what's an honest man to do?
I'll let you know when I "discover" it.OOs and XXs,
The King High: Your God (Lord Of All You Survey) If You So Believe It
A lot of effective data for myself!
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